The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
muscle tissue is pretty energetically expensive relatively speaking so again I'm kind of speaking philosophically but the body is not just going to go oh yeah we got some extra calories let's just lay down some lean tissue it doesn't make sense because from the body's perspective the number one thing it's trying to do is keep you alive long enough to reproduce
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resistance training is great because you can have these other sort of interventions that can improve lean body mass and whatnot but they all work way better with resistance training because you're creating the need for the tissue