{"id":60123,"date":"2025-05-22T20:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60123"},"modified":"2025-05-22T20:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:08:05","slug":"before-you-get-old-watch-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60123","title":{"rendered":"Before You Get OLD, Watch This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on The School of Greatness<br \/>\nDr. Gabrielle Lyon tells why muscle matters so much as we age.<\/p>\n<p>A great video with a ton of valuable content. Some takeaways:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the wider the waist line in mid-life the lower the brain volume&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;they didn&#8217;t have the physical or mental capacity to follow through&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;it is more important to build muscle than it it is to burn fat&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the skeletal muscle is really the organ of longevity&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;it regulates everything about our metabolism. It is the primary utilizer of glucose&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;skeletal muscle is the amino acid reservoir&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the more skeletal muscle mass the individual has, the higher their survivability&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;you have to prepare your body to withstand the storms of life&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t out-exercise a bad diet but you can&#8217;t out-diet no exercise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Resistance exercise has a much bigger impact than nutrition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Prevent Muscle Loss With Aging (Sarcopenia) With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1rkkqk5abCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on The School of Greatness Dr. Gabrielle Lyon tells why muscle matters so much as we age. A great video with a ton of valuable content. Some takeaways: &#8220;&#8230;the wider the waist line in mid-life the lower the brain volume&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;they didn&#8217;t have the physical or mental capacity to follow through&#8230;&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Before You Get OLD, Watch This!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60124,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60123\/revisions\/60124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}