Dr. Rhonda Patrick
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So you're going hard, but you're pacing yourself.
It's a HIIT workout.
And then you have a three-minute recovery where you're going very light.
You're really wanting your heart rate to come down.
And then you do that again four times.
So it's four by four.
And that...
Workout they were doing twice a week and then went down to once a week.
Okay.
So after two years of this, you know, five hours a week, and I would say they also did some resistance training.
They added some of that in there as well.
The aging of their hearts was reversed by about 20 years.
20 years.
So their hearts, these were 50-year-olds, 52 at the end of the trial.
Their hearts looked like a 32-year-old in terms of the structure.
Yes.
And this is the structure.
So I'm talking about the hearts grew.
Remember I told you it shrinks with age, so they grew.
And the hearts became more flexible.