Dr. Rhonda Patrick

No, not at all.

I do believe that he is healthier because he does a lot of things right.

He exercises a lot, which is the number one thing you can do.

He eats very clean.

He's dialed in a lot of really important metrics in terms of aging healthy, but I think it's a very sensational statement to say that I'm biologically 18 even though I'm 47.

I don't think that's accurate at all.

So I'll tell you about a study that was done from Dr. Ben Levine.

He's probably one of the world's leading experts in exercise physiology.

Ben Levine.

Ben Levine, Dr. Ben Levine.

He's out of UT Southwest in Dallas.

He's got a big research lab there.

And he did a study on middle-aged adults.

So these are adults that are age 55.

years old they had no diagnosable diseases so they didn't have type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease but they were sedentary so they were not exercising and i would argue that is a disease being sedentary is a disease but what i'm saying is they didn't have any of these other classical diseases and he took these individuals and asked a question can i put them on a pretty regimented exercise program for two years and reverse the aging of their hearts

Now your heart aging does, you can accelerate it if you are smoking, if you are sedentary, if you eat a lot of added sugar, all these things accelerate the aging of your heart.

So as we age, our hearts get stiffer and our hearts shrink.

And that really predisposes us to cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in the United States, as well as many other developed countries.

So he took these individuals and put them in two groups.

One group was going to get the exercise treatment, and the other group was a sham control, sort of a placebo, and they were doing sort of stretching yoga-ish type of exercises, enough to make them think they were getting the intervention, right?