How Sitting Is KILLING Your Back & Body

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about sitting and what it’s doing to your fitness level.

Fitness makes up just one part of your health. You also have your diet, supplements, and sleep. But you can’t get fit without motion—without exercise.

Fitness is an enhanced capacity to survive and adapt to your environment. It’s an extra tool to help you buffer stress more easily, increase flexibility and strength, and look and feel better.

On the flip side, a sedentary lifestyle is associated with stress and disease. Sitting for long periods can affect your entire body. If you’re sitting in front of a screen for long periods, your risk for certain health issues goes up even more.

How to support your health if you have to sit for long periods:

• Take frequent breaks and stretch or exercise

• Use lumbar support while driving and a lumbar support device to stretch the lower back before bed

• Get a comfortable office chair and continue to move your body as you sit

• Get into a hobby that involves motion

• Go for long walks and get sunshine

• Get something to block the blue light from your computer screen

• Get more exercise—try yoga or pilates

• Be more aware of EMFs and distance yourself from them

• Try a treadmill desk or standing desk

Transcript

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0:00.0	So I have a question, how many actual hours do you sit in a given day?
0:04.3	And before you answer that, I'm not just talking about behind the computer,
0:07.3	but what about like watching TV at night?
0:10.2	What about when you eat at your table or a restaurant?
0:15.0	What about when you're driving?
0:16.0	What about when you're shopping online?
0:18.0	I mean, we spend a tremendous amount of time sitting.
0:20.0	And today we want to talk about sitting in relationship to what it's actually doing to your fitness level.
0:26.2	See, fitness is not necessarily equated to health.
0:30.4	It's a different thing. It's like a subcategory. It makes up one part of health.
0:35.0	You have what you eat, you have supplements, you have sleep, but you also have exercise.
0:40.0	Motion, movement, right? You can't get fit without motion.
0:45.0	And fitness, actually, if you really look at it,
0:47.0	it's an enhanced or increased capacity
0:51.0	to survive with your environment. In other words it's this extra thing that allows
0:55.6	you to get through life and buffer stress more easily, be more flexible, stronger,
1:02.0	look better, feel better. My purpose for exercising is mainly
1:06.4	primarily how I feel. I just like how I feel and what it can do for stress and also it has to do with how well you're going to
1:14.0	perform in sports or even just getting off of a chair or just sitting on the
1:18.2	floor and getting up. Some people have a difficult time getting up from sitting on the ground. That would equate to a poor fitness. How much flexibility do you have? How much endurance do you have?
1:29.0	Basically when you look at it, your fitness level is your ability to adapt to your environment.
1:35.0	If you can adapt, you have problems. If you can adapt, you can prevent a lot of problems,
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