Dr. Rhonda Patrick

If there are some people out there who are, you know, older adults and elderly who perhaps want to start a resistance training program, are there any sort of exercises that you think might be just, you know, beneficial to start with for improvements in muscle mass and strength?

Yeah, that makes sense.

I have a question regarding women and their response to adaptations from resistance training, either premenopausal versus postmenopausal, or postmenopausal with or without hormone replacement therapy.

So in other words, how the adaptations change with estrogen and progesterone and testosterone, more hormones around that.

Yeah, it's just so powerful.

So testosterone does play a role in the context of these people that are not physically active.

And then they start to lose more muscle.

But you can basically attenuate that if you are...

There's a saying that our mutual friend Stu Phillips says, and I really like this saying, is that exercise forgives a lot of sins.

And I'm seeing that recurring theme in not just exercise physiology, but in other fields as well.

I mean, it's just sleep deprivation being one.

I mean, insulin resistance goes up, glucose dysregulation, homeostasis out of control.

But doing exercise...

mostly can rescue a lot of that, even all-cause mortality increases.

Again, physical activity really can forgive some of those sins.

So it's really, you know, it's the best medicine.

I also think looking at it like I just called it a medicine, but, you know, yes, exercise is a treatment and that's like a general saying.

You hear people say exercise is a good medicine.

But honestly, I think sedentarism is a disease.

It's a disease.