movement in your life, one of the most profoundly powerful interventions to stay healthy, but how do you do it?

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health, and today we have a guest that we've interviewed

five years ago, Dr. Joan Vernicose,

who is a true pioneer and really one of the first professionals to understand the value and the importance of

regular movement in preventing disease. I mean it's become quite popular now, Sitting as the new smoking is a real popular means.

It's been around for a while, and people understand it.

This is not new information, but she was one of the leaders

and she has a lot of interesting information and details on why it's so important.

And why would we trust her?

Well, she has a PhD.

She was hired by NASA in 1964 five years before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and she's

written over 200 scientific papers she was the director of the life

sciences at NASA from 93 until 2000 and she's

she's just an enormous blows of information and she hasn't been with NASA for a while now so she's

had this time to reflect because it was a big part of her position was

administrative so she had a time to reflect and thinking

to everything that was going on and has come up with some really interesting

theories and she's written the book and put some of them in there it's called

design to move which is an update from her previous book which I believe is Sitting Kills.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, Dr. Vernakos.

Thank you very much for having me on again for a sequel. Yes, for an update because this I mean it is such an important

strategy for optimizing your health and you know I'm just gonna give a little

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