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So let's talk about muscle as a predictor for longevity.
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In 2019, they did a study.
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The Journal of Gerontology showed that muscle strength and mass were stronger predictors of
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mortality than cholesterol or BMI.
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This is doubling down on the study I mentioned earlier.
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Right?
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That's just two studies now.
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Other research backs this up.
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The Lancet Public Health in 2018 found that low muscle strength was associated with a twofold
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higher risk for premature death.
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Welcome back to another episode of Health Decoded.
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I'm your host, doctor Alessi.
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So excited to have you here with me today and excited to get into this episode's topic.
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This topic kind of spurred from last week's show.
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I was interviewed on a podcast with Doctor.
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Swathi for the MYOS MD power panel, and just had a really good conversation.
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It was more of an interview really.
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She was asking me a bunch of questions about, you know, how we're helping people in our
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clinic and kind of the way functional medicine works.
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And, you know, the difference between functional medicine and conventional medicine.
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But we touched on the concept of muscle as medicine, right how muscle is really an organ
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for longevity.
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And so it made me start thinking about man, this is something we should dig into a little
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bit more, because this is such a heavy topic that we discuss with our patients.
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First and foremost, anytime we're trying to, you know, enhance health and enhance longevity
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and, you know, mitigate the risk for injury, chronic disease, illness, all of that muscle is
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is foundational.
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And so, you know, really, the the title of this episode, muscle is the fountain of youth is is
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really true.
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So, you know, let's get into this.
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You know, most people have been told worry about your cholesterol or your blood pressure,
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manage your weight.
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But the truth is, you know, muscle is really the single most under prescribed medicine that
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we have.
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It's the foundation of your metabolism, your hormones, your immune system, and thus your
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longevity.
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So realistically, if you want to live longer and better, this episode is for you.
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So we're gonna break it down, or I'm gonna break it down into really the four segments
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that we often go through.
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Number one, like what is muscle?
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Why is it important?
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Number two, you know, how to how to prevent muscle loss or like the the the absence of
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muscle.
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Segment number three, how do we test for it or I guess keep ahead of it?
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And then number four is always like what to do about it or how to take action.
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So that's always the one that people love.
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So let's get right into it and start with why muscle matters.
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So your muscles aren't just there to move weight around.
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Right?
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They're not just there to for you to look buff and look good.
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Your muscles are actually an endocrine organ.
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That means they release powerful chemical messengers called myokines that influence
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nearly every system in your body.
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Myokines regulate inflammation.
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They improve insulin sensitivity, they stimulate fat metabolism, and they even cross
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the blood brain barrier to support cognition.
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There was an awesome review out of the nature reviews of endocrinology in 2018 that put it
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plainly skeletal muscle is now recognized as an endocrine organ with profound effects on
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metabolic health.
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So I mean, basically muscle is an excellent predictor of lifespan.
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The kicker is the more muscle you carry, the longer you live.
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This is just shown time and time again, not only in research, but just look at the people
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who are living vibrantly for a long time, right?
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And so the Journal of American Geriatric Society 2014, so about ten years ago now,
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showed that low muscle mass, or what's been called sarcopenia was independently associated
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with increased mortality in older adults, even after adjusting for BMI and fat mass.
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So muscle alone, not just overall body weight, not BMI, muscle alone was independently
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associated with increased mortality if that muscle was low.
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They also found that grip strength, which is a simple marker for muscle function was more
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predictive of all cause mortality than blood pressure was right yet here we are harping on
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blood pressure all the time oh my blood pressure is high oh the doc told me my blood
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pressure is high need to be on this, this drug, you know, I'm not going to rabbit hole here.
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You guys already know my stance on this.
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But how many people are on drugs for high blood pressure, but haven't even been addressed for
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other indicators of, you know, disease and chronic illness or life longevity things,
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right?
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They just harp on this one single marker, and then just put people on drugs.
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And it's actually a pretty it's a lazy way to do medicine, honestly.
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So, you know, I hope this helps to kind of like help you rethink or think outside the box a
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little bit about how to approach that.
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And so, muscle tells us more about how long you're going to live than blood pressure,
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cholesterol or even the scale is going to tell us.
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But the flip side of this is that after age about 30, most people are going to start to
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lose about three to 8% of their muscle mass per decade.
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These are averages, right?
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So once you hit your 50s, 60s, that accelerates dramatically, unless you're working against
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this.
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Right?
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And so the process is called sarcopenia.
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And I think the the definition they even say like the natural the natural loss of muscle
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over time with age.
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There's nothing nothing natural about that.
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We just stop moving and we just stop utilizing it.
