Beth Linker

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Something You Should Know · Have We Been Wrong About Posture? & How Memory Champions Think · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

They believed it was linked to tuberculosis.

So they thought that if you had a slouched posture, you would develop tuberculosis.

And then later in the century, it became more about back pain.

But they never did any concrete studies.

And at this time, we have to remember that, just as I said, cultural norms change and fashion changes.

The dictates and demands of science change.

If you look at today's science and the standards of today's science, there is no evidence that poor posture is going to necessarily lead to back pain or that good posture is going to prevent back pain.

If you do look at those websites, I mean, I wouldn't trust AI.

Yes, yes, I know, the Harvard.

And I've looked at that myself.

I think because I think that message is out there because we have to distinguish between preventative health care, right?

So prevention.

and actually interventive or therapeutic healthcare.

There isn't a lot of cutting edge science in preventative healthcare.

And I think this is just a safe message to send out there, yet also meaningless, because no person maintains the same posture all day long.

I have ergonomic chairs.

I'm not like a denier.

I'm not a posture denier.

So I'm not denying that sometimes I feel better when I'm in my ergonomic chair, but I'm not sitting in my ergonomic chair so that I can hold an upright posture for three hours.

Actually, I'm sitting in it and then I move places.

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