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Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known

Euan Ashley joins Derek to discuss the benefits of exercise and our current scientific understanding of why it helps

On the other hand, scientists don’t really understand how it works inside the body or what exactly running, jumping, lifting, and squatting do to our tissues and organs. But I think just having the rawness of the statistic and really seeing it, when you think about your life and trying to juggle the minutes of your day and how you might be more physically active to help your health, that seems plausible but also a little bit abstract. But I think that’s one of the [reasons] that the statistic seems so heuristic because it really contrasts what you’re doing today and what you might do right now if you stand up and walk around with your ultimate length of life and what you could get and what you would have time to do in those years that you gain.

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