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

0:01I think the stat is more than 75% of Americans are overweight and nearly half of all Americans have health compromised obesity.

0:10But I'm curious, with this information, should we be thinking about obesity or should we be thinking more about muscle?

0:18Yeah, well, what if I told you, I don't think we're overfat.

0:22In fact, we are under muscled.

0:25And the reality is, as you pointed out, there's been this fixation on fat, adiposity, the diseases related to obesity.

0:32Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, insulin resistance, all of these that go along with...

0:39With obesity, right?

0:40Exactly.

0:41Well, 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?

0:54And that obesity begins in skeletal muscle.

0:58Insulin resistance begins in skeletal muscle first.