In the pursuit of strong muscles, in addition to focusing on fitness exercises, you also need to pay attention to your diet and lifestyle habits.

Here are 8 things you shouldn’t touch to better protect your muscle health.

1️⃣ High sugar drinks: The sugar in high sugar drinks can cause insulin levels to rise, which inhibits the body’s production of growth hormone, which affects muscle growth.

2️⃣ Junk food: Fried chicken, hamburgers, French fries, pizza and other junk food contain a lot of trans fatty acids, calories are also very high, which will increase the body fat content, affect the growth of muscle.

3️⃣ lack of sleep: Lack of sleep will lead to insufficient growth hormone secreted by the body, affecting muscle growth and repair, and the aging of the body will be accelerated.

4️⃣ Alcohol: Alcohol affects the metabolic function of the liver, affects the body’s absorption of nutrients and the secretion of growth hormones, thus affecting muscle growth. Alcohol is also a diuretic that keeps you dehydrated, which is bad for your metabolism.

5️⃣ Lack of protein: Protein is an important nutrient for muscle growth, and a lack of protein can cause muscle growth restriction. Good sources of protein can be found in eggs, dairy products, lean meats, chicken breasts, and fish.

6️⃣ Lack of vitamin D: Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, and a lack of vitamin D can affect muscle growth and repair. Therefore, if you want to grow muscle, you need to pay attention to vitamin D supplements.

7️⃣ white bread: After many processing, white bread has lost a lot of nutrients and fiber, and it is easy to cause insulin increase and fat accumulation, which is not conducive to muscle building and fat reduction. Therefore, it is recommended to eat less white bread, you can change to whole wheat bread, brown rice and other complex carbohydrates.

8️⃣ sports drinks: don’t believe the sports drinks on the market, some drinks are not low in calories, a bottle of electrolyte-enhancing drinks mostly contain dozens of grams of sugar, it is recommended that you drink plain water, so as to avoid excess sugar intake.

The above 8 things should not be touched, we need to pay attention to and avoid in daily life to protect our muscle health and growth.