2023-10-19
1 小时 5 分钟Skeletal muscle is the biggest oversight, I believe, in medicine today.
Skeletal muscle is the organ of longevity.
The health of skeletal muscle trumps the idea of body fat any day of the week.
There is this beautiful interface between the health of the skeletal muscle and the action that skeletal muscle is meant to play in our life and subsequent outcomes, all the diseases that we relate to metabolic health at its root, beginning skeletal muscle first, decades before.
So modern life, the way so many of us work and live, has been largely devastating to the physical well being of so many people.
It's implicated in record levels of chronic inflammation, pain, illness limitation, diabetes, obesity and overweight, metabolic dysfunction, and many potentially life threatening or limiting diseases.
And the medical community and a massive commercial industry often points a finger at body composition, in particular the percentage of fat that we carry as one of, if not the main contributor to so many of these risk factors and conditions, and focuses on treating that.
But what if they were getting it wildly wrong?
What if there was something else, something we rarely talk about that was a truer, more sustainable remedy, something that was available to all of us, and that not only held the potential to turbocharge our metabolism, immunity, brain function, physical capability and mental agility, and improved mental health, and it was entirely free.
According to today's guest doctor Gabrielle Lyon, a renowned physician and researcher, we are missing something huge.
She's dedicated her career to understanding the overlooked importance of skeletal muscle for metabolism, immune function, disease prevention and more.
And in our conversation, she reveals how loss of muscle mass as we age, not fat accumulation, is secretly one of the biggest things that undermines our health and longevity in ways we don't think about or realize.
Doctor Lange completed her medical training and a fellowship in geriatrics and nutritional sciences at Washington University in St.
Louis, and is a subject matter expert and educator in the practical application of protein types and levels for health, performance, aging and disease prevention.
In her groundbreaking new book, Forever Strong, a new science based strategy for aging, well, she shares how you can slow, stop, and even reverse muscle loss through a science based approach to nutrition and exercise.
So imagine if simply maintaining and building muscle could lower your risk for obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and cognitive decline, and just make you feel so much better and confident.
Now, empowered by emerging science, Doctor Lyon is on a mission to revolutionize how we think about our bodies, movement and nutrition as we age.
So if you want to thrive into your forties, fifties and beyond, this conversation could truly change your life.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.