Muscle Imbalance
Muscle Imbalance and Weakness
After age 30, the human body naturally loses more than 200g of muscle every year. Since muscles are where most calories are burned, muscle loss is directly responsible for:
- inviting fat and flab,
- looking and feeling older,
- falls and hip fractures later in life,
- feeling weaker, which leads to:
- tiring more easily, which leads to:
- a reduced physical activity, which leads to:
- more couch-time and thus more muscle loss.
Medical research has shown that being sedentary shrinks your brain, affects your memory and cognitive abilities, slows your circulation, clogs the arteries, and ‘suffocates’ your sex life. "The fitter you are, the younger your cells."
After surgery or illness, your body calls upon the protein in its muscles to repair itself. Observe the almost immediate loss in muscle tone and muscle mass in bedridden patients.
Studies show that you can build and tone all the extra muscle you need to stay lean, fit, healthy and active by stretching, like in hatha yoga.
