The Science of Muscle Growth | Christopher Fry PhD
The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
4.6 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Christopher Fry is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Athletic Training and Clinical Nutrition at the University of Kentucky, and he serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Muscle Biology. Chris completed a BS in Biology at Baylor University, PhD in biomedical sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch and postdoctoral training in muscle physiology at the University of Kentucky. His research is funded by several grants through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and he has received several awards for his research. Over the course of his career, Dr. Fry has created a focused research program that bridges targeted mechanistic approaches to clinical translation. Specifically, he seeks to enhance the regenerative and regrowth capacity of skeletal muscle when it is compromised following an acute musculoskeletal injury with the purpose to support patient recovery.
In this episode we discuss:
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- What can you do to increase your sports performance?
- The future of muscle physiology research
- How to improve your muscle growth and recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent conversations. |
| 0:14.6 | In today's episode, I sit down with Dr. Christopher Fry. He's a tenured associate professor in the Department of Athletic Training and Clinical |
| 0:25.6 | Nutrition at the University of Kentucky. |
| 0:28.2 | He serves as the associate director of the Center for Muscle Biology, which of course is |
| 0:36.0 | something we find fascinating. |
| 0:38.1 | Chris completed a BS in biology at Baylor University, PhD in biomedical sciences at the University |
| 0:45.9 | of Texas Medical Branch, and a postdoc in muscle physiology at the University of Kentucky. |
| 0:53.5 | His research is funded by several grants through |
| 0:56.7 | the NIH, and he has received several awards for his research. He has created a focused research |
| 1:05.1 | program that bridges targeted mechanistic approaches to clinical translation. |
| 1:12.9 | What does this mean? |
| 1:14.2 | This means he seeks to enhance the regenerative and regrowth capacity of skeletal muscle |
| 1:21.3 | when it is compromised following an acute musculoskeletal injury with the purpose to support patient recovery. |
| 1:32.6 | I know that that was a mouthful. |
| 1:34.5 | It's really important to understand that in this episode we do something very unique. |
| 1:39.3 | We take bench research, mechanistic and animal model research, and Dr. Chris makes the bridge to human research and then finally to clinical application. |
| 1:56.1 | Very unusual and very important research. |
| 2:00.7 | In this episode, we discuss the concept of muscle plasticity |
| 2:06.2 | and its importance in understanding muscle adaptation and recovery, particularly in the |
| 2:13.0 | scenarios of muscle wasting or injury. We also discuss what a satellite cell is, why it is so important, and how that impacts |
| 2:24.7 | both injury and sport performance and hypertrophy. |
| 2:29.2 | This episode was packed with scientific information, with questions as to where we are in muscle |
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