In this health‑focused monologue, the creator warns that prolonged sitting—a habit many consider harmless—poses serious, often hidden, risks to the body. She outlines how a sedentary lifestyle can trigger insulin resistance, type‑2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, higher mortality, mood disturbances, osteoporosis, and back pain. Drawing on her own tracked biometrics, she contrasts days filled with continuous low‑level movement against days that combine intense exercise with long periods of sitting, showing that the latter still leads to poorer metabolic markers, lower calorie burn, and worse sleep. She cites research indicating that standing or moving for roughly 1 minute 40 seconds every 30 minutes improves insulin regulation and overall metabolic health, and she emphasizes that total daily step counts (≈10,000) matter more than a single workout session. Practical recommendations follow: use a stand‑desk, set reminders or wearables to prompt breaks, take stairs, park farther away, perform brief body‑weight movements, and spread activity throughout the day. The speaker repeatedly urges viewers to become consciously aware of their sitting habits, adopt consistent micro‑movement, and subscribe for more health‑optimizing content.
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When it comes to your health, there are a lot of damaging things that you can do that is very obvious. But what about the things that are not so obvious that you could be doing that damages your health? Today I want to talk about one of those things, and if this is something that you're doing, you're going to want to really correct this because this particular habit can cause anywhere from diabetes type 2 to cardiovascular disease to insulin resistance to even increasing your mortality rate. So I want to get into it, but before I do, I want to remind you to please like my video and subscribe to my page because I am continuing to get information out to you that is going to really level up the quality of your life and the quality of your health. All right, so today I want to talk about being sedentary, meaning sitting too much. I know, not so obvious. And we see people who do certain things like smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol or eat too much sugar you know, or even those who are super stressed out. And we know already, okay, this is going to cause damage to their body, this is going to make them not be able to function properly or regulate their system the way that they need to. But did you know the damages of sitting too much and how it can cause all of these complications to the body and even increase the rate of coronary heart disease. I'm sure that a lot of people don't talk about it because there's so many other things out there that damages our health, but this plays a huge role in your metabolic functionality. And I want to talk about this because the lack of constant movement that people have throughout the day is really causing some serious health problems. And I think that a lot of people have tried to fix this with exercise, but exercise actually cannot fix the damage that happens to your body from a sedentary lifestyle or just sitting too much. And I know a lot of people have jobs where they have to sit and they're on their computer typing and just doing whatever their workload, uh, requires them to do. But I'm telling you that I want to start bringing you into a conscious place of this unconscious habit because it is causing damage to your body whether you know it or not. Some of the damage can be insulin resistance and diabetes, uh, cardiovascular disease, heightened depression and anxiety, stroke, metabolic symptoms, osteoporosis, and even an increased risk of mortality rate. Listen, the truth is that we are actually not designed to be sitting, okay? Now I know you're probably like, well, why are you sitting in this video? Well, I'm just making a quick video, okay? But I can guarantee you that after this I'm going to stand up because I am very conscious and aware of how long I'm sitting. For example, you know, if I'm online doing a conference or something that requires like hours of having to sit. I am actually going to get my little stand desk and put my laptop there and stand up because I understand the detrimental effects of sitting around too long. And I actually tested this out on myself, and that's when I actually started to realize, wow, there is something different about being very cognitive and conscious of how much movement I'm having throughout the day. For example, I used to have days where I just want to sit around and catch up on some TV, right? So I work a lot, and I do always work a lot, but there'll be these days where I'm like, I just don't want to do anything, right? And so because I'm such a health advocate and I love exercise, I'll say to myself, okay, you know what, if I'm going to sit around and watch TV today and catch up on some TV shows, then I have to work out. So I have to go exercise. So I definitely go exercise, and it could be an hour of intense exercise where I'm like lifting weights, doing high-intensity interval training, or something where my output is pretty high for that day. Then I'd go and I'd feel good about the fact that I've worked out, I've got my exercise in, and then I go sit down and just watch TV and catch up on some stuff. Well, I noticed in my biometrics, because I track my calories and I track my strain levels and my sleep and all of the things that I need to gather the information to see how much of a physical productive day I've had and how that affects my body in every type of way, okay? And so I would start to notice that, wow, like on the days that I would exercise and have all this output, but then I did nothing for the rest of the day, it's like I didn't have a lot of real success on a physical level or on an activity level. And I started to even know how much my body was burning calories or even how energized I would feel maybe the next day. And being aware of your metabolic rate is important because it's not that metabolism just helps you to lose weight, it helps you to know how much energy you're going to be producing also. And so I would look at my data on days where I did no exercise, but I was just on the go all day or moving all day or doing things like cleaning up or, you know, just something that required me to like have constant movement. And I would find out on days like that, my body would do much better. I would burn more calories. Uh, my biometrics would be a lot healthier the next day. I got better sleep. Things were a lot different. And I'm like, how could that be? I didn't even exercise. I didn't do any high-intensity interval training. I didn't do anything. I feel like I shouldn't have burned this many calories, or I feel like I shouldn't have had such a good quality sleep. But I started to notice it more and more, and I realized, wait a minute, like, if you exercise and then you do nothing the rest of the day, then it's not actually good on your health. I mean, I'm not saying that the exercise isn't good. It