Dr. Andy Galpin

This is a 17% increase in risk.

If I go to the next one down, it's gone from one to 1.7 to 1.46.

The next after that, 1.36.

And then here's where it explodes.

So again, think of this as if you are somewhere between the 20th to 40th percentile, 100 being the best, zero being the absolute worst.

So just being the second to last category

your risk is 1.37.

You go from that category to the bottom 20th percentile, so just one category below, your risk goes from 1.37 to 3.44.

And this is why people will highlight, you don't have to necessarily be the fittest on the planet from a health and cardiovascular risk perspective, but you cannot be the lowest.

The magnitude of improvement you see from going from the least fit people around to just a second least fit is almost half to three times the risk reduction.

So massive improvements.

You'll see the exact same thing in the women in this study.

So to not run you through everything, but we're really talking about improvements as you go from the healthiest or most fit, kind of going all the way down to the bottom 20th percentile.

That risk factor is 2.42.

And then the lowest goes from 2.42 all the way up to 4.65.

So similar message between the men and women, just being the bottom of that category is incredibly dangerous and problematic for your health.

So if you can just do a little bit to bump up one level, that's going to do a lot for you.

Now, again, there's a ton of studies you could pull from here.

The numbers, again, I don't want you to be super specific on that because they will differ depending upon the population.

A little bit of context on that.