Dr. Wendy Bazilian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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So her energy and her strength increased as she did the same things with more, you know, more, you know, a combination of more intention and more effort.
And the even better part was that she was giving herself the credit.
It helped ease her anxiety over this, and it vastly improved her quality of sleep.
because she was losing sleep over the, you know, how much earlier can I get up in the morning to accomplish this?
And I'm tired and I have kids, all this stuff, all this stuff of life.
So her experience brings to mind a fascinating study.
In fact, I knew this study when I was working with her, and I sort of leaned into it.
But it was a study of hotel service people, housekeepers, conducted by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, which produced some really stunning findings about NEAT.
And we can all imagine, having stayed in hotels, I'm sure, before, that cleaning hotel rooms is pretty strenuous work.
There's a time constraint.
There's changing sheets.
There's lifting things.
There's moving things.
There's big carts.
Um, lifting the vacuums, the, the laundry, you know, it's, it's a lot.
It's, and it's, it's like it's work, um, making beds, scrubbing showers.
Think about that.
So needless to say, um, in this study, the workers in the study did enough heavy lifting on the job to exceed the surgeon general's recommendation of daily exercise, which is, um,
was at the time and still is 150 minutes of activity, moderate activity on a weekly basis.
So about 30 minutes a day, at least five days a week.
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