Video: Exercise is the risk we take to avoid the consequences of being still

I hear it far too often in the office. “I’m worried about injuring myself." Or… “I have arthritis and don't want to make it worse.”

In this 9-minute video, I explain in depth how the human body has been engineered to move over hundreds of thousands of years and how it reacts to activity versus being sedentary.

We have the risk equation all wrong. I spend hours trying to correct this misunderstanding. We have pain as we age… that’s a given. We can be active and robust and have pain, or we can be sedentary and weak and have some pain. Besides… although entirely counterintuitive, osteoarthritis and other joint disorders progress more slowly in people who are fit and active. Why? Osteoarthritis is far more of a biological issue than a mechanical issue.

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