314: Is A High Protein Diet SAFE? (Or Bad For Skin Problems?) w/ Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - a podcast by Jennifer Fugo, CNS, MS, Skin Rash Expert

By now, I think everyone knows how I feel about protein intake. It's one of the reasons I was super excited to have back on a past guest to talk about protein myths and her NEW book, which I found utterly fascinating. It dives into the actual science as to WHY people need protein in their diets- for wound healing, blood glucose regulation, and so much more.

My guest today is Dr. Gabrielle Lyon. She is board certified in Family Medicine and completed a combined research and clinical fellowship in Geriatrics and Nutritional Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her undergraduate training in Nutritional Sciences: Vitamin & Mineral Metabolism at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Lyon is a subject matter expert and educator in applying protein types and levels to health, performance, aging, and disease prevention. She has continued to receive mentorship from Dr. Donald Layman, Ph.D., over the course of two decades to help bring protein metabolism and nutrition from the bench to the bedside through her concept of Muscle-Centric Medicine®.

Dr. Gabrielle has been seeing patients since 2006 and has helped thousands reach their full health potential. Her clinical practice services the leaders, innovators, mavericks, and executives in their prospective fields. Dr. Lyon works closely with the Special Operations Military serving on the SEAL Future Foundation's medical board and the Hunter Seven Foundation's leadership board, helping establish protocols for early detection, education, and treatments for cancer and toxic exposures.

Have you ever counted calories or focused on certain macros and found protein to be the key for you?  I'd love to hear about what you did and how in the comments below!

In this episode:

• How Dr. Lyon came to understand muscle as she does today
• It's not about obesity; it's about being under-muscled
• What is sarcopenia and what's important about it NOW?
• How anyone can improve mitochondrial biogenesis
• The two big components of healthy skeletal muscle and healthy mitochondria
• Protein food fears and the science around them
• A mindset tip from working with Navy SEALs-- HUGE shift in thinking!
• Dr. Lyon's thoughts on GLP-1 agonists... you'll be surprised!

Quotes

"One of the reasons why I wrote this book and why this book is so important and why we have to be a unified front is that in the media, there's this push to go plant-based and there is this push that we need to decrease our dietary protein intake and nothing is further from the truth." [14:36]

"We are at the precipice of a new frontier of medicine that is really going to define amino acids as individual nutrients, as well as muscle as this organ of longevity." [06:41]

Links

Follow Dr. Lyon on Instagram | Twitter | TikTok

ORDER Dr. Lyon's book Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well OUT NOW!

Try these brands for supportive products to help get protein intake up: Quell's Protein Powders | PaleoValley

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