is. And especially if you're not going to be doing anything the rest of the day. But what I am saying is it's so much better to actually be cognitive of how much movement you're getting consistently throughout the day. And that has been known to actually boost health metrics. And be able to boost certain things that increase the quality of your life. So what I realize is if you don't do this, you can actually affect your metabolism— means lower your metabolism, increase your fat storage, change how your body processes blood sugar, and even change the health of your blood vessels. That's right. And so when you are sedentary and you're sitting around all day, they have done plenty studies that show that those who are a lot more active or who may get up every 30 minutes, even for like 2 minutes, and actually to be precise, it's actually a minute and 40 seconds every 30 minutes, they're able to help with their insulin levels and help to process their blood sugar a lot more efficiently. And you see, this is not something that people generally even care about because Again, it's not obvious. You know, all the other obvious things are the things that people pay attention to and they take really serious. But this is actually something that has been proven to be quite damaging to your body, and it's hard to know it if you're not really paying attention to how your body is responding and how you're performing overall if you're not following the data that shows the difference between when you are sitting around all day versus when you are moving and when you are exercising and getting up and just even standing. Now there's a lot of ways to help change this. You know, there are a lot of apps out that help to remind you to get up. There's certain equipment that you can wear where it'll remind you that, hey, you've been sitting too long. And there are products out there that can help to monitor how many steps you're getting in in a day. And that kind of helps to know how much were you moving on this day. But again, you know, if you're taking a run early in the morning and you are running for like 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and you get the majority of your steps and you do nothing the rest of the day, remember that can be still a hindrance to your overall health levels.. But if you are spreading it throughout the day and you're getting, you know, at least 10,000 steps in a day throughout the day, that is actually good. And some people wonder, how many steps should I get? Is 10,000 good? Is 5,000? I think 10,000 is a good place, you know, to be at and to be able to say, okay, I've had some movement throughout the day and I've allowed myself not to be sitting around too long. You know, because honestly, a lot of people will sit between 6 and 8 hours a day, especially depending on the type of job you have. So it's a lot easier if somebody do have a job that requires labor or physical activity. But if you're sitting around at a desk, you're going to have to be a lot more intentional about making sure that this does not become you. You don't want a scenario where you are affecting your blood sugar levels and you're affecting your heart and you're affecting your metabolism and you're affecting your energy levels. You wanna make sure that you're addressing this and you're taking it head on. And again, exercise has its own separate category. The good thing about this is that it's not really like hardcore exercise that creates a lot of output. It's just more about the consistency, okay? So even if you don't exercise for a particular day, if you're constantly moving, This is actually healthy for you and sometimes much healthier than if you exercise and then you remain sedentary the rest of your day. So all this requires is that you be conscious, that you do things that put your body in a predicament to be able to move. You park a little further when you go to the grocery store and then you use a little extra time to walk around the store, or you go to the mall and take a walk if you're shopping and just, you know, decide to prolong it a little bit and get a little activity in there. Or you decide that you want to take the stairs instead of the elevator. Or if you're at work, you get up and you decide every 30 minutes, I'm gonna just get up and walk around for about, you know, 2 minutes. Or you might decide, like me sometimes, you just want to get up and do some push-ups on the floor, because I do that often. Or you want to get up and just do some squats, or maybe some stretches, or something that gets your body moving. Because the damage that it causes your body to sit around and watch TV all day is really affecting you, and we're just not made to be sitting around all day. Even if you got to sit on the floor and— or lay back on the floor or something. This is what's causing even a lot of back pain, is being in a sitting position all day. You're not supposed to be like that. So sometimes I'll get on the floor and I'll cross my legs in Indian style and I'll work from the floor, or I'll just create a different position. And I'm very aware of that because I don't want to restrict, you know, my, my blood flow and restrict my vessels from being flexible and restrict my joints and my ligaments and my cartilage by sitting in a position that keeps me stuck and keeps me lacking fluidity and movement in my body and sitting in a position that is going to cause damage to my joints and my spine. And generally, this can let you know just how healthy you are in general, because when you think about it, kids have more fluidity in their movement. They flow better. They are able to bend their body in different positions. And when we get older, that starts to become limited and restricted. But usually it's because of the lack of movement and the lack of mobility that we've had from sitting around all day watching TV, sitting on our phones and on our computers all day, or either just at work stuck in a chair all day. So I wanted to bring some attention to this because it's not obvious. And I don't think people know how detrimental it is to their health and to their ability to have a good, successful, mobile lifestyle. So if that is you, I want you to start addressing this and make sure that you become a lot more aware of this in your life so that you can start to improve it. I guarantee that you're gonna see a huge difference in just how you feel overall. All right, so start to get some cleaning done. You know, do whatever it takes to move. It doesn't matter what it is. Just make sure that you're constantly doing this and that you're thinking about it. So if you want to continue to get information and notifications that I have released videos that can help you in your health walk and help you to just boost the quality of your entire life and world, because your health is your wealth, whether you know it or not. And this is something that you need to be working on. Every single day. Make sure that you like this video and don't forget to subscribe to my page. I promise that I will continue to make sure that you are getting healthier and better.
