This is THE most important conversation I may ever share on this podcast, and it's been years in the making. We've recorded, scrapped, and re-scheduled this interview several times, and I think it's no coincidence that the timing worked out this way when I finally, myself, GOT the message from our guest and started putting her advice into practice in real life... so that I could be an example and testament to what she's teaching today. Have you heard that doctors receive less than 20 hours of nutrition training in total during medical school in the US? Today's guest, who has been my doctor for the last almost 6 years - is a physician with a passion for nutritional science that defies this statistic and has dedicated her life to helping ALL of us understand the importance of (and dispel the myths around) nutrition and more specifically, dietary protein. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon began her path by studying nutritional science, and then decided she wanted to go above and beyond food alone, keeping the principles with her but deepening her training to a point where she could care for patients on any and every level. After going through medical school, she completed 2 years of training in psychiatry and 3 years of family medicine. She eventually became board certified, and continued her education yet again with a post-doc in nutritional sciences, geriatrics, and obesity medicine. Today she practices what she has coined "muscle-centric medicine". She is committed to shifting our paradigm of healing chronic disease and optimizing human health from the obesity paradigm to the muscle paradigm, and she is going to explain to us today why muscle is about SO much more than fitness or looking good in a bikini. And, why it's not just for fitness enthusiasts alone -- it's important for us to start building RIGHT HERE AND NOW at ANY AGE to begin reversing chronic disease processes. She's going to cover: - How muscle improves metabolic markers relevant to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and PCOS - because skeletal muscle is our primary site for disposing of the glucose aka carbohydrates we eat in our diets (and if we don't have muscle, there's nowhere for it to go!) - How this ties into the picture of preventing or delaying Alzheimer's, which is often called "type 3 diabetes of the brain" - Why Alzheimer's starts 20+ years before it actually presents and is a disease of mid-life, not old age (plus what to do now in your 20s, 30s and 40s) - Why muscle is an endocrine organ that just as important as your thyroid, and produces biochemistry-altering compounds just like the thyroid produces hormones! - How muscle is essentially alive, and is a nutrient-sensing organ - it quite literally senses the amino acids we consume via diet, and how this sensitivity decreases as we age - What protein threshold per meal you need to build muscle - The difference between plant and animal protein in terms of amino acid quality - Why leucine is the most important amino acid and why we need more as we age - How much protein you should be eating based on your body weight - How hormone changes and menopauses affect this picture - Why body composition matters and how excess adipose tissue affects the brain - And EXACTLY what you can start doing TODAY to become healthier, sharper, and hormonally optimized as you age. I always tell Dr. Lyon that she quite literally saved my life; the fact that I was able to receive this information NOW has allowed me to have a much better chance in my future when it comes to the Alzheimer's disease that runs in my family. She got me to see that I CAN go to the gym even if that felt scary at first, I CAN build muscle, and that it IS my best shot at a healthy brain as I age, putting the power back in my -- and now your -- hands. Connect with Dr. Lyon: Website: HERE Podcast: HERE Instagram: HERE Connect with Organic Olivia: My new Instagram HERE Shop herbal formulas HERE Blog HERE