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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stand up, please, got you in Spain? There you go.
Do you know what the flamingo position is?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I mean I can guess it's on one leg.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, but what do you do with your other leg?
What do you do with your airborne leg?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You hold it up against you?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You tuck it in on your knee. Oh, tuck it
in on your knee?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
So like that? Fort Yeah? Are you leaning on something?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No, I'm a little off downs make it?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Idn't make it? Got like boot song with a big
heel on. I shouldn't have to do this. I can
do it without the boot song.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Okay, those are big boots, bro.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You done the Yeah? No, I'm waiting on you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Get up there? Are you? Are you holding onto anything?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh no, you didn't make it. You didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What's my time? I'm going for?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, you've already you've already gone down twice and we're
not wearing a heel again.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh you see you do it?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, here we go. What about the buttons? Say again?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
What about the buttons?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The yeah? Okay? Foot there right?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You're holding onto the counter? No, I let go, and
you're holding onto the counter again.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
My hands are right here look at me.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
He went right to left with the hands.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But look at me, look at me right now took
a Yeah, well I got it. I got to balance myself.
But look at me, look at my hands or look
a where I can't even see your hands.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Where are your hands?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Is your foot on something?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
My on my the inside of my knee. Switch sides,
switch sides.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Don't yell.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm not yelling.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm not good on this leg.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
So again, you're not good on that leg.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's because you've got mental decline.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Amen, tell me something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You think you have mental decline?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Absolutely from what asing.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
The well, you're really wobbly there, so much for those pilates.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, look at me. I'm still I'm up and going.
I'm as strong left as right.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm actually not. I thought it would be worse on the.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You're standing with two feet on the ground right now.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
What does aggravation play into it? Because you're acting like
you're some perfect, like balanced specimen when you're not.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I'm not perfect.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh look god, oh look at me.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
All right, So you didn't pass the test.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That that was not an accurate representation of a test.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Actually it is the most accurate test that's out there.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'll people judge.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
What exactly did we learn from her failure?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That Diane is.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
That her mind and body are aging at a very
rapid speed.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Again, amen, tell me what I don't know. No, no, preach,
that's the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
There we go, There we go.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You're in great shape. Well, I mean I thought you
were until you took the task.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Who is putting this information forward?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Did you just take a bite of something Instagram?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Sorry, I was having some bacon. No, I can tell
you who was. So they put out this test. Aging
brings on a barrage of changes to the mind and body.
And by the way, it could be anybody, it could
be anybody. All of them seemingly happened at once. This
bombardment makes it difficult to measure how well our bodies
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are holding up to the test of time. A new
study identified one simple task that can help predict anyone's
degree of physical and mental decline, and it's this flamingo test.
A new paper that was published by the journal Plos
says the ability to balance on one leg could be
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a helpful indicator of neuromuscular aging. The researchers from both
Taiwan and Minnesota found that balancing on one leg offered
a larger window into the aging process than walking distance
or standing on two legs to other exercises that researchers
used to measure.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And when they say.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Aging, it doesn't just mean your your physical age.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It could be your mental age.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It could also just be if you are if you
are unhealthy, you're not going to be able to balance.
So you may be you could be twenty five, but
if you weighed four hundred pounds, I promise you you're
not doing this.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
So wasn't grip strength in for a while to indicate
how you were aging? Grip strength, Yes, I thought that
had a moment and some people bought those missions, little
squeeze things. Yeah, I think that's out. It's just this
flamingo test.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
They said that there's a bunch of them that that
that that people use. But they said this is the
most accurate in terms of being able to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Just a simple Well, and they said that's the beauty
of it. Well, it's simple.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
If you can do it, well, do it for how long?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Which I made, and you don't need to go beyond
that thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, Diana, nobody wants to just sit there and listen
to me. Stand for thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
But additional time doesn't prove anything. Say good if you
can stand for forty five or sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I don't think so. They performed a series of strength
and balanced tasks. The researchers tested, Oh, here you go.
