We've Been Studying the Wrong Control Group

[BootinUp]

Excerpt from Built to Move, Born to Heal: Notes on Midlife Fitness by Howard Luks MD

How We Got It Backward
For most of human history, movement wasn’t optional; it was necessary for survival. Hunting, gathering, carrying, fighting, climbing, walking. Our bodies were coded for motion, and the act of living was training.

Then came modernity. Comfort replaced necessity. Elevators replaced stairs. Work went from fields and workshops to screens and chairs.

Instead of asking why inactivity makes us sick, we started asking why exercise makes us healthy.


That was the wrong question.

Activity doesn’t add new capabilities — it simply maintains the ones evolution already built in. We changed our coding. Or attempted to… and now our operating system is broken.



https://open.substack.com/pub/howardluksmd/p/weve-been-studying-the-wrong-control

[hlthe2b]

1. I don't disagree, though the "reframing" is actually embedded in the previous question...

But I agree with every change in emphasis and societal structural changes he suggests. Absolutely.

[a kennedy]

2. and just to add sitting to our lifestyle the gawd damn remote control.