How does more muscle mass increase your metabolism?
In: Biology
Muscles are made of living cells. Cells need energy to live. Even when they’re not actively moving the muscle, those cells still need to be burning fuel to stay alive, like any other cell in your body does.
So if you have more, bigger muscle cells in your body, then the body needs to burn more calories just keeping them alive every day, even when you’re sitting on the couch.
That’s what “a faster metabolism” is.
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