People with highest muscle mass and ideal body fat live the longest and have the highest quality of life as they age.
Ideally, men carry around 15% body fat and women around 20%.
Studies find that healthy men carry more than 40% of their body weight as muscle and for women more than 34%.
But also, with body fat, it’s not just total percentage that matters, it is also location.
Visceral fat is the type of fat that gets stored deep inside our abdomen: what shows as belly fat in men, and in women at menopause.
And visceral fat is deadly. Linked to cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysfunction, it is associated with an increase in mortality risk of 10% for every 10cm above normal around the waist.
List of health outcomes associated with higher visceral fat
Instead of focusing on body weight and weight loss, we get greater returns on our health and longevity when we focus on body composition aka muscle-to-fat ratio.
This could be the shift that changes everything for you: instead of looking at your body weight, look at muscle-to-fat ratio.
In this episode you will hear:
How hard is it really to achieve ideal body composition?
What hurts body composition: the Naughty list for body fat, belly fat and muscle mass.
What everyone can do to improve body composition: the Nice list for body fat, belly fat and muscle mass.
What you need more than working hard and replacing your time on the treadmill.
Listen to the end to get the blueprint for re-composing your body (get rid of belly fat and build muscle 💪) so you can look and feel your best this new year.