The researchers tested the patient's grip and knee strength. Participants
had to stand for thirty seconds on both legs with
their eyes open and then closed, and also had to
stand on one leg first they're dominant, and then their non.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Dominant leg with their eyes open. Do I have a
dominant leg?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yes, we all do.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What's my dominant leg?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You're left handed?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
That's not always the best indicator, because I'm right handed.
In my dominant leg is left handed. I found out
when I was shadow boxing.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But I also am left handed when I write and eat,
when I shoot, or bat or play tennis or really
anything else, I'm right handed. I guess you just have
to test it to figure I.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Man, but dextrous. What is my left If.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Somebody said, if Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreet said you're
going to kick this field goal, I would kick it
left footed.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So Is that my dominant foot? Yes, that's my dominant foot.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The team measured how the participants walked using a motion
capture system. They found that of all these tests, balancing
on one leg offered the most insight into neuromuscular aging.
Walking motion didn't seem to change at all with age,
although I feel like it does. You ever get behind
one of old Bitty, I don't feel like she's walking
like she.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Did when she was twenty?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
What is it? Is this one word for ambi dexterity
of the feet.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, ambidextrous, So that is not just I think it's universal.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
It can be your other limbs. Yeah, oh okay.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I don't think it's like metatarsals and peditarsls who are
more bacon good save?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah. I just think you are what you are.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're an ambidextrous, which I am.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Isn't that funny? You're not? I am?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm right left handed. I eat left handed, I do
everything else right handed. I kick left handed. My dominant
stop in hockey is on my right foot.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, but you can't do things equally on both sides.
Don't even know argue that you can?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
No, I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I can't write as well right here, anty dexterity where
you could do both to say, so what am I
a liar?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I have potential? I like this test though. By the way,
how do you like grip strength? I get? How do
you do knee strength?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Is it just where like like you bend your knee
and they push down on it to see how your
resistance is?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Or do you have to crush something.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Here's a cab?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah no, but yes, like remember there are people who
can crush walnuts with their butt cheeks.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Uh, but what is it?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What is all this measure?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Though?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
For the knee strength test, participants are in a seated
position and instructed to extend their knee as forcefully as possible.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Extend.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Oh okay, so resistance Yeah yeah, so it's kind of
what I said. Balance, especially when standing on one leg,
is so important because it requires you to use neuro
muscular controls, muscle strength, and attention to multiple sensations standing
on one leg. They also found as a valid measure
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of fertility, frailty, excuse me, likelyhood to fail, and independence.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like all that. I like this test and it's
very simple, but think of it.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
If you ask someone who's of an advanced stage to
do this, it would be hard, disastrous.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well yeah, no kidding, but that's what the test shows.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, but I guess I shouldn't say advanced it. I'm
saying somebody maybe in like their late sixties, you still
have many years to go. It could be bad.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You don't think somebody in their sixties is breaking down
a little.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Bit, but they're still gonna live for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And then if you this doesn't say if you can't
go thirty seconds, you die tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
No, maybe that's encouragement to like try to start working
on it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I'm assuming it's reversible or you can extend time. Point
extend time. Father time always wins.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Then just seeking out exercises that help you do better
with the Flamenco test.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The yeah, but that, but there's so many things that
would go into that. You need strength, you need balance,
you need neuromuscular control, you need sensation. I mean again,
take the twenty five year old who weighs three hundred
and fifty pounds.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I guarantee you he can't do this test and listen.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
A well balanced approach to fitness and exercise I think
is key throughout your life through body and mind. Sure,
I think you throw the mind in there, absolutely, and
you are. With this test, it says for the grip
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and knee strength, they show significant declines by decade, but
not as much as balance. So maybe so balance balance
goes quick would stand? No, no, no, Grip and knee strength
show significant declines by decade, but not as much as balance.
