Dr. Andy Galpin

Am I optimizing for the happiness, the personal?

There's so many different reasons why one would exercise that you have to answer all those questions and figure out, well, what lever am I trying to pull here?

What am I trying to get out of it?

So do we have people, I'll answer this way.

Do we ever take somebody and say, hey, you need to start doing your endurance work in the morning fasted?

I can't think of very many times when we've ever done that.

But if somebody shows up with that, well, we don't have any strong reason we're not going to pull them off of it either.

So the way that we would frame this is –

We need more information on them to determine whether or not that's going to actually matter for them.

So if they're saying, okay, I want to enhance fat burning, I want to enhance oxidative capacity.

Great.

Well, we actually need to look at their capacity for metabolic flexibility.

We need to test that.

I need to see that number, right?

If you're just saying you want more, I'm going to say more from where.

Like, where are you currently at?

I don't know.

Well, then we don't know if we have anything to actually gain here.

So we could do that intervention, and I don't know if it would do anything for you.

If you're already pegged on that, if your mitochondria are already functioning very high, if your ability to utilize fuel independent of food is strong, then we're not going to get anything from that.