Healthy Muscle Habits · Muscles
Muscle is expensive, so the body sheds what it isn't using.
Muscle costs energy to maintain, so your body treats it as strictly need-to-have. Stop using it and it starts disappearing — measurably within weeks of immobility, and dramatically in the extreme case of prolonged bed rest or spaceflight.
There's more: muscle is expensive, so the body sheds what it isn't using. The full explanation — and the interactive version you can tap and quiz yourself on — lives in the app.
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