Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned - The one patient that changed her life...

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned
The one patient that changed her life and her career trajectory
Why we’ve been trying and failing to fix an obesity epidemic for 50 years and why we’ve gotten worse, not better
Fat is just a symptom of unhealthy skeletal muscle
What happens when a person doesn’t have healthy skeletal muscle
The myth of “healthy sedentary individuals”
Having healthy skeletal muscle is the only way to be healthy
Skeletal muscle is its own organ system and why this is important
Why muscle is the best protection for having a healthy pregnancy
Skeletal muscle is the only organ system
What a DEXA is and what it measures
The division between muscle mass and strength
What is happening in the body and the blood with unhealthy skeletal muscle
The loss of lean muscle mass is more detrimental than excess body fat!
How waist-to-hip ratio is helpful in understanding where fat is

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