After 7,000 Videos, I Have to Come Clean About This
In a Nutshell
Modern environments sabotage health more than diet through chronic sitting, engineered dopamine addiction from social media and processed food, constant estrogenic chemical exposure, disrupted circadian rhythms from inadequate morning light, and social isolation that raises mortality risk 50%. Movement from daily physical work outperforms exercise and healthy eating for longevity. Fixing these five environmental factors controls health outcomes more than food choices alone.
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I have made over 7,000 videos over the past 20 years, primarily focused on helping people get rid of junk food out of their lifestyle. Not everyone responds to that approach. A lot of people still have problems and a lot of people still can't lose weight when they clean up the bad things in their diet. Recently I wrote a book called Change Your Environments. The book is about finding the gaps in your environment and then redesigning your environment so your body can thrive.
We are living in a very modern environment that is drastically different than the one our bodies evolved from. Today I'm going to talk about five things that are more important than your diet.
I'm not even talking about exercise. I'm talking about movement or motion. Our ancestors walked for literally 5 to 9 miles every single day. They lifted things. They carried things. They bent down. They were working a lot outside. We're like the first generation in human history that completely sits still for 8 to 10 hours straight and then you go to the gym to work out for 45 minutes. That doesn't turn that switch back on. Maybe a little bit, but it doesn't really move the dial.
Motion eliminates stress in the body, especially mental stress that we accumulate primarily because we don't move enough. I live in a farm now. I have two neighbors, two older gentlemen that live on pure junk food. They smoke. They chew tobacco and they seem to be fairly healthy, at least from the outside, despite what they eat. But guess what they're doing all day long? They are outside doing physical work from the time they wake up to the time they go to sleep.
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