Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Reversing 20 years of heart aging
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Reversing 20 years of heart aging
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they had essentially started this program and they they had these 50-year-old looking hearts and with respect to the the size and the compliance and then after this 2-year exercise protocol had reversed 20 years of cardiac aging which is pretty astonishing and inspirational in many respects
And so what happened after the two years of that intense exercise protocol is these 50-year-olds reversed the aging of their heart by essentially 20 years. So, their hearts grew and they became more flexible and they looked structurally, if you looked at them by all the imaging techniques and all the probing probing and stuff that's done, they looked more like a 30-year-old's heart.
After this two years of exercise, they measured their hearts, you know, of course, they measured up baseline and their hearts grew and become and became more flexible so much that it was reversed about 20 years of aging. So, their hearts actually looked like a 30-year-old heart rather than a 50-year-old heart. This was after 2 years of this intense exercise training protocol.