VO2 max predicts longevity as reliably as heart rate variability, but only if you measure it repeatedly over time. Many women avoid the test, so doctors should offer it without pressure, meeting patients where they are.
How much VO2 max is a predictor of longevity, particularly healthspan longevity. So talk a little bit about that, because I know you and I were both lamenting that most of the time women are like, I don't want to do VO2 max.
Yeah. It's sometimes I'd spend a lot of time meeting my patients where they are. Right. So is it a fantastic tool as a marker? Yes, but it's also kind of a benchmark, right? So you use it as a benchmark. Well, what does that mean? You need to repeat that benchmark. So now you have to get somebody to do that more than once. So I'm not big on kind of pushing that, but it is one of those tools that I rank up there with like heart rate variability in terms of how I'm viewing their overall kind of longevity marker.
