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Built To Move — How To Take Care Of Your Body | Dr. Kelly Starrett

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

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The Importance of High Genetic Drive to Move

We did this experiment where we flipped our daughters elementary school to an all standing school. And then because we saw it as a competitive advantage to move more. There's actually measures when you can look at people's genetic drive to move. So they're sitting and they're bouncing their knee. Like they need to want to get up and go. They need to move. We found that giving kids movement choice where they could fidget with the foot, they could sit on the ground. Boys are not coping well in environments where having them sit is standard.

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