Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

And if they're not on the A or B team, then I want them to get there.

And how do I train to get them on the A or B team?

What's wrong with that mentality?

No.

But can I pause you there?

Because even if you have those conversations...

If you have an athlete and they're training late because you have games late, practices are late, and let's say they're in school because most kids are in school.

Hard school.

Hard school and their start time is early and they have homework to do when they get back from their training.

What gives?

All right, let's rewind a little bit before high school and talk about early specialization because you were talking about how important it was to sample everything.

What are some of the pros and cons of, for example, a child just sticking to one sport after they started doing it when they were five or whatever and stuck with it and then not really –

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.