EPISODE · Jun 19, 2026 · 8 MIN
If You're Only Focused on Fat Loss, You're Missing This | Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
from The Daily Motivation · host Lewis Howes, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: https://greatness.lnk.to/1940DM The paradigm shift hits fast. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon doesn't think we're over fat. We're under muscled. Skeletal muscle isn't just for lifting. It's your metabolic currency. Your body dispatches glucose through it, burns fat in it, and leans on it when illness or injury strike. The markers everyone defaults to, BMI and body fat percentage, are measuring the wrong thing entirely. More muscle doesn't automatically mean healthier muscle. Dr. Lyon explains the difference, and what actually matters. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter Topics skeletal muscle health, muscle-centric medicine, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, insulin resistance, metabolic health, obesity root cause, body composition, glucose disposal, BMI limitations, muscle mass and longevity Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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The Daily Motivation Show host Lewis Howes sits down with physician Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, who argues that the medical world has been measuring and targeting the wrong thing for decades. She makes the case that skeletal muscle is the body's metabolic foundation, and that diseases like insulin resistance and obesity begin in muscle long before fat becomes visible.
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