Skeletal muscle serves as a protein reservoir, minimizing muscle loss during periods of illness, stress, surgery, infection, or burns.

“skeletal muscle is it is a reservoir for amino acids — so like we store you know we store glucose as glycogen in our liver and our muscle we store fat as triglycerides we don't really have a good way that we store amino acids but we need amino acids every day amino acids make up proteins and proteins are doing everything in our body from making neurotransmitters to making a heartbeat you know everything”