You're Not Over-Fat. You're Under-Muscled | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

I think the stat is more than 75% of Americans are overweight and nearly half of all Americans have health compromised obesity. But I'm curious, with this information, should we be thinking about obesity or should we be thinking more about muscle? Yeah, well, what if I told you, I don't think we're overfat? In fact, we are undermuscled. 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 obesity, right?

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.

What is skeletal muscle? Yeah. Well, I mean, just even from a a general perspective, it's the things that you it's the muscles you have voluntary control over. Okay. Right?

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