What are some of the other biggest myths within exercise that you've come across in writing this book?

Gosh, there are so many. I had to actually limit limited to 10 so I think if you

want to understand physical activity and exercise you also have to understand

inactivity and I think one of the biggest myths out there is that you need eight hours of sleep a night

And that sitting is when you're smoking you know that basically and I if you think about those two different myths

Why is it they were constantly told to sleep more and to sit less?

Actually, it seems a little contradictory to me, right?

And it turns out that let's take sitting first.

So, you know, there are all these you know these slogans like

sitting it then you're smoking and it's really bad for you and you know every time you sit in your

chair you lose two hours of your life and you whatever it turns out that all animals sit, right? My dog sits, cows sit,

chickens sit, every animal sits, and hunter-gatherers also sit. In fact, if you, some of my students actually

put sensors on hunter-gatherers, and we're doing some

research in farmers as well, but they sit just as much as Westerners.

So sitting is there's nothing special about being about today's life.

It's that we sit all day long and don't do anything when we're not sitting, right?

So if you and furthermore the big distance difference is not so much how much we sit, but how we sit. So it turns out that people who,

if you get up every once in a while, right, interrupted sitting is actually much more healthy than non-interrupted sitting for the same amount of time.

So in other words, two people might, in the West, people sit for an average about 40 minutes

at about, whereas Hunter Gathers, for example, or farmers in Africa where we work get up every about 10-15 minutes.

When you do that, you actually, it's like turning on the engine of your car, you drive it around the block.

You're turning on all kinds of cellular mechanisms, you lower blood

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