{"podcast":{"title":"Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson","slug":"fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256","podcast_index_feed_id":940256,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/forku/","website_url":"https://www.forku.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/788b2349-48f2-498b-af8c-3fc9e102deaa/FU-2026-1.png","author":"Terry Simpson","episode_count":135,"summary":"Fork U(niversity) Not everything you put in your mouth is good for you. There’s a lot of medical information thrown around out there. How are you to know what information you can trust, and what’s just plain old quackery? You can’t rely on your own “google fu”. You can’t count on quality medical advice from Facebook. You need a doctor in your corner. On each episode of Your Doctor’s Orders, Dr. Terry Simpson will cut through the clutter and noise that always seems to follow the latest medical news. He has the unique perspective of a surgeon who has spent years doing molecular virology research and as a skeptic with academic credentials. He’ll help you develop the critical thinking skills so you can recognize evidence-based medicine, busting myths along the way. The most common medical myths are often disguised as seemingly harmless “food as medicine”. By offering their own brand of medicine via foods, These hucksters are trying to practice medicine without a license. And though they’ll claim “nutrition is not taught in medical schools”, it turns out that’s a myth too. In fact, there’s an entire medical subspecialty called Culinary Medicine, and Dr. Simpson is certified as a Culina…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T16:19:44.473681+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256"},"episode":{"title":"Muscle, Mitochondria, and Healthspan","slug":"muscle-mitochondria-and-healthspan","published_at":"2025-12-04T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/muscle-mitochondria-and-healthspan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256","url":"https://forku.com/episode/muscle-mitochondria-and-healthspan","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/67f1b934-245b-4091-b8d5-d4899a4a8836.mp3","summary":"Muscle is Medicine: Why Lifting Weights is Your Best Longevity Investment Clearly, your body changes as you age. I learned this lesson years ago when my son was three years old. We started him skiing, and he loved every minute of it. When he fell, he tumbled onto his behind, jumped right back up, and skied down the hill like nothing had happened. He was pure rubber and resilience. However, I was 53 years his senior that year. I did an inadvertent 360-degree twirl on the slopes myself. His mother saw me and immediately asked if I had broken my wrist, wondering when I could return to surgery. The difference between a flexible young body and an older body is critical. Consequently, I retired from skiing that season and now enjoy the lodge, where I write and make them great dinners. Indeed, your older body desperately needs work to stay flexible, strong, and balanced as time goes on. I have seen too many independent seniors lose everything after a simple fall in their own home. They go from living on their own to spending their last days in a care center, sometimes never leaving bed. This outcome is not healthspan. Instead, you want a fall to be like my son’s—just on your butt and back up. Sadly, too many fall and cannot get up. This isn't a commercial for a safety pendant, but a sincere plea for you to start working your muscles. Section 1: The Enemy is Muscle Loss (Sarcopenia) Specifically, we talk frequently about heart health and clear arteries in longevity. Those things are unquestionably crucial. Nevertheless, the biggest threat to functional independence as we age is a condition called sarcopenia . This is the medical term for age-related muscle loss. Unfortunately, we start losing about 3 to 8 percent of our muscle mass every decade after age 30. That loss ac…","meta_description":"Muscle is Medicine: Why Lifting Weights is Your Best Longevity Investment Clearly, your body changes as you age. I learned this lesson years ago when my…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":783,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/episodes/muscle-mitochondria-and-healthspan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/muscle-mitochondria-and-healthspan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}