Dr. Gabrielle Lyon: How to Exercise & Eat for Optimal Health & Longevity

If I were to look at your blood work and I saw something like elevated triglycerides or elevated insulin or elevated glucose, I would begin to understand that the health of your skeletal muscle isn't where it should be.

If someone is sedentary, then the current recommendation for carbohydrates would be 130 grams per day per day.

That first meal is most important. That first meal of the day, having dietary protein, will set you up metabolically for the rest of the day.

Muscle is the organ of longevity.

Dietary protein, we speak about it as if it's one thing, but actually, it's 20 different amino acids—9 of which are essential, the rest we can generate in our body.

We all hear about these things like cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes obesity. Largely, many of these metabolic diseases begin in skeletal muscle decades before.

We spend decades and have spent decades trying to treat obesity when really what we need to be looking at is skeletal muscle.

If someone is overweight or struggles with type 2 diabetes or any of these other metabolic conditions, there is evidence to support a lower carbohydrate intake.

6 cups of quinoa would equal the same as 1 small chicken breast when it comes to an amino acid profile.

If we can correct our nutrition and we gear it towards skeletal muscle health, then we can change the trajectory of aging.