Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.

That's pretty big.

But it actually gets even bigger when we look at cardiovascular-related mortality.

And this is a really, really important point because, you know, cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, in many developed nations, including many European nations.

So

It's something that's really, really important.

And what I'm about to say will blow people's minds.

I know it blew mine.

And that is that vigorous intensity physical activity, for every one minute of vigorous intensity physical activity, you had to perform 7.8 minutes, almost eight minutes of moderate intensity physical activity to get the same risk reduction in cardiovascular related mortality.

I mean, that is insane.

You know, so it kind of like, you know, if you're thinking about I'm spending 75 minutes doing, sorry, doing intense, like more vigorous types of exercise, you're running or cycling or whatever, and you're thinking about that and go, how much time will I have to spend doing moderate intensity physical activity to get that same benefit, health benefit on reducing my cardiovascular disease mortality risk?

You'd have to multiply it by essentially eight.

And that's huge, right?

Yeah.

Another big one is type 2 diabetes.

So this one isn't so surprising to me either and probably not to you as well.

For every one minute of vigorous intensity physical activity, you had to spend about 9.4 minutes doing moderate intensity physical activity.

So it's almost 10 times as powerful at reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

And it's not that surprising because we do know that exercise intensity

really does drive a lot of the metabolic adaptations and benefits that occur from exercise with respect to improving insulin sensitivity and blood glucose regulation and whatnot.

But I mean, 10 times, nearly 10 times, right?