Oh so maybe an older person would actually surprise me
a little bit. Thirty seconds, maybe a stratch bude. The
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Gate test participants walk back and forth on an eight
meter level walkway, and they could do bats in speed.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Congrats, you can walk back and forth.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
It's part of the test that says that it was
not a conclusive result because participants were just walking at
their normal pace.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, look at me walk. I got no cognitive decline.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Did they split it up anyway with the male and
female and the flamingo test?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I believe it's equal.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Oh so that's good too, because then it's not different information.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I mean, some women may be a little pulled forward,
but I think we understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Somebody email the other day and said, that's why you
find larger feet on women for balance for boobs.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Oh yeah, so itty Biddy got itty biddy feet and
they're part of the itty biddy committee. But a woman
who is a little that make I mean, think about it,
that makes sense. Like not to sound like a neanderthal,
but you don't want to topple forward.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But the only thing that you mentioned that you didn't
really do you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Remember why Dolly Parton's feet are so small? Why no sunlight?
Great joke, great joke, right, great joke. Anyway, I'm sorry,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
What was the thing about closing the eyes? We didn't
do that?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh yours? Also they want you to do the test
also with your eyes closed.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Oh my god, Diane, good luck the.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, it's harder with your eyes closed because you can't
focus on something.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Diane, you couldn't do it with your eyes open. Are
your eyes open or close closed?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yep? I stumbled for a seconds.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I stumbled, here we go, all right, eyes closed, holding
onto the counter.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But I didn't I didn't suffer.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I didn't suffer decline mental decline in the last twenty seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
May have.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, they want you to be able to do it
your eyes closed as well. Balance is very important. Think
about what do you guys talk about all the time?
I said it false old people falling. Yeah, this is
much better.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
But this isn't just about balance. You're learning so much more.
That's the point of this. Yes, decline with you said,
neuromuscular neuromuscular mapping.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Where am I going? Line two? Hi? Elliet in the morning? Yeah? Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Andrew?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yes? Andrew? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
So I have a perfect test to find your dominant play?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Your dominant play.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
You answered, because you're going to cheat?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, I won't cheat. Oh you were talking to Diane.
I'm sorry, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
All right, So Ellie, you have to stand up your
feet together together parallel?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
What does that mean? Side by side? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Touching? Okay, yes, side by side parallel? And uh, whoever's
supposed to you push? You?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Push me, Tyler? Not hard? Okay, push me. You tapped
me like like it was a love tap. I don't
know if you really want one like that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You don't want all that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Just give me a little push, not hard, but you push? Okay?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
And which which foot stopped you from Paul on your face?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Was I supposed shot him from behind?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Because he shoved him from the right, So your left
saved you?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay? So wait, push me from behind, to push.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Him so hard he hits his face in the television.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Okay, what do you do it?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You're setting up, so you help you holding onto it.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm not touching anything. I moved the chair. Moved the
chair so I wouldn't go in the chair.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
He's definitely chea.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I'm one hundred percent not cheating. I moved a chair so.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That God forbid I don't fall.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And break my neck.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Okay, Todd, ready.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
You're not gonna fall. No foot is gonna save you.
Your dominant foot will naturally come out and stop you
from falling on your face.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Won't keep your falling. Die, both of them, both of them.
I hopped and both of my feet saved me.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I got him off guard.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
No, maybe him too hard?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
No, no, no. I hopped forward and both of my
feet saved me. I'm appadextrous.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Appadextrous. Oh I have I have multiple I.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Just figured out I have two dominant feet. I hopped.
What's the answer there.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Well, we'll try pushing backwards. Then only one gonna save you?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, wait, hold on, let me see if his hands
bigger than his face, because he might have cancers.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
No, what is it? What I have two dominant feet.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think he needs to push you with less vigor.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
What is surprise? What tip.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Put your hand on his back and then slowly push forward,
and eventually he's not going to be able to write.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I'm gonna be lean right hold on is going to
be upset Johnny test monitor, Okay, so I'm just I'm
not just gonna yeah, just push shove. It's a slow bill.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh my, just please push me forward? Here we go.
