Just Finished Reading Forever Strong by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a family physician who has made a name for herself as someone focusing on geriatric health, with her podcast and numerous appearances on different YouTube channels.  I've seen her on some of these and decided to read her recently-published book Forever Strong.  Dr. Lyon, like her "ally" Dr. Peter Attia, is primarily concerned with both extending one's life span as well as their "health span", maintaining that to accomplish the latter it is necessary to counter the tendency of the aged to drastically lose their muscle mass, a condition medically termed "sarcopenia".  As such, both Lyon and Attia stress much larger daily protein intake than is officially recommended, along with regular resistance/weight training, to maintain muscle and strength in elderly people.  Lyon is also a big advocate of animal protein, maintaining that this is superior in nutrition to the plant-based type.  All of this she includes in her book, which presents some admittedly compelling arguments for her positions.  She, like Attia, claims that falls in seniors...made more likely from loss of strength and balance...carry with them a high risk of mortality. But cardiovascular disease and cancer still dominate the death picture throughout life, especially as one grows older.  Eating more sparingly can help alleviate the risk of succumbing to these two latter "horsemen", as well as fighting chronic conditions like diabetes and dementia.  Maintaining a healthful lifestyle, as I see it, is a kind of daily dance, balancing different factors that, individually taken to extremes, can be harmful.  I accept positions such as those held by Lyon and Attia for the truth value I see in them, but I will never just follow such advocates blindly...