Books by Gabrielle Lyon

“Gabrielle Lyon is a board-certified family physician who trained in geriatrics. Her basic idea is that skeletal muscle is the key to longevity because most of the diseases of aging are related to deficits of muscle. She flips the script on a common view of the obesity epidemic, arguing that most of us are not suffering from being overly fat but rather under-muscled. As she interprets recent medical research, most people should shift away from working to lose weight and toward working to build muscle—because having more muscle can change the systems of the body in ways that prevent or treat most of the diseases that are killing us.” Read more...

The Best Strength Books

Michael Joseph Gross, Journalist