The Exercise Expert: This Popular Lifestyle Is Killing 1 Person Every 33 Seconds! (The Comfort Crisis): Michael Easter

Two thousand heart disease deaths a year in Europe were due to The noise that people live in Jesus. The world we live in now. That is not how humans are designed to live. Michael Easter. Best selling author, journalist, professor of psychiatry. He's on a mission to save us from the comfort crisis. Crisis. Is it really a crisis? As a species, we evolved to do the easiest, most comfortable thing, but we eventually end up paying a price for it. People are burned out, stressed out, more mental health problems, and we're looking for the next pleasure. And the industry really leans into this addiction. For example, slot machines. Once they got rid of handles and just put a spin button, people went from playing four hundred games in an hour to an average of Nine hundred. If you break that down by minute, that's more than we blink. And then we engineered movement out of our lives with our new job sitting in these chairs eight hours a day. Now two percent of people take the stairs when there is also an escalator available. And now we have heart disease. The number one killer of humans globally. This drive that we have to do the most comfortable thing is a problem.

As people experience fewer and fewer problems, we don't become more satisfied. We simply start searching for the next problem. Really? Yes, we've become unhappier. Usage of the word love halved between nineteen sixty five and two thousand and fifteen. And negative words like hate increased. We need to realize that it's your ancient brain working against you. It's not your fault. But it is your problem. I want to take back control. How do we break out of this? Yeah, I call this concept being a two percenter. And if you apply this, I guarantee you will end up healthier and learn what you're capable of. The first step is Uh Michael.

There's a Quite obvious through line throughout your work. So I wanted to ask you If you had to sort of encapsulate and summarise The mission.

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