Excessive sitting (5-7 hours daily) is detrimental to health, negatively impacting sleep, causing neck pain, impairing cognition, and contributing to cardiovascular and digestion problems. — Whalespan
Excessive sitting (5-7 hours daily) is detrimental to health, negatively impacting sleep, causing neck pain, impairing cognition, and contributing to cardiovascular and digestion problems.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“And it turns out that just sitting is terrible for us. Okay? And there's an enormous number of studies out there that point to the fact that people who sit for five or six or seven hours a day doing work have all sorts of issues related to sleep, neck pain, cognition suffers, their number of cardiovascular effects, even digestion.”