Dr. Gabrielle Lyon ON The Truth About Muscle, Protein, And Longevity

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My guest <em><strong>Dr. Gabrielle Lyon</strong></em> is the founder of the Institute for Muscle Centric-Medicine™. She services the leaders, innovators, mavericks, and executives in their prospective fields. In addition, Gabrielle works closely with the Special Operations Military and has a private practice that services patients worldwide. Dr. Lyon is a Washington University fellowship-trained physician. Her postdoctoral training was a combined research and clinical medicine fellowship in Nutritional Science/Obesity Medicine and Geriatrics. She is also board certified in Family Medicine. Dr. Lyon completed her undergraduate degree in Human Nutrition, Vitamin, and Mineral Metabolism at the University of Illinois and continues to be mentored over the last two decades by one of the world-leading protein experts Dr. Donald Layman. 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She has also has her own podcast, <em>The Gabrielle Lyon Show</em>, a place to provide you with the framework for navigating the health and wellness space and, most importantly, being the champion of your own life.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>In today's episode we discuss:</em></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The controversy between protein and longevity</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The two ways to maintain skeletal muscle</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why we need the essential amino acids and where they are best found</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why resistance training helps our quality of life </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disease starting in skeletal muscle</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muscle-centric approach opposed to fat-focused</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why is building muscle c