Mostly likely if your reading this, you already know some of the benefits of weight training. It's contribution to metabolic health outweighs all other forms of exercise...
But wait, There's more!
Check out this article from NPR:
Transcript of this report.
Study referenced.
Other related research:
“It Makes You Feel Alive and Younger…but It’s Stressful …My Back and Legs Ache”: A Focus Group Study Encouraging Resistance Training Around Retirement https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07334648231193562
Personal training was essential to these cancer patients: Benefits of resistance training are not preserved after cessation of supervised training in prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsc.12050
How to explain the lifestyle in 4 minutes, Dr. Ben style!
Here is a link from the National Association of Sports Nutrition home page for metabolic practitioners.