You know you know.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You're hopping for dramatic effect, dian the you do.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Let me get behind you, and don't I love The
caller told us the eager and cheat, and you did cheat.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Why is your growing up against my Butt's weird?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Before growing was on my butt?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That was weird.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I'm getting behind me, behind you, pushing with have enough.
I want to be close enough that I can push.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
That was so straight.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Here, come on, ready, you're ready?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Which was left foot?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Left foot?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
My left foot went forward to stop me.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
That's not your doin pre dominant.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
But you're not right.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think I'm right handed, but I think i'm better
on my right foot.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I think you're cognitive decline.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think you're growing was on my butt. Maybe that
has something to do with it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You should stand behind.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I got right behind and you were told to push
with your arm, but you got your groin twice.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
To extend my arm when I pushed you three times?
Almost did you ever feel my penis?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh my god, I just.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Came behind you.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Know what it is like? I can't win. I was like, hey,
do this test? Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Cheater?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, okay, Oh you're groid. I'm sorry, not Johnny test monitor,
the complimented woman in the office anymore. What's up with that?
All right?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Very good? It's not a winner lose.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You're cheating yourself, that's what that's well said the Yeah no,
but I'm dominant in both feet.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Why can't you accept that?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Because that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I just I actually just proved it's a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I just I just showed everybody it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And I'm only cheating myself.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
But I don't know why Dianekee is going back to
this goddamn flamingo po.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Because I'm going back and forth between my right and
my left, and I still think I'm a little bit
more stable on my right.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I know a guy who conducted a test and they
showed that you're left.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
She was trying to protect thank.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You what no, no, no, no, thank you sir. You
know why Diane is messed up. I can tell you
why Diane's messed up. Why women with larger chests have
bigger feet. Diane reduced the size of her chest, but
still has the bigger feet.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
She didn't reduce her foots.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
On, I'm waiting on that toe reduction.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
All right, let me get behind you again, so.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
We're gonna have to see Alice twice.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Remember, it's like, what happened
Stand up, please, got you in Spain? There you go.
Do you know what the flamingo position is?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I mean I can guess it's on one leg.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, but what do you do with your other leg?
What do you do with your airborne leg?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You hold it up against you?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You tuck it in on your knee. Oh, tuck it
in on your knee?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
So like that? Fort Yeah? Are you leaning on something?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No, I'm a little off downs make it?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Idn't make it? Got like boot song with a big
heel on. I shouldn't have to do this. I can
do it without the boot song.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Okay, those are big boots, bro.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You done the Yeah? No, I'm waiting on you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
All right?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Get up there? Are you? Are you holding onto anything?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh no, you didn't make it. You didn't make it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What's my time? I'm going for?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, you've already you've already gone down twice and we're
not wearing a heel again.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh you see you do it?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, here we go. What about the buttons? Say again?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
What about the buttons?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The yeah? Okay? Foot there right?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You're holding onto the counter? No, I let go, and
you're holding onto the counter again.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
My hands are right here look at me.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
He went right to left with the hands.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
But look at me, look at me right now took
a Yeah, well I got it. I got to balance myself.
But look at me, look at my hands or look
a where I can't even see your hands.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Where are your hands?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Is your foot on something?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
My on my the inside of my knee. Switch sides,
switch sides.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Don't yell.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm not yelling.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm not good on this leg.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
So again, you're not good on that leg.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
That's because you've got mental decline.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Amen, tell me something I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You think you have mental decline?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Absolutely from what asing.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
The well, you're really wobbly there, so much for those pilates.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, look at me. I'm still I'm up and going.
I'm as strong left as right.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm actually not. I thought it would be worse on the.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You're standing with two feet on the ground right now.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
What does aggravation play into it? Because you're acting like
you're some perfect, like balanced specimen when you're not.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I'm not perfect.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh look god, oh look at me.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
All right, So you didn't pass the test.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
That that was not an accurate representation of a test.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Actually it is the most accurate test that's out there.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'll people judge.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
What exactly did we learn from her failure?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That Diane is.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
That her mind and body are aging at a very
rapid speed.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Again, amen, tell me what I don't know. No, no, preach,
that's the truth.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
There we go, There we go.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You're in great shape. Well, I mean I thought you
were until you took the task.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Who is putting this information forward?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Did you just take a bite of something Instagram?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Sorry, I was having some bacon. No, I can tell
you who was. So they put out this test. Aging
brings on a barrage of changes to the mind and body.
