Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

that do matter, right?

So you're not including that as well.

So why don't we get into this new study?

It was published in Nature Communications, wearable device-based health equivalents of different physical activity intensities against mortality, cardiometabolic disease, and cancer.

Very good study.

Maybe we can kind of start off with...

how the study was set up, like some of the methods.

Well, it's also, I mean, it's measuring everything, right?

It's measuring the short burst of exercise that you would never think about.

Like, if someone were to ask me how many minutes I exercise a week, I would only include my structured, defined workouts that I set aside to work out.

I wouldn't include...

You know, the three times a day I'm sprinting around my yard with my puppy or, you know, once a day that I'm playing soccer with my son.

Right.

I don't include those, but I'm absolutely getting my heart rate up.

Wait, can we pause for a minute?

When you say what the intensity of their activity is and their accelerometer, right?

Yeah.

So people might be confused and they, again, might be going back to heart rate.

Like when they hear wearable device and they're thinking intensity, I know my brain goes right there, like heart rate.

Can you kind of explain like how they were able to define light, moderate, and vigorous with this accelerometer data?