Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
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And so I do, there's definitely a lot of people that are interested in health that look at those guidelines.
And even people like me who are trying to figure out like, what are the guidelines and how do I communicate this information to the public?
I mean, I am using those guidelines as well.
And now I feel like
my, my, my, you know, I've shifted my understanding of that, those guidelines, and I have a different sort of take on them where, where it's like, okay, well, maybe we're really undervaluing the importance of vigorous physical activity.
And so that needs to be communicated to people, you know, maybe we don't say, look, this is the new guideline, because obviously, like you said, we don't make the guidelines.
And there's probably a lot that goes into making these guidelines that we don't quite understand, or maybe there isn't, I don't know.
But, you know,
you know, I think we can at least communicate to people that, hey, look, there's new studies out there now showing that it's not just a one to two ratio.
And in fact, depending on the health outcome we're looking at, that ratio changes.
You know, and that's how biology is.
It's not just this big blanket thing, right?
I mean, we always try to make things simplified for everyone, but they're not simplified.
Like, there's lots of nuance here.
And I think that this should be communicated in our public health, you know,
guidelines.
They should be communicated to anyone that's interested in improving their health.
And I do agree with you.
I think we have so much data now on these wearable devices.
And as I mentioned before, I'm on the health advisory board for Google's Pixel.