Dr. Rhonda Patrick

So if you're very, very light walking, like walking around the house, that would be considered light exercise.

If you are, I would say, fast walking, that would be more moderate intensity exercise.

If you're jogging, that would be vigorous intensity in this study that I'm referring to, okay?

The key here is that we have empirical data that was calculating, and I am going to bring this back to cancer, I promise, that was calculating how, you know, the types of intensity of exercise, vigorous versus moderate versus light and outcomes.

So all cause mortality, cancer related mortality, cardiovascular related mortality, type two diabetes.

And what was found was completely astounding.

Okay.

Very much different than what the normal current exercise guidelines are.

So, for example, you may have heard, well, the guidelines say that we should do 150 minutes to 300 minutes of moderate intensity exercise per week to be, quote, unquote, healthy.

Or 75 minutes to 150 minutes of vigorous type of exercise to be healthy, right?

So you basically cut it in half, one to two ratio.

By the way, that was all based on caloric expenditure, right?

Okay, we're not talking about losing fat.

We're talking about wanting to prevent cancer, cardiovascular disease, dying from all causes, including respiratory causes, right, of illness.

So that number is out the window.

This new data shows that if you're doing vigorous intensity exercise, the type of like jogging, for example, swimming, tennis, like that's all vigorous intensity, that for every one minute you do of that,

If you're wanting to lower all-cause mortality, you have to do four minutes of moderate intensity or an hour and a half of light.

So talk about efficiency.

So for every one minute of vigorous intensity is four minutes of moderate intensity.

You have to do four minutes to get all-cause mortality.