Dr. Andy Galpin

“So the average person's like at 40, 45, just to give you some context of that number. Anyone past about 60, if you continue to go up, it's not going to really …”

Galpin states the average person's VO2 max is around 40-45 ml/kg/min, and that pushing an MMA fighter's VO2 max past about 60 yields no further fight performance benefit.

“But there are now actually identification of several cancers that thrive on fats rather than carbohydrates.”

Galpin claims that several cancers have been identified as thriving on fat rather than carbohydrates/sugar.

“So the reason why we didn't think fiber type changed 20 years ago is because we didn't have the technology to actually have the fidelity to measure all the one…”

Galpin claims that muscle fiber type was previously believed to be fixed only because measurement technology lacked the fidelity to detect changes.

“It really didn't even exist until 1993. And then it didn't even really exist even then until like, I feel like Frank Shamrock was the first real professional M…”

Galpin claims MMA effectively did not exist until 1993 (UFC's founding) and that Frank Shamrock was the first real professional MMA fighter.

“there was a guy named, um, Peter Karpovich, who was a scientist and he was extremely, he was the guy who started the idea that lifting weights causes you to lo…”

Galpin claims scientist Peter Karpovich originated the mid-20th-century idea that weightlifting causes loss of flexibility and is bad for health, later disproven in a public demonstration against Bob Hoffman's lifters.

“Every single person got substantially better, like 20% to 30% better under one of the conditions. But they also got worse under one of the conditions as well.”

Galpin describes an internal study finding that blood-flow/breathing-restriction training (using devices like the O2 Trainer) improved every subject's performance by 20-30% under one restriction setting.