Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

Sarcomeres pretty much have one way of organizing themselves, so if you, through your habits, change the average (read: most frequented) distance between muscle attachment points, your body will grow (in a process called sarcomerogenesis) or cannibalize (in a process called sarcomerolysis) individual sarcomeres in the effort to return the remaining

I’m going to stop you here because the first step to radically improving your health is to let go of the notion that movement is exercise. To move your health forward with movement, it is essential to mentally rearrange the relationship between movement and exercise in your mind,

Your body is never “out of shape”; it is always in a shape created by how you have moved up to this very moment. It is constantly responding and shifting to a continuous stream of input provided by your external and internal environments, even if that input consists only of sitting still, for hours on end.

Generally, injury and therapy researchers miss (or at least fail to mention in their research) that level walking, performed at the frequency (or lack thereof) with which we have done it, is in itself a cause of injury. When we’re seeking therapeutic solutions to chronic issues of the foot, ankle, knee, hips, and pelvis, we mustn’t ignore the well-

Now, with your ribs down and the medial border of your scapula flush, take a look at your spine in a mirror. This is the curve of your thoracic spine. This curve is not altered by bringing your shoulder blades together, nor is it altered by lifting your chest. This curve is always shaped as it is right now. And it probably needs to be reduced, whic

The painted spot changes the way the shirt experiences the loads. A gentle tug on the shirt causes the areas surrounding the dried paint stretch easily as they did before, but the area stiffened with the paint behaves differently. The same pull that used to deform the shirt down and inward now creates little (if any) distortion over the sticky area

A rainbow of joint angles assists in creating the ranges of loads you’d experience if you were interacting with nature. When you begin rainbow loading, remember to drop back on the intensity and frequency of your correctives.

Mechanotransduction, as you know by now, is the process by which cells sense and respond to mechanical signals. You also know that, through loads, mechanical signals are being created one hundred percent of the time, both by our movements and by how we are positioned when we’re not moving.

Joint distortion, just like hearing, seeing, and smelling, gives you input about your environment for the purpose of eliciting a response from your body. The extreme number of sticky spots in modern human feet interferes with the communication between your body and brain, and in the case of walking or standing, your body’s postural adjustment syste