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How to Be the Most Resilient Hundred Year Old Ever Physically
In the late 1990s, we started to realize with Stephen Blair's work that VO2 Max is a better predictor of mortality than things we classically thought of like your cholesterol and blood pressure. People started asking questions about what if there's strength in there? Like what do you mean strength? That's not you. And then all of a sudden it's like, Oh, in fact, not only is leg strength a predictor of mortality in his case, but almost any other measure you'll see in a physician's office.