Welcome to the Cobraal Concept, where board certified naturopath and integrative health

practitioner Dr. Stephen Cobraal shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life

altering illness and given no hope for recovery.

He was only after studying and traveling all over the world if he discovered how to combine

ancient Ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine

to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life.

It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight, and finally feel alive again.

And now here's your host Dr. Stephen Cobraal.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the show.

We're here today with a brand new Cobraal Concept.

This is our training Thursday and high performance health episode of the week.

We're going to be going over how to figure out and do your own VO2 max test in order to

be able to figure out your own cardiovascular fitness level.

Why does this even matter?

Well, one of the biggest factors in terms of aging that means basically lifespan, how long

you're going to live, as well as health spend is actually your cardiovascular fitness score.

And this matters because what happens is as your cardio level or your aerobic level goes

down and down and down, not only are you weaker at pumping blood through the body from

the legs back up, so adema, blood pressure issues, but also you need to keep that heart

healthy and strong.

When you look at the number one factor, really, I mean, through the top three, for reasons

for death, it's essentially autosclerosis, it's high blood pressure, it's stroke.

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