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How Scientists Are Learning How to Use Your Muscles to Predict Your Mortality
<strong> On a Saturday morning in a research lab at Cal State Fullerton, </strong> Andy Galpin, Ph.D., C.S.C.S.*D., approaches my left quadriceps with a hollow-point needle designed to extract a chunk of muscle tissue. The sensation, he tells me, will feel like a biopsy. Since Ive never had a biopsy, telling me the procedure feels like itself is like saying moose tastes like moose; the information is illuminating only if youre really into ungulate meat. But Galpin, who estimates that hes bee...
Everything You Thought You Knew About Burning Fat Is Wrong
For decades, the experts line on exercise and weight loss was simple: Do this much, lose that much. But recently theyve changed their tune: While exercise is awesome for overall physical and mental health, they say, dont expect it to necessarily yield the number one result most guys want when they join a gym.
