Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

So some of the risks in the women, let's see if I can find that study.

Yeah, so it was a 45% lower risk of major cardiovascular events in women doing VILPA, and they were just doing 3.4 minutes per day.

So this is much less than nine minutes, as I just discussed.

So they were doing 3.4 minutes of VILPAs per day, and that's a 45% lower risk of major cardiovascular events, a 67% lower risk of heart failure compared to the women that weren't doing any of these physical activity bursts throughout the day.

And if you think about that, that's not a lot of time.

And we all have aging parents.

Just imagine if we could get them to do four minutes a day of some kind of vigorous intensity activity.

Now, maybe your parents are retired and they're not necessarily trying to get to the subway or the train or whatever.

It's going to be more of a structured exercise snack and

I'll let you kind of talk about some of that, but they can engage in jumping jacks or maybe chair squats or people that are maybe not older, they can do burpees or body weight squats or pushups, like a combination of all these things.

And we're talking about really having a pretty outsized effect on reducing some of these negative health outcomes.

And the other thing is, is that

What was so interesting is there's another study that really was a VILPA study.

When I say VILPA, again, people, I'm talking about vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity.

This isn't going to the gym and doing Peloton.

This is just your movement throughout the day being as measured with an accelerometer.

the benefits were equivalent to people that were doing structured exercise, right?

So there was like 62,000 people who actually did exercise and they compared that to people that were doing Vilpa.

And it was crazy, but the same outcomes in terms of risk reduction, it was comparable.

And I love that.