After yesterday’s post I received a number of questions regarding muscle.
Specifically, the comment I made about the fact that muscle isn’t protein…at least not all of it.
Truthfully, human muscle is about 20% protein (of which only about 50% is actual contractile protein)..the rest is fluid (with a super small amount of fat and sugar)
To give you an idea, here is a video illustrating what roughly one pound of muscle actually looks like OUTSIDE of your body:
(You might need to scroll down just a little to press play on the video screen)
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