Believe, Live, Run | Animation | Evolutionary aspects of exercise

📕| "In summary, this several-thousand-year process during which our body was optimized for running was sparked by man's evolutionary need to adapt to our environment, and this ability for adaptation is what made us suitable for life itself. The opportunity for movement meant the opportunity for life. This is how we obtained food or were able to flee when necessary. During the process, our bodies were our biochemists: they began producing substances and hormones that aided the abilities necessary for survival. Why was all this of key importance for our development and survival? And what significance does this have in our modern world? To answer these questions I am going to go back even further and answer how our ancestors were able to hunt and thus eat meat even before they invented the first stone tool. The answer is simple (while the activity itself is far from it): they chased the prey to death, literally. Meaning that if our ancestors discovered the tracks of a prey animal, then they pursued it, ran after it, and chased the animal until it died of heat exhaustion. This is because the human body has a superpower that has not developed to such efficiency in any other animal: the ability to produce increased perspiration. This, among other factors, is what makes us the best long-distance runners in the world. This is one of the reasons why we are capable of withstanding physical activity better than any other animal, for example running, fleeing. Of course, over short distances, we are slow, weak, and vulnerable. We have many disadvantages compared to other animals, but still, we are the apex predators of the animal kingdom. "

- Believe, Live, Run - A story about having faith
Bertalan Thuróczy