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Three Minutes of Vigorous Exercise Thrice Weekly Cuts Mortality by 50%
“I mean, there's studies showing that people just doing one to three minutes of like getting their heart rate up to 80% max heart rate for like one to one to three minutes, you know, three times a week. Is associated with, like, a 50% reduction in all-cause mor…”
Patrick: Magnesium absorption caps out around 120 to 150 milligrams per dose
“I mean, it's about a hundred, I would say anywhere between a 120 to a 150 milligrams per dose. Like once you get above that, you're not really absorbing more. You're just kind of causing more GI distress.”
Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Omega-3 Trials Show 25% Drop in Cardiovascular Events
“Those are the forms that have been used in randomized controlled trials with supplementation that have decreased cardiovascular events by like, 25% compared to placebo.”
Patrick: Folate deficiency causes DNA double-strand breaks identical to ionizing radiation
“And he had done these studies where it was like, he took animals, put them on a low folate diet, similar to what some people in the United States get, and then he took the other group of animals and he irradiated them with ionizing radiation, ok? This is like,…”
20 Minutes in a Sauna Matches Physiological Benefits of Moderate Cycling
“Being on a stationary cycle, doing, you know, not, not anything crazy, but like a 120 watts, and then comparing that to sitting in a sauna for 20 minutes, doing each of those for 20 minutes, and they were comparable in terms of heart rate elevation during the …”