The right amount of this essential macronutrient keeps your female physiology working its best.
Building and maintaining muscle is essential not just for performance but also for health and longevity. Lower muscle mass is associated with increases in metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease, and muscle mass is inversely related to death by any cause, meaning more muscle helps you live longer, and better. It also helps keep you independent as you age.
Building muscle means resistance training, of course. But that’s just half the equation. To build skeletal muscle it’s essential to eat enough protein, which provides the amino acids you need and prompts your body to increase muscle protein synthesis or the process of repairing muscle tissue and building new muscle.
