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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by gameswithgo on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:04PM (#24368884)
and high muscle mass causes some of the same heart stress that high fat does. its fun and useful but not "healthy" to be huge, fat or muscular.
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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by graeme on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:14PM (#24368976)
Source? I’ve never seen anything but heart benefits associated with muscle mass.
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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by nradov on Thursday September 03, 2020 @11:02PM (#24371308)
Perhaps, but we don't have reliable data on that. The population of people with high muscle mass is small to begin with and thus hard to study. And the use of anabolic steroids and other PEDs is common in that group, which may be a larger factor in heart disease risk than muscle mass by itself.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/chronic-anabolic-steroid-use...

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