• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I am still wondering if having more muscles could also make you starve faster because your basic metabolism would require more energy?

    A recent video by Kurtzgesagt has lead me to believe that having lots of muscle doesn’t increase your basal metabolic rate very much. It’s a myth. It’s using your muscles that burns more energy. Simply maintaining extra muscle doesn’t burn all that many extra calories.

    I would venture that having extra muscle would mean it would take longer for you to starve.