Caroline Williams: ...keep moving and free your mind with an active lifestyle

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We spend around 70% of our lives sitting or lying completely still! But, a sedentary lifestyle is not only bad for your body, it can also result in anxiety, depression and a lower overall IQ. Our guest on this episode is science journalist Caroline Williams, who says simple movement has the power to improve every aspect of our lives. Caroline is the author of the book, "Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free". Her website is https://www.carolinewilliams.net/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. Did you know that we spend around 70% of our lives sitting or lying completely still?
0:19.4	A sedentary lifestyle is not only bad for your body. It can also
0:22.8	result in anxiety, depression, and a lower overall IQ. Our guest on this episode is science journalist
0:29.0	Caroline Williams, who says simple movement has the power to improve every aspect of our lives.
0:36.2	Caroline is the author of the new book, Move, how the new
0:39.7	science of body movement can set your mind free. Caroline, we thank you so much for joining us.
0:45.5	Well, thank you so much for having me. Why did you decide to tackle this topic? I mean,
0:49.9	it's a fascinating one. Well, I mean, I've been a science journalist for about 20 odd years now, and a lot of that
0:57.1	time I've been fascinated with the human mind, you know, why it is that we think the way
1:03.6	we do, why we have these amazing brains, but also why there are these kind of glitches that
1:09.8	seem to come as part of the deal. So,
1:11.8	you know, our inability to focus, you know, that creativity turns out when it's least convenient
1:17.2	to actually be useful, anxiety, depression, you know, all these kind of downsides of our human
1:23.3	minds. And I've always been interested in, well, what can we do about that? What can we do to
1:28.9	improve the way we think and the way we feel? And for a lot of years, that was really focused
1:32.7	in the head, you know, talking about brain plasticity and what we can do to change our brains.
1:37.9	And that was what my first book was about. But one of the things that came out of that was that
1:43.2	treating your brain as if it's not attached to the rest of you is kind of a really strange way of thinking about it because clearly things you do with your body affect the way you feel.
1:56.6	And I've known for I have a very boisterous dog who may or may not burst in through the door any
2:01.9	minute, who rags me out for long walks. And, you know, if I'm stuck on a piece of work, I down
2:08.2	tours, I go for a walk, I feel better. It clears my head. You know, that's been known for a long time.
2:12.4	Why is that, is what I wanted to know. You know, why does dancing make us feel happy? You know, what,
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