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560 - Turner Osler, MD

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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The Origins of the Treadmill

The treadmill got its start in 500 BC when people were walking on a water wheel to irrigate crops. In Egypt there's kind of a form, frist of a, of a treadmill that converts human lower extremity work into useful work by turning a shaft. And then we had horses. So trying to get people to crank out calories and Watts just wasn't as useful.

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