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I think every one knows what needs to change as well. To effectively use our bodies in the way they've evolved, we need to be using them from sun-up to sun-down
by RosanaAnaDana 7y ago
I think every one knows what needs to change as well. To effectively use our bodies in the way they've evolved, we need to be using them from sun-up to sun-down every day.
We evolved on savanas, upland steppes, mountains, and jungles; hunting, gathering, foraging, defending, building, with raw human power, for the vast majority of our time on this planet.
If we had to push plows with human labor; gather and reap the harvest by had, I guarantee you we'd be fit af.
- ska 7y ago> we need to be using them from sun-up to sun-down every day. That is not clear at all. Using them more, yes. Avoiding repetitive actions (or mitigating them) yes. I'd like to see any evidence that has been gathered for sun-up to sun-down being necessary; I'd assume overuse is also a problem.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago>If we had to push plows with human labor; gather and reap the harvest by had, I guarantee you we'd be fit af. We'd also be worn out by middle age. Look at various manual labor trades for example. You wind up with a couple muscle groups in great shape and a couple others that are just destroyed.
- RosanaAnaDana 7y agoYep. Our physiology is built to burn out relatively young. Living into old age is a modern modern convention (~<5kya)
- porknubbins 7y agoI’d guess “Labor” is the key operative word here, i.e. working not directly for what is produced but selling labor for a low, unskilled wage. I wonder whether subsistence farming one’s own land is necessarily as bad, I’d think you can just stop working when you have enough to eat, but people paid by the hour or whatever always seem to push too far.