A doctor returned to heavy weightlifting in 2018 and discovered medicine ignores skeletal muscle, which handles 80% of the body's glucose disposal. She had pre-diabetes while obsessing over calories and skipping strength training. Now she argues basic strength work matters more than doctors teach, especially for women.
And in 2018, I got back into the gym. I started lifting weights. I started lifting really heavy weights, and I saw an even more incredible transformation with my body. And then I went back, I did an integrative medicine fellowship, and I really started to change the way I practiced medicine. And I was like, holy crap, we are really missing the mark in medicine because nobody's talking about muscle. Nobody— I was not really taught that in medical school, that muscle disposes 80% of our glucose in our body. Like, no wonder I got pre-diabetes. I mean, I went to medical school, started counting Goldfish crackers to maintain, you know, maintenance calories, and I stopped lifting weights. Like, this is not rocket science. So gosh, I just got back into doing the basics again, and I think that's really honestly where most women are missing the mark.
