Is Obesity A Muscle Problem?

Barbell Medicine Podcast by Barbell Medicine

Sep 4, 202677:06Health

Muscle is where most of the glucose goes, and muscle insulin resistance is the first thing that breaks on the road to type 2 diabetes. Both of those are true, and neither one means that building more muscle is the treatm...

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