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hundreds of fans all around the world. It's the starting strength gyms podcast with your host, Ray Gillingwater.

Our guest today is Dr. David Puter. David and I met at a starting strength seminar in

L.A. back in 2017 or so.

David's been doing the program since 2016.

He's a fan of what we do.

You are a clinical psychiatrist.

Is that right?

That's right.

So as a clinical psychiatrist, David has a unique perspective on the benefits of strength training for the mind.

And so I wanted to have David on the podcast today to tell us what he knows.

And David, if you don't mind bearing with me, I've got a bit of a preamble to share with you.

So I think that we're in bad shape, you know, collectively in terms of the psychological health

of, I don't know about the world, but I can tell you for sure in the anecdotes that I observe

through friends, family, through people interact with on the internet, through the data that I,

that I observe. It seems like we've got a serious

problem here. I've got a hypothesis to share and I'm curious what your perspective is on this,

kind of to set the stage and define the problem. So, you know, psychological issues are not new

to the 21st century, but I certainly feel like they've been exacerbated by technology.

So for one, this damn thing is the thief of joy as far as I'm concerned.

I don't think, you know, when I worked at Blackberry, we had a, our slogan was

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