Prevent Muscle Loss and Improve Mitochondrial Health | Nicolas Verhoeven

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:02)
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Nick Verhoeven, soon to be PhD. Welcome to The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show. I have to say, I am a huge fan of yours. I am so impressed by your translational ability to take studies and science and really break it down in a way that is incredibly easy to understand and probably most importantly, well, they're equally important, accurate. There's a lot of accuracy and intellectual integrity in what you do.
And thank you for everything that you're doing.

**Nicolas Verhoeven** (3:25)
Well, thank you. I'm incredibly humbled. Thank you, I very much appreciate it.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (3:31)
You are a PhD candidate and you're going to be finishing up your PhD in Molecular Medicine and this is work in mitochondria, autophagy.
You also quite interestingly hold a Masters in Exercise Physiology and you run Physionic, which everybody listening, you have got to check this out. I am a regular tuner inner of Physionic. It is fantastic. I would love to hear a little bit about the research that you're doing, how you got to where you are and get to know you and for the listener to get to know you.

**Nicolas Verhoeven** (4:08)
Sure. Yeah, where to begin? I think most scientists' origin stories are, I guess, kind of go back to the very beginning of what inspired them to get into science in the first place. But for me, I was actually initially pursuing a psychology degree and I actually ended up graduating with a psychology degree.
You know how people go through their college, for those listeners that have gone through college, they'll go through the first two, three years and then they'll maybe switch their major to something else because they think, oh, they're actually more interested in this and then maybe they'll switch it again and again and again. Well, I stuck to psychology for the full four years and it was literally right after graduation that I realized I should not be doing psychology. So I spent a lot of money to do that, to end up not pursuing that degree. But I ended up switching gears to science because ultimately, I got really into fitness during my psychology degree and I kept, I was just, I couldn't stop thinking about it. And I'm sure you, Dr. Lyon, have gone through that yourself. I mean, that's why you've got your MD and you've done so much work in the field is because you just can't stop thinking about it and it overwhelms you. It takes over.