Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
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And I think these sort of short bouts of structured exercise snacks or these vigorous intensity physical activities that we're doing, running with our kids or dogs or whatever, running up the stairs, all these things now, I think...
We've talked about them before and all the benefits, you know, but now I think we can even put numbers to them, right, where we can start to go, oh, I just, you know, this is really like worth eight times the amount of moderate intensity that I really did save time.
Dopamine, okay, reinforcement, I'm going to continue to do that, right?
The behavior is going to be repeated.
I challenge people like to what Brady just said.
I mean, a minute if you just go for a minute leisure stroll, just walk for one minute and compare that to how you feel after doing just one minute of air squats, right?
or burpees, if you really want to, you are going to see the difference.
They're not equivalent.
They're not equivalent.
And you can feel it.
You can feel it, right?
I mean, that in and of itself.
And I think that brings us to implications for these public health guidelines, which we've been hinting at, you know, I'd say all along.
We can also talk about some of the tech in wearable device as well.
But I mean, I think...
The bottom line here, and I don't know what it takes to get updates in these types of guidelines, but I think there needs to be an update.
Like this is something that needs to happen.
We have empirical evidence here.
We're not just looking at weight loss.
It's not all about caloric expenditure, energy expenditure here, right?