Ancient humans didn't take time to exercise. Their entire way of life was moving around.

It's the way they were living that allows them to move all day long naturally, running

from animals and predators, forging, hunting, building homes, carrying heavy things for miles.

This is what life was. As humans evolved, we began to move less and less.

So in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, we need to add in that regular exercise to our daily routine.

And obviously, there is too little movement and there is way too much in exercise as well.

So whether you exercise too much or too little or not at all, how do you know if your exercise habits are unhealthy?

Or healthy? We're going to dive into all of that on today's episode.

Welcome to Fatal Conveniences, where we address the things we may be doing in our daily lives that are actually harming us.

And in some cases, slowly killing us, tap water, teflon, caffeine, blue light, food additives, you name it, we dive into it.

We take a critical look at everyday products that really are affecting us and our bodies and the environment and how we can avoid them and find a solution.

So let's dive in.

And digging into the research around the human body and when it became necessary or became aware in our lexicon of, hey, maybe this body reacts to what we do to it.

It's not just set, it seems to around the 1400s we started to take an interest because they started publishing the male and female anatomies.

And then in the 1600s, the idea of quote unquote the perfect body started to take form, artists focused on the beauty of muscles and the curves and the painting and the sculptures and the highlighting of the significance of health and a fit body.

And the 1700s saw fitness starting to become part of the every day lifestyle, including some of the foundation of what we know today, the thought of working out to keep the mind, body and soul in a better and perfect condition was the undertow of the 1700s.

Europe happened to be on the forefront of all of this through movement of sport and games and the exercise aspect and then especially Germany focused on it in the early 1800s.

Frederick John known as the father of gymnastics helped physical education take form by encouraging people to go out and live an active and healthy lifestyle that was in 1800s the primitive human before 10,000 BC after they were successful in the hunting and gathering they would then go out on excursions to celebrate and those excursions itself

was 6 to 20 miles to the neighboring tribes that could visit with friends and other families and dance and sing so movement, movement, movement was just a part of what we did.

And now obviously we've created fatal conveniences all over the place so we don't do anything we have people build their houses for us we have food that we can go pick up how we can have anything delivered we don't really have to do much which is why we know now the body needs to move and even in the longevity world.

Hopefully we don't lose this but getting up being active going for walks is an incredible thing to do obviously eat well eat fresh whole plant foods and move your body get up stretch lay down we'll get into some of the solutions later.

So what makes exercise convenient well to feel good it's connected to those endorphins we have to move in order for the metabolism the endocrine system and the feel good chemicals and molecules of serotonin dopamine in order for that to refer it throughout our system and now other conveniences how you can get a gym membership you can get an app like beach body on demand they have.

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