Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

Well, I guess I shouldn't say that.

Like what's the readiness?

Like there's a readiness.

that people can look for.

How do you feel about jiu-jitsu?

Is that something that's online with the gymnastics?

Let's say they don't do gymnastics, they do jiu-jitsu.

And some of these

You know, movement skills and working on, I mean, trying to recreate free play essentially in many ways.

That's right.

Right.

Along with nutrition and, you know, trying to really at least get that minimum dose of like eight hours of sleep per night helps with injury prevention with kids.

But also more importantly is – not more importantly, but also equally important would be not just, you know, training in the sport that they're doing and just adding more volume and adding more volume, right?

I mean, like – Does that work for adults?

Hell no, it doesn't work for adults.

enjoys the game, that's key.

So why do 13-year-olds on average, is that the drop, 12 to 13-year-olds, why do they, I call it drop out, but it's essentially what they do.

I mean, I'm certainly grateful that there's people that volunteer out there, but I can through experience tell you, as my child was doing, you know, the rec, you know, volunteer dad sport versus the actual coach, night and day difference.

Yeah.

And I mean, night and day difference.