Tracking what your body needs
7/10/202650 min
Our bodies are always sending signals ... but are we listening? This hour, TED speakers explore new ways to track and understand our health — from cutting-edge technology to simple, everyday habits.
Guests include exercise physiologist Keith Diaz, genomicist Michael Snyder and writer Lizzie Braicks-Rinker.
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First 90 secondsManoush Zomorodi· Host0:00
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Speaker 20:13
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Manoush Zomorodi· Host0:15
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Michael Snyder· Guest0:26
I literally feel like I'm a different person.
Manoush Zomorodi· Host0:28
[laughs] Yes. Do you feel that way? Ideas worth spreading from TED and NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. On the show today, tracking what the body needs, and one of the most basic things our bodies need is movement.
Keith Diaz· Guest0:49
So if you kinda map out the trajectories of our sedentary time and, you know, how much time we spend watching TV, how much time we spend sitting in a car, how much time we spend s- sitting at work, it's kind of been, like, steadily increasing across decades.
Manoush Zomorodi· Host1:03
This is exercise scientist Keith Diaz.
Keith Diaz· Guest1:06
And society and our cultural and societal norms are telling us you're supposed to sit in your desk. If you're not in your desk, you're not learning, you're not being productive.
Manoush Zomorodi· Host1:13
Keith Diaz has spent the past 15 years researching the impacts of a sedentary lifestyle on our health and how much movement we really need to stay healthy. It all started with a headline that he desperately wanted to debunk.
Keith Diaz· Guest1:28
I came across some