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Dr. Kelly Starrett

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2214 total appearances

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Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

helping people change their environment so that their environment is a movement rich environment. And let me give you a couple of examples about the way our office and our house is set up to sort of create that movement. So our entire office, every single desk in our office is a standing desk and it's set permanently at standing desk height.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

helping people change their environment so that their environment is a movement rich environment. And let me give you a couple of examples about the way our office and our house is set up to sort of create that movement. So our entire office, every single desk in our office is a standing desk and it's set permanently at standing desk height.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

helping people change their environment so that their environment is a movement rich environment. And let me give you a couple of examples about the way our office and our house is set up to sort of create that movement. So our entire office, every single desk in our office is a standing desk and it's set permanently at standing desk height.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

Now, does that mean we and our employees have to stand all day? Not at all. Every single desk also has a stool connected to it. But what we like about having all standing desks is that we find that at that position, We move more, we get up more, we have more opportunity to fidget. We're more likely to walk away from our desk to go talk to a colleague than text them, pick up the phone.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

Now, does that mean we and our employees have to stand all day? Not at all. Every single desk also has a stool connected to it. But what we like about having all standing desks is that we find that at that position, We move more, we get up more, we have more opportunity to fidget. We're more likely to walk away from our desk to go talk to a colleague than text them, pick up the phone.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

Now, does that mean we and our employees have to stand all day? Not at all. Every single desk also has a stool connected to it. But what we like about having all standing desks is that we find that at that position, We move more, we get up more, we have more opportunity to fidget. We're more likely to walk away from our desk to go talk to a colleague than text them, pick up the phone.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

We're more likely to just move more if we're in that position. We also have taken the choice out of it. We don't have an electric standing desk that we can just turn down and sit down. The default is to do the right thing. The default. The constraint. We set it so that the default is to do the right thing, to create an environment where we can move more.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

We're more likely to just move more if we're in that position. We also have taken the choice out of it. We don't have an electric standing desk that we can just turn down and sit down. The default is to do the right thing. The default. The constraint. We set it so that the default is to do the right thing, to create an environment where we can move more.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

We're more likely to just move more if we're in that position. We also have taken the choice out of it. We don't have an electric standing desk that we can just turn down and sit down. The default is to do the right thing. The default. The constraint. We set it so that the default is to do the right thing, to create an environment where we can move more.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

But like everybody else, we have days where we're tired, exhausted, sick, and we have days where we sit on the stool for the vast majority of the day. The other thing we like about the stool standing desk setup is that you can employ this position called perching, which is sort of like this intermediate between standing and sitting. It's like you're at the edge of the stool.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

But like everybody else, we have days where we're tired, exhausted, sick, and we have days where we sit on the stool for the vast majority of the day. The other thing we like about the stool standing desk setup is that you can employ this position called perching, which is sort of like this intermediate between standing and sitting. It's like you're at the edge of the stool.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

But like everybody else, we have days where we're tired, exhausted, sick, and we have days where we sit on the stool for the vast majority of the day. The other thing we like about the stool standing desk setup is that you can employ this position called perching, which is sort of like this intermediate between standing and sitting. It's like you're at the edge of the stool.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

your feet are actually both on the ground and it actually requires you to be active a little bit in your upper body. So it's this nice, happy medium between sitting and standing. So that, that's what our office looks like. And then when you go to our home, we have a variety of different ways we've constrained our environment to encourage more movement. We actually have a count, a

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

your feet are actually both on the ground and it actually requires you to be active a little bit in your upper body. So it's this nice, happy medium between sitting and standing. So that, that's what our office looks like. And then when you go to our home, we have a variety of different ways we've constrained our environment to encourage more movement. We actually have a count, a

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

your feet are actually both on the ground and it actually requires you to be active a little bit in your upper body. So it's this nice, happy medium between sitting and standing. So that, that's what our office looks like. And then when you go to our home, we have a variety of different ways we've constrained our environment to encourage more movement. We actually have a count, a

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

Our kitchen counter is at a height where we can work while standing. We also have a lower part of our counter where we can sit and work if we're at home working on our laptop. And then the other thing we really encourage back to the very beginning of this conversation is actually to choose sitting on the floor to work for part of your day.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

Our kitchen counter is at a height where we can work while standing. We also have a lower part of our counter where we can sit and work if we're at home working on our laptop. And then the other thing we really encourage back to the very beginning of this conversation is actually to choose sitting on the floor to work for part of your day.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

Our kitchen counter is at a height where we can work while standing. We also have a lower part of our counter where we can sit and work if we're at home working on our laptop. And then the other thing we really encourage back to the very beginning of this conversation is actually to choose sitting on the floor to work for part of your day.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

So if someone were following me with a hidden camera for my, let's say, eight-hour workday, I would do a variety of things. I would get up and down off the floor and work sitting on the floor for a couple hours. And while I'm sitting on the floor, I'd probably be changing positions. I'd be sitting cross-legged 90-90. Long sit, like you'd see me constantly moving positions.

Dhru Purohit Show
The Top Signs and Signals You Aren't Aging Well with Dr. Kelly & Juliet Starrett (Rebroadcast)

So if someone were following me with a hidden camera for my, let's say, eight-hour workday, I would do a variety of things. I would get up and down off the floor and work sitting on the floor for a couple hours. And while I'm sitting on the floor, I'd probably be changing positions. I'd be sitting cross-legged 90-90. Long sit, like you'd see me constantly moving positions.