Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Being sedentary is a disease, and we need to start thinking about it as a disease.

At the end of the day, I'm excited about healthier living.

I'm excited about, you know, yeah.

Well, first of all, thank you, Patrick, for inviting me on the show.

It's a pleasure to be here.

For those people who are wondering who I am,

My name is Rhonda Patrick.

I have a PhD in biomedical science.

And classically, you know, I trained as a lab scientist doing research in the field of aging, cancer, metabolism, nutrition.

So I've really got a broad range of different types of research I've done over the years.

But my true passion is public health and trying to educate people using

science and evidence-based science in terms of like what they can do with their lifestyle, their diet to really, as you said, improve the way you age.

So, you know, there's our chronological age and number, you're 47, I'm also 47.

But what's different here is that even though we have this chronological age number, depending on how we live our life, the cells in our body have a biological age and that biological age can be younger.

if you're leading a really healthy lifestyle, or they can be older, accelerated if you don't lead a healthy lifestyle.

So if you're overweight and you smoke, you drink, things like that, right?

So you really want to have a younger biological age relative to your chronological age.

And so there are a few things that we can talk about that really do help people get there.

But I will say that, so you asked me who I am.

So I love public health and I decided to start a podcast about 10 years ago.