Ep 168: Is Sitting Aging You Faster?
Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman
Nutritious Movement
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Biomechanist Katy Bowman talks to biologist Jeannette Loram about a recent New York Times article “ Why Sitting All Day May Shorten Your Life”. Katy was a source for this article and she talks with Jeannette about the journalistic process, and why the short-form might be letting us down.
Katy and Jeannette talk about the benefits of sitting as well as the risks associated with uninterrupted hours in a chair. They discuss sitting as a two-part issue; first the inactivity and second the fixed body geometry. Katy and Jeannette discuss recent research showing that long hours of sitting are associated with a more rapid rate of cellular aging and how many experiences we put down to aging: muscle and bone loss, low energy levels and low back pain are really influenced by how much we sit.
Katy and Jeannette critique the recommendation to offset hours in a chair by increasing exercise time, noting that this is not really how biology works. Katy suggests that this approach is a bit like flossing your teeth diligently while not brushing them.
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| 1:51.2 | This is the Move Your DNA podcast, a show where movement science meets your everyday life. |
| 1:57.7 | I'm Katie Bowman, biomechanist, author, and often a source for articles about movement. |
| 2:03.5 | And I'm Jeanette Lorham, biologist, movement teacher, and a critical reader of articles. |
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