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How to Build Anti-Aging Muscle Mass & a New Way to Think About Obesity With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

How to Build Anti-Aging Muscle Mass & a New Way to Think About Obesity With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Update: 2024-04-30
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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

  • Why the body becomes less efficient at protein turnover with age and how to counteract this
  • The biggest needle movers when it comes to building muscle
  • Why not to train to get better and what to do instead
  • How to build an effective structure for getting stronger that doesn’t have to take a ton of time
  • Why high-intensity training even just once a week, can make a huge difference
  • When you exercise, you sensitize muscles to glucose
  • The long-term benefits of training on hormones and aging
  • Differences between women and men with training and hormones
  • The most important workouts women can do
  • What to know about sarcopenia and what we can do about it
  • Sarcopenia is not a disease of aging but a disease of inactivity 
  • How this relates to cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's
  • What the normal recommendations get wrong about protein consumption
  • Quality of protein matters and how to optimize this
  • Dietary protein is essential to building and maintaining muscle but quality matters a lot
  • The normal dietary protein numbers are just the minimum to avoid deficiency and are not adequate for building muscle and being metabolically optimal
  • Standards vs goals for getting better
  • How to use technology and tracking to your advantage in making these changes

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How to Build Anti-Aging Muscle Mass & a New Way to Think About Obesity With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

How to Build Anti-Aging Muscle Mass & a New Way to Think About Obesity With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

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