The Medical Advisor

Muscle Mass Is a Key to Longevity  Dr Gabrielle Lyon and Dr Joseph Mercola both strongly believe muscle-centric medicine is part of the solution for many chronic health problems, including obesity, yet very little attention is given to it. "Obesity, Alzheimer's diabetes and cardiovascular disease actually begin in skeletal muscle, years before they become apparent," she says. "Obesity, diabetes, these are diseases of skeletal muscle insulin resistance. But what's so shocking is that everyone is focused, especially in the medical community, on attacking obesity, as opposed to fixing the underlying problem, which is really augmenting skeletal muscle and optimizing muscle with nutrition, which is primary, and training, secondary." As explained by Lyon, while there's certainly benefit to cardiovascular exercise — mitochondrial biogenesis, for example — resistance ...

If you read this article previously, please reread as there are two important edits that I added. The first is that you need to eat enough protein to achieve muscle growth which is about 0.6 grams/pound or 1.2 grams/kg of body weight. Secondly, I realized that using BFR in constant mode with straps is not as healthy for your muscles as it tends to result in low grade muscle spasms. Fortunately the KAATSU system allows you to do the exercise in a far healthier cycling mode which inflates the cuffs to a safe pressure but only for 30 seconds, and then repeats the process for a total of 8 cycles. Building muscle with BFR is massively important because sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss) threatens your healthy lifespan. One of the reasons I'm committed to exercising lifelong is because both of my parents died from frailty, and I'm determined to avoid sarcopenia, which took them prematurely. With society aging worldwide, the prevalence of sarcopenia increases the urgent need to est...