Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

The mechanome, in the example of the View-Master, would include all the forces and machinery necessary to move the lever and advance the disk. The machinery, the process of creating stimulation, the loads that are perceived by your cells’ mechanosensors, and the response triggered by the cell deformations—are collectively called the mechanome. A me

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.

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

In a more natural environment, not only would you have used your hands, arms, and shoulders way more, you would have also used a single arm way less often.

There is no way to physically recover the specific bends and torques, no way to recreate one hundred weekly hours of cell-squashing in seven, and no technology, at this time, smart enough to override nature. Illness is typically looked at as physiology gone wrong. I assert here that in most cases, our physiology is responding exactly as it should t

bending this way and that way. Some trees hardly move at all and some rustle quite a bit. The quantity and qualities of tree movement depend on the direction of the wind, its strength, and how long it lasted. It’s important to remember that the load is not the wind. The load is the effects created by the wind. The load is how the trees physically e

“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

On the other hand, an under-moved area of the body will experience increases in the connective tissues found within muscle itself. I like to call these extra-connected areas your “sticky spots.” Being extra-connected is a great thing when you’re talking about your family, your community, your career, or wi-fi. Having one muscle overly connected to

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