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Dr. Andy Galpin

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“It's my biased opinion in my field that this is a great place where people want someone there. Online coaching is great. That's fine and all that. But you're seeing actually already a premium coming on like, you know, I want to hire an in-person trainer. Can you give me that person? Where like the boom was the opposite for a while? And now it's already swinging back where people would rather have somebody there in person for all those reasons. That is, I think, an incredibly interesting challenge But that's the way to think about it. That top one's going to get better. Lots of problems. What are we comparing against? And then what do we do about it? Gonna be the real trick”
2026-01-30 · The Diary of a CEO · Most Replayed Moment: The Fastest Way To Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle! - Dr Andy Galpin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What's it going to cost? You're hiring that person, right? Because, like, you've done it before. Fantastic. The budget doesn't matter at that point because the person has actually done it and they will be there. Fantastic. I really feel like our field is going to increase in the value because of that. They're going to want to say, okay, awesome. The numbers came out on this. The AI told me this. You've done it before, yeah? Done it a lot. Great, I trust you the most. I want you by my side. I want that companionship. As we lose more and more connection to other people,”
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“I want somebody there with me. I want a human taking me through X. That's going to feel better because we don't know there's almost no data on, okay, great. Well, what is the optimal training for that marker? What is the optimal nutrition? That is really, really limited. So we have to rely on expert. We have to rely on people that go, I know the evidence base, but then also in my experience, I'm thinking about this this way. If you were an NFL quarterback and you tore your ACL. We ran all that stuff on you. You would still come back and go, Oh, great, there's a coach over there who's actually run people through ACL recoveries on 15 starting NFL quarterbacks.”
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“Is the intervention? What is the thing? That's where I actually think people in my field are going to not only maintain but increase their value, such as personal coaches, physical therapists, athletic trainers, people that are going to be nurses, because you might have an AI that can come in and run something and say, great, your numbers are here and our metrics say you should be here, and then you should go do X.”
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“Different in Southeast Asians, or that are different in Southeast Asians versus Northern Europeans. Like, we don't have that fully fleshed out. And if we do, it's for disease markers. We don't have it. So I don't even know what I'm judging. Okay, now, assessment, great. Where are we going to get these databases of super healthy people as the world continues to get less healthy? I'm losing my population to pull from really, really quickly. Then the next piece is, okay, great. You've told me that this marker should be here. Pick your marker, whatever you want. How do I get it there? And that's really where we're struggling. So, the second problem is what I call Polaris. Like, we have no North Star. We don't know where this thing should go. The third one is, okay, how do I get there?”
2026-01-30 · The Diary of a CEO · Most Replayed Moment: The Fastest Way To Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle! - Dr Andy Galpin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If you break down the way that we structured it is there's four pieces in order for you to have more success at your performance and health, you number one have to have assessment. Once you have all this data, you have to go to step number two, which is then you have to qualify, good, bad, great, worst ever, best in world history. We're struggling on that. We don't know what healthy looks like. I know what clinically deficient rickets looks like. I know what obesity and type 2 diabetes. We know disease. We don't know what good versus great means. There are no databases I can pull from. There is no metric I can look at and say, what is a great vertical jump number? What does somebody need to be able to jump in their 40s to be healthy? Like we don't know these things and I don't know what by ethnicity. And I mentioned that before. That's a critical component because it is clearly different, right? There are some markers in basic blood chemistry that are not...”
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“Process right, you can be aware of it, or you cannot. From there, you can choose whatever you want. That's entirely up to you and all that. I just want people to realize you're making a choice one way or the other. So when you involve technology into the picture, AI is another really, really challenging thing in a lot of ways. I'll reiterate we've seen this already play out and we know the answer is this gets worse in terms of we're not going to make very good choices right away. How does that manifest itself in the end? I don't know. Nobody knows. But to date, Not particularly good at making that decision. So there's lots of consequences there. I think that we have there. One of the last things I'll say on this is”
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“Mean, look at the current health position that we're in, right We went after that entire idea of minimizing as many stressors as we possibly could. And oh, we it worked. Now we have to go back and do this weird thing where we re engineer stress back into our lives. You have to be very Careful Judicious. You pull things out of a natural state. I'm being very choosy with my words there. You're not directing stress, you're letting something else direct that. That stress is still coming one way or the other, which means adaptation is coming. So you can be intentional and point that ship in one direction, or you can cover your eyes and think it's not happening at all. Realize you're getting pointed somewhere else. It's better to at least The acknowledgement. This is why the word consciousness is in the title of my book. This is part of...”
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“Is more in our world than our human experience than just straight answers, right? This is one of the beauties of this ride we get to take. I don't know if we have good answers. I think we've clearly shown. We're not very good at asking those questions before.”
