What is lean muscle mass?
Lean muscle mass refers to the weight of your muscles without fat or bone mass. It's the pure mass of your muscles. Having more lean muscle is healthy, as it allows you to be strong, mobile and burn more calories.
Some key things to know:
- Lean tissue includes muscle, bone, connective tissue and organs. Lean body mass is everything in your body except fat.
- Skeletal muscle is the type that moves bones and makes up about 40% of body weight in non-obese people. It's very metabolically active, burning lots of calories.
- Building lean muscle mass comes from strength training and getting enough protein. This causes muscle protein synthesis to exceed breakdown.
- More lean mass raises your basal metabolic rate. It takes more energy to maintain that tissue. That helps keep off fat.
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Now you know more about that lean stuff we call muscle! To recap:
- It's your muscles without fat or bone
- More of it helps keep you strong, independent and healthy
- Building it requires exercise, protein and supporting your natural growth factors
- Vitality Hormone Clinic can advise on safe hormone optimization to support lean gains
Hope this gives a helpful introduction to this critical body composition metric! Let me know if you have any other questions.