Dr. Rhonda Patrick

And these are studies also with accelerometers where people are doing vigorous intensity exercise, but they're not, it's not a structured type of exercise.

So they're not just getting up and doing one minute of body weight squats or, you know, a minute of high knees or jumping jacks, all these things I did this morning, by the way.

Um,

What time?

They're doing – What time did you exit this morning?

Right after I woke up.

Here?

Yeah, here in Fort Lauderdale.

So basically they're doing – they're sprinting up the stairs to get to work.

They don't take elevators.

They're doing that sort of everyday situation, right?

Individuals that do – let's say they do three minutes of that just brief burst of getting their heart rate up, moving, walking really like faster –

you know, sprinting up the stairs and they do that three times a day.

Okay.

So it's a total of nine minutes of vigorous exercise a day.

That's associated with a 40% lower all cause mortality and a 40% lower cancer related mortality.

compared to not doing it, and a 50% lower cardiovascular-related mortality.

This is phenomenal because it really shows that you don't have to go to the gym and spend an hour at the very least.

You can accumulate these short bursts of exercise.

They have to be at least a minute long to have an effect.