The Ledger, every show
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Alexander claims floor-sitting cultures have minimal hip and knee osteoarthritis
“Like, so, so the places in the world that spend time on the ground with regularity, where it's just normal,
They have minimal to no incidence of osteoarthritis in the hips, in the knees, pelvic floor dysfunction is like, you know, not so much a thing.”
Alexander: Evaluating resumes on heavy clipboards subconsciously boosts perceived trustworthiness
“When people hold like a, when they read a resume of someone and it's from on a, like a heavy, thick what's it called? Clipboard. They will perceive the resume as being like weightier and more sturdy and like more trustworthy.”
Alexander: Holding warm beverages causes people to perceive others as warmer
“There was research done with people holding a cold beverage versus holding a warm beverage. If those were holding, this is very clever. I mean, you guys didn't do this intentionally. But me holding a warm beverage Right now, based on the research, would cause …”
Alexander: Premature babies grew twice as fast with brief daily massage
“What they did was they introduced, it was just 15 minutes, if I remember correctly, 15 minutes of little like baby massage twice a day. And they found that the babies were able to grow it was, I think it was like two times faster. And they're eating the same a…”
Alexander: Partner Dancing Staves Off Cognitive Decline Better Than Other Activities
“There was a research done from Albert Einstein Medical College that they were measuring which type of activity would be the most effective for staving off cognitive decline, and they found by far dance to music with a partner Is the best thing a person can pos…”
Alexander: Exhalation triggers parasympathetic activation and slows heart rate
“What's happening when you exhale, it's actually causing your diaphragm to raise up, and it's causing the blood vessels in and around your heart to get a little bit smaller, which causes your heart rate to slow down. It's called, ah, sinus respiratory arrhythmi…”
Alexander: Lymph Nodes Are Concentrated in High-Movement Joints for Locomotion Drainage
“One of the things that's really important is we have these waste management systems in our body, called our lymphatic system, and the places where your lymphatic system has the high concentration of lymphatic glands Are in places of a high volume of movement. …”
Alexander: 80% of Vagus Nerve Signals Travel From Organs to Brain
“80% of the information from your vagus nerve, which innervates all of the organs for the most part, is actually coming from the organs to the brain.”
Alexander: Fall risk is the primary reason elderly enter assisted living
“Fall risk is the number one leading reason for elderly needing assisted living”
Alexander: Indoor lighting emits a minuscule fraction of cloudy daylight lumens
“The actual lumens, it's a measurement of light that's being produced by these guys, is like a minuscule fraction of what you would get even on a cloudy day in the sun.”
Alexander: AC-powered electric lighting flickers like an invisible high-speed strobe
“The frequencies of these lights, they're plugged into an alternating current System instead of a direct current, like the sun, and so these are actually, it looks like they're just on, but they're actually flipping like a strobe so fast you can't see that it's…”