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“If you do, like what happens when we send people up to space because there's no gravity, your physiology tanks really quickly. They come back. Oftentimes astronauts come back and they're like, they can't physically walk for a few days. Because in that case, that aspect, now other aspects of stress are way up. But we've lost some of the core tenets that it means to be a human, and we are not ready for that. We are not ready at all to be able to be told, oh, yeah, we're on this scan. And here's the exact culmination of life. You need to run, not even counting the ethics behind all that. Like the ethics of genetic testing alone are really, really interesting, to say the least. The ethics of doing something like that. We have not thought through this stuff, and collectively we.”
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“Yeah, shout out, Michael. It's a great book. When we have astronauts come back from the National Space Station, getting people to live on Mars. It's a bit of a rocket problem. It's a bigger physiology problem. And this HTTP project, Rwanda, is part of the people we're working with is Cody Burkhardt runs Human Works at NASA. Figuring out that line of going, hey, you don't want to release stress.”
2026-01-30 · The Diary of a CEO · Most Replayed Moment: The Fastest Way To Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle! - Dr Andy Galpin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you know what I mean? We spent the entire Length of human history with one, maybe arguably two singular goals. One of them at the core was stress reduction. Was what we're after, right? You create communities so you're safer, you create homes, so you're environmental, you create agriculture, so our food, and we all wanted to reduce the stress thing, right? We didn't call that, but that's what it was. And then we got to the year 2000 or so, and we realized, oh, fuck Maybe that was the wrong target.”
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“We can bring those data in, we're going to be able to deploy things like this and say, hey, yo, this is most likely to work for you. The digital twin is already being used for like the heart. It's in place. We have the digital twin of the kidneys as well. The lungs are coming soon. The heart is coming pretty soon. There's lots of groups. I'm not involved in any of those projects, but it's coming on board. So the ability to not have to guess anymore and most importantly try this for six weeks. It didn't work. I tried this for nine. That's going to go away really fast. Great. You still have to go do all the work. Technology won't work out for you. Well We have some stuff that'll do that too.”
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“Yeah, really, really soon. I don't know how well the model is going to be the first time through it. I don't know if our group's going to be the best at it. It doesn't matter. But this is clearly going to be something the world is capable of. As we get better at being human sensors,”
2026-01-30 · The Diary of a CEO · Most Replayed Moment: The Fastest Way To Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle! - Dr Andy Galpin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Allows us to make your physiology. And so, from our perspective of vitality, we've got all your blood work and molecular biomarkers. From absolute rest, we've got your sleep. We've got your movement patterns. We can actually work with another company to watch you physically move and do that stuff. We can take your physiology and upload it. Then from there, we can run endless simulations of combinations of nutrition and training and supplementation, medicine, movement, daytime patterns, sunlight, water, all those things, and figure out really quickly how you're going to respond the best for whatever outcome we want. It's not ready at all right now. But we're actually, again, running it right now. We'll have our first cohort done probably in the next week or so.”
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“We are working on a project right now called the Human Digital Twin. So, this is a combination of a couple of my companies, so the sleep company, Absolute Rest. Our Blood Work Company, Vitality Blueprint, Springbok, there's another company called Axio Force that actually has four sensors in your shoe. And we can see early changes potentially in gait. So how you're walking, which could potentially, and research is needed here, but potentially be early signs of Parkinson's development, neurological disorder. So we'll see this in GATT before we'll see this in symptoms. Companies that are involved in this entire thing, we can take all those data. We're actually doing this right now, put them together, and make what's called a digital twin.”
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“I think it is exciting what's coming in the world of human health. I think it's helpful for people to know that stuff because a lot of the challenges we're facing are going to get worse. We have things that Going to be possible pretty soon at kind of the stuff I'm talking about, this idea of precision exercise, precision nutrition. Not really available to many people, too expensive, etc. We're going to cross those barriers pretty soon.”
2026-01-30 · The Diary of a CEO · Most Replayed Moment: The Fastest Way To Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle! - Dr Andy Galpin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. That's a great question. If you do strength training before endurance work, Your strength training will not compromise your endurance. In fact, sometimes it Exacerbates. If you do your endurance first, you're going to be more fatigued and you're going to lose strength and still have worse performance in your strength training.”
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“Thing right, so we'll do like a little bit of strength and hypertrophy muscle growth work, and then we'll do a circuit or an aerosol bike or some sprints or like, what can we get you into that's like really, really hard? If I can get you an environment where you're working out with some other human, I love that.”
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“Totally. Which causes the problem of Consistency inherent over time, right? So making sure you do that. I personally have some go-to standards I like to do. I'll happily share that with you. I tend to like to have a decent balance between kind of our anaerobic. Strength training, high heart rate stuff, and our more steady state longer duration. So if someone's going to be able to work out three times per week, I'm probably doing one thing where we're going long duration, call it a hike, call it a swim, call it a run, whatever we can do. And then the other two days, I'm probably doing an accommodation of lifting and then probably finishing with some high heart rate.”
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“Want to do something revolving strength training at least once a week for the same exact reasons, something that makes you burn a lot of calories Long duration, high intensity, either way. That's all you really have to do. If you can do that stuff consistently, Over time, you're going to get there. You're going to be just fine. Where we see problems are people that put themselves in positions of scarcity.”
