India, May 12 -- If you regularly hit the gym, you'd know that leg days are dreaded by everyone. Sometimes, people even skip doing workouts that target the leg muscles. Moreover, the internet is filled with leg day memes. But what if we told you that not skipping leg day could be the secret to your heart health?

In a video shared on Instagram on March 12, Jeremy London, MD and a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon from Savannah, Georgia, talked about how leg day can 'prevent a heart attack'.

Per the cardiovascular surgeon, our legs make up 40 to 50 percent of our overall muscle mass. This makes them an obvious priority when working to increase our overall muscle volume. "Higher muscle mass is associated with improved insulin sensitivity...