Fan Favorite: Dr. Andy Galpin on Why Technology May Be Aging Us Faster
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🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Andy Galpin is the creator of the Exercise Physiology Laboratory at CSU Fullerton, as well as their Director of Sports Performance. His studies prove that most people don’t fully understand the influence exercise habits, food consumption, and technology usage have on your long-term health performance. The co-author of Unplugged: Evolve From Technology to Upgrade Your Fitness Performance and Consciousness joins us to explain why awareness is the key to living a longer, healthier life.
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 6-6-19
SHOW NOTES
Andy explains why consciousness is crucial in our relationship with technology. [1:31]
Andy and Tom discuss the challenge of using technology to tailor a healthy lifestyle. [6:55]
Andy lists workout changes and strategies that can lead to a healthier life. [10:45]
Andy breaks down some big contributors to life longevity and wellness. [13:53]
Andy explains the important role sleep and other fundamental health functions play in your life. [21:17]
Andy touches on the power your mindset has in physical health management. [25:14]
Andy talks about the dangers of a fragile health system and how to train against it. [29:53]
Andy dives into some fruit and vegetable insight and myths. [35:00]
Andy gives advice on how to make the biggest impact on your health. [46:15]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory. |
| 0:02.0 | Today's guest is Dr. Andy Galpin. |
| 0:04.0 | He's both the creator of the biomedical and molecular exercise physiology laboratory at CSU Fullerton, |
| 0:10.0 | as well as their director of sports performance. |
| 0:13.0 | He's also a former competitive weightlifter and the co-author of Unplugged, Evolved from Technology |
| 0:18.0 | to Upgrade Your Fitness, performance, and consciousness. |
| 0:24.5 | And consciousness was the part that really surprised me about the book, but I actually found it super interesting. What are you guys calling consciousness exactly, and how do we upgrade it? |
| 0:30.0 | That's a really good question. It was actually was a play on words. And so there's the classic |
| 0:34.3 | definition of philosophical, what is a conscious being or what is it not. |
| 0:39.3 | But really the play we wanted to get at with having consciousness in the title is, |
| 0:45.3 | are you simply being aware? |
| 0:47.3 | The biggest issue we wrote the book for was to try to help people understand with technology now, |
| 0:53.3 | we're having a battle of |
| 0:55.2 | exchanging our own physiology. In other words, we're losing our own conscious awareness |
| 1:00.9 | of what's happening with ourselves. This is really like, are you even aware of the fact |
| 1:05.8 | that you're losing awareness? And that's what people really aren't even understanding, |
| 1:09.9 | because with some of the training technology and health technologies, there's pros and cons. It's not an anti-tech book. But it is, oh, by the way, this has been slowly being taken away from you, and you weren't even aware of that. That's all I want to restore. And so I don't want people to not use these devices. I just want you to use them consciously. |
| 1:28.4 | And that's really what we meant that. |
| 1:29.6 | So how do people begin to develop that awareness? |
| 1:32.3 | You talk about in the book, Thirst, and you're like, there's now an app for that, which |
| 1:36.6 | is pretty ridiculous. |
| 1:37.6 | You know, we've had these years to hone this ability to know when to drink and no one |
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