Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

cancer-related mortality weren't as high as, you know, the type 2 diabetes risk reduction, but they're still significant enough, right?

You're talking 3.5.

For every one minute of vigorous activity, you have to spend 3.5 minutes of, you know, moderate intensity activity, almost four minutes, right?

If you round up, I would say it's almost four minutes.

Why is that the case?

Well, there's probably a lot of, again, mechanisms, but one that I think that's super interesting is

is that sheer stress that's improving your endothelial function, that's improving the function of your arteries and in your blood vessels, it's also playing a role in killing cancer cells.

And you might go, what are you talking about?

So when people have a primary tumor,

the cancer cells that make up that primary tumor don't all necessarily stay at that site of the tumor, right?

So what happens is oftentimes you have these cancer cells that'll escape the primary site, either through the lymphatic system, they get into circulation, and when they're in circulation, they're called circulating tumor cells.

And those circulating tumor cells are not like your normal blood cells.

They're not like your normal white blood cells or red blood cells in your circulation.

They are all kinds of messed up.

They have tons of different mutations.

Your body is ready for them to die.

Like they are ready to die.

They are primed to die.

And the only reason why these cells are not dying is because they have found a way to increase

all of their proteins that are basically stopping them from dying.