I'm only a couple years older than the person writing this and they are going to retract this article when they are my age lol
The Bad Politics of Bad Posture
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#12i also didn't get past the lede, there's a lot of evidence that slouching is unhealthy, that bad posture has all kinds of effects on musculature, ossification, organ displacement. i actually started to develop a hump in my 30s from being a techie which took a lot of work to undo, but now i see those hump precursors on teenage girls. looking into the background of the author, Daniel Felsenthal, "Daniel Felsenthal is a…
> how is this person at all qualified to comment on these subjects? why does he think he is?
TBH I think most journalists from these publications are more qualified to write about posture health benefits than they are qualified to do actual journalism.
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#13I have found that in addition to causing pain, many years of sitting for extended periods and bad posture has also increased my blood pressure, and standing/walking more as well as improving posture and ergonomics markedly reduces pain and lowers my BP. But I guess I should throw all that out and be gaslit by a bunch of rambling from an article that weirdly tries to invoke identity politics.
You're conflating sitting and bad posture. Sitting will have bad effects even if you sit straight
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#14I have found that in addition to causing pain, many years of sitting for extended periods and bad posture has also increased my blood pressure, and standing/walking more as well as improving posture and ergonomics markedly reduces pain and lowers my BP. But I guess I should throw all that out and be gaslit by a bunch of rambling from an article that weirdly tries to invoke identity politics.
You're conflating sitting and bad posture. Sitting will have bad effects even if you sit straight
I’m not, I mentioned both. My blood pressure is measurably worse with bad posture. Sounds like BS, but if I sit forward and slouch it’s several points higher than if I sit all the way back in the chair and straight up. And bad posture is the primary correlation to pain.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
What helped you undo it? I see so much advice floating around and I know 90% is bs but not sure how to identify the 10%.
my advice is not universally applicable, sorry. i had a very strong mysore style ashtanga† practice in my 20s, that i at some point abandoned. i simply picked it up again, and it still took me close to a year to get my spine dynamic enough, get my muscules moving to arest and maybe revert some of the ossification? it's not visibly there at this point, but through close athletic observation i know it's not ever going…
Thank you. Love the video.