Welcome to the Huntback Country podcast. This is episode number 542, and our guest is Dr. Andy Galpin. He had joined us previously on an

episode where we discussed hunting and human performance. And while that isn't necessarily a

prerequisite to today's conversation, I would highly suggest that you guys go back and listen to that

episode with Andy if you haven't yet or even if it's been a while and you don't remember

it. It'll help give context to who Andy is, including his professional career, his background

hunting and the intersection of hunting in human performance.

In today's conversation with Andy, we spent some time talking about quite a few different topics

and jump around a bit.

That will include some personal kind of therapy and advice for Steve with his knee issues.

You'll hear us discuss that.

We get into discussions on sleep and the effects of sleep and performance,

the problems with sleep in terms of schedules and sleep quality.

Andy speaks a bit about resilience and how some folks,

especially on the human performance and optimization

side of the world, tend to overoptimize and actually become less resilient because they're

so dependent on their routines, their supplements, their thing. So this is a wide range of conversation.

If you have any interest in, again, whether that's sleep, joint health, performance, aging,

longevity, vitality, like all of those things, there's going to be something in here for you.

While this is a departure from speaking specifically only about hunting,

this is such a key topic to hunting for decades to come, which is something that Steve and I want to do, that we're planning to do,

and that we're working towards. There's some great links in the show description where you can

catch the previous episode with Andy, some of the resources we mentioned in today's conversation,

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