Skeletal Muscle
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
4 statements about Skeletal Muscle, every show
Lyon: Skeletal Muscle Is the Only Voluntarily Controlled Organ System
“Skeletal muscle is the only organ system we have voluntary control over.”
Lyon: Alzheimer's, Heart Disease, and Diabetes Are Symptoms of Unhealthy Muscle
“Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, obesity, that these are all symptoms of unhealthy skeletal muscle”
Dr. Lyon: Chronic metabolic diseases begin decades earlier in skeletal muscle
“Is all the issues that we are seeing, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's, is this all a fat problem? No. It begins in skeletal muscle first. Decades before.”
Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Minimum protein needed to prevent muscle catabolism is 1.2g/kg
“It turns out using new techniques that are more sensitive that in order to just prevent your body from like pulling from, you know, your skeletal muscle to get amino acids, the minimum amount of protein needed to take in is actually 1.2”