Healthy skeletal muscle mass is essential for maintaining VO2 max, overall function, and survivability against diseases like cancer.

“you're not going to be able to be effective at maintaining a V2 max if you do not have healthy skeletal muscle you are not going to be able to be effective at nearly doing anything or surviving any kind of illness the higher the amount of skeletal muscle mass you have the healthy skeletal muscle mass the greater your survivability against nearly any kind of disease remarkable for example can cancer CIA which is the wasting that comes with cancer kills 20% of individuals survivability comes from the health of skeletal muscle”