Rhonda Patrick

And you can download that right now at howtotrainguide.com.

We are going to move on to the next section, which...

is very interesting as well and is also related to cardiovascular health.

But it really is an area that is kind of neglected in a way, and I would say in popular media with respect to cardiovascular health, and that is the youthful structure of the heart and maintaining that youthful structure of the heart, which is really important for its function.

It's important for preventing cardiovascular disease.

It's even important for performance, being able to have a good aerobic capacity as you as you're getting older.

So Dr. Ben Levine is really, I would consider him one of the world's leading experts in this area.

And it was just a great privilege having him on the podcast.

I just learned a tremendous amount of information.

You know, I didn't even really know much about how...

How the structure of the heart changes with age.

And until I was diving into his research and had him on the podcast and he was he was talking about how as we age, our heart becomes stiffer at around early middle age.

This is like around I guess it was it's more like 35 to 50 years of age.

Crazy to think about that as being early middle age.

Your heart starts to get stiffer, stiffness, and that affects cardiac compliance.

It affects hypertension.

And part of that reason that it gets stiffer has to do with glucose regulation.

And so when we're eating a variety of foods, particularly foods that are refined carbohydrates, refined sugars, and there's an elevation in our blood glucose levels that can be sustained for longer periods because perhaps there's a refined sugar or something that we're eating a lot and maybe we're not exercising.

That's the key for sedentary.

That glucose stays around in your vascular system.