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“The same thing. Maybe you hate exercise. Okay, great. Maybe we can get you to walk a few times a day and we'll get most of our fat loss through nutrition. Maybe the opposite. You love training, but man, you just struggle to eat whatever or not eat something. All right, great. Maybe we'll play the game more with, you know, willpower. We'll push the pace on our exercise. High intensity, fine, low intensity, fine. Weights, great, cardios, great surfing, great like don't zone six. I don't care. All of it can be done. Some of the foundational things that tend to be consistent. Those two things on most people is you need to make sure protein is adequate. Hard to maintain muscle mass with lower protein, especially if we're going hypochloric. So keep protein high.”
2026-01-30 · The Diary of a CEO · Most Replayed Moment: The Fastest Way To Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle! - Dr Andy Galpin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, really, you're way, way, way ahead of the cart here, paying attention to things that just do not matter. We got to get you on a system that works. Okay, great. For some people, that might be more nutritionally based. You can lose and preserve muscle mass really well by just going decently high on protein and then regulating your calories. The example I gave you earlier. You want to go more carbs, less fat? Great. You want to do the opposite. Like we can play those levers. No problem. All right. What's your problem though? Oh, I struggle with cravings. Okay, great. Oh, I struggle with hunger pangs. Okay, great. I struggle with, okay, well, then we're going to make those decisions based on more this, more, based on like where is your pain point? What's your problem? I struggle with the, okay, great. I have to now we're personalizing, now we're individualizing it based on things that are going to matter, orders of magnitude more than other things that I've just talked about, right? That stuff will trumpet.”
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“If you're not taking account genetic background on that, genetic testing for things like nutrition, precision nutrition is entirely worthless because we see classic markers that are associated with, say, more effective carbohydrate utilization or fat utilization or body composition. And they might predict a decent percentage of variance in European Caucasians. You apply those exact same things to West African or East African, and those variants go to zero. People forget that part when they start talking genetic testing. They have not been validated across all ethnic backgrounds, the ones that have shown they range from like 40% variance to zero.”
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“But if I told you that with nutrition, People are like, well, yeah, of course. There's magic diets that do like, no, keto, great, Mediterranean, great, high carbon, great, great, great. You can do them all. They can all work for you. Some people take it on gluten help. Some people go, great, great, great. Sure, all of it is possible, right? We come from very different backgrounds. If you look at any of the research, for example, like a really interesting point on genetic testing.”
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“Totally, right? And you still feel energy, and you're there and that it's working for you, right? And that's different for every physiology. Okay, great. And then you got to meet the exercise system, the same thing, right? If you hate running, There's no reason you don't have to run a step to lose a ton of weight. If you love running, you should run. If you hate lifting weight, fine. I can work with any parameter you give me if all we're concerned about is preserving lean muscle mass and losing fat over the long term. That's really what we have to consider the most. Now within that, does that mean every training and nutrition program is the same? No, no, no, not at There are fundamental differences. Here's the problem to think about. If I said, hey Going to do the same training program the rest of your life, you'd probably be like, whoa.”
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“It is very long collectively, right? On average, diets don't work quote unquote for those exact reasons. You got to get to a caloric deficit somehow, but you got to do that in a way where you still are happy and”
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“Adherence to your workout program and its adherence to your nutrition program. So step number one, before we worry about any change in diet, we start to start arguing about which method of exercise is best before we start really going way down the line to things like genetic testing. Like you're really wasting your time here and a lot of that stuff, especially if you're not paying attention to what's going to make you adhere the longest amount of time. In fact, if you just stopped right there, that's enough for most people. Can you put yourself in a position where you're able to feel abundant with your nutrition approach and notice I'm trying not to say diet here? Should be a nutritional approach. You have a balance between living life and flexibility, but then also figuring out what triggers you and maybe you don't have a trigger. Maybe you can be more flexible. Maybe you need more stringent, like all the things that go into it. You got to figure out a system. So people will not be able to die.”
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“Cited paper I've ever published was on yo yo dieting, like a review article on that. So you can go read that. People love that paper. I was just a co-author, Jackson wrote that paper. So credit goes to Jackson for that. But making sure you're paying attention to those parameters in mind. How do I lose weight? You can look across meta-analyses and review articles and you will see the number one predictor of long term successful weight loss and weight loss. I mean fat loss is always adherence.”
2026-01-30 · The Diary of a CEO · Most Replayed Moment: The Fastest Way To Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle! - Dr Andy Galpin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You need to think about fat loss A broader approach than most people give it to, which is to say, when you say fat loss, let's get specific. What we're meaning is we're losing fat and ideally we're preserving muscle. That's what we typically want. We're also talking about losing fat so that it stays off. Long as possible, those are baked into that phrase, but oftentimes forgotten. So the advice I'm going to give you is with those two assumptions in mind. You're trying to keep as much lean mass as you can, and you're trying to make this a successful journey and not something you have to repeat again time and time again. Totally, right? Yo yo dieting. In fact, one of the more Probably the highest.”
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