Human nervous system results in humans being lazy, study

Human nervous system results in humans being lazy, study

According to a new study, the human nervous system is to blame for humans being lazy as it experts say that humans are wired to expend the least amount of energy and subconsciously enables people to spend less energy.

The researchers have found in a new study that nervous system subconsciously makes people spend lesser energy and is against expenditure of energy. They said that it also changes movement patterns in order to use as little energy as possible. The study also shows that people often change their walking way to saveall amounts of energy. The findings are in line with long held view that humans are likely to do things through the least effort.

Max Donelan, professor of biomedical physiology at the Simon Fraser University in Canada, who led the study, said, "We have provided a physiological basis for laziness. We find that even during well-rehearsed movements like walking, the nervous system subconsciously monitors energy used by the body and continuously re-optimises walking patterns with the goal of expending as low energy as possible."

The findings of the study were published in the journal Current Biology.


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