As a strength coach, I just came here to soak in this waterfall of medical knowledge highly above my scope and pay grade. The presentation and the sound are a la par with highest BBM content. Thank you Dr. Baraki!
This is fantastic. Really interesting to see Dr. Baraki in this professional/medical context. Even though this presentation wasn't intended for the general BM audience I bet it will be well received nonetheless. Jordan, I hope you can post more of these in the future.
From someone who is edging 50 years of age and deals with RA, surviving late stage rectal cancer and can't afford a doctor I can't soak in enough of this info. I lifted for near 40 years and started competing in USAPL the past two. I hope to see the crew at Nationals this year as I compete also and thank each of them for changing my life for the better.
Really informative lecture Dr. Baraki. I work as a Case Manager with Medicaid Long Term Care population. Would really love to see outcomes of residents in an ALF setting placed on a strength training program based on progressive overload along with sufficient dietary protein intake.
Very good material! About the gardening example though, of someone gardens for 3 hours every day, i would discribe that as physical activity.. I think it's always about for how long and how often someone's doing activities. Anyway, thanks for uploading! Helped me a lot.
The slide he shows at 35:40 is really impactful to me...especially when he points out that he could have gone on for many slides. It really drives home how important muscle mass is to health from essentially any perspective. As a predictor of mortality, it can even overshadow the currently standard predictors in some surprising cases.
Austins succinct clarity when explaining complex topics is a pleasure to listen to even for a non medical person like me. I think I may make the jump from jeans to Chinos also..
Perfect timing! Working on a review of the benefits of moderate to high intensity resistance training in older adults. Definitely going to have to use some of these studies.
"talk about that in a minute..." ---- never talked about it again!! Good presentation... most INFORMED gym goers know this, but no one believes me when I tell them; perhaps coming from a doctor and a much better presentation like this one people will listen about the mobility strength and protein issues... It is ridiculous that at 51 I can lift more weight, and look better than most people in my gym in their 20s, excluding the grey hair, but proud of it.
I'm really trying to spread the word on how important restistance training is (incorporating progressive overload) to as many people as possible. But it's really sad to see just how skewed the public's perception of health and "exercise" has become. "I just ran a half marathon, so that means I'm healthy". No it doesn't! You're wasting your time and breaking yourself down. Not saying cardio is useless and should be all together avoided. But in terms of BEING healthy and actually feeling healthy, resistance training just outshines everything else. And I'm witnessing colleagues and family in their 40's and 50's just getting in a worse and worse condition, while, in a way, just accepting it. The excuse being "well, that's just what happens when you get older", not actually realizing they have the ability to prevent so many health issues themselves, just by lifting weights. I started out training because I wanted to look better, which isn't the best of reasons, I know. But through this, I stumbled upon Barbell Medicine, and they quickly changed my whole view, opinion, perception and perspective on health and exercise. Thank you BM! I truly hope that your knowledge and philosophy reaches as many people as possible. And maybe one day, you will have changed the entire landscape of health and fitness, and the benefits will ripple out across multiple generations and age groups.
Yeah same for me. I didn't know that resistance training has this much benefits. Strength training is just a hobby of mine because i like getting stronger but i now look at it differently. I tried to convince my parents to exercise a bit more (i have all the equipment at home) but they don't really seem to like the idea to train for strength. They both are in a worse physical shape than a decade ago and they don't think they can do anything about it, or they don't care.
The reason that doctors don't recommend weight-training, is because they have no personal exercise ambitions. Conversely, Dr. Baraki is a weight-trainer, hence he is informed, and inspired. Most doctors are entropic, catabolic, and uninspired; the latter trait, inspiration in life, is among the rare qualities in our species.
Well-done, enlightening video! I'm a 72-year-old vegan woman who's been under the mistaken notion that I need not worry about my level of protein intake but should instead concentrate on high-carb, low-fat foods. I also thought my daily 4-mile walk and sporadic resistance exercise was adequate. Wrong. I'm having trouble, though, finding definitive info on the best vegan protein sources to prevent sarcopenia.
Does age-related sarcopenia make it harder for an older person to elicit a muscle protein synthesis response to training, or is that due to declines in testosterone or sensitivity to it or something else like energy production (maybe even at the mitochondrial level) becoming less efficient?
My father in-law has been diagnosed with Multiple Myelosis, as I understand it this affects bone density and has caused issues (I keep hearing 'fractures' but not sure if this is correct) with his lumbar disks. It includes a lot of pain as well. He has reportedly lost a huge amount of muscle, but with the complications of bone mass loss, I'm not sure where to be looking. The doctors taking care of him (in Canada, I'm in the UK) seem capable oncologists, but I can't see them doing anything about sarcopenia (whether diagnosed or not, I'm sure he is in this state atm.) Where to look? I've tried contacting the Canadian sarcopenia foundation, but no replies to FB and email. Thanks.
Plant based sources are better even though not all are complete due to the harm that animal protein comes with. I’d rather make sure I’m eating a full plant profile than deal with heart disease
Do you have a reference to the part about, people working in construction not getting the same health benefits as people who train? My parents work in construction and just refuse to believe it.
Interesting data regarding excessive amounts of protein. I understand that the literature suggests no adverse effects on renal or hepatic function with excessive protein consumption, but I have seen some data (as it's been presented to me in my undergraduate nutrition courses) that excessive protein may have adverse effects on bone health, in that protein metabolism creates acidic byproducts (mostly sulfate and phosphate) and thus could necessitate degradation of bone to provide a calcium buffer (source: academic.oup.com/jn/article/128/6/1051/4722393) This always seemed intuitively 9wrong to me for a few reasons - most animal source protein contains a fair amount of calcium, so wouldn't this offset any degradation of bone mass for calcium buffer? Also, how does the macronutrient that yields the most anabolic response of muscle mass have a supposedly catabolic effect on bone tissue? Tl;dr, I've been told high protein diets can adversely affect bone health. What are your thoughts on this?
Without fail, when I've responded to a PT's intake questions about what exercises I do, and I respond "30-mile bicycling and competitive weightlifting," their response has been something along the lines of "Oh you shouldn't do that!" And then they tell me to ride a stationary bike for 30 minutes, stretch for 30 minutes and curl 2 pound barbells and stretch a red rubber band 90 times so I'll "get better." One even loudly scolded me when I asked to increase the machine weights each session (rather than stay at a 20 lb leg press, for example), that it would be "professional malpractice" to allow that if my shoulder was still painful.
