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Stuart McGill

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

if they're a student, travel with it, sitting in a restaurant. People who go and say, oh, my back's killing me after sitting in that booth in the restaurant.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

if they're a student, travel with it, sitting in a restaurant. People who go and say, oh, my back's killing me after sitting in that booth in the restaurant.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

if they're a student, travel with it, sitting in a restaurant. People who go and say, oh, my back's killing me after sitting in that booth in the restaurant.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm past the funny looks. I'm okay with that.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm past the funny looks. I'm okay with that.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm past the funny looks. I'm okay with that.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm with you 100% with the notion that walking is one of the most healthy things you can do. I get stuck a little bit when you want me to give numbers in a generic broad application. Ranges are fine. If I saw the person, and they have a back pain history, I would know, A, should I just leave walking alone and tell them to walk? It's quite fine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm with you 100% with the notion that walking is one of the most healthy things you can do. I get stuck a little bit when you want me to give numbers in a generic broad application. Ranges are fine. If I saw the person, and they have a back pain history, I would know, A, should I just leave walking alone and tell them to walk? It's quite fine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm with you 100% with the notion that walking is one of the most healthy things you can do. I get stuck a little bit when you want me to give numbers in a generic broad application. Ranges are fine. If I saw the person, and they have a back pain history, I would know, A, should I just leave walking alone and tell them to walk? It's quite fine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

That's not your problem, but we still want you to walk three or four times a day. But I know what the question is, and you want some general rules on all of this. Don't walk to pain. So if your tipping point is 40 minutes, you can't go and for a 40-minute walk. You've just guaranteed that you will be unsuccessful in having a pain-free day. But can you walk 20 minutes? Good.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

That's not your problem, but we still want you to walk three or four times a day. But I know what the question is, and you want some general rules on all of this. Don't walk to pain. So if your tipping point is 40 minutes, you can't go and for a 40-minute walk. You've just guaranteed that you will be unsuccessful in having a pain-free day. But can you walk 20 minutes? Good.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

That's not your problem, but we still want you to walk three or four times a day. But I know what the question is, and you want some general rules on all of this. Don't walk to pain. So if your tipping point is 40 minutes, you can't go and for a 40-minute walk. You've just guaranteed that you will be unsuccessful in having a pain-free day. But can you walk 20 minutes? Good.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Walk 20 minutes three times a day. Now you've got a full hour of pain-free walking guaranteed. So it was the exposure and how you dosed it throughout the day. If the person has discogenic back pain, they will find that they don't like to stand in one position for very long, sit in one position for very long, or do any single activity for a long period of time.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Walk 20 minutes three times a day. Now you've got a full hour of pain-free walking guaranteed. So it was the exposure and how you dosed it throughout the day. If the person has discogenic back pain, they will find that they don't like to stand in one position for very long, sit in one position for very long, or do any single activity for a long period of time.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Walk 20 minutes three times a day. Now you've got a full hour of pain-free walking guaranteed. So it was the exposure and how you dosed it throughout the day. If the person has discogenic back pain, they will find that they don't like to stand in one position for very long, sit in one position for very long, or do any single activity for a long period of time.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So the key for their daily regimen is to keep changing posture. So something like a sit-stand desk at work would be a really good idea. But now the magic comes if they could sit for 20 minutes, stand for... 30 minutes and walk for 10. Now that was the magic of the dosing that allows them to do their job as a computer programmer or whatever it is where they're a slave to the computer.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So the key for their daily regimen is to keep changing posture. So something like a sit-stand desk at work would be a really good idea. But now the magic comes if they could sit for 20 minutes, stand for... 30 minutes and walk for 10. Now that was the magic of the dosing that allows them to do their job as a computer programmer or whatever it is where they're a slave to the computer.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So the key for their daily regimen is to keep changing posture. So something like a sit-stand desk at work would be a really good idea. But now the magic comes if they could sit for 20 minutes, stand for... 30 minutes and walk for 10. Now that was the magic of the dosing that allows them to do their job as a computer programmer or whatever it is where they're a slave to the computer.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

There's no option. So there's an idea there. In my own life, it's a habit. I walk after every meal. I walk before I go to bed and that's my time with my wife and my dog and it's our routine. And it is, even when we travel in the winter, we drive south, we break up the drive and we do our walks and it keeps us pain-free. It doesn't matter who you are.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

There's no option. So there's an idea there. In my own life, it's a habit. I walk after every meal. I walk before I go to bed and that's my time with my wife and my dog and it's our routine. And it is, even when we travel in the winter, we drive south, we break up the drive and we do our walks and it keeps us pain-free. It doesn't matter who you are.