Why you need to get up and move—right now! (w/ Manoush Zomorodi)

Chris Duffy· Host0:00

[upbeat music] This is How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy, and I am currently sitting at a desk. Some days I realize that I have spent the entire day sitting at a desk. I've spent hours not moving anything other than my mouth and hands. I have a sense that that's probably not the healthiest. I mean, we've all heard how important it is to exercise and to get in your steps and yada, yada, yada. But what if you don't have a schedule that allows you to go to the gym every day, or you have a job that requires you to sit in a cubicle for hours at a time, or you're just exhausted all the time? How do you actually make those changes then? Well, today's guest, Manoush Zomorodi, has not only spent a lot of time thinking about the answers to those questions and writing a whole book about it, which is called Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being, but Manoush has also helped to organize a research study which was looking at this in a clinical and academic context. And what she and her co-collaborators found is not only important for our health, it is also very practical. Manoush is not some scold who is just telling you to get up out of your chair and onto a treadmill. Instead, she's a person with practical, useful, dare I say even fun, ways to be healthier, feel better, and end the day with more energy. So to get us started, here is a clip from Manoush's TED Talk about why we often end up sitting for such a long stretch even though we know we should be moving more.

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