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And so it is gonna decline.
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But we can prevent that.
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Right?
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And so sarcopenia is directly tied to things like falls, people being more frail, which is,
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you know, actually the number one cause of injury related death in adults 65.
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They have a fall, and then the downslope of that, they don't often come back from.
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It's related to insulin resistance and type two diabetes, like, a hundred percent correlation.
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Low muscle mass is or sarcopenia is related to an increased risk of dementia because of that
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loss of the myokines signaling to the brain, as well as immune dysfunction and higher chronic
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disease burden.
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There was a study in the journal Aging Cell 2020 that found loss of muscle mass and
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mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle was directly linked to increased rates of dementia
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and cardiovascular disease.
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So, you know, if you don't die of aging, right?
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That's we don't die from aging.
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We die from losing muscle mass because that's our armor that protects us, that protects our
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brain, our metabolism, our hormones, and ultimately that independence or that autonomy
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that we want to have.
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And so the earlier you start protecting it, the better your chances of living not just longer,
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but stronger.
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So let's get into, you know, what we call the hidden crisis of muscle loss or that that
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Now back to the episode.
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Alright.
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Welcome back.
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So let's get into this.
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You know, let's talk about the crisis that almost nobody is talking about, which is muscle
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loss.
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Conventional medicine barely pays attention to it.
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And kind of what I alluded to earlier, there's no drug for it.
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So there's not a code they can build the insurance and get paid.
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And so they tend to not care about it.
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That's just the truth.
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But as we've already discussed muscle is life.
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If you have muscle on your body, you live longer and better and more vibrant.
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So let's talk about muscle as a predictor for longevity.
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In 2019, they did a study, the Journal of Gerontology showed that muscle strength and
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mass were stronger predictors of mortality than cholesterol or BMI.
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This is doubling down on the study I mentioned earlier, right?
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That's just two studies now.
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Other research backs this up.
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The Lancet Public Health in 2018 found that low muscle strength was associated with a twofold
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higher risk for premature death.
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And then the Journal of Kachexia, Sarcopenia, and Muscle in 2021 confirmed that muscle mass
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and function are critical survival markers, especially in people with chronic illness.
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Your muscle has immune modulators in it.
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So it has it secretes these things, the myokines, the cytokines that help your immune
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system function better.
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You're less likely to get sick or have some kind of negative response to more of a common
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cold or something like that.
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And so, the other thing is your muscle and metabolism work together as well.
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They're directly related.
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Over 80% of glucose disposal happens in your muscle tissue.
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Your muscles are like sponges for blood sugar.
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So if you don't have muscle, your body can't handle carbs, weak muscles then equal weak
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metabolism.
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And this explains why you know we see so many people who come to us with weight gain fatigue.
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They're on that verge of pre diabetes or full blown diabetes and these blood sugar swings.
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And it's not just diet issues.
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It's not just willpower.
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They have muscle issues at the root of it.
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And so supporting muscle and muscle gain is almost like 100% across the board in all of our
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protocols that we use with our patients.
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Because again, it is longevity.
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And so, you know, sarcopenia, let's talk a little bit more about that and and kind of some
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statistics because by the time you hit 60, they've shown that as many as one in three
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adults already have sarcopenia.
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And this is clinically significant muscle loss.
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Again, they generalize this as normal.
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This is not normal.
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This is not a normal part of aging common.
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Yes, normal.
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No.
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And so most don't even know until it shows up as like a fall or a fracture from bumping a
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corner.
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How many times have you heard that right?
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Somebody just man, I just I just hit my arm on something and I actually had a hairline
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fracture.
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It's because the bones, the strength of your bones is actually directly related to the
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strength of your muscles as well.
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So when the muscle which is attached to a tendon that's attached to the bone when the
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muscle is is put resistance on and has to strengthen, it's pulling the bone as well,
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which then makes the bone need to strengthen as well.
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And so, wolf's law tells us that bone is going to grow based on the imposed demand.
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So if we're not putting any type of resistance or demand on the bone, we're not going to have
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that healthy bone growth.
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And so the problem is conventional healthcare rarely tests for muscle health.
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They probably don't even know how to test for it honestly, they'll send you to a specialist
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to specialist, they're going to look at cholesterol blood pressure, maybe even body
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composition, but those are not ideal predictors.
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And so if you're only getting the blood pressure cholesterol checks, maybe some glucose
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checks, you're not getting the whole picture, and you're missing a huge part of a longevity
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piece that is, you know, paramount to living a long and healthy life, and preventing things
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like diabetes, dementia and being disabled.
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And so let's talk about that, right?
