Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Well, back to this exercise as insurance and the fact that

you know, aerobic exercise in particular, anything that's really increasing blood flow

does seem to really have an effect on these circulating tumor cells, then it would seem silly for someone who has been diagnosed, has been treated for cancer, to not be just moving like their life depended on it, right?

Exercising as much as possible because it seems like that would be your best bet for reducing the cancer metastasis and ensuring that these circulating tumor cells do not go and take camp into another organ.

Yeah.

So you've done a lot of research on a variety of different types of cancer in conjunction with exercise and standard of care treatment, prostate, breast, colorectal, on and on.

So have you noticed that different types of exercise affect these different types of cancers differently in terms of combined treatment?

I wonder if it's interesting because compound lifts and lifting heavy is probably one of the strongest lifestyle factors that can increase testosterone, actually.

I'm wondering if it's having more of a local effect on muscle and not going to the prostate versus...

I guess other things that would increase testosterone.

Well, I'd love to kind of on the flip side of that talk about exercise as a monotherapy.

So there's been some pretty recent large scale trials that you're involved in a race that prevent trial that are potentially going to be looking at exercise, you know, exercise as a monotherapy in, you know, low grade, early stage cancer.

This is an area that really excites me.

So I'd love to hear a little bit more about that.

Why did you choose high-intensity interval training as your exercise intervention type versus something perhaps more moderate intensity like jogging?

Is there something about HIIT and vigorous exercise that you felt was maybe more beneficial for the prostate cancer?

Or is it just easier to adopt that type of exercise?

routine for people?

So how do you guys, and maybe in this trial or in generally speaking, take someone who's under active surveillance, maybe they have been sedentary, they're not someone that's really done structured exercise as a routine, and help transform their fear, because I'm sure it's scary to be diagnosed with prostate cancer as early or as early.

I would say, you know, low grade as it is, it's still probably a very scary, fearful process.