Look. Feel. Perform. Why Muscle Is the Answer to All Three After 40 with Andy Galpin, PhD

What is the one number every woman over 40 should know about her body that most doctors never measure?

I would have to say bone mineral density.

It's pretty cheap, pretty accessible.

Usually, you know, typical standards say for women, depending on where you look, it's gonna be, like, 55 to 60 years old, where they're gonna recommend you getting your f- first bone mineral density scan.

But I would actually strongly advocate even earlier than 40.

Mm-hmm.

Um, I would actually advocate for you getting it in your 20s, and then you can go five years or more between the next one, 10 if you want.

But bone mineral density will reach its highest amount in women in the late 20s, early 30s.

Mm-hmm.

So we wanna capture it then because we actually don't know five or 10, 15 years later if it's on the decline or if it's not because we never caught you at your peak.

And it's critical because we are actually in a, a bone quality crisis, an epidemic worldwide, and no one's speaking about it, and it will adversely affect women probably 10 to one versus men.

So it's a huge, huge issue with women's health and rarely advocated for, rarely discussed, and something I think is, it's worth the very small amount of exposure that you get sitting in one of those machines, and it's, again, pretty cost-friendly and, and h- highly worth it.

Could not agree more.

You coach Olympic gold medalists and world champions.

What do elite athletes do that regular people almost never do and has nothing to do with how hard they train?

Probably nothing.

I get this kinda question a lot, and what tends to separate the world's best athletes from the world's highest performers that are non-athletes i- is they just happen to be better at a sport than you are.

I mean, that's really it.

Some of them are amazingly dedicated, and some of them are just Not.

Some of them take their training and recovery and all that super seriously, and some don't do anything.

They were just blessed and have probably worked hard enough over years to develop a very specific skill, and they're better than anyone in the world at it.

And that can simply be the frustration of talent.

There are some universal things that tends to help them that can, can be extended to, to humans, but there's not one thing that they are doing that anyone else isn't doing.

Uh, that just doesn't exist.

And I think if you are blessed with that kind of talent, this is, this is the best way to exploit it.

What is the one number every woman over 40 should know about her body that most doctors never measure?

I would have to say bone mineral density.

It's pretty cheap, pretty accessible.

Usually, you know, typical standards say for women, depending on where you look, it's gonna be, like, 55 to 60 years old, where they're gonna recommend you getting your f- first bone mineral density scan.

But I would actually strongly advocate even earlier than 40.

Mm-hmm.

Um, I would actually advocate for you getting it in your 20s, and then you can go five years or more between the next one, 10 if you want.

But bone mineral density will reach its highest amount in women in the late 20s, early 30s.

Mm-hmm.

So we wanna capture it then because we actually don't know five or 10, 15 years later if it's on the decline or if it's not because we never caught you at your peak.

And it's critical because we are actually in a, a bone quality crisis, an epidemic worldwide, and no one's speaking about it, and it will adversely affect women probably 10 to one versus men.

So it's a huge, huge issue with women's health and rarely advocated for, rarely discussed, and something I think is, it's worth the very small amount of exposure that you get sitting in one of those machines, and it's, again, pretty cost-friendly and, and h- highly worth it.

Could not agree more.

You coach Olympic gold medalists and world champions.

What do elite athletes do that regular people almost never do and has nothing to do with how hard they train?

Probably nothing.

I get this kinda question a lot, and what tends to separate the world's best athletes from the world's highest performers that are non-athletes i- is they just happen to be better at a sport than you are.

I mean, that's really it.

Some of them are amazingly dedicated, and some of them are just Not.

Some of them take their training and recovery and all that super seriously, and some don't do anything.

They were just blessed and have probably worked hard enough over years to develop a very specific skill, and they're better than anyone in the world at it.

And that can simply be the frustration of talent.

There are some universal things that tends to help them that can, can be extended to, to humans, but there's not one thing that they are doing that anyone else isn't doing.

Uh, that just doesn't exist.

And I think if you are blessed with that kind of talent, this is, this is the best way to exploit it.