Reposted by Chrysostomos Sahinis
1/13 How many calories does it take to build 1 kg of muscle?
The question is straightforward but, as far as we can tell, it has not yet been answered quantitatively.
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The Energetic Cost of Building Human Skeletal Muscle
The energetic cost of building human skeletal muscle has never been explicitly calculated or measured. We developed a quantitative bottom-up accounting model that integrates human skeletal-muscle comp...
