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If sitting for long periods is bad what about lying in bed for long periods (e.g. sleeping)? It's difficult to reconcile the findings that sleeping is great for
by bufordtwain 3y ago
If sitting for long periods is bad what about lying in bed for long periods (e.g. sleeping)? It's difficult to reconcile the findings that sleeping is great for the body and mind (essential actually) but sitting is terrible.
- nemomarx 3y agoSleeping for too long causes lots of problems, right? I thought that was part of why they paid people to do rest studies, to monitor muscle atrophy from lying down 12 hours a day or similar.
- ch4s3 3y agoWhat the body does during sleep is quite different. During sleep your muscles relax and the body fills them with blood and hormones that trigger tissue repair and growth. Sleep is part of the body's repair process. When you're just sitting none of that happens.
- e12e 3y agoLying in bed all day causes sores and severe muscle atrophy.
- lm28469 3y agoSounds a lot like "if water is good why is coke bad ?" Just look at the average desk worker posture and it'll tell you more than half of the story already, it's bad for your back, it's bad for your neck, it's bad for you hips, it's bad for breathing, it's bad for blood circulation, it's bad for lymph circulation, &c. Then there is the fact that you cannot survive without sleep, if you were to spend another 8 hours in bed you'd likely develop bed sores and all kind of nasty things
- RHSman2 3y agoHumans have not evolved from sitting. Ask your hip flexors.