Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

It's not just like countering the little bit of inflammation that you generated during your workout.

It lasts throughout the day.

And so as you experience other stressful things in life, whether it's you ate a bag of chips or whatever, I mean, obviously, you're going to have the calorie intake, but

the inflammation generated, you're going to deal with it just a little bit better than if you hadn't have been physically active, right?

And so the inflammation and the anti-inflammatory adaptation that's responding to that inflammation is also important because inflammation is a driver of many chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, including cancer, type 2 diabetes.

It plays a role in everything, brain aging.

And we didn't get into that, but I do feel like this is a good time

to just mention it because we're talking about mechanisms.

And I've mentioned the lactate signaling molecule.

We know that lactate generated from exercise, particularly as you get into that vigorous type of exercise, that it does get into the brain.

There's actually human studies showing that it gets into the brain.

And we know it's a signaling molecule for brain-derived neurotrophic factor, very important growth factor for brain health, to grow new neurons, to

you know, improve the neuroplasticity of the brain, plays a role in brain aging.

So it's not, it just goes everywhere, right?

It's not just the outcomes we're looking at, but also brain, I think brain health, I wish that would have been looked at like Alzheimer's disease, right?

Like that would have been another really, I really wish they would have put that on there.

Right.

It's pretty clear.

Again, like if you can do that vigorous intensity activity, you're going to get more bang for your buck.

It's going to be worth so much more than we previously thought.