Skeletal Muscle + Health with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon PH241

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Your skeletal muscles make up nearly half your body weight, and while they are widely recognized as critical for locomotion, their lesser-known functions include increasing metabolism, protecting neurological health, and more. Dr. Lyon recently joined me for a live Q&A-style webinar hosted by CrossFit Health with a focus on why it’s important to maintain adequate muscle mass to promote long-term health, and I’m sharing that content here.

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0:00.0	Right now, there is this constant focus on obesity and let's train to lose weight, let's
0:06.1	train to lose body fat, let's talk about obesity, and it's all about this obesity focus.
0:12.8	Well, we've been trying that for decades, and quite frankly, numbers of obesity have
0:17.9	increased.
0:18.9	They haven't decreased, and we're not seeing proper movement, no pun intended, in the
0:22.9	right direction.
0:24.9	But the reality is, if you believe that obesity is at the root cause and is the root of
0:30.8	the problem, you are going to try to solve the problem of obesity.
0:34.8	I'm here to tell you that that's actually the wrong problem you are trying to solve.
0:39.9	We do not have a body fat problem, body fat is symptomology of impaired skeletal muscle.
0:47.0	So in fact, we have a skeletal muscle problem.
0:54.7	Hello and welcome to pursuing health.
0:57.5	I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former CrossFit Games athlete.
1:01.6	Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and
1:05.9	medicine and support your journey toward your health yourself.
1:09.3	This episode is a replay of a monthly webinar I hosted on behalf of CrossFit Health with
1:13.2	Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on Skeletal Muscle.
1:16.0	Dr. Lyon has been on the podcast previously, but here we spend more time discussing exactly
1:20.6	why Skeletal Muscle is so important for our health and answer some of the audience's questions.
1:25.6	You can join us live for next month's webinar on January 19th at 7pm Eastern, which will
1:30.2	be featuring Dr. George Slavitch, director of the UCLA Stress Lab, as he talks about the
1:34.9	implications of stress on our health and how to build resilience against all types of
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