Optimizing Body Composition and Skeletal Muscle Health

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 

Resources We Mention

• Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
• Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - website
• Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - Podcast