What the Science Actually Says About Women's Health | Dr. Andy Galpin
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 170 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever felt like most health and fitness advice wasn't built for your life, you're right. Dr. Andy Galpin is one of the world's leading exercise physiologists, and in this conversation, he gives you the science that actually applies to women: through your 20s, 30s, 40s, pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.
Kate asks him to coach her directly — five and a half months pregnant, building a company, and planning to run the New York City Marathon postpartum with only 12 weeks of training.
After this episode, you will know:
- Why young women are in a silent bone density crisis — and the window when you can still reverse it
- How poor sleep is quietly destroying your ability to perform, recover, and stay lean
- Why training harder is often the exact reason you're not seeing results
- What elite athletes actually do that costs nothing — and that most people skip
- How to train safely and stay strong through pregnancy, postpartum, and every decade after
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| 0:00.0 | Anybody out there listening that wants to look better, feel better, perform better, however they are, you don't need to spend a dollar on technology. You don't have to do a single supplement ever to perform phenomenally well. That is a hundred percent fact. We have the richest athletes in the world. I coach the richest executives. We have unlimited funds and we still do the very basics, the overwhelming majority of the time. And it's all about can you be... Dr. Andy Galpin has spent 20 years studying human performance. |
| 0:24.1 | And working with gold medalists and pro athletes. In this episode, he breaks down what really |
| 0:29.3 | works for sleep, recovery, fat loss, and performance. One of the biggest epidemics we're |
| 0:35.0 | seeing right now that nobody's paying attention to is |
| 0:38.9 | and this almost exclusively targets me. |
| 0:42.0 | If you want to be amazing at 90, that starts with being amazing at 28. |
| 0:45.4 | Bad sleep is directly correlated to what? |
| 0:48.3 | People that work 3 to 11 p.m. kind of thing. |
| 0:51.3 | 5 to 10x increased risk of erectile dysfunction. The biggest thing you can do |
| 0:55.2 | for your sleep if you're overweight is to healthy people move. Full stop. |
| 1:04.5 | Hi guys. It's your host, Kate Max here. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's conversation |
| 1:09.1 | with Dr. Andy Galpin. |
| 1:15.1 | Your support helps us continue bringing you, inspiring conversations. |
| 1:22.2 | So please hit that follow button wherever you're listening and we will be right back with our conversation after this short break. Andy, you are described as an exercise physiologist. |
| 1:33.6 | Can you explain to us what that means? |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, I think it's the easiest way to understand it is it's just the science of the human |
| 1:41.6 | body specific to exercise. |
| 1:43.8 | So if you contrast this to like a medical |
| 1:46.0 | doctor, so they have a doctorate or a terminal degree in medicine. And so this is disease, |
| 1:51.5 | infection, detection, treatment management. My take on the physiology side is the other end of the |
| 1:57.2 | spectrum, which is what happens when we exercise, what happens when we try |
| 2:02.2 | to perform on our absolute best. |
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