Dr. Alyssa Olenick

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The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show · Cardio vs Strength Is a Myth and the Science Proves It - Dr. Alyssa Olenick · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

Um, at least in the data that we have right now.

So it's not as clear cut right now the stuff the story that everyone wants to think that estrogen equals muscle because when we look at the data from also that makes no sense.

That's and I feel like that's the narrative that's being pushed to women is like you have estrogen premenopausally, so you have muscle, and then it goes away and then you don't have muscle.

Like that's like the narrative that's being at least from what I'm seeing my primary role is to drive anabolic adaptation.

And then we see that when you look at the data of the perimenopause to menopause transition.

Estrogen doesn't seem to be the main contributor to the muscle loss.

There is, it's tricky because there's overlap with aging and other things that can influence that.

And I think it's really hard for a lot of women to unpack the fact that like age and menopause happen at the same time.

And so many of those things concurrently happen.

It's really hard to test that.

You can't, you really can't, you can, you can do, you know, these suppression studies, but they're still not perfectly gonna capture age versus, you know, menopause.

So there's this overlap here, but

If estrogen had such a stimulus on that or was so robust, then we would see that when you add back estrogen, that all that muscle loss was completely, you know, regained, or there was this significant, meaningful boost in it.

Really, what we see is the main driver and stimulus, even for menopausal women, is the resistance training.

Even more, like not that protein isn't important, but in the studies where they even isolate high versus low protein, it's the resistance training is the stimulus.

You have to maintain it.

And I think the thing that

Potentially to your point of women underloading, like they really struggle with is I think a lot of women, at least from what I've seen, is they're afraid to load heavy enough, or they've never experienced what that feels like.

So they don't have anything.

So like I grew up an athlete, right?

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