Does Muscle turn to Fat

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Does Muscle turn to Fat

I have read so many different opinions

If you stop training when your say 50 will any muscle you had turn to fat

 

[DeX]

Your muscle doesn't turn into fat, and your fat doesn't turn into muscles.... Muscles burn calories to maintain themselves, the more muscle, the more calories burnt, the more 'fat loss'... Lose your muscle, you stop burning calories, and then the fat can get stored 'more easily'...

 

[tenpercent]

Muscle and fat are two separate and distinct types of tissue," says Cedric X. Bryant, Ph.D., chief exercise physiologist for the American Council on Exercise. "Muscle can't turn into fat any more than wood can turn into metal. But as muscles shrink because of inactivity, fat can fill the space where the muscles used to be, giving the mistaken impression that the muscles have turned to fat."

 

[SXIPro]

Can't turn lead into gold, fat into muscle, or vice-versa.

 

[DeX]

anyone else want to give another analogy

 

[SXIPro]

anyone else want to give another analogy

My bad...I missed the 'wood into metal' one.

 

[Streamline]

anyone else want to give another analogy

nope. I'm just gonna repeat the other people. Muscle and fat are two different cells. You can increase muscle cells making them bigger and you can decrease fat cells and make them smaller. They are not the same cell thus can not "convert". It's like saying can blood convert into bone, it just doesn't make sense.