BITESIZE | What Hunter-Gatherers Can Teach Us About Movement, Exercise and Ageing Well | Professor Daniel Lieberman #624

Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 514 of the podcast with Professor Daniel Lieberman. Daniel is the author of the brilliant book. exercised, why something we never evolve to do is healthy and rewarding. In this clip, he reveals a fascinating truth.

We didn't evolve to exercise, but movement is key to living well. He challenges some common beliefs that exist around exercise and shares simple ways of building sustainable movement habits into our daily lives. Everyone listening I'm sure has been hammered with the message. that exercise, that physical activity is good for us, it's good for your body, it's good for your brain, it's good for your longevity, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So we've all got the knowledge that we possibly, probably should be moving more.

Yet despite having that knowledge, so many of us are simply unable to put that into action regularly and They start to blame themselves, they start to feel guilty, which is a huge problem that I see and have seen in practice for many years. So I wanted to start with this apparent paradox, this idea that exercise is something that is really, really good for us on so many levels, yet at the same time, it's not necessarily something that we have evolved to want to do. Oh, I would say we didn't evolve to do it at all. But yeah.

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