Rhonda Patrick· PhD
The takeaway from these studies and others is clear - you can account for these brief bouts of movements in your total physical activity levels for the week.
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The takeaway from these studies and others is clear - you can account for these brief bouts of movements in your total physical activity levels for the week.
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so for example instead of you have to take they take the stairs every day to work well instead of walking up the stairs you sprint um you're getting your heart rate high so these types of vilpas have been measured in large numbers of people so there's a a variety of Publications um and studies that have been done uh measuring you know people's their their vilpas that they're doing and um you know just three to four minutes a day of this vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity has been shown to be associated with a 25 to 30% reduction in overall mortality risk um when that vpa durations increase to about 9 minutes a day it's associated with a 50% reduction in cardiovascular related mortality and a 40% reduction in cancer related mortality and these benefits extend even to individuals who identify themselves as non-exercisers in other words these are people that are not um necessarily doing Leisure Time activity they're not going to the gym they're not going on runs but they're still engaging in these vilpas so so even those people are getting mortality reductions and you know cancer mortality cardiovascular mortality reductions with vilpas
there's there's large studies that have have been underway and been published and there ongoing studies looking at vigorous intermittent lifestyle activity so it's a type of exercise snack where use everyday life situations to get your heart rate up high for a minute or 2 minutes or 3 minutes for example you you have to take the stairs every day to get to work well instead of walking up the stairs you sprint