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My personal experience with lying down to work is that it feels good in the short term, but causes problems in the long term (increased pain).

I have no data to back this claim, but I can provide this single data point.

I completely agree with both your other points about trust/discipline and important decisions though.

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I believe there are many studies, even posted here that lying down < Sitting < Standing < Walking. Lying down for long periods of time is worse for you. (sleeping excluded). Less activity with the body = worse for the body.

One good way to make sure you're not straining any part of the body too much is to have multiple confortable positions that you can change from along the day.

The ultimate good-for-you background activity would probably be some movement equivalent to climbing a tree (pumps your whole lymphatic system; suspected of being a causal factor of the health of people in “Blue zones”, as said zones all contain a lot of orchard workers; something our bodies probably expect us to do a lot of, given our evolutionary roots; etc.)

I’m not sure how you could combine it with typing, though!

This is good info in this comment but it makes me very sad.

I now hate my standing desk and want a climbing desk.

I worked at a place that had a treadmill desk. Takes some practice to use it...

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