Dan Buettner
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3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Jan
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That's four periods of mindless physical activity every day.
every time you go to work.
That adds up hugely over time.
We under-celebrate it, but it's probably 90% the value of training for a marathon.
Number two, if you can bike or walk to work, I know that's even a bigger stretch for most people, do that.
People say, well, I live too far away.
Well, you can always move.
And if health is a priority, moving to work might be an important contribution.
You know, if you go from being sedentary to just 20 minutes of physical activity a day, that adds three years to your life expectancy.
There is no rapamycin or metformin or other snake oil supplement that's going to add three years to your life expectancy.
So if you can figure out how to walk to work and back every day and you're sedentary right now, I would argue there's no greater way to add years to your life expectancy.
Not sexy.
I can't sell you anything, but it works.
And there's plenty of academic research to show that it does.
You start by the insight that you're never going to convince a million people in a city to eat what you want them to eat or get more exercise or socialize.
But you can shape their environment so they do it mindlessly.
How do you shape people's environment?
Number one...
Policy.
You can help a city adopt policies that favor healthy food over junk food and junk food marketing.
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