Dr. Rhonda Patrick

You know, the other thing I wonder, Carrie, is oftentimes you'll see in some of the scientific literature obesity defined as a BMI of X, fill in the blank, right?

And if they're measuring BMI, you know, some people that are lifting weights that are very muscular have a high BMI.

And if you were just to look at BMI only and not like hip to waist ratio and other factors, right?

you might actually miscategorize someone as obese.

And so I wonder, it'd be interesting to see if there's anyone that's looked at this obesity paradox and whether or not that's contributing to confounding that data.

Yeah, that's really not something that at least, you know, in the past decade or so or more was really talked about, at least within the context of why it's important to be fit with a cancer diagnosis, right?

Usually you think about aerobic exercise and the stress of aerobic exercise.

And of course, there's all these mechanisms that occur, right?

But it is really interesting to think about how important having that muscle reserve is if you are going to get diagnosed.

Because, I mean, it really does affect, you know, it's almost, it affects the trajectory of almost any kind of illness, not just cancer.

I mean, a respiratory illness, a surgery, anything that's going to have you immobilized for a period of time because you're recovering or, you know, anything like that.

So, yeah.

I know for myself, I've really gone on this personal journey.

I've always been really into endurance training.

I've loved being, you know, outside and running.

That's been something that I love to do for many decades.

But in the last year, I've taken strength training, resistance training really serious.

And, you know, I went from doing like 30 minutes a week to like two and a half hours a week.

of resistance training.

So I've really gone up on, and we're talking, you know, compound lifts and things that are working multiple muscle groups at once and joints and affecting strength as well as, you know, bone density and everything like that.