Fat Loss Scientist: It’s Easy To Lose Weight, But Here’s Why You WON’T Do It! | Dr Andy Galpin

**Dr Andy Galpin** (0:00)
Everything you see in this table has strong scientific evidence that it will help us sleep.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:04)
So we're going to dig into all of those in great detail.

**Dr Andy Galpin** (0:06)
So the first one is a really good one, kiwis.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:08)
Kiwis?

**Dr Andy Galpin** (0:08)
Yeah. But there's been good studies on them. So if you have two to three kiwis before bed, you'll see people sleeping better. Next on our list is sleep divorce. People generally don't sleep as well when you're in the same bed as others.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:19)
Next, what about this?

**Dr Andy Galpin** (0:21)
This has more evidence than the rest of these things combined, and it is effective. Another one to think about is sound.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:25)
And it really matters, sound when you sleep?

**Dr Andy Galpin** (0:27)
Yeah, as much if not more of any other factor.
There's also screen usage, light, your pillow, and wearables. But the other thing is we're spending more on sleep and sleep is getting worse. And for the last 20 years, I've been doing science, coaching, and education that enhances human performance. And I've been fortunate to work with the world's most elite athletes, entrepreneurs, leaders, and even 50% of athletes have a clinical sleep disorder. It gets worse. 70 to 80% of people who have clinical sleep apnea will go undiagnosed. And for women, it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 to 95%. And it is deleterious to your health because it's highly associated with long-term death risk, cognitive function, mood regulation, performance, recovery, metabolic health. And it happens for a bunch of different reasons. And we can go through them. But we look at the 8 billion person population. We need more people to pay attention to their health. And so I just want to get the best possible out of people. So this could be energy, it could be metabolic, it could be cognitive function, it could be muscle growth or fat loss. And so I want to give every person listening to this the opportunity to reach their goals and dreams.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:26)
So I'd love to go through all of those and you have a five, four, three, two, one method. What is that?

**Dr Andy Galpin** (1:29)
Yeah, it's just a little thing I came up with that says, all right, can we help people with fat loss? So the first thing to think about is...

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Dr Andy Galpin. Before we started recording, you said you want to do scientific research, you're coaching for your clients, and you said education. You also kind of alluded to the fact that you were less interested in money and these kinds of things. So the question is, why do you do what you do, and what is it you're doing, and who are you doing it for?

**Dr Andy Galpin** (2:34)
The most concise way I can say it is, I want to give every person listening to this the opportunity to reach their goals and dreams. You want to look this way or not look this way, and you want to perform this way.
How can we get you there? I want to remove those barriers. And if you get there or don't get there, it was because of you. It was not because something was holding you back that was in your way. So that's why I get equally excited to work with the best linebacker in the NFL and some person who just wants to wake up and not be in back pain tomorrow.

**Steven Bartlett** (3:06)
So tell me who you've worked with then, who has been a client of yours?

**Dr Andy Galpin** (3:09)
I've been fortunate to work with the world's most elite athletes for 20 years at this point. So this is your number one draft picks in every major sport, Hall of Famers, Cy Young winners, MVPs, Olympic gold medalists in many sports, world champion fighters. We've worked with hemiplegics and periplegics individuals. We've worked with the cliche executives, the mom and pops, the person dealing and struggling with perimenopause. We've really done most of it.