Dr. Rhonda Patrick

You're going to want that in any type of public speaking sort of engagement, right?

You're going to want to be cognitively sharp.

And study after study have shown that just 10 minutes of that, especially the vigorous intensity exercise, does improve reaction time by a few milliseconds, which translate to about 14%.

improve cognition right and that's that's a big change so so that is one reason, the other thing is with the anxiety.

And you know the the basically like filtering out a lot of the the sensory information that can help you focus more that's also been shown to be improved after again just even 10 minutes of vigorous intensity exercise.

The other thing is that what happens is, you know, public speaking, whether it's debate, which is another level, it's challenging, right?

It is challenging.

It's taxing exercise.

If you engage in exercise, it's also hard.

And that's why the hardness comes into play.

You're doing something really hard at the start of your day.

It takes mental effort to do something hard.

It's not just working your muscles.

It's also working your brain.

Your brain is working hard.

And what I have noticed from my own experience is that when I do hard exercise, whether that's high intensity exercise or for me, just resistance training, weightlifting, that is hard for me.

Everything else is easier.

Everything else is easier.

And so it makes it easier to handle other types of stress mentally.

Okay, so one is exercise.