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Dr. Andy Galpin

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

It's a hard one to answer without saying similar things as I've said before, where it depends on what that person's limitation is. Could be sleep, could be nutrition. It could be down regulation. Those are the big ones that pop up. I'd say on aggregate, people just don't sleep as well as they think they do.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And I'd say the thing that will make the biggest impact in progress that is the most consistent problem is sleep. Generally, people even that think that they're sleeping okay are not. Or even I would say is okay sleep might be okay enough for regular people. But if you're trying to perform at your best, okay sleep is not enough.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And I'd say the thing that will make the biggest impact in progress that is the most consistent problem is sleep. Generally, people even that think that they're sleeping okay are not. Or even I would say is okay sleep might be okay enough for regular people. But if you're trying to perform at your best, okay sleep is not enough.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And I'd say the thing that will make the biggest impact in progress that is the most consistent problem is sleep. Generally, people even that think that they're sleeping okay are not. Or even I would say is okay sleep might be okay enough for regular people. But if you're trying to perform at your best, okay sleep is not enough.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And we see really big progress gains when people go from like okay sleep to really good sleep.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And we see really big progress gains when people go from like okay sleep to really good sleep.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

And we see really big progress gains when people go from like okay sleep to really good sleep.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Yeah. I mean, there's kind of like a handful of big categories for sleep. You can bucket it this way. You can think about physiology. This could be strictly a physiology problem. If you're not making appropriate neurotransmitters If any number of things in your physiology are off, high or low, this is gonna directly affect sleep. So it could be a physiology issue.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Yeah. I mean, there's kind of like a handful of big categories for sleep. You can bucket it this way. You can think about physiology. This could be strictly a physiology problem. If you're not making appropriate neurotransmitters If any number of things in your physiology are off, high or low, this is gonna directly affect sleep. So it could be a physiology issue.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Yeah. I mean, there's kind of like a handful of big categories for sleep. You can bucket it this way. You can think about physiology. This could be strictly a physiology problem. If you're not making appropriate neurotransmitters If any number of things in your physiology are off, high or low, this is gonna directly affect sleep. So it could be a physiology issue.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

It could be psychological, of course, as you're alluding to. It could be pathology. There are a ton of people that have clinical or subclinical sleep disorders that don't realize it. In fact, the numbers are crazy. It's something like 30 to 50 million people have clinical sleep disorders and don't know it. Over 80% of sleep disorders go undiagnosed.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

It could be psychological, of course, as you're alluding to. It could be pathology. There are a ton of people that have clinical or subclinical sleep disorders that don't realize it. In fact, the numbers are crazy. It's something like 30 to 50 million people have clinical sleep disorders and don't know it. Over 80% of sleep disorders go undiagnosed.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

It could be psychological, of course, as you're alluding to. It could be pathology. There are a ton of people that have clinical or subclinical sleep disorders that don't realize it. In fact, the numbers are crazy. It's something like 30 to 50 million people have clinical sleep disorders and don't know it. Over 80% of sleep disorders go undiagnosed.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

It's really, really, really problematic and people don't realize it. And then within that, again, there are subclinical ones, which means you don't qualify for a technical disease. This is people who have said things like, I went to a sleep clinic, I got testing, and they said I have like mild sleep apnea.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

It's really, really, really problematic and people don't realize it. And then within that, again, there are subclinical ones, which means you don't qualify for a technical disease. This is people who have said things like, I went to a sleep clinic, I got testing, and they said I have like mild sleep apnea.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

It's really, really, really problematic and people don't realize it. And then within that, again, there are subclinical ones, which means you don't qualify for a technical disease. This is people who have said things like, I went to a sleep clinic, I got testing, and they said I have like mild sleep apnea.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Well, almost surely you have a whole host of fixable things going on, but you didn't meet a clinical diagnosis for that clinical disease, something you didn't get much help, right? So there's a ton of things we can do that are super easy to fix that will change people's lives that fall below that threshold. The fourth component of good sleep then is your environment.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Well, almost surely you have a whole host of fixable things going on, but you didn't meet a clinical diagnosis for that clinical disease, something you didn't get much help, right? So there's a ton of things we can do that are super easy to fix that will change people's lives that fall below that threshold. The fourth component of good sleep then is your environment.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

Well, almost surely you have a whole host of fixable things going on, but you didn't meet a clinical diagnosis for that clinical disease, something you didn't get much help, right? So there's a ton of things we can do that are super easy to fix that will change people's lives that fall below that threshold. The fourth component of good sleep then is your environment.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 431: Dr. Andy Galpin: Why Fitness Trackers and Bloodwork Are Misleading You

So there's a whole host of things in your physical environment that people do not even realize. Everyone knows about temperature. Everyone knows about light and sound. It's all the other stuff going on in your environment that people are oblivious to that can be the single thing that is tormenting your sleep and you just have no idea. The smell.