Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

Right.

Like there's a difference between the light.

Like you can't have you could have a light breeze last for a really long time, but ain't going to knock over some trees.

Right.

Like it's not going to like you need that.

You need that stronger wind.

And that's what you need with the sheer stress in your vascular system.

It needs to be stronger, stronger.

to basically signal to your body, hey, this is stressful, let's respond to that stress.

But it's not so stressful, it's not a heart attack kind of stress, right?

Like that's too much stress, right?

It's just enough to like give you these adaptations so that

When you have really stressful situations happening, your arteries and your vascular system respond better, right?

So I really like that you pointed that out.

Let's talk about how heart and lung function together, right?

Like the cardiorespiratory system and how vigorous intensity activity really plays a role there as well.

Yeah, I think for people with respect to like, why is it important to improve your VO2 max, you know, your cardiorespiratory fitness, that being a pretty important marker for longevity and, you know, for lowering your risk of death from all causes of mortality, right?

So essentially, like, we've talked about this before last podcast we did together, right?

People with the highest cardiorespiratory fitness as measured by VO2 max, they had,

a five-year increased life expectancy compared to the lowest people with the lower or lowest cardiorespiratory fitness, or they had 80% lower all-cause mortality, right?