Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

No, there's more like shuttle sprinting and stuff.

Yeah, yeah.

Lastly, I want to mention before we kind of just conclude this up, children.

And, you know, a lot of people are like wondering what... I think the take home here with children is...

Sports are important, right?

Like, get them involved in some kind of sports, whether it's team sports or individual sports.

Those things all matter.

They're important not only just to their long-term health, but also there's studies showing that

cardiorespiratory fitness, like the higher the cardiorespiratory fitness is in elementary school children, the better they perform on academic tests, the better they behave on playgrounds.

So it's just improving their overall brain function as well.

And that's something that we didn't talk about a lot today.

Definitely talked about it previously on the podcast.

But brain function is definitely affected.

I can't say that enough with more emphasis.

And it's across the lifespan.

young children all the way to older adults.

Physical activity, and particularly the vigorous type of physical activity, really does improve cognitive function in the short term, in the now, but also the way your brain ages as well.

Yeah, there's also an aspect to that with sports.

I mean, if you start to push your child to be the best, you know, if they're not good enough and you want them to really be the best on the team, you can push them to the point where they actually don't enjoy it.

And, like, when they're young, it's all about exposure.