The loads we experience in today’s world differ hugely from the loads people experienced a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand years ago. Yet we blithely accept that our health issues—which so many of us share—are genetic. Genetic, a term we’ve internally defined as beyond our control. Whether out of convenience or ignorance, we have failed to ad

But a different point of view is that we aren’t really sick—we are just starved. And we aren’t using food as medicine. Food isn’t medicine at all. It’s just food; we need its nutrients to survive and thrive. It’s that simple.

Cross-training is often recommended by exercise and therapeutic professionals because being strong or healthy in one specific way doesn’t transfer over to being strong or healthy in every way. For example, if you’re a kick-ass runner and you run all the time and you run easily and without pain, your body is probably very adapted to the tissue stren

When you want to improve your health, it’s much more important to consider how you carry your weight than it is to spend hours contemplating the lone data point that is Your Weight.

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-

While perhaps accurate in certain situations (like standing, for an hour, holding your tuba, in a marching band), chronic knee flexion is not optimal for the human knee. But knee flexion doesn’t only shorten the calf muscles, it shortens the muscles on the back of the thigh as well. Over time, this shortness can pull the pelvis into a posterior til

MECHANOBIOLOGY A relatively new field of science that focuses on the way physical forces and changes in cell or tissue mechanics contribute to development, physiology, and disease.

My point is, everyone—even the hunteriest of the hunters—was a gatherer first. When hunter-gatherers are children, their job is to gather. All are successful in this way first. To go forward, we must go back to figure out which movement basics we have failed to practice and which tissue adaptations we still need. The beauty of these basics is that

Even though the tissues respond differently, they are all connected, which means that a load you perceive as only happening in one part of your body is actually affecting all other parts of you, and affecting each part uniquely. I like to say that you’re not just putting a backpack onto your body. You’re actually putting on a trillion backpacks—one