Exercised
by Daniel E. Lieberman · first published 2020
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"This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest? The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding its absence, Part One begins with physical inactivity. What are our bodies doing when we take it easy, including when we sit or sleep? Part Two explore
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Related to the benefits of exercise, I found the book Exercised by Daniel Lieberman to be thorough, interesting, and even humorous at times. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49358915-exercised
on “Exercise Alters Brain Chemistry to Protect Aging Synapses” ↗…expensive restaurant. There are many health benefits to movement and our bodies evolved to have it part of our daily routine, but if you want to deal with your weight, it should done through diet. See Exercised by Lieberman: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49358915-exercised * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lieberman When it comes to weight, diet and exercise seem to minimally correlated.
on “Should we be eating three meals a day?” ↗I found Dr. Daniel Lieberman 's work helpful. His book Exercised makes his work fairly accessible. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lieberman
on “Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation enables heart regeneration in adult mice” ↗…fruit (and tons of sugar) pre-added...processed. Soft drinks...processed. Kid's "Happy Meal"...processed. And so on. Btw, Slaughtered and butchered meats !== processed meats. Recommened book: - Exercised - D Lieberman https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/29/exercised-by-d... - Burn - Pontzer https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/16/1016931... - Comfort Crisis - M Easter - Scarcity…
on “Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota” ↗In the last few months I read two books on this topic, and both (if I recalled correctly) mentioned The Biggest Loser (or similar). Exercised - Daniel E Lieberman https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953249677/exercised-explains-... Burn - Herman Pontzer (who I believe was a student of Lieberman's) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-human-metabol...…
on “The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?” ↗The book "Exercised" by the Harvard anthropologist Daniel Lieberman mentions exactly this claim - that in hunter gatherer societies, people actually rest for most of the day. Still their average lifespan is about 70 years.
on “How hard should I push myself?” ↗…guess around e.g. annual flu shots is not so much protection from infection as frequent stimulation of the immune system being beneficial in particular for Apoe4 carriers. E.g. from p. 329 of Lieberman's Exercised: > Although Westerners who carry the two copies of a gene called Apoe4 (a protein that transports fats in the bloodstream) are three to fifteen times more likely to get Alzheimer's in old age, elderly…
on ““Angry” Immune Cells in Brain and Spinal Fluid Identified as Alzheimer Culprit” ↗I've recently finished "Exercised" by Daniel Lieberman. He'd argue that this headline is wrong and dangerously misleading. That is, our evolutionary natural state is movement, being fit (in a day to day life requires it sort of way),…
on “Being in good physical shape could reduce the risk of nine types of cancer” ↗I think this study is related to two books I read this summer: Burn, by Herman Pontzer, presents his "constrained energy expenditure hypothesis," and Exercised, by Daniel E. Lieberman, discusses his "costly repair hypothesis." Together, they try to explain why exercise can force your body to stop using its energy to destroy itself (inflammation, autoimmune…
on “Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time” ↗The book "Exercised" by Lieberman talks about this for a while. Basically, there's been an extension of life years, but there has also been an extension of the useless years at the end of people's lives. He makes a case…
on “Sitting for a long time shrinks your brain even if you exercise” ↗