Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

It's all about, like, letting them have fun, letting them not be the best on the team.

I mean, some kids are just naturally athletic.

Like, they have to put in less effort, you know, less deliberate practice time to get –

to be good.

Not, not to say that you should ignore deliberate practice.

We all know you shouldn't, but you know, some kids like my son is not a naturally athletic, you know, boy, but you know, he has done soccer over the years and he's really put in practice and he loves it now.

And he's still not like on like one of the high, high teams.

He's like on a development team, but like, I like this level because there's not a lot of stress from the parents where it's like,

we have to win, we have to win.

It's not about, it's really not about winning.

It's about the kids trying their best, having fun, having sportsmanship.

I mean, all those, these are all life skills that they're learning.

And I know I'm going on a tangent here.

Sorry, I'm a mom.

What can I say?

But that said, I don't know that we need to do a lot of conclusions here.

I think that we've really concluded a lot throughout this episode.

The take home for me here, honestly, is a couple of things.

One is that

I feel like even myself, I was underestimating the power of this vigorous, intense physical activity that I get, you know, throughout the week in terms of reducing my cardiovascular disease risk, my risk for having a heart attack or a stroke or getting type 2 diabetes.