Dr. Andy Galpin
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9 series
first heard Jun 2024
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And you feel really bad about that.
And so you know you can't do anything about that.
And so you're like, I'm just not going to take that trip.
I'm not going to go to that outing or whatever that thing is.
That becomes a problem.
It becomes a problem because it, as I mentioned, leads directly to social isolation.
Which is a massive driver of long-term joy.
connection, purpose.
So all the physical attributes, sure, we can directly tie those to mortality.
We can also draw joy and sense of connection and purpose.
When you lose a sense of purpose, and in fact, you have a sense of burden, mortality is right off the reservation.
We've actually seen, we actually published a paper last year, and we found that specifically leg strength predicted 5% of cognitive function through aging.
And we have both correlation and causal data behind that.
And so it's examples of movement.
It's examples of physical activity.
You're not strong, you're not gonna be physically active.
sense of purpose, isolate.
So it ties into everything all the way up to directly brain functional purposes.
There's excellent research on strength training and white matter atrophy in your brain.
So your physical brain, not your mental health, your actual physical brain is going to stay around much longer when you strength train.
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