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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be Doctor Brian Bettie is with us this morning. Brian,

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Speaker 2: you've been caught up in the same thing. I've been

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Speaker 2: caught up and these Facebook scams, these online scams showing

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Speaker 2: videos of us and asking people for money. So I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry to see you've been affected, but you have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, Look, I've become I had one a couple

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Speaker 3: of years ago, but in the last two weeks I

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Speaker 3: had three or four come up. And the reason I've

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Speaker 3: become aware of them is a couple of people have

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Speaker 3: just contacted the surgery asking if they could send money

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Speaker 3: directly to the clinic for these products. So really really

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Speaker 3: worrying that this occurs. And they are absolute scams. So

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Speaker 3: whether it's for Manuka honey fortinitus or muscle extract for

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Speaker 3: rhematoit arthritis, or garlic drops or whatever, these things are promoting,

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Speaker 3: and there's been a number of them. Yeah, people, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: people need to be very very wary of what's posted

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Speaker 3: on the Internet or Facebook.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay, and if they say the one of

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Speaker 2: you obviously reported if they can, but also most importantly,

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Speaker 2: don't send any money.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, look I think yes, please please report it if

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Speaker 3: you see me promoting that that stuff, and please do

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Speaker 3: not do not, under any circumstances please send any money.

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Speaker 3: It's it's, it's, it's it's. It is a total scam.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's sort of the area we're living in.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I know it is, sadly it is. Unfortunately. Hey, look,

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Speaker 2: we're focusing this morning on some research that looks at

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Speaker 2: how sitting for long periods can impact your health. And

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Speaker 2: I know that people are rolling my eye or rolling

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Speaker 2: their eyes say that sitting is bad for you, but

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Speaker 2: obviously it's it's not all sitting, it's sitting for extended periods.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, well, look, I mean this is what it is.

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Speaker 3: If you go back, you know, a couple of generations,

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Speaker 3: we led very physical lives. But we are now in

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Speaker 3: a situation where most of us sit in front of

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Speaker 3: computers for long periods of time. And there's now been

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Speaker 3: some big research done around us, and yeah, what they've

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Speaker 3: found is long periods of city is actually linked to

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Speaker 3: a higher risk of death. So what we seen tend

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Speaker 3: to see is higher risks of heart disease, type two diabetes,

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Speaker 3: and actually some cancers Now, this risk is time dependent,

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Speaker 3: so every hour that you city spend sitting without a break,

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Speaker 3: your risk goes up, and sort of six to eight

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Speaker 3: hours tends to be a real critical point at which

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Speaker 3: things tip over. Now, some people can exercise during the day,

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Speaker 3: which is great, and exercise absolutely helps, but actually they

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Speaker 3: can still sit for eight to ten hours a day,

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Speaker 3: and that in itself is a risk factor, regardless of

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Speaker 3: doing separate exercise after work or during your lunch hour.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, really really interesting stuff that's emerged around this.

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Speaker 2: What does it actually say about the harms that can

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Speaker 2: be caused by too much sitting?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, look, we think it's got to do with

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Speaker 3: low muscle activity, especially in the legs. The legs are

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Speaker 3: very big muscle bulks, and the legs are very muscles

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Speaker 3: are very important in terms of sugar and fat metabolism

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Speaker 3: in the body. So what tends to happen is you

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Speaker 3: get these metabolic changes when you're sitting for long periods

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Speaker 3: of times, where sugars may rise, where where fats may

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Speaker 3: rise in the body. And also you tend to get

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Speaker 3: a reduced blood flow, and this leads to reduce caloric burns,

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Speaker 3: so you don't burn as much much calories and you

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Speaker 3: tend to put on weight. Now it can lead to

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Speaker 3: other problems like back and neck problems which people I

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Speaker 3: think will be very familiar with if they sit at

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Speaker 3: computers for a long period of time, and interestingly enough,

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Speaker 3: issues with mood. So there's been associated with low mood

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Speaker 3: if you spend long, long periods of time sitting. So

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Speaker 3: there's all sorts of effects that sort of come into play,

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Speaker 3: but a lot of them around what we call metabolic

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Speaker 3: our metabolic health, which is the sugar fats, energy burn

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Speaker 2: How do we reduce the risk then.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I mean, look, you can reduce the risk,

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Speaker 4: but you need to think about it. And the thing

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Speaker 4: is small. All regular interruptions and you're sitting actually dramatically

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Speaker 4: reduced the risks.

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Speaker 3: So look, just thinking about standing every thirty minutes and

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Speaker 3: maybe just moving around the desk as simple as that,

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Speaker 3: even for a minute or two, will make a profound difference.

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Speaker 3: Taking short walks during your your morning break, your afteroon tea,

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Speaker 3: or your lunch break. Sit stand desks, they are interesting.

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Speaker 3: So stand desks, those ones where people stand at the desk,

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Speaker 3: you actually tend to use more more calories. You tend

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Speaker 3: to have better blood flow walking during phone calls. Now

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Speaker 3: I tend to do this now, so im on a

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Speaker 3: phone call, I actually tend to walk around. So people

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Speaker 3: could do that very easily at the office if they

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Speaker 3: chose to simple things like taking the stairs if you

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Speaker 3: want to move between floors rather than the elevator. And actually,

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Speaker 3: if you're going to work or you're coming home from work,

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Speaker 3: maybe getting on the bus one bus stop further on

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Speaker 3: so you walk a bit further, or maybe park a

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Speaker 3: little bit further away from work. So these type things

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Speaker 3: are really really bet officials. I think you can do

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Speaker 3: things on your phone, like set your phone to remind

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Speaker 3: you to get up and just walk around, or do

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Speaker 3: something to rate just to break the cycle. But you know,

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Speaker 3: so so you know, it's not necessarily the fact you're sitting, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's the length of time that you're sitting is actually

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Speaker 3: the critical thing. So so breaking it up is the

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Speaker 3: number one thing you can do to reduce that risk.

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Speaker 2: I also reckon you do better work. I'm convinced that

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Speaker 2: if you get up, like you know, like if you

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Speaker 2: get up every forty five minutes from your desk and

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Speaker 2: you just go for a little walk around and get

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Speaker 2: a coffee or whatever. I'm convinced you do a better job.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, look, you're absolutely right, yeah, one one percent, So

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Speaker 3: it just gets something's going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, Thank you very much. Brian really appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: We'll put all of those points up on the news talks.

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Speaker 2: He'd be website and catch you again very soon.

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Speaker 4: Good luck.

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Speaker 2: Well the scams. I really hope that with plenty of

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Speaker 2: people reporting them, that the powers that be might take

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Speaker 2: them down, although having been through all of that myself,

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Speaker 2: it feels like whack them all a lot of the time.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, if you take Brian's advice and

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Speaker 2: you make sure you don't sit for too long, you

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Speaker 2: do get up, you work around, there is a bit

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Speaker 2: of a chance you might be a superagor because genetics

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Speaker 2: play a role, but they reckon that lots of lifestyle

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Speaker 2: factors can also contribute and superages. You know people in

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Speaker 2: their eighties who have like really really good memories and

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Speaker 2: really good different measures of health. After eleven o'clock this morning,

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Speaker 2: we're going to take a look at some of the

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Speaker 2: other components that can help you become a superagor.

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