Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

And you know, the number could be 50.

But with outside of exercise, then you're going to have challenges with over time distorting your metabolism.

Yes, and I think that's a really great point that skeletal muscle is your primary site for glucose disposal.

As we age and people become more inactive, you have less muscle mass.

And, you know, there's muscle atrophy from disuse and denervation and medications, all kinds of reasons that we are up against chronic inflammation that we lose and sedentary behavior that we lose skeletal muscle.

However, when it comes to carbohydrates,

If we were to correct for carbohydrate intake, I think we can put the body in somewhat of a safety space where we can really begin to, number one, stop chasing blood sugar regulation, and number two, really begin to focus on and prioritize protein.

So that first meal of the day, again, carbohydrate consumption, our carbohydrate's bad.

No.

Do you have to earn your carbohydrates?

Yes.

Is a low carb diet helpful?

Yes, especially if you have metabolic dysregulation.

And how I would define that is metabolic syndrome.

So percent body fat over 30, high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides, elevated insulin, elevated glucose.

People will say that that is a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome.

And I would say, and you would say, that that is a diagnosis of unhealthy skeletal muscle.

Because what we are seeing is the muscle's inability to be able to manage those metabolites.

yes that is absolutely true if calories are controlled that it makes a lot of sense but the average american eats between 500 and a thousand more calories than the resting energy expenditure requirement and so in an ideal world when you know you're in a metabolic ward or something like that i used to work in one everything is controlled they are in a bed watching tv getting their food delivered

I can't even go to your house and get, I mean, the French fries are frozen.