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All right, welcome back to the Nutrition Science Podcast on this episode.

I am going to be interviewing my good friend, Dr. Joey Munoz.

He has a nutrition PhD, just like I do, and he specializes in

hypertrophy, which is muscle growth. And that's what we're going to be talking about in this podcast.

We're going to jump right into the episode. If you want to learn more about Joey, definitely

keep tuned in. And we'll talk about where to learn more about his background,

what he does and a little bit more about that. But I want to jump right into the topic. So

today we're going to be talking about muscle and why it's important to build muscle. Joey,

can you let us know? I know a lot of people see muscle as like a look stink or just like a vanity thing.

It's only for people who are, you know, trying to be bodybuilders.

Can you talk a little bit about why muscle is important for those reasons, but also for, you know,

overall health reasons as well?

Yeah. So the main benefit of having muscle is that people, you know, overall health reasons as well. Yeah.

So the main benefit of having muscle is that people respect you more, right?

I mean, something you wouldn't know much about, Adrian, but it's okay.

So from a health perspective, all jokes aside, from a health perspective, yeah, man.

So it's funny because when I first started posting on social media discussing the importance of building muscle, it's funny because people would comment like, oh, this is this type of content is vain or it's just for vanity, right?

Like it's just for looks.

And of course, I think most people probably start lifting for looks, right?

Especially when we start lifting in our in our teenage years or early 20s, right?

It's like the extrinsic

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