And by the way, it could be anybody, it could
be anybody. All of them seemingly happened at once. This
bombardment makes it difficult to measure how well our bodies
(03:46):
are holding up to the test of time. A new
study identified one simple task that can help predict anyone's
degree of physical and mental decline, and it's this flamingo test.
A new paper that was published by the journal Plos
says the ability to balance on one leg could be
(04:08):
a helpful indicator of neuromuscular aging. The researchers from both
Taiwan and Minnesota found that balancing on one leg offered
a larger window into the aging process than walking distance
or standing on two legs to other exercises that researchers
used to measure.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And when they say.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Aging, it doesn't just mean your your physical age.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It could be your mental age.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It could also just be if you are if you
are unhealthy, you're not going to be able to balance.
So you may be you could be twenty five, but
if you weighed four hundred pounds, I promise you you're
not doing this.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
So wasn't grip strength in for a while to indicate
how you were aging? Grip strength, Yes, I thought that
had a moment and some people bought those missions, little
squeeze things. Yeah, I think that's out. It's just this
flamingo test.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
They said that there's a bunch of them that that
that that people use. But they said this is the
most accurate in terms of being able to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Just a simple Well, and they said that's the beauty
of it. Well, it's simple.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
If you can do it, well, do it for how long?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Which I made, and you don't need to go beyond
that thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, Diana, nobody wants to just sit there and listen
to me. Stand for thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
But additional time doesn't prove anything. Say good if you
can stand for forty five or sixty seconds.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I don't think so. They performed a series of strength
and balanced tasks. The researchers tested, Oh, here you go.
The researchers tested the patient's grip and knee strength. Participants
had to stand for thirty seconds on both legs with
their eyes open and then closed, and also had to
stand on one leg first they're dominant, and then their non.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Dominant leg with their eyes open. Do I have a
dominant leg?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Yes, we all do.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What's my dominant leg?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You're left handed?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
That's not always the best indicator, because I'm right handed.
In my dominant leg is left handed. I found out
when I was shadow boxing.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But I also am left handed when I write and eat,
when I shoot, or bat or play tennis or really
anything else, I'm right handed. I guess you just have
to test it to figure I.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Man, but dextrous. What is my left If.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Somebody said, if Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreet said you're
going to kick this field goal, I would kick it
left footed.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So Is that my dominant foot? Yes, that's my dominant foot.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
The team measured how the participants walked using a motion
capture system. They found that of all these tests, balancing
on one leg offered the most insight into neuromuscular aging.
Walking motion didn't seem to change at all with age,
although I feel like it does. You ever get behind
one of old Bitty, I don't feel like she's walking
like she.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Did when she was twenty?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
What is it? Is this one word for ambi dexterity
of the feet.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, ambidextrous, So that is not just I think it's universal.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
It can be your other limbs. Yeah, oh okay.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I don't think it's like metatarsals and peditarsls who are
more bacon good save?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah. I just think you are what you are.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're an ambidextrous, which I am.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Isn't that funny? You're not? I am?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I'm right left handed. I eat left handed, I do
everything else right handed. I kick left handed. My dominant
stop in hockey is on my right foot.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, but you can't do things equally on both sides.
