Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Yeah.

Well, what if I told you, I don't think we're over fat.

In fact, we are under muscled.

And the reality is, as you pointed out, there's been this fixation on fat, adiposity, the diseases related to obesity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, insulin resistance, all of these that go along with.

Exactly.

Well, what if obesity is actually just a symptom?

which in fact it is.

And what if I told you that these diseases are actually diseases of skeletal muscle first, and that obesity begins in skeletal muscle, insulin resistance

begins in skeletal muscle first.

Yeah, well, I mean, just even from a general perspective, it's the things that you, it's the muscles you have voluntary control over.

Right, so it's your biceps or your triceps or your quads.

Yeah.

Well, if you think about what skeletal muscle is, skeletal muscle is your metabolic currency.

It's number one for most people makes up 40% of their body weight.

For you, maybe 45.

For me, maybe 35.

You know, you're about a foot taller than me.

And when we think about skeletal muscle, we must understand that really, again, as your metabolic sync, what does it do?

It is the site for glucose disposal.

80% or more, it is the site of glucose disposal.