Brady Holmer

And it's kind of interesting when you think about that, too, because when we talk about the guidelines, I think a lot of people hear that and say 150 to 300 minutes of physical activity a week.

That means I need to be in the gym for 150 minutes to 300 minutes.

But again, physical activity is different than exercise.

Physical activity is...

Any physical activity you're doing throughout the day.

Exercise is defined, structured, a workout, like a training regimen that you go to the gym and you set aside time for.

But physical activity can be things done throughout the day, just integrated into your daily life as well.

They pretty much tracked anything people are interested in in terms of health.

So all cause mortality, death from any cause.

Most people are aware of what that is.

Cardiovascular disease mortality.

So deaths from anything related to cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke specifically.

Major adverse cardiovascular events or MACE.

So that's heart attack, stroke, cardiovascular death.

Type two diabetes incidents and then cancer incidents.

And that included physical activity related cancers as well.

And one of the important points, too, about these health outcomes is that a lot of the problems with some of the previous studies were it's this idea of the healthy user bias.

So, oh, people who are more physically active.

Do they have lower disease risk or do people who have less disease do more activity?

Well, they controlled for that in this study by excluding people who if you develop any of these diseases within the first 12 months of the study, they were excluded.