Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

Our unquenchable desire to be comfortable has debilitated us. Ironic, as there is nothing comfortable about being debilitated. This paradox—that advancements to make our lives less physically taxing have taxed us physically—is profound and has led to an emergent scientific hypothesis: Perhaps the only way out of our poor physical state, created by

Clearly, the amount of time we allot to “exercise” is very small compared to the amount of time we are capable of moving our bodies, which is a hundred percent of our waking hours.

While these adjustments (chest up, shoulders back) reduce the forward-displacing loads to the spine, they don’t actually undo the curve; they just hide it. And, even worse, adjustments made to facilitate a temporary visual improvement actually introduce new curves in the opposite direction and compromise the mechanical leverage of the muscles that

Over time, heavy use of your body in one particular pattern makes strong tissues next to weaker ones, which creates an environment where an injury can slowly develop. The frequent consumption of varied movement is what drives essential physiological processes.

Mechanotransduction is, finally, being researched as the underlying mechanism of many diseases. Diseases of mechanotransduction are those ailments arising from an area of cells (then tissue, then organ) troubled by the mechanical environment you’ve created, both directly and indirectly.

The more your feet turn out when you walk, the higher the loads placed on medial knee structures like the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the medial meniscus.

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.

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.

The takeaway here is that every load is a unique cellular deformation (the movement equivalent of a nutrient), even when the applied force (thirteen pounds of pumpkin) is exactly the same.