Muscle Is the Organ of Longevity: The Link Between Muscle Health and Mitochondria with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
The Energy Blueprint Podcast
Ari Whitten
4.6 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The key to longevity, energy, and metabolic health isn't found in your heart, liver, or brain…but in your muscles. Amazingly, your muscles make up the largest organ system in your body and, importantly, the primary home of your mitochondria.
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a fellowship-trained physician in nutritional science and geriatrics who is revolutionizing our understanding of muscle as the organ of longevity. Her work reveals why skeletal muscle is the only organ system we have direct control over.
In this conversation, she explains the shocking 400% difference in mitochondrial capacity between athletes and people with metabolic syndrome, why the "healthy sedentary" person doesn't exist, and her proven protocol for eating and training to optimize both muscle and mitochondrial health.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the show. With me today is one of my close personal friends, Dr. |
| 0:13.9 | Gabrielle Lyon, who is one of the world's foremost experts on the science of body composition and how it relates to health |
| 0:24.2 | and longevity and disease prevention. We talk about a number of different topics. We talk about |
| 0:31.6 | how this ties into mitochondrial health, this subject of body composition, which relates to how much fat and how much muscle is on your body, and all the different molecular mechanisms that are going on, how it ties into longevity and disease prevention, and a number of other fascinating topics. |
| 0:48.3 | This is really novel. The angle that she takes on this subject, I think is is very novel and I think you'll get a lot of |
| 0:56.3 | great insights from it and she is really one of the best in the world on this topic so with no further ado |
| 1:02.4 | enjoy this wonderful interview and conversation with my good friend dr gabriel lion dr lion my friend |
| 1:09.2 | welcome such a pleasure to have you. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, it's really great to see you. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm so sorry that we don't get to sit down in person, |
| 1:15.3 | but who knows, maybe over the summer. |
| 1:17.2 | We'll get to do it again. |
| 1:18.1 | For sure. |
| 1:18.7 | I will see you in San Diego if you're there. |
| 1:20.5 | Yes, yes, I'll be there. |
| 1:22.5 | Cool. |
| 1:23.4 | So where shall we begin? We need to talk about how all of your work around body composition links to mitochondrial health |
| 1:36.6 | and energy levels. |
| 1:38.0 | So what's your paradigm around understanding that connection? |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, the first thing that I want to say is that we know muscle is the organ of longevity |
| 1:49.1 | and muscle is the largest organ system in the body. |
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