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Metabolic Health
How to Burn Visceral Fat While Maintaining Lean Muscles in Five Steps
I preserved lean muscle while reducing stored fat by understanding how lipolysis and mTOR work and tailoring my plan accordingly.
Muscle Activation and Fat Mobilization
Muscles and fats are critical for our health, fitness, longevity, and overall well-being. Despite the need for fat in the body, fat as an energy source helps maintain our metabolism, creating a muscle-protecting effect, beneficial to our long-term health.
Therefore, an excellent metabolic formula revolves around keeping muscle mass and burning stored fat continuously.
First, I’d like to highlight a few critical points for keeping lean muscle and burning stored fat from physical, chemical, and biological perspectives without going into scientific details.
Even though these two functions are highly complex and relate to many metabolic pathway functions, there are two critical terms that we need to understand to adjust our lifestyle choices.
From the muscle perspective, the key term that we need to know is mTOR which stands for Mammalian Target of Rapamycin.
