06/02/2025
Dr. Bolin has been a busy guy these past two weeks! He kicked off his “tour” by speaking on May 22 at the Hotel Roanoke at the 75th Carilion Clinic Spring Symposium. His talk was entitled “The New Science of Exercise: Truths, Rumors and Outright Lies”. The main takeaway was that prolonged intense exercise is not necessary to reap health and longevity benefits. If you are able to sustain 5 times your resting metabolic rate (or 5 METS), that is enough. For a man, that is equivalent to walking 4 mph on a flat surface, and for a woman it is 3 mph; it is slightly slower for both if you are walking up hill on a 3% grade. The goal would be to do this 30 minutes a day, but the degree of effort is what matters most.