Everyone worries about losing muscle as they age. Almost everyone is worried about the wrong thing.

Dr. Brad Currier has spent his career studying what actually keeps us strong and functional into our 70s, 80s, and 90s. He earned his PhD under Professor Stuart Phillips, helped write the latest ACSM resistance training guidelines, and now leads clinical research at Timeline in Switzerland.

In this episode of Thrive on Plants, Dr. Daphne Bascom asks him the questions most people never think to ask. The answers reframe how you should think about aging, from your muscles all the way down to the power plants inside your cells.

No hype. No overpromising. Just a clear-eyed look at what the science supports, what it doesn't yet, and what you can do about it starting this week.

Here's what you'll learn:

• Why the number on your DEXA scan may be lying to you about how well you'll age
• The difference between muscle mass, muscle strength, and muscle power, and why the last one decides whether you catch yourself when you trip
• A strength test you can run in under a minute, no lab required
• What mitochondria actually do, beyond the line you memorized in high school biology
• Mitophagy: the cellular cleanup crew you lose with age, and why it may matter more than any supplement
• The pomegranate problem: why loading up on the ”right” foods may not give you what you think
• The truth about urolithin A, including where the evidence is strong and where it's still an open question
• The single longevity metric Dr. Currier calls unreliable and clinically useless

About Dr. Brad Currier:

Dr. Currier leads clinical research at Timeline, a Switzerland-based company studying cellular and mitochondrial health. His background is in muscle physiology, aging, and nutrition.

Website: https://www.timeline.com/

Blog: https://www.timeline.com/blog/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradcurrier.phd/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-currier

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SxVmAooAAAAJ&hl=en

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