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How To Maximize Physical, Metabolic, And Cognitive Health With Minimal Effort with Dave Asprey

The Dr. Hyman Show

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Zone Two Cardio: How to Use the Latest Science to Rethink What We're Doing

The science environment turns genes on and off. We just hadn't figured out when we didn't have enough data, even five years ago, to write smart or not harder. And in the case of cardio, it's the only time where the slope of the curve biology isn't always true as far as I can tell because of something called zone two cardio. If you can keep your heart rate in a narrow window, that narrow window is what drives your mitochondria to burn fat directly. So there is a fat burning pace of exercise, but it's not working harder than you think. It's working at a very precise window.

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