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Does exercise slow aging? With Dr Bret Goodpaster

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The Relationship Between Fitness and All Cause Mortality

Glenn: I think the Met is just another way to express fitness, right? Is aerobic capacity, metabolic equivalence, resting metabolic rate times X. So if you really kind of inactive and you go up sort of one metal, two Mets, you were saying you could reduce the risk of dying of all cause mortality by 20% or something. Glenn: If we measures an older person's VO2 max or maximal cardio respiratory fitness, typically their values are fairly low. Their fitness is fairly low. And then when you measure their energy expenditure or their VO2 during their just sort of normal walking, their activity of daily livingsort of normal walking speed,. As it turns out, their normal

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