Author: Derek Beres / Source: Big Think
- Seven individuals were locked inside a windowless, internetless room for 37 days.
- While at rest, they burned 130 more calories at 5 p.m. than at 5 a.m.
- Morning time again shown not to be the best time to eat.
Dualism has left a marked imprint on modern consciousness.
Mind-body is an industry, including a host of philosophical protocols, physical practices, breathing exercises, juice cleanses, crystals, nootropics, and other assorted tchotchkes guaranteed to bridge the divide between brain and limbs. Thing is, that bridge is built into the framework of our animal nature. Our nervous system links everything physical and neurological.The role of our nervous system isn’t only internal communications. Environment matters equally. Genetics gets us to the first finish line, crossing the amniotic threshold to fresh oxygen. Then we’re introduced to another starting line: nine months of hard work only to discover the work has only just begun.
For most of history, “exercise” didn’t exist. A more appropriate term would be “survival.” Physicality is our birthright. Movement is what we do. The expansive list of technologies we’ve created to offload labor has brought with it previously unthinkable diseases. In eradicating certain ailments thanks to our cognitive prowess — through vaccines, medicines, and proactive best practices — we’ve introduced (or made ourselves more susceptible to) diseases of affluence. Not moving makes us sick.
While in-depth research on how movement affects our brain makes for powerful advertising to the unmotivated, as well as verification that the motivated have reason for their drive, it still falls into the realm of basic common sense. Only a culture that doesn’t move enough would be surprised that moving is good for them.
Yet we live in two cultures, in politics and fitness and much more. On one side, a population addicted to exercise often to the point of obsession (and self-obsession, which poses its own dangers); the other, an obesity epidemic costing the nation $147 billion annually.
There are many previously understood realities we’ve lost touch with. Perhaps our ancestors didn’t possess our intellectual heft, but they knew how to live inside of their environment. They had no choice. Imagination offers an escape, yet you couldn’t dwell there too long; there were duties to attend to and scarier animals to fend off. We’re safer than ever before, and along with that…
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