Sitting & Health Trends

Sitting too much can be bad for us, however can sitting too little as well? Dangerous Dave talks about a study on sitting. Plus, health trends that have professionals worried.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Deeper in the Den with dangerous Day. Well. For years,
you've been told that sitting too much is bad for you,
but a new study suggests that there's more to the story.
Research followed more than forty one thousand adults in China
for twelve years and found the lowest risk of death
was among people who sat for about four hours a day. Surprisingly,

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those who sat less than two hours had a higher risk.
But there's a catch. More than sixty percent of those
people worked physically demanding jobs like farming in construction. The
study found that replacing some activity with rest was better
for manual labors, and people who sat for more than
four hours a day benefited from swapping out sitting for exercise.

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It doesn't mean that everybody should sit more. It's just
health advice. It's tailored to a person's lifestyle rather than
applying the same rules to everybody. So I guess it's
good to sit once in a while. Deeper in the
two doctors rolling their eyes at WebMD and Facebook health
questions ten years ago are really bugging TikTok hacts and

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trends now and AI diagnosis. There's a thread on social
media where doctors and nurses are listing the latest scary
health trends that are becoming way too common. Some of
the most common include vaping. We just don't know the
effects it will have. As possible we're going to see
a lot of institutionalized lung disease people twenty to thirty
years from now. Honestly, nobody knows, but it's dangerous to

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think is healthier than smoking. Ketamine is another one, leading
to serious bladder dysfunction among young, sleep deprivation, and energy drinks.
Our bodies are not meant to run on that combo forever.
Also things worrying healthcare professionals JLP one drugs. It can
be a life changer for people with diabetes and people
that are obese and have difficulty controlling cravings. However, they

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can cause serious complications for those who don't take them
as directed. Nitrous oxide abuse is getting more common. Can
be really bad for chemical burns to your mouth, throat,
and nervous system. Malfunction E scooter and e bikes quickly
becoming one of the top visits to the er, with
collisions with riders, riders and astrians, writers and vehicles and
writers flying off uneven terrain influencer medicine. At one end,

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there's stuff that is just ineffective and a waste of money.
On the other end, it's stuff that can actually be detrimental,
parasite cleanses on tiknok causing liver failure, distrust in medical professionals,
and conspiracy theories. A lot of people making comments about
this with some sad unfortunate results that make you angry
at people who told you to ignore doctors, and it's

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hit a viral fame here and false pancreas. People believe
everything can be cured by inserting a trendy thing. You
don't need to eat right, take a vitamin, you don't
need to exercise, just get a GLP one. They don't
need to address underlying issues, they just get testosterone injections.
The peptide trend and the black market anabolics are creating issues.

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And that also dumping your history in a chat GPT
to do whatever it says things that are worring healthcare professionals.
Now I'm scared to they can. For another episode of
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