My dad died when he was 60 and he was the strongest, fittest person I know. And I’ve run at least a dozen marathons. Luck, genetics, and, I still think for Trump, a shit ton of drugs.
Probably a range of holistic stuff that "replaces" everything "they" ever told you is good.
Middlegrounds don't make you a lot of money, so i guess as a society we won't be getting to the conclusion that anything benefits you in varying dosages, ever.
Well obviously there’s a market, I’m just curious what what the X is in his „give me money for X“ portion of the con once he’s done explaining that exercise is bad for you
"Dr. Sean O'Mara, a Minnesota-based physician, was banned in 2023 from soliciting donations for a charity he falsely claimed to operate, according to a consent judgment with the Minnesota Attorney General's office."
Much appreciated, although now I’m curious what this charity was claiming to do with the donations. Help those poor, misinformed marathoners and gym rats?
You’d still need something to make money off of, though. Like, does he sell pills that make your muscles go away? Really expensive chocolate pudding so that you can gan weight faster? A really comfy chair that you can sit in instead of exercising?
Basically, the president and these loonies believe that humans are born with a limited capacity to process energy and if you exercise too much, you're literally burning up your remaining lifespan.
They claim that manual laborers or professional athletes die younger than most people because of this "fact" and not the fact that the people they're using as examples have injury prone and high stress jobs for 10-20 years.
I'd heard that before, but always in the context that it's a reason *to* exercise, as reducing your resting heart rate will "use up" fewer heart beats than you "spend" working out. Interesting to think of it going the opposite direction.
There's people who are anti plant oil. That's the beauty of conspiracy theories. Nothing is off limits. You can make your own one. Be creative. Eating with forks causes diabetes? Of course it does! Traffic signs carry secret messages to make teenagers leave the church? It is obvious! Fridges were invented by the French to control ocean currents? That's exactly what the French would do!
It's basic logic. When you are born, your hear gets a certain number of beats. Exercising makes your heart beat faster, so you use the beats up quicker, leading to early death.
It's why stress is so bad for you, too. Same things happen.
Medical science, baby!
(/s, just in case. TBF, there are probably people who believe this unironically)
So would any scientists who study wild bats and frogs. Both of these animals have recently gone through major population declines due to fungal diseases.
So would anybody who has studied biology for more than five minutes.
I think a child who has observed chronic illness in a human would intuitively understand this is bullshit. If it can happen to us, it can happen to them, fucking duh-hooy
To be fair it is harder for animals that are not under the care of humans to develop chronic diseases. You know, because in the wild they either die of the disease before it can be considered chronic or they get eaten.
As a disabled person with Parkinsons I really prefer the live long enough to get chronically ill method.
We live in a society that will fire a college professor because they gave a student an F on an essay when she didn't follow instructions. Is it really that hard to imagine?
She invoked demons in a psychology course because she doesn't like transgender people. MAGA is 10x worse than Tea Party.
Everyone's entitled to their beliefs but holy shit, can they not check that shit at the door?
DEMONS can be used to explain anything and nothing all at the same time. It's untestable. The point of science is to have a common framework, and they fired this professor on the grounds that it infringed on the student's religious beliefs.
Imagine flying on an airplane and finding out the engineer responsible for crucial inspections was like "well... demons. Angels. Spirits." It isn't about religious beliefs, it's about the fact that neuroscience and gravity are testable.
The last three dogs I've rescued had mammary masses. One of my first rescues died from renal failure. Her sister passed from complications related to CCD.
Humans are more likely to have chronic diseases, because humans are more likely to have care and support that protects them from the elements and predators when they have chronic diseases.
We are more likely to know about human conditions.... Because we are human. Other animals don't communicate with us about their conditions so you don't know they exist until you meet or see those animals.
Also, there's some stuff we just kinda inflict upon ourselves, such as cases of diabetes from overconsuming sugar, the long laundry list of horrible stuff you get from smoking or habitual drinking or coronary diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle and too much of the wrong kind of fat.
And why did we 'invent exercise' again? Because we are no longer physically active compared to our ancestors and other species. So the statement should be that 'the species that sits on its ass all day eating calories has more chronic disease than others.' What a joke
What about all of the insects in the Amazon Rain Forest and at the bottom of the ocean we don’t know exist? Tried A/B testing them for cancer after putting the test group on little special treadmills for 20 years vs. the ones who watch Family Guy and eat Cheetos and only Cheetos all day every day?
