Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.

Where Dr. Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Then I'm going to talk about one of the best measurements for longevity.

I mean, I'm constantly trying to find out what can I personally do to live longer.

And one of the best tests that you can get down is called VO2 max.

So that's what I'm going to talk about today.

I'm also going to talk about how to increase this VO2 max.

First of all, what is VO2 max?

Well, it's the volume of oxygen or capacity of oxygen your body can consume for a certain

amount of time.

It's measured in milliliters per kilogram per minute, and it is one of the best tests

for aerobic capacity or aerobic fitness and the capacity of consuming oxygen.

And it's a test that you can get from certain doctors that specialize in sports medicine.

And so if we look at the values of the VO2 max, we have three categories like sedentary,

active, and very active.

If we look at these three categories, for men and average VO2 max or someone who's sedentary

would be roughly about 35 to 40.

And then when you go up to active, it goes roughly on average 42.5 to 46.4.

And then if you're really active, you're super athlete, you can go up to 75 or 85.

And then for a woman, it's a little bit lower, sedentary would be between 27 and 30.

It would be between 33 and 36.9 and then very active, roughly on average, it's like 77.

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