Rhonda Patrick

So that being said, today's episode will serve as a companion to that guide.

Brady and I will discuss a lot of the information you'll find in the free guide, and we'll probably give some of our personal takeaways as well.

Also one of your areas of expertise.

I agree that when Dr. Ben Levine came on the podcast, while I was doing a lot of background information research on his work, so reading his publications, and then after the podcast episode, I felt like I learned just a tremendous amount of information that I had no idea about.

which is really like the cardiovascular structure and what role the heart, the structure of the heart plays in cardiovascular health.

But I do think before we get started, we should probably mention that it's important, I think, for people to identify what their goals are with respect to training.

So are you someone that's interested in becoming an elite endurance athlete like yourself?

Or are you interested in improving your performance

your health metrics, so maybe increasing your health span, so to speak, reducing your cardiovascular disease risk, reducing your dementia risk, reducing your risk of cancer, all the while, you know, improving mental health, improving muscle mass, maintaining independence with age.

These are all things that are my personal goals.

And I do think the guide covers a lot of those bases.

But again, you know, some people might be training for different goals.

Brady is being a bit modest.

Not only is he elite from a cardiorespiratory fitness standpoint, if not strictly a competitive standpoint, he also has a master's in science, a research background, and is wicked smart.

Well, with a VO2 max of what, 75?

I mean, that's why I would say you're elite.

Well, speaking of cardiorespiratory fitness, I think that that would be a good place to start.

It is something that we've covered quite a bit on the podcast.

And Dr. Ben Levine, when I had him on the podcast, really, he was discussing just...

an eye-opening study for me that he was a part of.