Fitness

your body *absolutely* does not know what it needs, though, and it's been proven *repeatedly* by tens of thousands of researchers independently

your body wants to stay dormant, consume highly palatable calorie dense food, not to expel energy, not to learn anything new, watch tv all day, brainrot, watch porn, and give up

and as to the main point made by @androidsixteen.eth? about "knows what it wants"? yeah sure it *wants* to not feel pain in the knees, but does it want to stretch to prevent that? nope

it *wants* lower back not to strain, but does it *want* to lift with the legs? fuck no

it *wants* not to have diabetes, but does it want to give up on a sugary diet? again, no

your body is stupid as hell when it comes to long term vision

wearables help translating long term goals into short term "you haven't moved in 1 hour buddy, time to move?"

friendly neighborhood shitcaster / building @pinetree

Another dimension to this conversation is the role of gut microbiota in driving cravings and the body's perceived needs via gastrotransmitters and the brain gut axis. The body is an ecosystem, and its drives are not only its own. But the microbiota can be reprogrammed as that happens, the default desire stack of the body shift