Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

How Sitting Is KILLING Your Back & Body

Dec 25, 2023

14:06

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The podcast discusses the detrimental effects of sitting on fitness and health, highlighting the importance of exercise. It provides strategies to counteract the negative consequences of prolonged sitting, such as taking breaks, using lumbar support, and engaging in activities that involve motion. It also addresses the negative effects of computer screens, blue light, and electromagnetic fields, offering tips to reduce exposure and improve posture while sitting.

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Sitting for long periods negatively affects fitness levels, leading to stress on the lower back, muscle tightness, and atrophy, and can contribute to hypokinetic syndrome and various health issues related to circulation and stress accumulation.

Sedentary behavior, such as sitting, impacts eye health, causing macular degeneration, cataracts, and fatigue eye muscles, while also contributing to fatigue, decreased melatonin production, and negative effects from electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Strategies to counter these effects include incorporating physical activity during breaks, using blue light-blocking devices, and minimizing EMF exposure.

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The Impact of Sitting on Fitness Level

Sitting for long periods of time negatively affects fitness levels. Fitness is important for adapting to the environment, buffering stress, and enhancing overall health. Sitting causes stress on the lower back, affects posture, and leads to muscle tightness and atrophy. Sedentary behavior, such as sitting, can contribute to hypokinetic syndrome and various health issues related to circulation and stress accumulation. Counteracting sitting involves taking frequent breaks, maintaining proper posture, doing stretching exercises, and incorporating physical activity during breaks.

Negative Effects of Prolonged Sitting and Strategies for Countering Them

01:23

Importance of Breaks, Back Support, and Physical Activity for Adults

01:21

Introduction

2min

Counteracting the Negative Effects of Sitting

4min

Methods for Improving Posture and Reducing Back Pain While Sitting

4min

Counteracting the Negative Effects of Prolonged Sitting

2min

Reducing Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields and Creative Sitting Alternatives

1min

Today, we’re going to talk about sitting and what it’s doing to your fitness level.

Fitness makes up just one part of your health. You also have your diet, supplements, and sleep. But you can’t get fit without motion—without exercise.

Fitness is an enhanced capacity to survive and adapt to your environment. It’s an extra tool to help you buffer stress more easily, increase flexibility and strength, and look and feel better.

On the flip side, a sedentary lifestyle is associated with stress and disease. Sitting for long periods can affect your entire body. If you’re sitting in front of a screen for long periods, your risk for certain health issues goes up even more.

How to support your health if you have to sit for long periods:

• Take frequent breaks and stretch or exercise

• Use lumbar support while driving and a lumbar support device to stretch the lower back before bed

• Get a comfortable office chair and continue to move your body as you sit

• Get into a hobby that involves motion

• Go for long walks and get sunshine

• Get something to block the blue light from your computer screen

• Get more exercise—try yoga or pilates

• Be more aware of EMFs and distance yourself from them

• Try a treadmill desk or standing desk

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