Don't even know argue that you can?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
No, I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I can't write as well right here, anty dexterity where
you could do both to say, so what am I
a liar?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I have potential? I like this test though. By the way,
how do you like grip strength? I get? How do
you do knee strength?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Is it just where like like you bend your knee
and they push down on it to see how your
resistance is?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Or do you have to crush something.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Here's a cab?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah no, but yes, like remember there are people who
can crush walnuts with their butt cheeks.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Uh, but what is it?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
What is all this measure?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Though?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
For the knee strength test, participants are in a seated
position and instructed to extend their knee as forcefully as possible.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Extend.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Oh okay, so resistance Yeah yeah, so it's kind of
what I said. Balance, especially when standing on one leg,
is so important because it requires you to use neuro
muscular controls, muscle strength, and attention to multiple sensations standing
on one leg. They also found as a valid measure
(09:06):
of fertility, frailty, excuse me, likelyhood to fail, and independence.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I like all that. I like this test and it's
very simple, but think of it.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
If you ask someone who's of an advanced stage to
do this, it would be hard, disastrous.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well yeah, no kidding, but that's what the test shows.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Yeah, but I guess I shouldn't say advanced it. I'm
saying somebody maybe in like their late sixties, you still
have many years to go. It could be bad.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
You don't think somebody in their sixties is breaking down
a little.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Bit, but they're still gonna live for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
And then if you this doesn't say if you can't
go thirty seconds, you die tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
No, maybe that's encouragement to like try to start working
on it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
I'm assuming it's reversible or you can extend time. Point
extend time. Father time always wins.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Then just seeking out exercises that help you do better
with the Flamenco test.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The yeah, but that, but there's so many things that
would go into that. You need strength, you need balance,
you need neuromuscular control, you need sensation. I mean again,
take the twenty five year old who weighs three hundred
and fifty pounds.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I guarantee you he can't do this test and listen.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
A well balanced approach to fitness and exercise I think
is key throughout your life through body and mind. Sure,
I think you throw the mind in there, absolutely, and
you are. With this test, it says for the grip
(10:37):
and knee strength, they show significant declines by decade, but
not as much as balance. So maybe so balance balance
goes quick would stand? No, no, no, Grip and knee strength
show significant declines by decade, but not as much as balance.
Oh so maybe an older person would actually surprise me
a little bit. Thirty seconds, maybe a stratch bude. The
(11:01):
Gate test participants walk back and forth on an eight
meter level walkway, and they could do bats in speed.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Congrats, you can walk back and forth.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
It's part of the test that says that it was
not a conclusive result because participants were just walking at
their normal pace.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, look at me walk. I got no cognitive decline.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Did they split it up anyway with the male and
female and the flamingo test?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I believe it's equal.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Oh so that's good too, because then it's not different information.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I mean, some women may be a little pulled forward,
but I think we understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Somebody email the other day and said, that's why you
find larger feet on women for balance for boobs.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Oh yeah, so itty Biddy got itty biddy feet and
they're part of the itty biddy committee. But a woman
who is a little that make I mean, think about it,
that makes sense. Like not to sound like a neanderthal,
but you don't want to topple forward.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But the only thing that you mentioned that you didn't
really do you.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Remember why Dolly Parton's feet are so small? Why no sunlight?
Great joke, great joke, right, great joke. Anyway, I'm sorry,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
What was the thing about closing the eyes? We didn't
do that?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh yours? Also they want you to do the test
also with your eyes closed.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Oh my god, Diane, good luck the.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, it's harder with your eyes closed because you can't
focus on something.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Diane, you couldn't do it with your eyes open. Are
your eyes open or close closed?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yep? I stumbled for a seconds.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I stumbled, here we go, all right, eyes closed, holding
onto the counter.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
But I didn't I didn't suffer.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I didn't suffer decline mental decline in the last twenty seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
May have.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yes, they want you to be able to do it
your eyes closed as well. Balance is very important. Think
about what do you guys talk about all the time?
I said it false old people falling. Yeah, this is
much better.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
But this isn't just about balance. You're learning so much more.
That's the point of this. Yes, decline with you said,
neuromuscular neuromuscular mapping.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Where am I going? Line two? Hi? Elliet in the morning? Yeah? Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Andrew?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yes? Andrew? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
So I have a perfect test to find your dominant play?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Your dominant play.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
You answered, because you're going to cheat?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, I won't cheat. Oh you were talking to Diane.