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Let's get into how do we test for muscle loss then?
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So because we've talked about why is muscle important?
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What is it?
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And why is muscle loss dangerous?
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But how do we actually measure it so that now we can talk about taking action because your
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doctor's not checking it.
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Raise your hand if you've ever had a muscle test, to see what amount of muscle mass you
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have on your body.
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Most people have not.
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And so the gold standard is what's called a DEXA scan.
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This is dual energy X-ray absorb, absorb geometry, right?
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And so, what this does is it gives you a total picture of your body lean muscle mass fat mass
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bone density fluid, all of it.
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So you have an idea of where your percentages are.
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There are things like in body scans or what's called a BIE a bio electrical impedance.
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This test is more accessible, little less specific, but is a quick way to track lean mass
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versus fat mass.
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The caveat is you have to do that test in the same conditions every time like you wouldn't
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test that one day in the morning on an empty stomach, the next day after you worked out and
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had some carbs and you like it would be an unfair test, right?
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It wouldn't be helpful at that point.
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So it has to be the same conditions, but it can be a pretty general screen.
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And then some simple tools is also doing like tape measure circumference, checking body fat
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with like a caliper test.
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And then, you know, strength is obviously a big one.
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So, strength testing, the gold standard on this front is what they do is a grip strength test.
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So it's basically a thing you squeeze, and it can tell how much pressure you're putting out
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just from your forearm strength.
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And so it's one of the best predictors of longevity actually.
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So, you know, a weak handshake equals a weak prognosis.
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Right?
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And then in older adults, the chair stand test.
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So being able to sit to stand from sitting, can you do that repeatedly without using your hands
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to prop you up or without, you know, faltering?
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These are great signals for performance and muscle strength.
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And then gait speed, right?
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How fast can somebody walk is a great predictor as well.
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And so the Lancet in 2015 concluded that grip strength was a stronger predictor of all cause
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mortality than systolic blood pressure was.
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So that goes to show you.
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And then obviously, something that we are very much a proponent of is things like blood work
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and biomarkers.
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When we're looking at muscle health, we don't just stop with these strength tests.
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We also want to dive into some labs that give us the full metabolic picture.
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Because remember, your muscle is directly related to your metabolism.
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And so if the metabolism is slow, is not performing well, that's a good indicator that
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perhaps a person has not enough muscle on their body.
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So checking things like fasting insulin, glucose, hemoglobin A1C, we take it a step
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further.
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And we test for this, this marker called HOMA IR.
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That's a marker, early marker of insulin resistance.
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It can basically help us predict if someone's going to become diabetic or pre diabetic before
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they have the full blown markers like on these ones.
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And so we've actually, just in the last couple weeks seen a few patients with that where, they
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started having those feelings, symptoms maybe of fatigue and not feeling so good, weight
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gain, stubborn weight gain.
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And then we did a blood test.
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On a standard test, the insulin, the glucose, the A1C all would have been within normal
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range, like on the higher end, but within normal, but the HOMA test was in off the charts
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red.
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And so it was like, okay, your body is starting to tap into becoming insulin resistant.
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It's just a matter of time now before you become diabetic.
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And so now we're ahead of the game.
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Proactively caught that and we're able to help these patients prevent the onset of diabetes in
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the future.
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It's pretty awesome.
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Other things are like creatinine and the kidney filtration rate, the EGFR, because muscle mass
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impacts kidney markers as well.
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Low creatinine can actually be a red flag for muscle loss.
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And then obviously always checking hormones and inflammatory markers.
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We want to see how testosterone DHEA even like growth hormone and IGF-one, which are all
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crucial for muscle building and retention.
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Again, the concept here is proactive medicine.
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We're able to test these things to get ahead of what could potentially be muscle loss in the
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future.
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There was a study in the journal nutrients '20 21.
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It reported that low testosterone and vitamin D deficiency were independently linked to
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sarcopenia and poor muscle function.
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So, that just goes to show you and you know, the concept with blood work is not just getting
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a snapshot of one thing like we talked about your blood pressure, your cholesterol, your
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sugar, we need a full picture, right?
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I need to know the whole story behind what's going on with the patient.
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And that's how we know whether they're on the path of growth and resilience or if they're on
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the path of decline.
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And so now we know a little bit more about like what that looks like, right?
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And how to test for it, why it's important.
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Let's talk action now.
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My favorite part of the episode is always how do we fight back against muscle loss?
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Right?
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Some common and then some more cutting edge tools and ways.
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So let's land this plane, right?
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Let's let's talk about the most important piece.
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How do you actually fight back against muscle loss and reclaim your longevity?
