Everyday Ancestral with James Barry
Aug 12, 2026 · 48 min · 13 segments
Losing muscle as you age gets treated as something that just happens to everybody. Dr. Thomas Hemingway calls that a big miss of Western medicine, and says the loss is common without being inevitable…
James BarryHost
I mean, it makes me sad that the story of the gentleman with the heart issue and then talking about wanting to be there for his daughter.

So a lot of people, they hit their 30s, they hit their 40s, 50s, and they start accepting low energy, weight gain, stiffness, poor sleep, brain fog, aches.
The problem is modern, you know, Western medicine, whatever you want to call it, like you go to your doctor and they're going to tell you, oh, you're just getting older.
Your genes are not programmed to get older once you turn 30, 40, 50, or even 60.
One of my favorite recent studies, I'd say of the last decade, was one from science where they studied metabolism.
And the thought has always been, oh, you know, when I was a teenager and 20 year old, I could eat whatever I wanted.
And this study basically debunked that myth that your metabolism slows down in adulthood.
Basically, between the ages of 20 and a little over 60, there's basically no metabolism.
And even after 60, there's just a minimum decline, but not even less than 1% a year.
But after mid-60s, it was starting to slowly decrease your metabolic rate.
But what's different is that we as humans, especially in North America and most of the world now, we are moving less.

I mean, it makes me sad that the story of the gentleman with the heart issue and then talking about wanting to be there for his daughter.

So a lot of people, they hit their 30s, they hit their 40s, 50s, and they start accepting low energy, weight gain, stiffness, poor sleep, brain fog, aches.
The problem is modern, you know, Western medicine, whatever you want to call it, like you go to your doctor and they're going to tell you, oh, you're just getting older.
Your genes are not programmed to get older once you turn 30, 40, 50, or even 60.
One of my favorite recent studies, I'd say of the last decade, was one from science where they studied metabolism.
And the thought has always been, oh, you know, when I was a teenager and 20 year old, I could eat whatever I wanted.
And this study basically debunked that myth that your metabolism slows down in adulthood.
Basically, between the ages of 20 and a little over 60, there's basically no metabolism.
And even after 60, there's just a minimum decline, but not even less than 1% a year.
But after mid-60s, it was starting to slowly decrease your metabolic rate.
But what's different is that we as humans, especially in North America and most of the world now, we are moving less.
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