It cannot be about what we have to lose anymore.

It has to be about what we have to gain. Women should not be afraid that they're going to get bulky. It's just a myth. Muscle is the organ of longevity. There's nothing more important than building and maintaining healthy muscle mass. It's not negotiable. It has to be like brushing your teeth. The data doesn't support that. This misinformation is going to kill people. You have to build it before you need it. If a woman

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somewhat of an insulin resistant state. Just take the next right action. It's never too late.

The evidence is clear that building muscle supports our health in so many ways. But how to build muscle

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Welcome back to the As a Woman podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Natalie Crawford, and today we are talking about one of the most transformative systems on your entire body, your skeletal muscle. My guest, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, is a board-certified physician, the founder of the Center for Muscle Centric Medicine, and New York Times best-selling author, and she's just released her new book, The Forever Strong Playbook, a six-week science-back plan to sharpen your mind, strengthen your body,

and get healthy at any age.

Dr. Lyons' work reframes muscle not as vanity, but as vital biology, a living adaptive

organ that governs hormones, metabolism, immunity, and longevity.

And in this conversation, we're discussing how muscle truly acts as medicine, what every woman

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