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Because the truth is, it's not like the muscle just disappears, right?
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It atrophies when you stop using it and challenging it.
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And when you stop fueling it.
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And so the good news is you can rebuild muscle at any age.
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If anyone told you like, oh, you're too old to build muscle, that's they lied.
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They were wrong.
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Go get a different opinion from somebody who knows more.
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And so the foundation, right?
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The non negotiables.
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Number one, you know where I'm going with this strength training is non negotiable.
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Two to three times per week.
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If you're gonna be two to three times per week, it needs to be full body training.
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Right?
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Obviously, progressively overloading.
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Right?
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It's not about lifting heavy right off the gate and possibly hurting yourself because then
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what's the point?
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But, you know, starting with what you can manage and then building and building and as
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you progressively overload your body responds to that and adapts and gets stronger builds
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more muscle.
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And so, for people who are untrained, a little sidebar here, you know, the first month or so,
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if you've never really engaged in resistance training, the first month to two months, you're
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not going to see huge gains because most of the gains at this point are going to be
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neurological, your brain and your muscles learning how to talk together, right?
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Then usually after that is where people see the most incremental gains in the in the next
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couple months, because they've stuck to it.
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The systems are now working together, we have that harmony, and we're going to start building
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some muscle.
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Next thing is doing like zone two cardio.
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So moderate intensity to improve the mitochondria, the fat metabolism, the burning
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protein, love talking protein because protein is, I mean, it's the only thing that's going to
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help with that muscle synthesis Without it, everything else you're doing isn't going to be
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isn't going to make sense.
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And so we like to aim for one gram per pound of body weight, you know, spread across the day.
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Obviously, you don't want to do like a 200 gram protein shake in the morning and then not the
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rest of the day.
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Although with, you know, by by nature that or by by data that actually works, but that's
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going to be tough to do consistently.
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So, you know, spreading it out to optimize for protein synthesis.
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I read a really cool study the other day that was showing that if you consume about 30 to 40
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of protein before bed, you're gonna maintain that muscle protein synthesis and that
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anabolism throughout the night for about seven to eight hours.
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So that's where like the old bodybuilder trend was like chug a protein shake before bed.
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They sometimes these guys even wake up in the middle of night and drink more protein, but
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there's validity to it.
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Right?
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The bodybuilders and the and the meatheads always tend to be on to the right track even
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before it's proven scientifically.
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And then let's talk some key nutrients, right?
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And some some really more like high level stuff.
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But creatine, I believe everybody across the board should be taking creatine.
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My kids are four, and we've got them on creatine already because it's going to help
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them build muscle, build bone, strengthen their brain.
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There's cognitive benefits from it as well.
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Now, the dosage they take is not the dosage I take.
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Obviously, I hope you know that before you leave me a bunch of comments saying I'm crazy.
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You know, they're taking point two five grams, maybe point five gram.
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I take about ten to fifteen, maybe twenty grams a day.
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And so more on training days or recovery days even.
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And so creatine is hands down the most researched shown to be safe.
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Everybody should be taking some some dose of creatine, even if it's just five grams a day.
00:22:45
Essential amino acids are very important, especially for older adults who maybe have some
00:22:51
resistance to that anabolic kind of muscle growth, Or they're trying to jumpstart that
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again, and it's been some time.
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Essential amino acids can fill in the gaps where protein isn't because they are what make
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up protein.
00:23:02
And so they're going to help with that muscle building protein synthesis.
00:23:06
And then things like vitamin D3 paired with K2, omega-3s and magnesium.
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These help to reduce inflammation, improve muscle and metabolic function as well.
00:23:16
And so the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2020, check this out.
00:23:21
High protein diets and resistance training reversed sarcopenia in just twelve weeks.
00:23:26
Wow, that's amazing.
00:23:28
You know, it's amazing how many times you see something like this and it's like, wow, that
00:23:32
that is something simple, natural and something that we just should be doing actually reversed
00:23:37
something that they're medicating heavily for, right?
00:23:39
They're putting people on medications for osteoporosis, when there's literature showing
00:23:45
that strength training two to three days a week, actually improved osteoporosis more than
00:23:50
the medication itself.
00:23:52
And so I think before you jump on a medicine before you jump into high risk things or things
00:23:58
that are, you know, not as natural, try the natural stuff first, give your body the chance
00:24:04
to do what it's meant to do.
00:24:06
That needs us a little bit of support.
00:24:08
Right?
00:24:08
And again, it's all about taking action.
00:24:11
Now on the more like emerging and fringe type therapies, some stuff that I like, know, is the
00:24:15
cool stuff, right?
