The midlife muscle crisis, with Dr Gabrielle Lyon
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Do you weight train? Functional medicine practitioner Dr Gabrielle Lyon joins Liz to share why your health and longevity may be determined by having too little muscle rather than too much fat.
Gabrielle and Liz discuss how skeletal muscle mass can impact your immune system, brain cells, and hormones, plus they cover the benefits of a high protein diet and how else to protect our muscles as we age.
The episode also dives into the relationship between body composition, waist circumference, and brain volume. And Gabrielle also talks through why she believes resistance training should be prescribed by doctors to patients.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Follow Gabrielle Lyon on Instagram
- Purchase Forever Strong by Gabrielle Lyon
- Visit the Gabrielle Lyon website
- Email us your questions at [email protected]
- Pre-order A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
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| 0:00.0 | And I had this aha moment that we were approaching this all wrong and that we didn't have an obesity epidemic. |
| 0:09.0 | What we have is a midlife muscle crisis and that the common thread that pulled together all of my |
| 0:16.4 | patients was not that they were over fat or fighting obesity. It was that they had |
| 0:21.9 | unhealthy or very little skeletal muscle. |
| 0:27.0 | That is Dr. Gabrielle Lyon. She found that what we commonly think of as diseases of aging are really diseases of impaired muscle. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Liz Earl and this is the Liz Al Well-being show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half and I'm on a real mission to find |
| 0:46.4 | ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being |
| 0:52.0 | today. |
| 0:53.4 | Well now here is a question you might want to ask yourself and your doctor, are you struggling |
| 0:58.6 | with certain health conditions not because you are carrying too much fat but because you have too little muscle. |
| 1:06.0 | Well Dr Gabriellellion feels that that is the case for far too many of us as we age |
| 1:12.0 | because as we're about to learn muscle determines almost |
| 1:16.0 | everything about the trajectory of health and aging. A well-respected |
| 1:21.4 | functional medicine practitioner Gabrielle is the founder of the Institute for Muscle |
| 1:26.5 | Centric Medicine. |
| 1:28.1 | She's board certified in family medicine and has now written a truly fantastic book. It's called Forever Strong, a new science-based strategy for aging well. |
| 1:38.0 | I love it. I have it beside my bed. |
| 1:40.0 | Aging and becoming frail is not a passive process, Dr. Lyons says, you have a choice. The future is unpredictable at times that the Open University are the experts in distance learning, allowing you to fit study around your life. |
| 2:07.0 | What's more, you'll have support from dedicated tutors every step of the way. |
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| 2:16.0 | Search the Open University to find out more. |
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