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The Role of Muscle Mass in Mortality
In a 10 year study of 45,000 people, they found that the low muscle mass group were at 40 to 50% greater risk than the controls. And it's not just mass, but also strength, low strength in general is being shown to have a two times risk of death from all causes. So he mentioned that it may be even more important than cardio, because if you were in the bottom half of the cardio group, right, in the bottomhalf of just the below average group of cardio, you have a 48% lower risk of death. The final one I've got here is that he said, seniors with the least muscle mass or at the greatest risk of dying from all