Leonhardt Ventures

09/03/2026

09/03/2026

Muscle isn’t just about strength or appearance.
Skeletal muscle is a metabolically active tissue that stores protein, amino acids, and energy reserves your body can draw on during periods of illness, injury, or physical stress.

More muscle can also support better glucose control, mobility, physical resilience, and recovery capacity as you age.

That’s why maintaining muscle may be one of the most important things you can do for long-term health.
Train it. Fuel it. Keep it. 🔥

08/28/2026

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08/12/2026

Blood drawn right after a single workout slowed cancer cell growth by up to 29% in the lab. Your muscle isn't just tissue, it's an organ that makes medicine.

Here's what researchers did. 32 breast cancer survivors did one session of either resistance training or high-intensity intervals. Blood was drawn before, immediately after, and 30 minutes later, then that serum was applied to cancer cells in the lab. The serum taken right after exercise slowed cancer cell growth by 20 to 21% with resistance training and 19 to 29% with HIIT. From one session.

The mechanism is myokines. When your muscles contract they release signalling proteins into your bloodstream, and in this study decorin, IL-6 and SPARC all rose by 9 to 47% immediately after exercise. Your muscle isn't a passive lump of tissue, it's a secretory organ.

Now the honest part. This was done in a dish, not in a body. It shows exercise changes your blood chemistry in a way that suppresses cancer cells in the lab, it does not show a workout shrinks tumours. And the effect faded back to baseline within 30 minutes, which is why frequency matters more than intensity here. If the window closes fast, what counts is how often you reopen it.

For a body over 40 it means more muscle is a larger secretory organ, better at producing these signals. Building muscle isn't only about strength or how you look, you're expanding your own internal pharmacy.

That's why we started a new page on Instagram, Muscle40plus, focused on one thing only: what actually works in a body over 40, for women and men alike.

Scroll down to the comments of this post. The very first comment has the link, just tap it and it takes you straight there.

Who you are at 70 is being built right now, by what you do or don't do today.

REFERENCE:
Bettariga, F., et al. (2025). A single bout of resistance or high-intensity interval training increases anti-cancer myokines and suppresses cancer cell growth in vitro in survivors of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 213(1), 171–180.

08/12/2026

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