Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

I tone it down.

Like, yeah, I mean, there's obvious things here where you're not going to perform your best, you know, depending on what the day is.

But that's even for people that are not female.

Right.

I mean, like you have those days, too.

Right.

You know, it's funny that you mentioned the cortisol because you just brought up one of my little pet peeves.

You actually... The spikes of the stress hormones, again, you're having this hormetic response where your body adapts to it.

The problem with cortisol isn't the little spikes that you're getting from working out hard.

The problem is the chronic...

activation of a cortisol like every single day with all the stress it's not it's not the you know the types of exercise stress now are people doing these high intensity workouts like every single day I mean like maybe tone it down a little bit but

Again, listen to your body as long as you're not overdoing it.

And most people are not overdoing it, okay?

Most people are not overdoing it.

Right.

It applies to everyone.

And now we know how incredibly efficient HIIT workouts are, more than we previously even thought.

We were underestimating.

And so, again, all the reasons to do it.

When it comes to chronic illnesses and stuff, again, it's another thing where you have to, like, talk to your physician, listen to your body.