Lack of skeletal muscle impairs glucose tolerance and homeostasis, increasing diabetes risk.

“the problems that occur in humans when they are under-muscled are insane and it ranges from the metabolic consequences of being under-muscled our muscles are a sink for glucose they are the single most important sink we have for glucose and our ability to tolerate glucose and maintain glucose homeostasis in the presence of larger more metabolically healthy muscles is the difference between having diabetes and not having diabetes”