Huberman Lab
Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin: How & Why to Strengthen Your Heart & Cardiovascular Fitness
12 Jun 2024
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Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. I'm pleased to announce the launch of a new podcast from our team here at Huberman Lab. The podcast is Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin.
Most of you are likely familiar with Dr. Andy Galpin from our six episode guest series on improving your physical fitness and health. For those of you not familiar with Andy, he is a professor of kinesiology at Cal State Fullerton and an expert on exercise physiology and human performance. This new podcast, Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin, will explore all aspects of human performance.
It shares the latest science and provides practical tools on things such as how to improve cardiovascular health, how to build strength and muscle mass, how to maximize your recovery with the nutrition and supplementation, and much more. What follows is episode one of Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin. If you enjoy it, I encourage you to go and subscribe to it wherever you're listening now.
And now, episode one of Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin.
The science and practice of enhancing human performance for sport, play, and life. Welcome to Perform. I'm Andy Galpin, a professor of kinesiology in the Center for Sport Performance at Cal State Fullerton. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about the heart. And I'd like to start with a very simple question. And that is, why do you breathe?
Now, that may have caught you off guard, and so I'll let you think about it for a quick second. Why is it that you breathe? The first couple of answers probably rushing to your head are something like, well, if I don't breathe, I'll die. And yes, that's true. But why? Why is it that if you don't breathe, you'll die?
With that prompt, you're now probably thinking about, well, I've got to get oxygen into my system because oxygen is needed as a fuel for metabolism to produce energy and to keep my cells and heart and brain alive. Well, that's not exactly the right answer.
Of course, oxygen is critically important and you will die without it, but there are many other things going on that determine how you breathe, why you breathe, how often you breathe, and why that's vital to both your health and performance. Given that the focus of this show is to discuss the science and physiology of maximizing performance,
I think it's pretty prudent of us to then spend a little bit of time learning more about how and why your heart functions. In order to do that, we're going to cover what I call the three I's. The first being investigate. Another way of saying, how do I understand and analyze whether or not my heart is functioning at the highest level possible? The second I is interpretation.
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