ideas on illness, health and well-being from Erik Peper
This article speaks of the medical aspects of sitting as often as we are doing these days. GET UP AND WALK AROUND NOW! Use link in title to see article from biofeedback expert Erik Peper.
"Sitting without moving the leg muscles puts additional stress on your heart, as the blood and lymph pools in the legs. Tightening and relaxing the calf muscles can prevent the pooling of the blood. The inactivity of your calf muscles does not allow the blood to flow upwards. The episodic contractions of the calf muscles squeezes the veins and pumps the venous blood upward towards the heart as illustrated in figure 1. Therefore, it is important to stand, move, and walk so that your calf muscle can act as a second heart (Prevosti, April 16, 2020).
