EP 511: Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding with Dr. Daniel Lieberman
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🗓️ 27 February 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever woken up and groaned as you fought with yourself to get out the door to run? You are not alone. That is in our biology. We evolved to want to conserve energy. The idea of exercising is only something that we've been doing relatively recently. Dr. Daniel Lieberman's new book, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding is a great read.
Evolutionary biologist, Dr. Daniel Lieberman joins us to discuss what this means for us as passionate runners. Dr. Lieberman wrote the 2004 article, Born to Run:
Here is the video Dr. Mark Cucuzzella mentioned.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, so I, you know, it was kind of, you know, I've been working in Kenya for many, many |
| 0:07.0 | years and I was curious about the Taramara pretty much everything I had read turned out not |
| 0:12.5 | to be true. |
| 0:13.5 | So I didn't see a single person barefoot and I didn't see anybody running unless I asked |
| 0:17.0 | them to run. |
| 0:18.0 | You know, my Spanish is good enough that I heard her basically say, yeah, this gringo, |
| 0:22.2 | he runs like five miles every morning and just to kind of be good at running. |
| 0:28.1 | He like looked at me and he said, you know, it's like some moments you just never forget |
| 0:32.1 | and I remember him looking at me and he said, why would anybody run if they didn't have |
| 0:35.7 | to? |
| 0:36.7 | Maybe before we get going with the podcast with Dr. Daniel Lieberman, we want to thank |
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