Muscle Secrets They Don't Want You to Know! | Dr. Andy Galpin

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:00)
Welcome to The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show. In this episode, I sit down with my very dear friend, Dr. Andy Galpin. He's a full professor at California State University, Fullerton. He is an expert and a game changer in muscle physiology, health and wellness. He works with a ton of professional fighters and athletes. In this episode, we cover a number of things. We talk about skeletal muscle biomarkers, health and wellness biomarkers, essentially blood biomarkers, sleep, and how you can think for yourself when it comes to scientific information. We talk about this and a whole bunch more. And by the way, I show you and bring you a different side to Andy that I don't think you've seen before. He's truly extraordinary.
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Dr. Andy Galpin, welcome to the show. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for being in studio in Houston. I know it's hot.

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (2:19)
Yep.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (2:19)
And I fed you well.

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (2:21)
You did.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (2:22)
And so we're going to be ready to get after it.

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (2:25)
Yeah, and there's just no chance I was going to do this on Zoom.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (2:29)
No.

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (2:29)
Not with you. Of all people, not with you.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (2:30)
I mean, how long have we been friends?

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (2:34)
I don't know. A long time.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (2:36)
We both have gray hair now.

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (2:38)
Yeah, for sure. I have a lot less hair total.
Prior to, we had no children at that point. Potentially no marriages at that point. Different worlds, different universe. It's been a long time.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (2:50)
But what I think is so cool is that we've been on parallel paths. And I asked you while the cameras were off if you ever thought you would be in the position that you are in now.

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (3:02)
I mean, I always dreamed of it, right? Like that's where you're at. I'm also very aware of where I am at. And I say that and say like everyone gets their 15, right? And I'm very aware that this is mine, which is great. I'm also very aware that that 15 ends. So I'm having a blast right now. I do feel like I told you, I do feel that I somewhat deserve it, but I also feel incredibly lucky.
There are many, many people who could be in my position, probably deserve more, have done better things, more important things, are more eloquent, more effective.
So this is not really a day. And I'm not really being cliché there. My wife and I actually have a little bit of a practice.

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (3:44)
I love that.

**Dr. Andy Galpin** (3:45)
And it's like, man, this could end any day and also could have anybody.
You have to have talent, you have to do the hard work thing, but you also have to have that third component, which is you call it luck, call it a break, call it the fortune, like whatever you want.
And to me, that's a big part of how I approach the entire world. It's just like, hey, represent, some people don't get that shot and some people don't get that luck. Well, for any number of reasons, right? Could be a thousand things, deserving or undeserving. And so I'm just always very, very appreciative that for whatever reason it landed on me, at least right now. So yeah, very, very appreciative of where I'm at.