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by x436413 670 days ago
i also didn't get past the lede, there's a lot of evidence that slouching is unhealthy, that bad posture has all kinds of effects on musculature, ossification, organ displacement. i actually started to develop a hump in my 30s from being a techie which took a lot of work to undo, but now i see those hump precursors on teenage girls. looking into the background of the author, Daniel Felsenthal, "Daniel Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, essayist and critic with work in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Nation". how is this person at all qualified to comment on these subjects? why does he think he is? imho journalism has utterly discredited itself at this point.
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TacticalCoder 670 days ago
> how is this person at all qualified to comment on these subjects? why does he think he is?

TBH I think most journalists from these publications are more qualified to write about posture health benefits than they are qualified to do actual journalism.

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andrei_says_ 670 days ago
What helped you undo it? I see so much advice floating around and I know 90% is bs but not sure how to identify the 10%.
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x436413 670 days ago
my advice is not universally applicable, sorry. i had a very strong mysore style ashtanga† practice in my 20s, that i at some point abandoned. i simply picked it up again, and it still took me close to a year to get my spine dynamic enough, get my muscules moving to arest and maybe revert some of the ossification? it's not visibly there at this point, but through close athletic observation i know it's not ever going to be 100%. i've complemented it with an occasional chiropractic adjustment and massage, but that's about it. i didn't start it exclusively for the purposes of fixing the hump, i realized that i'm getting old (in my 40s now) and that i will greatly regret slowly degrading into old age without having the experience of fit working body again.

†https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_vinyasa_yoga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUgtMaAZzW0

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andrei_says_ 668 days ago
Thank you. Love the video.
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