Welcome to the Dr. Gabriel Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent

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In today's episode of the Dr. Gabriel Lyons Show, I sit down with Dr. William Evans.

He's an adjunct professor of medicine

at Duke University Medical Center and Human Nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences

at the University of California, Berkeley. He has played many significant roles and continues

to play pivotal roles in advancing the science of aging and muscle

health. Not only that, he is chief of the human physiology laboratory at the Human Nutrition

Research Center on aging at Tufts University. He has more than 75,000 citations.

He's the author or co-author of more than 300 publications in scientific journals and was the first to describe sarcopenia.

He is the co-inventor of a non-invasive and accurate measurement of muscle mass, which is strongly related to health outcomes in older people.

For the listener, that is a lot of what we talked about.

In this episode, we discussed the surprising fact that we have really only talked about

lean body mass versus skeletal muscle mass and made a lot of extrapolations

rather than directly measuring skeletal muscle mass. We also talk about what happens to muscle

as you age and the age old question, no pun intended, what is more important? Is it muscle mass or is it muscle strength?

And how have we thought about this as it relates to health? This episode is critically important

because I believe that this changes the next era of research that is going to be coming out on aging, muscle mass, muscle quality,

and strength. I hope you enjoy. As always, if you like this podcast, please like, subscribe,

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to hear it. And again, thank you so much for your time and

attention. A special thank you to one of the sponsors of the show, and that is Apollo Neuro. I'm sure

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