Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
- Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned
- The one patient that changed her life and her career trajectory
- Why we’ve been trying and failing to fix an obesity epidemic for 50 years and why we’ve gotten worse, not better
- Fat is just a symptom of unhealthy skeletal muscle
- What happens when a person doesn’t have healthy skeletal muscle
- The myth of “healthy sedentary individuals”
- Having healthy skeletal muscle is the only way to be healthy
- Skeletal muscle is its own organ system and why this is important
- Why muscle is the best protection for having a healthy pregnancy
- Skeletal muscle is the only organ system
- What a DEXA is and what it measures
- The division between muscle mass and strength
- What is happening in the body and the blood with unhealthy skeletal muscle
- The loss of lean muscle mass is more detrimental than excess body fat!
- How waist-to-hip ratio is helpful in understanding where fat is
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