How To Be "Forever Strong", Creating The Right Amount of FRICTION In Your Life, Official Protein Rules & More, With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Boundless Life
Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is an accomplished physician and the New York Times bestselling author of FOREVER STRONG: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well and author of the just released , The Forever Strong PLAYBOOK.
Her groundbreaking Muscle-Centric Medicine® approach places muscle at the center of disease prevention, metabolic health, and true vitality. And while she works with and trains elite athletes, military operatives, and public figures, she's equally focused on building strength and resilience at home, raising two young children while actively living her philosophy with her husband, a retired Navy SEAL.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast, as we get older, we become less efficient at this process. |
| 0:09.0 | Therefore, age is my first decision in how much protein that we need. |
| 0:14.7 | The older that you are, the more protein that you need. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to the Boundless Life, with me, your host, Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, |
| 0:26.6 | and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, |
| 0:31.0 | fitness, longevity, and beyond. |
| 0:45.0 | I recently had a podcast with this guy named Morley Robbins, and he kept talking about copper. |
| 0:46.7 | Wouldn't shut up about copper. |
| 0:50.3 | For good reason, copper is foundational for energy, for hormones, for recovery. |
| 1:12.1 | A lot of people don't realize they may be low in copper, and it's not as simple as going out and chewing on some copper pipe or copper tongue scriper that you find laying around. You actually have to take a copper supplement. Morley's company Formula IQ makes this product called Recuperate IQ. It's not just isolated copper. It's copper paired with the cofactors that the body actually uses to handle copper properly. So it's designed to support things like mitochondrial energy and iron |
| 1:17.4 | balance and overall metabolic health rather than just forcing a short-term effect. In many cases, |
| 1:22.8 | you'll hear people have been diagnosed with anemia, but often, as I talked about with Morley in our |
| 1:27.8 | podcast, the real culprit is copper imbalances. So recuperate IQ is a way to get copper as a |
| 1:36.5 | foundational mineral and something that supports a lot of systems that people overlook. I |
| 1:41.5 | just started taking it. I'm experimenting with it. I feel this uptick and |
| 1:44.6 | energy. It's especially useful if you've been running on stress for a long period of time and |
| 1:49.2 | are slightly copper deficient. Yes, you can get copper from things like organ meats and bee pollen, |
| 1:53.9 | but you can also supplement with it. And it's a lot easier to travel with this compared to |
| 1:57.7 | liver and bee pollen. So check it out, formula IQ.com. Use code Ben for an |
| 2:03.2 | exclusive offer. That's code Ben at formula IQ.com. And the copper stuff is called recuperate |
| 2:09.0 | IQ. Dr. Gabriel Lyon. You probably heard of her. She's a very accomplished physician. She's |
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