Why is muscle so important?

We're always looking for a hat to become smarter, think faster, and frankly, the quickest

most acute way to do that is through training.

Dr. Gabriela Lyne, New York Times best-selling author and leader in muscle-centric medicine,

one of the clearest voices on how lifestyle and training can fundamentally change how we age. The stronger you are, the smarter you are, the better brain volume, and the faster you move, the faster you think. I will hear women say, I don't know how to lift weights, I've never lifted weights, and I'm thinking, do you lift your toddler? What about the luggage or what about this? You've been lifting weights your whole life. You just haven't framed it in that way. We know that building muscle improves strength, performance, and aesthetics, but could it play a

role in longevity, metabolism, and even brain health? This isn't a book about protein and muscle.

This is a book about building better, stronger, more resilient humans. It's not an if, it's a when, decline happens.

If you choose the easy path now,

life will be much more difficult later.

You can use your body as a tool for whole body transformation.

Gabrielle Lyon, welcome back to the commune podcast.

Great to see you. Jeff, we just saw each other in Australia, and this is awesome.

I know. That was amazing. And you stepped up big time in Australia. I think you were the, you emerged as the absolute star of the show in so many different ways.

Wow.

When people needed you, you were there.

So thank you for all you did there.

But first of all, congratulations on your new book, Forever Strong, the Playbook.

So this is, I guess, what I might think of as the accompanying product to your first

amazing book, Forever Strong, which

had really started this revolution in muscle-centric medicine. And if that book was the why

around why muscle is so important, this book is very much like the how, right? Yeah.

So in this book, you focus on four core components of muscle hypertrophy,

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