Angela Foster Performance Podcasts - Episode 131
EP 131 – How To Achieve Beauty, Fitness & Longevity with Dr Gabrielle Lyon
Dr Gabrielle Lyon discusses the crucial role muscle plays in achieving longevity and body composition and explains how to optimise your diet in a bio-individual way for you
Muscle is the largest endocrine organ in the body and is responsible for the trajectory of ageing and muscle centric medicine focuses on how you can optimise this system to improve your metabolism and build better body composition.
Dr Gabrielle explains the pivotal role skeletal muscle plays and how the muscle system can improve and change body composition, help you achieve longevity and combat disease if you learn how to optimise it with the right nutrition and exercise
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How To Achieve Beauty, Fitness & Longevity with Dr Gabrielle Lyon
Dr Gabrielle Lyon discusses the crucial role muscle plays in achieving longevity and body composition and explains how to optimise your diet in a bio-individual way for you
Muscle is the largest endocrine organ in the body and is responsible for the trajectory of ageing and muscle centric medicine focuses on how you can optimise this system to improve your metabolism and build better body composition.
Dr Gabrielle explains the pivotal role skeletal muscle plays and how the muscle system can improve and change body composition, help you achieve longevity and combat disease if you learn how to optimise it with the right nutrition and exercise
Key Takeaways
- Understanding that skeletal muscle is the origin of the problem means you can effectively treat the problem
- Muscle begins to decline from the age of thirty
- Individuals who are very active are those who are able to maintain muscle quality
- You need to understand the exact requirement for protein to be effective in
body re-composition
- Muscle is the only organ you can really add to in a significant way in the body
- Skeletal muscle improves survivability and any need the body has for additional amino acid is drawn from the skeletal muscle
- Muscle is a nutrient-sensing organ and senses the protein and branch amino acids being taken into the body
- As you age the efficiency of sensing the nutrients decreases and muscle becomes more insulin resistant
- You can always improve the quality of your life by improving strength training and you can also lay down new tissue if you are getting enough calories and the right type of protein
- You lose muscle and your metabolism slows as you age so specific targeted strategies are required
- For body re-composition, you have to control the calories and optimise protein
- To optimise body composition and muscle mass, as you age, amino acids need to rise to a specific point
- You need to hit the leucine threshold to trigger a response in the muscle, building new tissue
- The priority around ageing is high-quality protein and creating a flexible plan that focuses on this
- You need to decide on whether to go with carbohydrates or fats alongside the protein
Best Moments
‘Now that everything is very convenient the capacity to retain muscle requires specific strategies’
‘Muscle is an organ of longevity
‘The stronger you are the higher your capacity to survive’
About the Host
Angela Foster
Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:
To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
About the Guest
Dr Gabrielle Lyon
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a Washington University fellowship-trained physician in Nutritional Science and Geriatrics and is board certified in Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulation. She completed her undergraduate degree in Human Nutrition, Vitamin, and Mineral Metabolism at the University of Illinois. Dr. Lyon is the founder of the Institute for Muscle Centric-Medicine™. She services the leaders, innovators, mavericks, and executives in their prospective field. In addition, Gabrielle works closely with the Special Operations Military and has a private practice that services patients worldwide.
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