Why Rituals Exist Everywhere & The Exercise Paradox - SYSK Choice

2338.729 - 2362.802 Daniel E. Lieberman

you know, electric can openers and you name it, right? And so basically now we don't really need to be physically active anymore, and yet our bodies require physical activity in order to turn on a whole variety of repair and maintenance mechanisms that keep us healthy. And so we've had to create in the modern industrial or post-industrial world this really weird behavior called exercise.