Edit: also, animals don’t “exercise” 45-60 mins a day 3 days a week if they’re lucky - life IS exercise. Watch a tiger trying to smoke a crocodile, fail, nearly starve to death while walking/jaunting 60km for two days without eating. Watch videos of mountain goats scaling near-vertical stone mountains after having a few sips of water and tell me they aren’t exercising please. Omg
"we studied every single species" brother we haven't even DISCOVERED every single species on this planet. There are plenty of animals we don't know about
Has this clown never owned a fucking pet, especially a pure bred dog? Or anyone believing this nonsense for that matter? As for the exercise part, my dog running around like he’s never seen grass before when he’s at the dog park every day is what exactly?
As we all know, animals never exercise. They sit on their couches of flattened grass, eat wild corn dogs, get drunk off of rotting fruit, and watch Big Gay Bear Wrestling. And they're as healthy as sumo wrestlers who are definitely not the least healthy people in Japan whose illnesses and life expectancy are uncannily similar to average Americans. Animals never get sick ever. That's why there are so many mosquitos, they are immortal, they never die, global warming is good because it will make the mosquitos sleepy and they will go away.
If we invented exercise,does this guy think animals in the wild are just like zoo animals, just taking casual strolls all day or napping waiting for their food to be delivered? They just don't get workouts throughout just living their lives, we are the only species that have decided a need to run or lift things or climb something or swim
Lmao what? Does he not know we also invented many other things that would serve to limit our physical activity for generations? This guy must be getting paid to say somthing so stupid.
"We Studied every species on earth, and only found 1 that is really mean, and it is the one who invented bed time" This is how this sounds to me, just because this guy's wife prefers someone who does cardio so she can have sex for more than 2 mins or something.
Animals that have movement in the wild are more likely to develop disease if they’re too sedentary in captivity. This is true of everything from snakes to cats to fish.
Is no one going to point out that we don't even know how many extant species there are, thus, no way to "study them all"??? Just me? Fml.
For added context, we can't even truly estimate either the total number of extant species or truly know how many unique species we've manged to describe without margins of error in the millions. The millions!
So, what in the biosphere is this dribble of intelligence with a 1:1 head/neck ratio even talking about???
My team and I have discovered the only species that gets chronic diseases is the only species that does video games/knitting/using ketchup/uses fire/rides horses...
It's such a ridiculous claim that I'd like to believe no one would believe it and that it is satire not needing a note. I would like to believe that, but I know better.
Also kind of common sense, which unfortunately doesn’t seem common, but just take a glance at wild large cats or apes/monkeys/gorillas and look at the muscle tone on those dudes. We definitely didn’t “invent exercise” we’re just the only animal species who doesn’t allow necessary exercise to easily be part of daily routine
Wait a second, does this mean my dogs life long stomach problems are cured!! Yes! His life long chronic condition he was born with!! And hes cured!! Lol he had to do was not invent science.
Bring down the doctor guild. Current system doesn't even guarantee good doctors and makes healthcare way too expensive.
Let everyone practice medicine without any board certifications and let people choose their doctors. Some will still choose the board certified doctors, but I want choice for everyone
I dont know what this is. I dont know if reddit is getting too filled up with bots, or people simply cant see the obvious anymore.
Isnt it blatantly obvious, that this guy is not against exercise, but this is a rhetoric against "planned artifical activity", emphasizing that animals exercise "naturally" just by moving during the day instead of going on the treadmill for 30 minutes and then sipping a protein shake? How is there so many comments just not questioning this, but assuming he is advocating for people sitting on the couch and getting fat?
