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Except body builders tend to not live very long.

Separating the effects of steroids and other growth hormones vs. just having a lot of muscle seems difficult.

My general understanding is that overweight is overweight is overweight, it's hard on your body when excessive, even if it's muscle.



It appears that consuming a lot of protein in and of itself (assuming you’re not yet 65) is correlated with much worse health and mortality outcomes: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/protein...




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