Wellness Wednesday: Fueling Your Muscles

Here are some topics discussed:
1 gram of Protein = 4 Calories
Goal: Eat 1 gram of protein for 1 pound of ideal body weight each day
Great (and weird) recovery foods
Sarcopenia - at age 40 you begin to lose muscle
The older you get, the less you absorb protein so you need to eat more
at 12 min - Shout out to Chris from Lynchburg
13:15 - Recommendations (from non-health professionals)
Fill up on protein - beware of restaurant bread baskets
Let's build our muscles
80% of Americans have Metabolic Disfunction = that's bad
Insulin Resistance Causes Your Muscles to Waste Away - https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/147/9/4160/2528321 
Focus on protein because muscle mass is essential to your metabolism and insulin resistance