A fasting new study found that loss of muscle tissue better predicts a future cardiovascular

event than does gain in fat mass over a five year period of time.

This is a fasting study.

We're going to break down and talk about these details because I think as a society, doctors,

healthcare professionals, and the zeitgeist amongst the public is that you need to prevent

fat gain, not so much prevent muscle loss.

But this study found that there's a greater hazard ratio and a greater risk and a greater

association with a five year loss of muscle than compared to the associated increased

risk with having a heart attack or a cardiovascular event with changes in fat mass, gain in fat

mass.

I want to read to you the details here and talk about what these scientists found in

these thousand subjects are retract over the course of five years.

They say specifically compared with participants with stable fat mass percentage, those with

a fat gain more than 2% over a five year period had an increased risk for a future

cardiovascular event and the hazard ratio was 2.7%.

In contrast, they say fat free mass loss greater than 8% fat free mass would be muscle tissue.

So if people lose more than 8% of their muscle tissue over the course of a five year period,

this was associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events.

Their hazard ratio was almost double that compared to the fat gain.

It was 3.83, which means that you're about 300% more likely to have a heart attack if

you start losing muscle between the ages of 50 and 80.

And what I learned from this paper is we lose muscle at a certain rate, but a big change

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