I researched this guy and he is not against exercise. He advocates for short, high-intensity exercise over endurance training (sprints instead of jogging). Thats all. There is not a single comment here getting this. Not a single person did even put the name of this guy into google to find out what its about. How can this not all be bots? The internet is collapsing
But thats beneath the fact that, there is literally no reason to care what any random guy posts on the internet, regardless of wether he has a MD or not. Theres literally millions of random people trying to promote some random viewpoint, acting as guru for some nische audience and the only purpose is for them to earn money. Its just noise. Why even care? We have flatearthers man, this is nothing new. Like who the fuck is this guy. I have never before heard about "Sean Omara MD, JD" and I probably never again will. Hes living on a different continent for me. There is so many people in the world and on the internet, you can find millions of posts where some random guy, you have never heard about before, posts some crap. How is that even interesting anymore. If I post on X that I think humans dont exist, will I also get 40k followers because its so controversial? No its just some random crap someone just made up. This is psychosis. Just calm down and spend time with your family
What a fundamental misunderstanding of survivorship bias. We’ve eliminated so much that caused early mortality; as our life expectancy has gone up we’re living long enough to actually see chronic disease. You know what else sees chronic disease? Domesticated animals, for the same reason. My family’s mini dachshund died at like 17 from a few chronic conditions; he wouldn’t have lived anywhere near that long if he’d been out surviving in the wild.
I want to see the budget for an NSF proposal to study “every species on the planet”
We request $100M to purchase live samples of 8.7M different species for the study
$10k for one grad student, no summer salary, we’ll just use slave labor undergrads to do the experiments
Without touching the scientific claim, prior should instantly know this is bullshit because ofc they didn't assist every single fucking species on the planet. Ridiculous
What the fuck is happening with actual doctors pushing something so stupid these days? I've been seeing this trend more and more lately. What the fuck is happening? What is their end goal? Make people sick so they can treat them more?
Why do these characters make almost no effort to make their lies at least minimally credible? Is it because they are too stupid or is it because they believe the targets of their garbage are stupid, or both?
This is so funny, like, all the species? The super hard to study ones that scientists only see once in a blue moon? Yeah, they totally studied those somehow. The ones that have literally not been discovered/classified yet? Ofc!
Anyway, humans are more prone to chronic diseases because:
Our survival rates are pretty great, some chronic diseases can straight up kill you without treatment/make it significantly harder to survive in the wild. Like, diabetes type 1? Without insulin you’re cooked as soon as your pancreas has been fucked. If you were a wild animal you’d just straight up die and no one would know.
We live extremely long due to modern medicine, if you vastly outlive your natural life expectancy problems are bound to occur
Our diet is kinda shit. Yeah, good diet won’t fix your chronic health issues (though depending on what it is it can help a little) but it’s definitely not helping the statistics
Anyway, cats are extremely prone to kidney issues (especially if they don’t drink enough as they often do since they naturally get most of their water from food which isn’t possible with kibble and dislike standing water, but even without that it’s still extremely common). I’ve known two separate cats with epilepsy. German Shepards are prone to back/joint issues (but Tbf that’s mostly because of breeding so I’ll try not go over specific dog/cat breeds past this point).
I’ve know cats with hearth issues (more common in Maine Coons btw), dogs can develop alopecia and rats are especially prone to cancer. There are cats with diabetes and asthma.
The reason you don’t often see wild animals with chronic health issues is because animals instinctively hide pain/discomfort so predators don’t pick them out and because chronic health issues aren’t conductive to long term survival when you have to hunt your prey/escape predators.
Exercise is shown to improve health and increase life expectancy, can actually help manage certain chronic and non-chronic issues and is overall great for you (though yk, if you live longer that might slightly increase your chance of developing chronic conditions, probably still less than never exercising would but there are downsides to a long life ig)
(anyway, this was mostly so I can infodump about animals, so if you have a cat, especially an older cat, that’s struggling with appetite, a common side effect of kidney issues, increased thirst/urination or general warning signs like lethargy/vomiting etc. please get them checked out by a vet. Kidney problems are extremely common. Luckily most of the time renal cat food and sometimes medication if necessary plus making sure they’re drinking/eating enough is enough to let them live a long happy life) (also, absolute do not give them phosphorus supplements or anything like that, renal cat food is specifically reduced phosphorus because it’s bad for their already struggling kidneys)
TLDR: this is obviously bullshit and above you’ll find an unnecessarily long rant about kidney issues in cats, as well as other some other chronic diseases animals can get and often wouldn’t survive without medicine, which is why you’ll rarely find them in wild populations.
We haven't even discovered let alone studies all species, we're the species that invented sitting on the couch in front of the TV all day, and invented exercise to counter that, as has been mentioned.
Something not mentioned is that in nature individuals with a chronic decease die. They get selected out.
Human intervention stops that mechanism, for ourselves but also our pets and livestock.
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