Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement
The position (literally) we have gotten our body into is being passed down to the next generation, because we have not been instructed on how to move. We keep teaching the next generation our poor habits because we don’t understand how movement and alignment are passed on (psssst… it’s not genetic). The farther we have gotten from nature, the less
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Adding twists and turns in the arteries by chronically bending joints for excessive bouts of time a day is like adding curves in your hallway. Rolling balls are guaranteed to smack into the walls in your home, just as blood cells will run into the curves of the vessels…every time. This is why research shows that exercise doesn’t offset the effects
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Unless we are asleep, we human beings are designed to move. Our normal physiology depends on this important fact. We evolved a central nervous system to sense changes around us and to move us through our environment. For nearly 200,000 years, Homo sapiens spent the majority of their time on the move. If they wanted something to eat, they had to hun
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“A much more healthful recipe would be more gentle exercise throughout the day,” said McGill. Running the body through all the movements it can do: squat, lunge, plank, hinge, hang, twist, carry, bend, and more. Raichlen’s study backs up the health of resting in a squatting or kneeling position over lounging in a chair. Or adding carrying into our
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