Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

So let's what do you think?

Let's get started.

Eye-opening, but not surprising, right?

Totally.

So, okay, well, I'm going to start off by just talking about what this, you know, one to two rule is for people because they might be like not exactly understanding what I'm talking about.

So essentially, you know, for decades now, we have these physical activity guidelines that's put out by the World Health Organization and, you know, other organizations that essentially state these physical activity guidelines, which essentially are...

For optimal health, which is sort of vague, but for optimal health, you want to be engaging in about 150 minutes to 300 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week.

Or if you're going to be doing more vigorous type of physical activity, that would be more like 75 to 150 minutes.

So that's essentially you have this one to two rule, right?

Where it's like, okay, for every one minute of vigorous intensity physical activity, you're going to be doing two minutes of the moderate intensity activity.

And that's kind of where this rule came from.

And I don't know that it's necessarily...

It's not necessarily telling you if you're trying to reduce different disease risks, so cardiovascular disease or cancer, fill in the blank, whatever disease.

It's not really telling you that.

It's just kind of like, this is the guidelines, right?

So let's talk about the origin of this one-to-two rule.

It really didn't come from direct measurements of health outcomes.

Essentially, it's researchers that calculated for...

Vigorous intensity exercise, you're burning about twice as many calories as you do for moderate intensity exercise.

So it really comes down to energy expenditure, not health outcomes.