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I go on and on about alignment, but I don’t want you to think it’s about aesthetics, or appearance, or even the macromechanics like muscle function and joint health. Even though it is about those things too. It’s really about the micromechanics. The fact is, if you are not aligned correctly, you are creating damage on the cellular level.

It’s sucking in your stomach. No, really. That’s one of the worst things you can do for your health (even though it may be one of the BEST things you can do while being photographed in your bathing suit). Most people have replaced deep abdominal activity with “sucking their stomach in.” The belief held by most is that “sucking it in” constantly

Originally, the term gait meant a manner of walking, but has since become used more generally, referencing any pattern of limb (arm and leg) movement while moving on foot. Everyone has a particular gait pattern, or way of moving. It comes

When you are having any (and I mean ANY) type of health problem, create a list of all the things you are asking your body to do and ask yourself—How many of these things are natural to the human being? Your ailments will start to be less of a mystery when you look at yourself as an engineer looks at a machine. The remedy is usually not in what to

A few posts back I mentioned a bit about the intensity of exercise (over sixty percent of peak) increasing turbulent flow, a precursor for arterial plaque accumulation. Big deal. Huge deal. Especially for those of you out there who think that the more you work your heart, the healthier your heart will be. Nope. This is not correct, and it is really

define the term compensatory mechanisms. I came up with: “Things we do to correct for other things that we do.” But that sounded like I was in third grade. So I checked with Wikipedia, who had this definition listed under the engineering term compensation: “Compensation is planning for side effects or other unintended issues in a design.”

Once flow gets a bit bumpy it creates more and more turbulence, which in the long term creates plaque. But this plaque, see, is like a permanent finger over the hose so you get chronic turbulence wherever this plaque is located. Which then begets more plaque.

3. Please explain that research shows that consistent, lower-intensity movements (walking, yoga, stretching classes) demonstrate greater long-term decreases in body fat than high-intensity and joint-damaging high-impact exercise sessions.