Harvard Professor: "10,000 Steps A Day" Is A LIE! Revealing The 7 BIG LIES About Exercise, Sleep, Running, Cancer & Sugar!!! Daniel Lieberman

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Business, Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Dr Lieberman is the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research focuses on how the human body has evolved to be the way it is, he also explores how humans evolved to run long distances to scavenge and hunt. He is the author of the best-selling books, ‘The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease’ and ‘Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding’. In this conversation Dr Lieberman and Steven discuss topics, such as: Sitting isn’t actually the new smoking The unseen health benefits of running The best exercises for a healthy life Why you don’t need 8 hours of sleep a night Separating the health myths from reality How the world has become too comfortable How 74% of diseases can be prevented Ways to hack and boost productivity You can purchase Dr Lieberman’s newest book, ‘Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health’, here: https://amzn.to/49udz2v Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of people exercise because they believe it will help them to lose fat.
0:03.4	One of the biggest debates on the planet.
0:05.4	What advice have you got for me?
0:07.0	So this is not a well-known fact, but Daniel Lieberman.
0:09.8	He studies and teachers.
0:11.0	Humans are supposed to live.
0:12.6	Author and professor at Harvard University.
0:15.2	Exercise.
0:15.8	Disease.
0:16.5	Sleep, nutrition.
0:17.3	He has the answers and all of those things that most of us care about.
0:20.5	He evolved to be very physically active.
0:22.1	Working in the fields, hunting, gathering, but now we are in a world where only 50% of Americans ever exercise and the rest of the world is headed our way.
0:30.0	Cancer is depression, anxiety can attribute that to less physical activity.
0:34.1	In fact, women who get 150 minutes of physical activity a week
0:37.1	have about 30 to 50 percent lower breast cancer risks.
0:40.3	And it's crazy, right?
0:41.7	The problem is that we spend 3% of our medical budget on prevention.
0:46.0	And yet 75% of the time the disease is a preventable disease. It's a completely backward stupid system.
0:51.0	When you started writing this book about exercise,
0:53.7	was there any instant changes that you implemented into your own life?
0:57.0	Strength training.
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