Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

Let's say they're soccer and they never do baseball or basketball or something with their upper body, for example.

So what are some of the pros and cons?

The most kids for the longest.

For the free play, the unstructured play, that was the question I was going to ask you, like the importance of that.

And I mean, it is weird how it doesn't, I mean, it doesn't exist anymore.

I mean, I guess we're all too afraid of everything because we have all this information and it's made us scared of everything.

I remember playing for just hours and hours outside in the streets.

I mean, I came up with games.

You invented games.

It was so fun.

I mean, we had all kinds of crazy games.

Um, now parents have to create these sort of artificial environments that are playdates, right?

And so now playdates are at least my way of like trying to allow my child to get free play.

Let's have a playdate here.

You're in our yard, whatever, like have at it, like have fun.

Stay outside.

They're always outside.

What, like, how is that really, is that really important for, you know, for athletes, for, for.

I'm with you.

What is that about?