Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
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where he took, you know, 50-year-olds and put them on a pretty, you know, I would say the exercise program, if you look at it, it was like all vigorous according to this definition of vigorous.
And it was, what, five hours a week?
About five hours a week.
And so if we're talking about the definition in this study, it was pretty much all vigorous because they were either running, doing like a zone two type of run, or they were doing Norwegian four by four, some high intensity interval training,
some resistance training in there.
And after two years, they reversed the structural aging of the heart by about 20 years, you know, and that's pretty profound.
So the cardiovascular adaptations are real.
They are real.
That's a really good point because it's kind of like thinking of a light breeze blowing across your face versus a strong wind.
Like there's a difference between the light.
Like you can't have you could have a light breeze last for a really long time, but ain't going to knock over some trees.
Like it's not going to like you need that.
You need that stronger wind.
And that's what you need with the sheer stress in your vascular system.
It needs to be stronger, stronger.