Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Totally.

You have, you have that time in here and the reverse is also true, Patrick.

So, for example, a really good biomarker of whether or not you do cardiovascular exercise is something called cardiorespiratory fitness.

It's often measured as VO2 max.

Have you heard of this?

It's maximal oxygen uptake during maximal exercise.

All you have to know is that cardiorespiratory fitness is a biomarker of your health and longevity.

So, for example, there have been studies showing that people with a high cardiorespiratory fitness are 80% less likely to die from all cause, you know, early all whatever that is, fill in the blank, cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, right, than someone with a low cardiorespiratory fitness.

But what's even more compelling than that, well, that's not surprising.

We just talked about that.

If you're physically active, you're going to be healthy.

You're going to lower your risk of, you know, dying early from any of those diseases.

What's interesting is that people that have a low cardiorespiratory fitness, that predicted their early mortality the same or even like more than smoking.

than type two diabetes, than cardiovascular disease.

So in other words, having a low cardiorespiratory fitness was like having those diseases in terms of early mortality risk.

Showing you, and this goes back to what I said earlier, being sedentary is a disease.

And when you start thinking about it as a disease, it's a disease.

You need to be physically active.

And to avoid that disease, you have to get up and move.

And it doesn't have to be an hour in the gym.