The Importance of Intensity Interval Training

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There's some research that like five minutes total per week of high intensity exercise leads to equivalent or better cardiovascular fitness than than six hours of training. If you can go out and do one sprint, like for 30 seconds a day, like a few times a week and get pretty significant cardiovascular fitness from a full out sprint, that's wild. And if you can't physically do a sprint, you can get on an exercise bike and go really hard. Or you can just walk up three flights of stairs or, you know, it's interesting because there are people at different levels of exertional capacity. The main benefit is that because most of them are concentric, you're actually increasing the number

This week, Paul has Georgi Dinkov back on the podcast for the third time to cover a plethora of topics: the benefits versus risks of carbohydrates, polyunsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes, the root causes of diabetes and cancer, and so much more.

00:08:45 Raising children in the modern world

00:10:10 Can we extend our lifespan through fasting and Metformin?

00:18:40 High intensity interval training and other kinds of exercise

00:24:10 Protein, glycine, and preventing sarcopenia

00:30:30 Inflammation and endotoxins

00:39:10 Stop fearing blood glucose levels

00:43:10 Downsides of fasting and how to obtain autophagy

01:01:05 Thoughts on metformin

01:10:03 What causes diabetes?

01:28:50 Polyunsaturated fats behave differently than saturated fats

01:32:54 The Rice Diet

01:40:32 Thoughts on exercise