Everyone, thank you for the radio, how would I say you do it, I'll be honest, I'm still

not great, but we're going to get a good show for you today. We're going to go deep into

nutrition and physiological science, which I think will be in a middle of interest

to a huge amount of people. And of course, to do that, I've got Tom by my side.

How are you doing, Ben?

Yeah, so the sort of impetus for this podcast, a couple of weeks COVID in a podcast on me being

in a bit of a rut and looking at strategies, people can employ themselves to if they are in

the similar situation, they can look to create strategies around getting out of a rut.

And obviously for me, part of that has been for what I think still suffering from long COVID,

it's been 10 months now. And that means I've not exercised much for quite a while,

and that means I've now sort of significantly lost muscle mass because I've just yet not

been moving. And I thought, oh, cool, well, a lot of people I think, especially in the fitness

industry, are concerned about losing muscle. Obviously, there's various reasons why someone might lose

muscle. But some of the problem there is that there's a bit of anxiety related to that as well

because people have worked hard in the gym to build muscle, and they don't want to lose it. So

there's this kind of chase almost exercise to keep to maintain your muscle. And we want to be

really realistic about what it takes for an individual to just maintain their levels of muscle mass,

which isn't a lot. We've spoken about it before on the podcast. But they're in the same conversation

with some research recently around metabolism. So we wanted to talk broadly around metabolism,

what happens as you age because muscle mass is connected to your metabolic rate, and then strategies

that we can employ, if you are in a situation where you might be at risk of losing muscle mass,

to say, well, what can I do to minimise the risk? And knowing that I've taken the appropriate

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