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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
And so chemotherapy, you have to, it has to be delivered through the blood.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
in circulation to get to the tumor site, right?
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
And so that is probably what Dr. Sun Xiong is referring to, to some degree.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
It is a blunt tool in terms of cancer treatment, but it's been very effective, for example, with pediatric cancers and leukemias and lymphomas.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
In terms of what we can do to lower our cancer risk and also improve
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effectiveness of cancer treatment.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
There's, I think, a lot of evidence out there showing exercise really the key.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
I mean, exercise, for example, and not just any type of exercise, but more of that vigorous intensity exercise.
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In fact, there was a recent study in Nature Communications that came out
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
And this study was a very โ and we're talking like over 100,000.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
I think it was close to 200,000 participants that were wearing what are called accelerometers, so these little devices on their wrists.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
They're not measuring heart rate, but they're measuring like how fast you're moving.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
It's an accelerometer, right?
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
And so it's empirical data where you can actually measure people's physical activity based on their movement.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
And then you can look at outcomes, for example.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
That's right.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
So, for example, you're working out, you're running, you're moving your arms.
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It's measuring the movement.
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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Longevity Science, Anti-Aging Hacks & AI Gene Editing | PBD #740
So the faster the movement, it's sort of considered to be more moderate to vigorous intensity exercise depending on how fast the movement is.
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Right.