MD Longevity Lab: Playing the Long Game with Drs. Vikas and Nisha Patel18 Kesä

32. The Muscle Playbook: Preservation, Building, and Progressive Overload

There is more conflicting advice about muscle out there than almost any other topic in fitness — what to eat, how much to lift, how often, how heavy, whether older adults should even be lifting at all. The noise is overwhelming.

This is a must-listen if you want to actually understand what works.

By the end of this episode you will know exactly how to preserve the muscle you already have, what's actually required to build new muscle, and — most importantly — what progressive overload really means, so you can start incorporating it into your training this week.

Drs. Vikas and Nisha Patel treat skeletal muscle the way Wall Street treats a stock — as an asset. They walk through the investment framework, the math of muscle loss after 30, the protein floor most people aren't hitting, the five movement patterns that cover the entire body, the over-50 reality check, and what doesn't work.

The big idea: Muscle maintenance after 35 is a win. Muscle growth after 35 is the jackpot. The best investment you'll ever make is in the body that has to carry you the rest of the way.

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⚕️ MD Longevity Lab — Play the Long Game

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37. Environmental Curveballs: Sorting Real Toxin Exposure Risk From the Noise

Wildfire smoke. Cyclospora. Microplastics. Seed oils. Gas stoves. Every environmental scare that'll trend on your feed six weeks from now. Dr. Vikas Patel and Dr. Nisha Patel give you a four-question ...

27 Elo 51min

36. Why Dementia Prevention Beats Treatment: APOE Testing, Women's Brain Health, and the Levers You Control

If you live into your mid-eighties, your odds of dementia are roughly one in three. Most people spend zero minutes of midlife thinking about it — and Dr. Vikas Patel and Dr. Nisha Patel make the case ...

13 Elo 1h 5min

35. The Over-40 Injury Playbook: How to Prevent and Rehab Injuries When Life Hands You Lemons

Anyone over 40 who's felt a tendon go knows the sound — and the sinking feeling right after. Why midlife makes us injury-prone: sedentary weekdays, weekend-warrior spikes, unstructured training, and m...

30 Heinä 1h 22min

34. How the Blue Zones Have Mastered Longevity: No Peptides, Just the Basics

The Blue Zones are the five places on Earth where people routinely live to 100 in good health, without trying — Okinawa, Sardinia, Loma Linda, Nicoya, and Ikaria. They share almost nothing in common e...

16 Heinä 51min

33. Your Health Is Their Inheritance: What Happens to Your Kids When You Don't Take Care of Yourself

The longevity space has earned a reputation for being self-absorbed — biohacker bros optimizing their bloodwork while the rest of us live actual lives. In a word: selfish. This episode is the rebuttal...

2 Heinä 55min

31. The Evidence-Based Supplement Guide: Cutting Through the $60 Billion Noise

The supplement industry is a $60 billion business with almost no regulatory oversight. Three out of four American adults take at least one. Almost none of them know what's actually in the bottle.In th...

4 Kesä 56min

30. The Delay Game: How Health Insurance Abandoned Your Healthcare & Why The Long Game of Prevention Belongs to You

The American health insurance industry is no longer in the business of paying for your healthcare. It is in the business of delaying it — long enough that someone else has to pay. Usually Medicare. Wh...

21 Touko 49min