{"id":314813,"date":"2026-02-01T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/314813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:04:07","slug":"gabrielle-lyons-playbook-for-muscle-functional-strength-at-any-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/314813\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Lyon\u2019s Playbook for Muscle: Functional Strength At Any Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, health advice has pushed us to eat less, weigh less, and take up less space. But according to physician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/wc\/gabrielle-lyon-d-o\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/wc\/gabrielle-lyon-d-o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gabrielle Lyon, D.O.<\/a>, that mindset is undermining our long-term health. On a recent episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-mindbodygreen-podcast\/id1246494475\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-mindbodygreen-podcast\/id1246494475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the mindbodygreen podcast<\/a>, Lyon makes the case that skeletal muscle (not body weight) is one of the most important drivers of longevity, metabolic health, and independence as we age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, health advice has pushed us to eat less, weigh less, and take up less space. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,135,19,17,45979,38950,170,3401],"class_list":{"0":"post-314813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mbgpodcast","13":"tag-muscle-health","14":"tag-protein","15":"tag-strength-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115995048304637641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}