🌱 Try our plant based wholefood supplement - ⁠Daily 30+⁠Do you track your weight, hoping to see the numbers drop? What if the scale is deceiving you about true health, muscle, and healthy aging? Many believe they understand the keys to a vibrant later life, but conventional wisdom often overlooks a critical truth. This oversight could be inadvertently putting your future well-being on a slippery slope of decline, even if you feel like you're doing everything right. You might be losing something far more valuable than just fat.In this episode, Dr. Vonda Wright, a double board-certified orthopaedic surgeon with over 20 years of clinical and research experience, joins to reveal the truth about muscle and body composition in later years. A best-selling author, Vonda reveals why muscle is not merely for aesthetics but a metabolic powerhouse crucial for energy, glucose control, and preventing age-related frailty. Learn how to truly 'lean up' and why it’s vastly more important than just losing pounds. *Naturally high in copper which contributes to normal energy yielding metabolism and the normal function of the immune systemFollow ZOE on Instagram.Timecodes📚Books by our ZOE ScientistsThe Food For Life CookbookEvery Body Should Know This by Dr Federica AmatiFood For Life by Prof. Tim SpectorFree resources from ZOELive Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & NutritionGut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks Mentioned in today's episodeModerate-intensity treadmill running promotes expansion of the satellite cell pool in young and old mice FEBS Press (2013)Physical training reduces cell senescence and associated insulin resistance in skeletal muscle Molecular Metabolism (2025)Current knowledge and scientific trends in myokines and exercise research in the context of obesity Frontiers in Medicine (2024)The New Science of Musculoskeletal Aging in Bone, Muscle, and Tendon/Ligament Masterful Care of the Aging Athlete (2018)Low back pain: a call for action The Lancet (2018)Have feedback or a topic you'd like us to cover? Let us know here.Episode transcripts are available here.