Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 3: A review of Exercised by Prof. Daniel Lieberman

Howdy everyone: THIRD episode of Snake Super Health the POD, a health discussion for people interested in severe alleyways of health—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, foot yoga, no other types of yoga—who are otherwise NORMAL. Listen here, on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts.Of note: Yesterday’s OPEN SECRETS (news index) covered steroids in skincare, Nike’s new material, an all-natural microplastics binder, the Dr. Mike beef, and powerlifting and the art world. That’s here. There is also a new SNAKE hat, only available to paying subscribers. That info here.Onto the show. A Review of ExercisedIn today’s episode, I chat with my friend and COHOST Josh Feola about Harvard paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman’s book “Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding,” a fascinating, clear and accessible look that fundamentally alters, we think, the thinking about activity and inactivity we’re all on about today. Lieberman’s book’s thesis is that humans are not adapted to exercise, which is why it’s exercise. From this comes two points: One, its benefits, as a cleaning agent/social organizing principle, are necessary to our health, and two, not moving is equally important from an evolutionary perspective. Which is why we’re at a mismatch. The key is: it’s not crazy that we just like to chill. Humans always have. Link to the book above. Show Notes:1:00: Intro, Josh on Lieberman’s book: Exercise is a life extension technology.3:30: Are we, as modern people, actually not moving enough? Or is this historically unchanged? 5:00: Walking as a regression of sprinting and running: Lieberman is a Chad 7:30: The Hadza people and western biases in social sciences9:30: It’s not the sitting that’s bad, it’s the high-back chairs. 11:00: Evolutionary mismatches and modern disease. 12:30: Defining exercise: Voluntary physical activity that is planned—did ancient folks actually do this?14:00: Are we lifters, or are we dancer? 16:00: This is a chad book (speaking in terms of biomechanics) 18:00: Is exercise the best free technology there is?20:00: How to get over the evolutionary mismatch? Well: Everything works. 22:00: Lieberman’s anti-lifting and anti-calisthenics bias. 25:00: Is this book the single greatest argument for tenured academia that there is?* It’s good man29:00: Evolution and hypertrophy: Were there swole Etruscans or what? 32:00: Jogging vs. lifting.34:00: One for the road: Why we used to sleep in two segments by Darren Rhodes36:00: One for the road: Nissim Taleb: Never buy olive oil; never squat low bar. Selected reading:* Senator Flux and the High Back Chairs* Paul Saladino and the Hadza (beware)* Supertraining by Yuri Verkhoshansky* Malcolm Gladwell’s 2002 Taleb profile for the New Yorker* Practical Programming for Strength Training by Mark Rippetoe (free)* 1927 NYT story on the Terahumara runners (crazy language here)That’s it. Thanks for listening. Follow me on IG here. More to come.SAMI REISS Get full access to SNAKE SUPER HEALTH at superhealth.substack.com/subscribe