Luke O'Neill

But as I say, the evidence now is so compelling that this is beneficial to mood, right?

And again, 30 minutes per day is all you need.

Another study while I'm at it, because it is the weekend of the mini marathon, another study of 17,000 adults, right, showed this 30 minutes per day.

was good, right?

And the average age of the people in that was 57.

So it was never too late to take this up, I guess.

Now, let's now have a look at the marathon, right?

What does it do to your body and the science behind this?

There's been loads of studies on how marathon running and all this sort of stuff does to your body because it's quite a stressful thing, isn't it?

There is a science behind marathons.

Now, 10K is a fair old effort, remember.

Not a full marathon, but still a huge amount of effort.

And very interesting things happen in your body.

It's called aerobic endurance because you're breathing in and you're exercising in an aerobic way.

If you do weights, that's called anaerobic because you don't need as much oxygen for your muscles when you do weightlifting.

But in this case, you're breathing very fast.

and all the oxygen is going in and then your muscles are making ATP.

ATP is the battery of life, remember, the key biochemical from which we get energy, very importantly.

So you make loads of ATP and that gets the muscles going, the energy is coming from the ATP.

And you burn, glucose obviously is the source of energy, fats as well, fatty acids, and the very important thing called glycogen.