05/04/2022
We have created a modern day environment that we weren't built for and it's impacting us all one cell at a time.
So much about our modern environment produces loads across and upon our body that our DNA did not evolve to support for long durations. We are resilient beings so we can tolerate these unnatural loads for a while but eventually our cells, tissues and organs breakdown as a consequence of our modern day conformity.
Obesity, sickness and chronic inflammation are as much a byproduct of our lazy, oops! "efficient' environment as poor nutrition and sleep. Studies and common sense, tell us that frequent, varied movement is as critical to the nourishment of our cellular health as the oxygen in the air we breathe and the nutrients we consume. It literally makes s**t happen! It circulates our fluids, drives our metabolism, removes our waste and exchanges our gases.
Unfortunately as a society we fail to recognise that our pain and ill health have everything to do with our modern stagnant environment. We often express ailments as unlucky or genetic or 'something I've always had'.
But that sore knee, bloating, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, cancer, anxiety, depression are more likely to be a consequence of something as small as wearing shoes or holding our phones to sitting for long durations at school or work, repetition of poor movement patterns or even high repetition of good movement with little variance. All of these will lead to imbalances within the tensegrity framework of our fascia and mechanotransduction interactions, leading to excessive strain and stress on certain cells, tissues, and organs that ultimately impact our health wayyyy more than variances in our "genetics".
Now more than ever we need to move more and express our movement capabilities in as many different ways as possible. Swim, run, jump, throw, climb, kick, dance... do it all!!!
And start young because unfortunately the reduction of kinesthetic learning in our school environments means this vital element of learning and health in our youth is setting us up for debilitating habits in our adult lives.
