Dr. Andy Galpin

If you can't carry a bag confidently and you can't put a backpack in an overhead compartment, you're not going to take the bus. You're much less likely to go on an airplane. This now leads to secondary problems with social isolation. You're not confident.

If you can't carry a bag confidently and you can't put a backpack in an overhead compartment, you're not going to take the bus. You're much less likely to go on an airplane. This now leads to secondary problems with social isolation. You're not confident.

One of the single biggest predictors of one of the single biggest issues we have with unsuccessful aging is that people, when people start to feel like they become a burden on society, they start to withdraw rapidly. No one wants to be the person in line holding everybody up. No one wants, like, you just, you know all those examples there, right?

One of the single biggest predictors of one of the single biggest issues we have with unsuccessful aging is that people, when people start to feel like they become a burden on society, they start to withdraw rapidly. No one wants to be the person in line holding everybody up. No one wants, like, you just, you know all those examples there, right?

So people are more likely to just socially withdraw. And now we're having all the secondary problems of social isolation and even physical activity starts to go down because people don't leave their house, they watch TV more, and this whole cascade of things start to happen.

So people are more likely to just socially withdraw. And now we're having all the secondary problems of social isolation and even physical activity starts to go down because people don't leave their house, they watch TV more, and this whole cascade of things start to happen.

And so we have direct and indirect mechanism there that say, again, you don't have to be massively strong, but just maintain some semblance of grip strength. Your legs are going to tell the same story. This is your interface with the world, your legs and your hands. And so your ability to locomote, to move throughout the world is mostly your legs.

And so we have direct and indirect mechanism there that say, again, you don't have to be massively strong, but just maintain some semblance of grip strength. Your legs are going to tell the same story. This is your interface with the world, your legs and your hands. And so your ability to locomote, to move throughout the world is mostly your legs.

If you don't feel confident that you can walk up the steps to that museum, slowly you stop going on those trips. You start doing that extra thing. It hurts too much. It's too exhausting. Again, fill in all the blanks here. And so having some sort of physical leg strength gives you confidence that allows general physical activity, which then pays all those additional benefits.

If you don't feel confident that you can walk up the steps to that museum, slowly you stop going on those trips. You start doing that extra thing. It hurts too much. It's too exhausting. Again, fill in all the blanks here. And so having some sort of physical leg strength gives you confidence that allows general physical activity, which then pays all those additional benefits.

That doesn't even carry in account the direct physical benefits. So if we start looking at muscles specifically, muscle quality, and this can be defined a lot of different ways, is going to regulate in part things like your blood glucose. And you've, I'm sure, talked to many people about the importance of metabolic health.

That doesn't even carry in account the direct physical benefits. So if we start looking at muscles specifically, muscle quality, and this can be defined a lot of different ways, is going to regulate in part things like your blood glucose. And you've, I'm sure, talked to many people about the importance of metabolic health.

Skeletal muscle is going to explain about 80% of the variance in your resting metabolic rate. That's your faster, slow metabolism. Again, 80% of the variance is going to be explained by how much lean muscle you have for the most part. So you don't need to be huge, but losing muscle is called sarcopenia. You lose muscle faster than you should be with aging.

Skeletal muscle is going to explain about 80% of the variance in your resting metabolic rate. That's your faster, slow metabolism. Again, 80% of the variance is going to be explained by how much lean muscle you have for the most part. So you don't need to be huge, but losing muscle is called sarcopenia. You lose muscle faster than you should be with aging.

Highly associated with inflammatory states, reduced resting metabolic rate, which then goes right back to the equation. Glucose regulation, all of these things start to happen. Last fire hose, I know I'm going after it this little bit here, but this is a topic of clear passion to me, is you have the presence of strength as well as the act of the training itself.

Highly associated with inflammatory states, reduced resting metabolic rate, which then goes right back to the equation. Glucose regulation, all of these things start to happen. Last fire hose, I know I'm going after it this little bit here, but this is a topic of clear passion to me, is you have the presence of strength as well as the act of the training itself.

So going through the strength training process has additional benefits to things like your central nervous system, brain, and neurological system. The evidence is very clear. Your physical brain will stay healthier in terms of white matter and things like that when you strength train. It will stay around a lot longer.

So going through the strength training process has additional benefits to things like your central nervous system, brain, and neurological system. The evidence is very clear. Your physical brain will stay healthier in terms of white matter and things like that when you strength train. It will stay around a lot longer.

There's actually a lot of research now that's starting to point to the fact that things like dementia and Alzheimer's, late onset specifically, is highly preventable. And by highly, I mean it's an extraordinarily high number. You'd have to get a neuroscientist on to really get numbers there.

There's actually a lot of research now that's starting to point to the fact that things like dementia and Alzheimer's, late onset specifically, is highly preventable. And by highly, I mean it's an extraordinarily high number. You'd have to get a neuroscientist on to really get numbers there.