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Well, there's way more to it... even our body posture affects our biochemistry and well being... there's this great video by Amy Cuddy: https://www.ted.com/tal
by michalu 9y ago
Well, there's way more to it... even our body posture affects our biochemistry and well being... there's this great video by Amy Cuddy:
https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shape...
Today, because of electronics we're forced into low power body postures that increase cortisol and lower testosterone levels, evidence suggests.
Then there's nutrition, sleep etc.
Couple days ago there's was a study posted here showing that people who exercise intensely are about 9 years biologically younger. We don't exactly know how exercise makes you younger but we do know it boosts your testosterone.
Btw. a great book on the topic: Winner Effect by Ian Robertson (founding Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience) or Presence by Amy Cuddy
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoCuddy's work on "power poses" has failed to replicate in larger and more rigorous studies [1] [2], and one of the earlier researchers of such effects considers them to have been an artifact of poor study design and analysis rather than a real effect [3]. [1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614553946 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614553946 [2] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550616652209 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550616652209 [3] http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_My%20position%20on%20power%20poses.pdf http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/dana_carney/pdf_My%20positi...
- chiefalchemist 9y agoMore bad science? Say it isn't so :) A couple weeks ago the BBC did an article on the fact that most "scientific" studies can't be reproduced by others. Makes ya wonder...
- collyw 9y agoWasn't is social sciences that couldn't be replicated? Natural science wouldn't be able to advance unless studies could be replicated and subsequently improved on.
- chiefalchemist 9y agoNot sure. Might be. But the gist was, lots of stuff gets published and is flawed. Maybe it's just me but too often it seems that correlation gets passed off as cause.
- michalu 9y agoGreat to know, thank you!
- chiefalchemist 9y agoYes. The point is, mitigate the "risks" of modern life and the unintended consequences (if you will) lessen. The problem is, we want to do everything all wrong, and then wonder why we're getting the results we're getting, or not. p.s. Thank for the book recs, but if you had to pick just one, which one?
- michalu 9y agoWinner Effect... it's an excellent book.