Shrug family. Doug Larson here and today on Barb L shrug we bring back a longtime friend of the show, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon. She's a physician. She has a background in nutrition and geriatrics and has a world-class understanding of the role that muscle plays in our short and long-term health and performance. She also has a new book that came out just yesterday called the Forever Strong Playbook. You can get that on Amazon or Audible. Highly recommend it.

And in this episode, we talk about the limitations of only focusing on fat loss, specifically

with regard to GOP1 use, the benefits of hormone replacement therapy, what healthy muscle

actually looks like, protecting your muscle as you get older, as well as how muscle mass

specifically contributes to your overall health.

So if you want to know all about the relationship between muscle and longevity, this shows for you.

Enjoy the show.

Welcome to Barbell Strug. I'm Doug Larsen here with longtime co-host, Travis Mash, and one of our new co-hosts, excuse me, Dr.

Mike Lane, and we're here with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon. I've been on the show a handful of times and great to have you back. Good to see you. It's so good to see you. We've known each other, Doug. You know, I've known each other for probably over 10 years now. Yeah, something like that. And you have been very busy. you got a new book coming out, a compliment to your old book, but also you said a much better version of your, not the old book, but a past book. We're going to talk about that here today.

Yes, actually. So it's the Forever Strong playbook. And, you know, when people think about a playbook, they probably think about a workbook.

It's totally not that.

It's what is the tactical, like a field guide.

But what makes this so different is it starts with how to think.

And you, all of you have been in the coaching realm

for a long time.

And people always go exactly with what to do first how to

move how to train but you have to manage how to think primarily as the initial yeah you'll totally agree

but before we dig into that for people that haven't haven't met you or haven't heard a show in the

past give us your background how did you get into training, into science, et cetera? Yeah. Well, I'm a physician and I trained in nutritional

sciences and geriatrics, believe it or not. So I did two years of psychiatry, three years

of family medicine, and then a fellowship in nutritional

sciences and geriatrics at Washu. All this to say, quite a long road, but my undergraduate

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