When you apply forces to a structure with a bony orientation and muscle leverages unsuitable for stable movement, you increase your risk of musculoskeletal issues. Your joints cannot bear loads optimally, the muscles are not able to respond to the load with much leverage, and your now-moving blood is bumping into bends that shouldn’t continue to be

You are used to thinking of yourself as one big body, and not the sum total of many tiny parts. When we think of loads—especially loads in a book about exercise—we tend to apply the term to the force (“I was loaded down with a heavy weight”) instead of thinking about how that heavy weight created unique deformations (and loads) on a trillion of you

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.

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.

I’m going to stop you here because the first step to radically improving your health is to let go of the notion that movement is exercise. To move your health forward with movement, it is essential to mentally rearrange the relationship between movement and exercise in your mind,

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.

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-

Joint distortion, just like hearing, seeing, and smelling, gives you input about your environment for the purpose of eliciting a response from your body. The extreme number of sticky spots in modern human feet interferes with the communication between your body and brain, and in the case of walking or standing, your body’s postural adjustment syste

The ancestral model of movement says movement initiates reflexively via a desire to find food. In order to satiate biological hunger, movement was initiated in an organic way. When food became readily available without movement, our relationship with food and movement completely changed. Now we move as a response to too much food. This perspective,