I'm sorry, Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
All right, So Ellie, you have to stand up your
feet together together parallel?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
What does that mean? Side by side? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Touching? Okay, yes, side by side parallel? And uh, whoever's
supposed to you push? You?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Push me, Tyler? Not hard? Okay, push me. You tapped
me like like it was a love tap. I don't
know if you really want one like that.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
You don't want all that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Just give me a little push, not hard, but you push? Okay?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (14:27):
And which which foot stopped you from Paul on your face?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Was I supposed shot him from behind?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Because he shoved him from the right, So your left
saved you?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Okay? So wait, push me from behind, to push.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Him so hard he hits his face in the television.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Okay, what do you do it?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You're setting up, so you help you holding onto it.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I'm not touching anything. I moved the chair. Moved the
chair so I wouldn't go in the chair.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
He's definitely chea.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I'm one hundred percent not cheating. I moved a chair so.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That God forbid I don't fall.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And break my neck.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Okay, Todd, ready.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
You're not gonna fall. No foot is gonna save you.
Your dominant foot will naturally come out and stop you
from falling on your face.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Won't keep your falling. Die, both of them, both of them.
I hopped and both of my feet saved me.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I got him off guard.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
No, maybe him too hard?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
No, no, no. I hopped forward and both of my
feet saved me. I'm appadextrous.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Appadextrous. Oh I have I have multiple I.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Just figured out I have two dominant feet. I hopped.
What's the answer there.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Well, we'll try pushing backwards. Then only one gonna save you?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, wait, hold on, let me see if his hands
bigger than his face, because he might have cancers.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
No, what is it? What I have two dominant feet.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think he needs to push you with less vigor.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
What is surprise? What tip.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Put your hand on his back and then slowly push forward,
and eventually he's not going to be able to write.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I'm gonna be lean right hold on is going to
be upset Johnny test monitor, Okay, so I'm just I'm
not just gonna yeah, just push shove. It's a slow bill.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Oh my, just please push me forward? Here we go.
You know you know.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You're hopping for dramatic effect, dian the you do.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Let me get behind you, and don't I love The
caller told us the eager and cheat, and you did cheat.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Why is your growing up against my Butt's weird?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Before growing was on my butt?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That was weird.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I'm getting behind me, behind you, pushing with have enough.
I want to be close enough that I can push.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
That was so straight.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Here, come on, ready, you're ready?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Which was left foot?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Left foot?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
My left foot went forward to stop me.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
That's not your doin pre dominant.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
But you're not right.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
I think I'm right handed, but I think i'm better
on my right foot.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I think you're cognitive decline.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I think you're growing was on my butt. Maybe that
has something to do with it.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You should stand behind.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I got right behind and you were told to push
with your arm, but you got your groin twice.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
To extend my arm when I pushed you three times?
Almost did you ever feel my penis?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Oh my god, I just.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Came behind you.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Know what it is like? I can't win. I was like, hey,
do this test? Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Cheater?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, okay, Oh you're groid. I'm sorry, not Johnny test monitor,
the complimented woman in the office anymore. What's up with that?
All right?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Very good? It's not a winner lose.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You're cheating yourself, that's what that's well said the Yeah no,
but I'm dominant in both feet.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Why can't you accept that?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Because that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I just I actually just proved it's a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I just I just showed everybody it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And I'm only cheating myself.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
But I don't know why Dianekee is going back to
this goddamn flamingo po.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Because I'm going back and forth between my right and
my left, and I still think I'm a little bit
more stable on my right.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I know a guy who conducted a test and they
showed that you're left.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
She was trying to protect thank.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You what no, no, no, no, thank you sir. You
know why Diane is messed up. I can tell you
why Diane's messed up. Why women with larger chests have
bigger feet. Diane reduced the size of her chest, but
still has the bigger feet.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
She didn't reduce her foots.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
On, I'm waiting on that toe reduction.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
All right, let me get behind you again, so.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
We're gonna have to see Alice twice.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Yeah, that was weird.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Remember, it's like, what happened
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