Q&A 454: What To Do If Mediterranean Diet Hurts Your Gut, The Benefits Of Isometric Training, 9 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Social Life & More!

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• In this study, breaking prolonged sitting with short bouts of light walking, but not standing, resulted in clinically meaningful improvements in markers of metabolic health in older adults: Metabolic Effects of Breaking Prolonged Sitting With Standing or Light Walking in Older South Asians and White Europeans: A Randomized Acute Study, and in this randomized controlled crossover study, average blood glucose was higher during 7 hours of uninterrupted sitting compared to during sitting interrupted with physical activity every 30 minutes.: Breaking-Up Sedentary Behavior and Detraining Effects on Glycemic Control: A Randomized Crossover Trial in Trained Older Adults.
• That "longevity enhancing" Mediterranean diet not working out so well for your gut? Try doing it, but just get rid of the grains, or at least make sure they are fermented, soaked, sprouted, etc. if you do include them: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.1088693/full
• Pretty cool that isometric training (e.g., a squat position hold) can actually improve things like sprint performance, even though you aren't actually moving during the isometric hold https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2023/02000/Comparing_the_Effects_of_Long_Term_vs__Periodic.7.aspx
• 9 Mental distortions that are sabotaging you social life

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