Forever Strong
A new, science-based strategy for aging well
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Learn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new book that demonstrates the importance of muscle for health and longevity from the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine®.
After years of watching patients cycle through her practice, Dr Gabrielle Lyon noticed a pattern. While her patients struggled with a wide range of conditions, they all suffered from the same core problem: they had too little muscle rather than too much fat.
When we think about muscle, we tend to think about strength or aesthetics, but in reality, muscle accounts for so much more than that. As the body's largest endocrine organ, muscle actually determines everything about the trajectory of health and aging. Many of the conditions Dr Lyon's patients were experiencing were actually symptoms of underdeveloped or unhealthy muscle.
Now, Dr Lyon offers an easy-to-follow food, fitness, and self-care program anchored in evidence and pioneering research that teaches you how to optimize muscle-no matter your age or health background. Discover how to overcome everything from obesity to autoimmune disorders and avoid diseases like Alzheimer's, hypertension, and diabetes by following Dr Lyon's powerful new approach to becoming forever strong.
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"By understanding muscle as the key to longevity and taking action to rebalance the effects of losing and gaining muscle, you can slow the process of aging," contends physician Lyon in her sturdy debut. She recommends eating a protein-rich diet to maintain muscle mass, explaining that consuming at least 30mg of protein during a meal is usually enough to trigger the process by which the body turns amino acids from protein-rich foods into skeletal muscle. Resistance training is crucial for long-term health, according to Lyon, because it prompts muscle contraction that "stimulates the uptake of glucose" from the bloodstream "without any need for insulin's assistance," reducing the chances of developing health conditions related to decreased insulin sensitivity, such as type 2 diabetes. Lyon's tough love approach will help readers overcome mental hurdles ("If you don't want to quit at least once, you're not working hard enough"), and the guidance is pragmatic, as when she describes how to combine chest presses, reverse crunches, side planks, and other exercises to create a well-rounded workout while acknowledging that the time commitments she recommends might not be feasible for some people's schedules. Advising readers to do their best given their constraints, Lyon writes, "There is one slam-dunk way to exercise wrong: don't do it at all." The result is an encouraging manual on staying fit in old age.
