Dr. Andy Galpin

You got one still. Give me one. Do I got to do it? Let's say I'm dealing with headaches and jaw pain at night.

Okay. You're not going to just let me get away with the morning.

Okay. You're not going to just let me get away with the morning.

Yeah, it makes sense, right? Get into good positions before you go train and then get into good positions before you go to bed. How could you not do that? When we think about stress, autonomic nervous system, we have our two branches. We'll keep it as two for now. So we have our sympathetic nervous system, fight and flight. We have our parasympathetic, rest and digest.

Yeah, it makes sense, right? Get into good positions before you go train and then get into good positions before you go to bed. How could you not do that? When we think about stress, autonomic nervous system, we have our two branches. We'll keep it as two for now. So we have our sympathetic nervous system, fight and flight. We have our parasympathetic, rest and digest.

There's more to the story here, friends. Yes, I'm aware, but For the sake of conversation, we'll keep it right there. Most people assume if I'm not at a high heart rate, if I'm not mentally stressed right now, that my central nervous or my sympathetic nervous system, my fight or flight is not on. But there's a very clear difference between not being on

There's more to the story here, friends. Yes, I'm aware, but For the sake of conversation, we'll keep it right there. Most people assume if I'm not at a high heart rate, if I'm not mentally stressed right now, that my central nervous or my sympathetic nervous system, my fight or flight is not on. But there's a very clear difference between not being on

and actively pressing the gas or turning, what is it, turning off on?

and actively pressing the gas or turning, what is it, turning off on?

Turning on the off switch. How should we think about this? What are strategies we can do to be more effective at turning the off switch on more? Did I capture that correctly?

Turning on the off switch. How should we think about this? What are strategies we can do to be more effective at turning the off switch on more? Did I capture that correctly?

Super easy. I really appreciate you laying that out. That is going to be phenomenally effective for a lot of people. I guarantee it. The last thing I want to draw into all this is then how does this relate to things like the pelvic floor, right? So I said earlier, there's multiple diaphragms. Pelvic floor is a diaphragm, right? It's just the bottom one, right? I admittedly don't spend a ton of time

Super easy. I really appreciate you laying that out. That is going to be phenomenally effective for a lot of people. I guarantee it. The last thing I want to draw into all this is then how does this relate to things like the pelvic floor, right? So I said earlier, there's multiple diaphragms. Pelvic floor is a diaphragm, right? It's just the bottom one, right? I admittedly don't spend a ton of time

on pelvic floor development, but this is a clear aspect of it, right? So how does the pelvic floor, and we could certainly do an entire discussion, many of them on the pelvic floor, but what are the top hitting things as it relates to the conversation thus far that we should be thinking about with the diaphragmic floor?

on pelvic floor development, but this is a clear aspect of it, right? So how does the pelvic floor, and we could certainly do an entire discussion, many of them on the pelvic floor, but what are the top hitting things as it relates to the conversation thus far that we should be thinking about with the diaphragmic floor?

It looks quite similar to the respiratory diaphragm, by the way, like reasonably similar.

It looks quite similar to the respiratory diaphragm, by the way, like reasonably similar.

That's actually really, really helpful. People have oftentimes heard of things like rib flaring, right? And you just described it a little bit differently. So imagine, again, the bottom of your ribs are opening up. Instead of the bottom of your ribs pointing directly down, they're pointing, say, at a 45-degree angle up.

That's actually really, really helpful. People have oftentimes heard of things like rib flaring, right? And you just described it a little bit differently. So imagine, again, the bottom of your ribs are opening up. Instead of the bottom of your ribs pointing directly down, they're pointing, say, at a 45-degree angle up.

Therefore, when you breathe and you're expanding that, that pressure is now going outwards, horizontal to your body instead of vertically, which then pushes on the pelvic floor to get it to move correctly. You're also then reducing pressure posteriorly, right? Yes. And that matters because that's the low back getting pinned down.