A WIERDo's Guide to Exercise
Road to Resilience
English - April 13, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Science mount sinai health system resilience wellness personal stories science medicine grit self-help trauma determination Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
If you live in a WEIRD society—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic—chances are you aren't getting enough exercise. And it's not because you're bad or lazy; it's because you're normal. On this episode, Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel E. Lieberman, PhD, explains how evolution designed humans to avoid unnecessary physical activity, i.e. "exercise" in the Western sense. In his new book, "Exercised," he busts 10 common myths about sleep, sitting, and physical activity, using the latest scientific research. If you've ever wondered whether sitting is the new smoking, or if you're getting enough sleep or exercising enough, this episode is for you.
Dr. Lieberman is the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
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