Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on Maximizing Muscle Mass for Health PH204

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher Brown MD, MS.

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a functional medicine physician specializing in the concept of muscle-centric medicine, which focuses on the largest organ in the body, skeletal muscle, as the key to health and longevity. By using high-quality protein diets, supplements, and resistance training, she helps a variety of patients, from those suffering with sarcopenia or pre-diabetes to elite military operators, reduce chronic disease risk and improve longevity. In this episode, we talk about why muscle mass is so critical for overall good health, the importance of having a substantial amount of protein at each meal, and why dietary protein is not a clinically significant risk factor for developing cancer.

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0:00.0	Muscle-centric medicine is the concept that muscle is the largest organ system in the body.
0:05.3	It is not just for locomotion or training or looking good in a bikini or a mankini, whatever.
0:11.3	I'm gonna sit back or our UDT shorts, you know, but it is really the system that needs to be
0:20.5	optimized and it's actually the foundation for health. So it is the structural component and the
0:26.1	locomotion component, but it is also the metabolic component. It is also related to cognition,
0:32.1	mood, brain. It is one of the biggest tissues that you can optimize to protect against Alzheimer's.
0:45.3	Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former
0:49.9	CrossFit Games athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap
0:54.9	between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self.
0:59.0	In this episode, I share a conversation with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, who's a functional medicine
1:03.3	physician and practices muscle-centric medicine, which is the concept that skeletal muscle is the
1:08.4	largest organ in the body and provides a key to health and longevity. A little bit of background
1:13.6	about Dr. Lyon, she received her doctorate in osteopathic medicine from the Arizona College
1:18.0	of osteopathic medicine and is board-certified in family medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree
1:22.8	in human nutrition from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she studied vitamin
1:27.6	and mineral metabolism, chronic disease prevention, and management and the physiological effects of
1:32.7	diet composition. She also completed research and a clinical fellowship in nutritional science
1:37.7	and geriatrics at Washington University in St. Louis. I first encountered Dr. Lyon when she gave
1:42.8	a talk that I attended several years ago at the Institute for Functional Medicine's annual
1:46.4	International Conference. Her talk and the research she presented on protein and particularly
1:51.2	leucine requirements stuck with me, and I was excited to talk more about these concepts and how
1:55.8	she uses them with her patients here. But before we dive into the episode, I do want to make it clear
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