00:24:16
These are the sexy topics, but some things that we engage in in the clinic as well.
00:24:22
Things like emerging and advanced therapies like peptides love talking peptides using
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peptides.
00:24:28
Actually planning on having my friend Jay Campbell coming back on the show soon.
00:24:33
So look out for that one.
00:24:34
He is the peptide guy.
00:24:37
And go back and listen to the old episode we did with him where we talked about peptides
00:24:41
hormone replacement, really cool episode.
00:24:44
And so peptides are small signaling molecules, but they have powerful effects within the body,
00:24:48
because they can target specific systems and processes, and actually enhance them.
00:24:54
And so a couple that are great for, you know, metabolism and muscle building are things like
00:24:59
epitallin, which slows down cellular aging and protects muscle.
00:25:03
MOTS C, MOTS C boosts mitochondrial biogenesis and fat metabolism.
00:25:10
And then there's things like bioregulators.
00:25:12
These are gene targeting peptides that they basically signal specific tissues to
00:25:17
regenerate.
00:25:18
And so they're cutting edge.
00:25:20
These are longevity tools that have been used in Eastern European medicine for decades.
00:25:25
And of course, here in The US, we're the last ones to start listening and hearing right.
00:25:30
And thinking outside the box.
00:25:31
And then a really awesome intervention is something called myos MD.
00:25:37
The clinical ingredient is for the tropon derived from fertilized egg yolk.
00:25:41
It actually helps to basically turn off the switch that your body has that limits the
00:25:49
ability to build muscle.
00:25:51
It's really awesome the technology they have in this product.
00:25:55
Check it out.
00:25:55
Actually, you can go over to myosmd.com and look more into it.
00:25:59
This is what we just discussed on on the last episode in the power panel.
00:26:03
And if you do, if you're interested in purchasing, use code Alessi dash g a, you'll
00:26:08
get 10% off and you know, be able to get a better value for that.
00:26:12
And then other things that we have in our clinics too is things like red light therapy,
00:26:17
that photobiomodulation which enhances mitochondrial energy speeds up muscle recovery,
00:26:21
reduce inflammation.
00:26:23
We have the power plates which is high frequency vibration.
00:26:26
So that puts a stimulus into the muscles to basically turn on kind of the way the muscles
00:26:31
in the brain talk to each other, gets blood flow and circulation drains lymphatics.
00:26:36
Fantastic.
00:26:37
And so there was a really cool study in the frontiers of aging neuroscience 2020 found that
00:26:43
red light therapy improved cognitive and muscle function by directly stimulating mitochondria.
00:26:49
And if you don't know what mitochondria is, go back a few episodes, probably ten, twelve
00:26:54
episodes back, we discussed how to what the mitochondria is, how to enhance it, and why
00:26:58
it's important.
00:26:59
These are the powerhouses, the the powerhouses of our body.
00:27:02
So they produce the energy, and they clean up the energy as well.
00:27:06
And so, you know, at LSE functional health, we're not just throwing protein shakes at you.
00:27:10
We're not just telling you lift more weights.
00:27:12
We're going to assess, right?
00:27:13
We're going to do some strength tests, muscle mass tests.
00:27:16
We may have you get a DEXA scan, look into hormones, nutrient levels, inflammation,
00:27:22
mitochondria, all of these things to get the broad picture, and then ultimately build a
00:27:27
personalized plan which probably will include some advanced supplementation, maybe peptides
00:27:31
lifestyle protocols and some adjustments to your physical activity.
00:27:35
And our total care program isn't about quick fixes.
00:27:38
So, you know, if people come in, you know, and that's what they want is just I just want to
00:27:42
fix this quick.
00:27:42
Usually, that's maybe not a good fit.
00:27:44
And maybe, you know, medicine or something is more their speed.
00:27:48
But if you want that lifestyle change and actually make a change that's going to last and
00:27:53
impact your longevity, our total care program might just be for you.
00:27:57
You know, the final takeaway here if, if muscle is medicine, then it will protect you from
00:28:03
diabetes, dementia, frailty, premature death, because you can't out medicate muscle loss.
00:28:09
That's not gonna that's not gonna be the end.
00:28:12
You have to build muscle.
00:28:14
Right?
00:28:15
And so the best part is that science shows it's never too late.
00:28:19
So if you really want the fountain of youth, it's not a pill.
00:28:22
It's in your muscles.
00:28:23
You got to get some you got to take action step one.
00:28:26
And so if you'd like to learn more about how we help people to diagnose reverse heal chronic
00:28:31
disease within our functional medicine programs like Total Care, go to a
00:28:35
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00:28:39
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