Muscle Myth #2 - Fat Turns Into Muscle

Fat does not turn into muscle. I repeat. Fat does not turn into muscle. I don't know how many times I've heard people say that muscle turns into fat. That's like saying that my dog just turned into a cat one day; it's physiologically impossible. Fat cells grow, shrink, and multiply. Muscle cells grow (hypertrophy) and shrink (atrophy). They never turn into one another. As you embark on a clean-eating regimen and intense exercise program, your fat cells shrink and your muscularity increases. At then end of the day when you see someone who has "lost a lot of fat" and put on a lot muscle; the fat cells are still there; they've just gotten smaller.

The troubling thing about fat is that you end up with a set number of fat cells by the time you finish puberty, which is your bodies biological way of saying; these are all the fat cells that you need for the rest of your life, but as you age; you can actually increase the number of fat cells in your body. That's the dangerous thing about liposuction because with lipo (I'm no doctor; I just study and read a lot) you are actually having fat cells removed from your body, and what happens if too many get removed and you end up with less than your body biologically intended for you to have...needless to say; you could die. Not that I'm an advocate for liposuction but if you are going to have it done please have it done by a reputable and experienced doctor because it is such a dangerous procedure.