Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Maximizing Healthspan with Exercise, Sauna, & Cold Exposure
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If you could pill up what vigorous intensity exercise does, it would be the biggest anti-aging blockbuster out there. After two years of exercise, participants' hearts grew and became more flexible, reversing about 20 years of aging. Their hearts looked like those of 30-year-olds rather than 50-year-olds. This was after a two-year intense exercise training protocol.
Sauna Temperature Recommendations
There's no reason to go in a 212°F sauna. 190°F max is hard; 180°F personally. Instagram influencers going really hot is not a great idea.
Woke up with bright light exposure first thing to reset circadian rhythm, elicit cortisol response, get serotonin, inhibit melatonin. Today: behavioral strategies to improve aging and feeling—power of vigorous intensity exercise, thermal stress via deliberate heat exposure and cold exposure.
Talk Outline
- Exercise: vigorous type, cardiorespiratory fitness, brain aging, reversing heart aging, exercise snacks.
- Deliberate heat exposure: regular hot sauna as exercise mimetic, heat shock proteins, Alzheimer's, infrared saunas vs. hot baths vs. regular saunas.
- Cold exposure: hormonal responses, brain/metabolism/muscle effects, protocols.
Vigorous intensity exercise: cannot have a conversation while doing it; hard effort. With heart rate monitor: ~80% max heart rate or greater.
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