Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

For how many hours a week is a chair pressing on your hamstrings? How does this constant pressure affect the blood vessels running down to your feet or the nerves in the pelvis?

Again, the sentiment is correct. Look at what you are doing and then round out the loads applied to the body by doing something different. The problem is, most of what we do for exercise is just slightly different versions of the same kinds of motions. There is rarely uniqueness to what we do, and even routines designed to recruit more of our bodie

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.

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.

the all-day, every-day stimulation created by wind, that dictates the girth of a tree’s trunk and branches as well as how often and at what angles a tree branches. Doesn’t that just blow you away? (What I find most interesting about this is, how does a tree store this mechanical input? Trees grow so high and for so long, they have to store the mech

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-

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.

“Good” nourishment, whether you’re talking about food or movement, cannot be reduced to a single or even a few variables, and bad diets or exercise programs are not the result of the deficit of a single component. When you’re eating a well-balanced diet (in every sense of the word) there is a sum total effect of wellness that permeates the entire b

The gross curve of your spine is created by the position of the vertebrae relative to each other. In the case of hyperkyphosis, the vertebrae can be rotated or slightly sheared forward, which means that these are the motions necessary to UNkyphosis (image bottom left). Lifting the chest is simply displacing the entire curve relative to the ground.