I want to share with you a commonly accepted lie disguised as knowledge which has a deleterious effect upon our health and longevity. But to free yourself from this deceptions, debunk common knowledge with uncommon sense.
One of my most intense concentrations in University was upon Socrates’ bold statement that “The unexamined life is not worth living.” This striking claim held massive repercussions for me because most of my childhood labels were just opinions rather than factual evaluations.
My good intuition systematically debunked these facts for the falsehoods they were. My obesity was not congenital but poor nutrition and exercise blocking my metabolic potential. My learning disabilities was actually neurological wiring for unique styles, which locked away my gifts.
Today, let’s debunk another: it is typically believed that once you enter middle age, you begin a health decline accompanied by a loss of muscle mass of 1% per year. Therefore you ought to store as much muscle mass before middle ago to deplete over the second half of your life.
However the only studies evident were conducted upon sample populations who neglected nutrition and exercise; or “bodybuilders” who once reaching middle age were not able to retain their competitive muscle mass in their later years.
Of course people who don’t exercise lose the muscle of their youth slowly over time. And of course bodybuilders cannot maintain excess muscle mass into their later years.
However, no advanced age studies have been conducted on those who sustain healthy nutrition and exercise approaches post middle age. Muscle loss need not happen if you eat properly at the right times and train in the right way at the proper intensity.
Don’t believe the myths. Maintain healthy muscular movement without fighting decline if you discipline an integrated approach to proper nutrition and exercise.
I’ve modified George Bernard Shaw’s words from “Maxims for Revolutionists” to this situation: The reasonable individual adopts the beliefs of mainstream society as self-evident truths; the unreasonable one examines this common knowledge to find the assumptions on which it’s founded. Therefore, all regress depends upon the unexamined aspects of life; and all progress depends on the unreasonable individuals who do examine them.
Go against the expert opinions and the conventionally accepted views. Be unreasonable in your examination of commonly believed assumptions.
Very Respectfully,
Scott B. Sonnon
TACFIT Founder
