• Question: why do we have mucles in our body

    Asked by 263bdya26 to Andy, Duane, Giovanna, Katie, Theresia on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      These pull on bones on either side of joints, this allows us to move

    • Photo: Andrew Philp

      Andrew Philp answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I am biased as I research muscle 🙂

      Muscle has a lot of very important things to do in the body. The first thing is to support our bodies structure, so along with the skeleton, muscle maintains posture. Without it you’d just fall over 🙂 Then muscle allows us to move by lengthening and shortening to move our limbs and provide movement. Muscle is also a store for a lot of fuels. So carbohydrate gets stored as glycogen which is a really important source of energy, whilst fats get stored as intermuscular triglycerides and then are also used as a fuel. The final thing that muscle does is remove glucose from the bloodstream. So reduced muscle function has been closely linked with the progression of diabetes as muscle loses its ability to use glucose from the bloodstream….

    • Photo: Giovanna Bermano

      Giovanna Bermano answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      ….and to keep us alive….the heart is a muscle too

    • Photo: Katie Pickering

      Katie Pickering answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      The guys have got this covered for you here. Muscles are great things and we need to look after them well, exercie them and also importantly let them recover when they are tired!

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