Could building muscle add years to your life? – with Dr Gabrielle Lyon
6/5/202648 min
Muscle doesn't just keep us strong and toned – it’s also an essential longevity tool. Physician and bestselling author Dr Gabrielle Lyon joins Liz to explain how lifting weights protects your bones, regulates blood sugar and promotes healthy ageing – and why it’s never too early or late to start.
In this episode, Liz and Gabrielle discuss why we naturally lose muscle mass from our 30s, and how resistance training can protect against osteoporosis and metabolic disease.
Gabrielle also shares practical advice on protein intake and simple, functional strength exercises to build into your week to help you feel stronger, fitter and more resilient
In this episode:
· Why muscle is an organ of longevity
· How perimenopause impacts muscle mass
· The link between poor muscle health and type 2 diabetes
· How building muscle can help you burn fat
· The importance of protein for healthy ageing
· Easy ways to build strength training into your week
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· Email: podcast@lizearlewellbeing.com
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· Order Liz's new book – How to Age
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Host: Liz Earle
Producer: Anouszka Tate (Fresh Air Production)
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Content Writer: Lucy Parley
Head of Brand: Ellie Smith
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First 90 secondsGabrielle Lyon· Guest0:00
If we get to choose our level of frailty and strength, then we better damn well do it, and skeletal muscle is that organ system. It really is the organ of longevity. When we think about type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, diseases that in large part have a metabolic root, the conversation has always been about fat, when in reality, obesity and its counterparts are symptoms of unhealthy skeletal muscle.
Liz Earle· Host0:32
[upbeat music] Well, what one organ can sharpen your focus, reduce fatigue, protect your bones, and prevent disease? Well, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon says the answer is muscle. This is Age Better with me, Liz Earle, and it is my mission to change the conversation around aging, because women's health, particularly as we age, has been underfunded and overlooked for far too long, and quite frankly, it's time we push back. I truly believe that building muscle as a route to better health has been kept from women, you know, for far too long, especially older women. For me, I didn't start lifting weights or doing any resistance training exercises until I was in my late 50s, for heaven's sake. And yet now I am fitter, stronger, and far more energized as a result of building this simply, easily into my workout days. Doesn't take much time, and you know, I do think my overall health is better