How Fast You Lose Muscle, Aging Metabolism, Sugar Cravings, and More
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Microdose Monday, the series where Tony and Marianna stack smaller topics into one jam-packed episode. Today’s lineup covers the truth about muscle memory and how fast you can really bounce back, a six-month sugar study that busts the cravings myth, the largest metabolism study ever showing no real slowdown from your 20s to 50s, and a candid look at kids’ health policy. Quick, sharp, and packed with research you can actually use, all in one episode.
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Timestamps:
(2:52) Muscle Loss & Muscle Memory
(12:59) Sugar & Cravings
(22:22) Metabolism As You Age
(30:52) Make America Healthy Again (Latest Report)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know what day it is. |
| 0:02.2 | My favorite of the week, it's micro dose Monday. |
| 0:05.2 | Or where instead of just one focus for the entire length of the episode, we get a little |
| 0:09.0 | microdose of four different topics that you guys have asked us for. |
| 0:13.3 | Specifically today, we'll be breaking down exactly how quick you lose muscle when taking a break |
| 0:18.0 | from the gym and the science of muscle memory with how fast it will take you to regain any muscle you did lose, just how much your metabolic rate starts to |
| 0:25.6 | slow down after your 20s, with some findings from the biggest human metabolism study ever done, |
| 0:30.2 | what new research shows happens to your brain and cravings when you cut out sugar, |
| 0:34.8 | and finishing up with highlights from the newest health secretary report from |
| 0:38.4 | this past little week. But before we get into it, you haven't joined FS premium. What doing with your |
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| 1:04.5 | notes below this episode. And if you are on Spotify, you can now comment on our episode. So if you |
| 1:10.1 | have any questions, you have any suggestions for future episodes, you can go ahead and do that. You can now comment on our episode. So if you have any questions, you have any |
| 1:11.2 | suggestions for future episodes, you can go ahead and do that. You also follow us on whatever |
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