Why Muscle is the Key for Longevity with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Birch Living. Skeletal muscle is a widely overlooked part of our metabolic health. From how well we control glucose and insulin to how well we age, skeletal muscle regulates many processes. One of the most important factors for how much muscle we create and retain is our protein intake, which has become a divisive topic in the nutrition world and one still hotly debated in some dietary camps. Today’s guest on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, is the perfect person to sort through the facts on the powers of skeletal muscle and how to consume protein for optimal impact. Dr. Lyon is a Washington University fellowship-trained physician in Nutritional Science and Geriatrics and is board certified in Family Medicine. She is the founder of the Institute for Muscle Centric-Medicine™ and has a private practice that services leaders, innovators, mavericks, and executives in a number of fields. In addition, Dr. Lyon also works closely with special-operations military personnel. Her goal is to change the paradigm of medicine from obesity-focused to muscle-centric and change the way we think about health and medicine with high scientific integrity. In this episode, we dive into: -The importance of muscle when it comes to our health (4:16) -The connection between muscle and metabolic health (16:06) -Myths about dietary protein (18:41) -Aging, longevity, and protein consumption (31:22) -Optimal lab levels when eating a protein-centric diet (49:20) -Dr. Lyon’s diet (59:27) -Why breakfast is the most important meal of the day (1:00:38) -Women and fasting (1:04:32) -How to know if you are under-muscled (1:08:03) -Does the quality of animal protein really matter? (1:27:03) -Cancer and protein consumption (1:49:50) For more on Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, follow her on Instagram @drgabriellelyon, Facebook @doctorgabriellelyon, Twitter @drgabriellelyon, YouTube @drgabriellelyon, and through her website, drgabriellelyon.com. Check out her podcast, The Gabrielle Lyon Show, here. This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers and Birch Living. Magnesium Breakthrough from BiOptimizers really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. It contains seven different forms of magnesium, all of which have different functions in the body. There isn't anything else like it on the market. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off, so just head over to magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10. To get $200 off your Birch Living mattress plus two free eco-rest pillows, head over to birchliving.com/dhru. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Muscle is the organ of longevity. Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease,
0:06.8	Alzheimer's, these are diseases of skeletal muscle first.
0:12.4	Welcome to the Drew Prod podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body
0:17.2	with one of the brightest minds in wellness, medicine and mindset. This week's guest is Dr.
0:22.0	Gabrielle Lyon and we are deep diving into the conversation of muscle. Today's guest Dr.
0:29.7	Lyon believes that we are under muscle as a society and because we are under muscle,
0:38.6	we don't have enough lean muscle mass, that leads to a whole host of challenges, especially as we
0:47.3	age. Now because we are under muscle based on Dr. Lyon's view and her muscle-centric medicine
0:55.2	approach, it also means that we need to prioritize protein, which for a lot of people can be a very
1:03.2	confusing topic. And I've found myself in that category too. You know we've had many distinguished
1:08.3	guests on this podcast previously who might advocate for what would be seen as a lower protein
1:14.8	diet. But as people become more familiar with the literature, and this is Dr. Lyon's argument
1:20.2	in today's podcast, we start to understand that protein is so central for building and keeping
1:27.6	muscle as we age, especially. Now a little bit about Dr. Lyon, she is a Washington University
1:36.3	Fellowship Train physician in nutritional science and geriatrics and is a board-certified
1:41.8	physician in family medicine. She is the founder of the Institute of Muscle-centric Medicine
1:46.6	and has a private practice that services leaders, innovators, mavericks, and executives in their
1:51.9	perspective fields. In addition, Dr. Lyon also works closely with special operations military,
1:59.1	and her goal in mission in life is to change the paradigm from medicine from obesity focused
2:05.8	to muscle-centric and fundamentally shift how we think about health and medicine with highly
2:13.7	scientific integrity. Dr. Lyon's a friend and I am so glad that she's on the podcast because,
2:19.8	as you can see with my discussion with her, I get to ask her all the questions that I have
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