value of standing desk

Medical Q&A [Moderated]
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Hi Drs Feigenbaum and Baraki,

What are your thoughts on the benefit to health (if any) of using a standing desk as opposed to sitting for folks working full time desk jobs?

I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere, I did some searching and didn’t have much luck.

Thanks!

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Not very valuable outside of personal preference. That said, getting up to move around frequently while working at your typical desk job may not always be possible and to the extent a standing desk would help someone do that it seems reasonable. I don’t think they do much of anything though.

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its nice for my back and neck angle to change. Software engineer/data scientist

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Yea, movement is usually preferable- not necessarily a standing desk.

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