Can exercise reduce the risk of cancer? | Peter Attia and Rhonda Patrick

This clip is from episode 252 ‒ Latest insights on Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, exercise, nutrition, and fasting with Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D. Rhonda is a scientist with expertise in the areas of aging, cancer, and nutrition who translates complex scientific topics into actionable insights on her podcast, Found My Fitness.

In this clip, they discuss:

- How much physical activity do you need to reduce cancer risk?
- Why specifically aerobic activity may reduce cancer risk
- How increasing blood flow can help to flush circulating tumour cells
- And more

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[nemesisbianchie]

I'm uder weight. I've always done gymnastic (body building, running, swimming, walking) and i'm a 51 yo woman. In 2020 they found a breast cancer and last year i had another cancer. This time metastatic 😢. I never quit gym. This week i worked out 6 days

[alphabeta]

5:30 Breast and colon cancer 10:00
7:30 More exercise; 300 mins a week
12:00 Decreasing cancer probability; cancer cells
14:30 Being physically active for cancer prevention

[KJSvitko]

Heart disease is the number one killer of people today and cancer is number two.
Being over weight is the number one factor leading to an early death.
People who are over weight have higher risks for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Even children today have signs of artery disease. Fast foods and sugary drinks have long term consequences.
There is an obesity epidemic today where over 60% of the population is overweight or obese.
What is common today and "NORMAL" is not healthy. The average person today is not healthy and is taking medications.
Heart attacks were once only common in people over 65. Today people in their 40 are having heart attacks.
Add more plants and vegetables to your diet and less junk and overly processed foods

[coffeeli]

My two cents is that Exercises increase blood flow hence increase lymphocyte surveillance of cancerous cells.

[patricsteele]

What was the actual level of "vigorous exercise" as it was mentioned that it was a lower than what is generally considered to be a vigorous level of exercise. Specifically what percentage of heart rate to maintain or which exercise zone level ?

[jaybanks]

My thought with elite-level athletes is that some of them consume crazy amounts of calories and often from low quality foods. I mean, think of Michael Phelps consuming 8, 000 to 10, 000 calories a day from ultra-processed garbage. Runners are famous for carb loading. And we need to be honest with ourselves about steroid use, as well. That said, there are plenty of studies showing exercise reduces cancer rates. Maybe it isn't being reduced in elite athletes as much as it could be, because of the above factors. Also, were they elite level for life, or just while they were competing? A lot of variables there.

[b-sideplank]

summary: probably yes, but not quite, however, overall yes, do it.

[leoceoliveira]

Which microphone is Peter using? It is very good.

[alwaysgoclockwise]

Its not so easy to follow her flow of explanation. However, great info but very very general.

[willemvanriet]

You can go to the Olympics in your 20s eating a very unhealthy high carb diet that could catch up with u later. Longevity is about many other things like low card diet, high fibre, high protein, sleeping well, reducing stress, cutting out sugar and alcohol etc that has little to do with training for the Olympics

[michaeltaylor]

im 62 yr old male never driving a car _ never. i have walked 20 kms every day of my adult life plus gym, cycling running.. touch wood will be cancer free but who knows.

[andrewbellinger]

If cancer (or at least most cancers) are mitochondrial in origin, exercise which increases mitochondrial density would mean over all each individual mitochondria would have lower average oxidative stress and maybe less prone to mutation?

[robertpiche]

You put all the change on your side if you made vigorous excersice a hour a day you save 6 hrs of life time 😊

[marcaononymous]

so you don't need to watch the whole thing: yes.

[sebholding]

But how many years of life do you get without being in a battle against cancer ? (Which is like being in hell)

[starshockey]

I find it hard to listen to listen to Dr Patrick after Covid. Always loved and respected her but she went off the deep end

[fullspectrum]

I guess the answer is yes, right? We’re not going to challenge your hypothesis, so, don’t worry, straight answers won’t lead us to unsubscribe if we happen to disagree😊.

[whatthefunction]

How does she talk so much and say so little