Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Okay, let's dive into this important episode.

I'm very, very excited to have this conversation with you, Kerry.

I've been a big fan of your research, read many of your studies over the years, and have been looking forward to this conversation with you today.

Well, I was thinking maybe we could kind of start at the top and just talk a little bit about why effortful exercise is not only beneficial for cancer, but also for health in general.

So maybe we can talk a little bit about cancer prevention.

You often hear about how cancer prevention occurs, you know, decades before you get a diagnosis.

From your research, what is the single best lifestyle shift that someone can do right now to positively, you know, affect their lifetime cancer risk?

If someone had limited time and resources in the sort of 80-20 sense, so if you were going to put in 20% of your effort to kind of get 80% of the reward, would

Do you think that, you know, what are some of the prevention strategies that would give you the biggest bang for your buck, like cancer screenings, exercise, things like that?

Do you find that these recommendations are, so like if you're going to do aerobic exercise versus like the resistance training or high intensity interval training, do you think there's any differences between them or is it really just kind of do something?

Yeah.

So you want a little bit of a stronger stress to cause that immune adaptation, for example, or the metabolic adaptations.

I know the major area of focus of your research is looking at how exercise affects cancer treatment.

But there are some interesting questions I have with prevention as well.

You're mentioning obesity being a big risk factor for a variety of different obesity-related cancers.

And perhaps there's people that have genetic predispositions.

Maybe they have some of these BRCA1, BRCA2, single nucleotide polymorphisms that may increase the risk of breast cancer, for example.

Is there any evidence or do you have any opinions on whether

Someone that may have those risk factors, if they incorporate exercise into their personal hygiene, is that something that can help negate some of that cancer risk, even if they still have the genetic predisposition or even are obese, for example.

Yeah, that was probably the most extreme genetic predisposition case.