Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Light is an hour and a half.

That's for all-cause mortality, dying from all non-accidental causes.

It gets better.

If you're wanting to prevent cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular related mortality, for every one minute of vigorous, okay, this is cycling, this is jogging, swimming, you have to do eight minutes of moderate intensity.

Okay, moderate.

So that would be like, you know, speed, like walking with more intent, right?

So you're more speed walking, right?

So eight minutes of that, or again, you're getting into like the hour to two hour range of light exercise.

So that would be just walking around the house basically.

For cancer, if you wanted to prevent

basically cancer mortality for every one minute of vigorous intensity exercise, you had to do almost four minutes.

So three and a half to four minutes of moderate intensity or two and a half hours of light walking.

Okay.

And so the point here being is we have a lot of control over our disease risk, including cancer.

Exercise is the key and not just any type of exercise.

You have to get your heart rate up.

You have to move right faster.

You have to have this, you know, more,

intent type of exercise.

And this kind of goes, I would say along those lines, we have what are called the Vilpa studies, the vigorous intermittent lifestyle, physical activity studies.