06/16/2026
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Most people believe that movement is medicine. The problem is, not all movement is created equal.
Everyone understands that food is meant to be nourishing. But not everything we eat actually supports our biology. People accept this when it comes to diet, but forget that the same logic applies to how we move.
You wouldn’t expect a human to eat bark like a beaver, just like a beaver wouldn’t thrive on meat. Each species has a biological blueprint it’s meant to follow. For humans, certain meats, fruits, and vegetables provide the nourishment our bodies are built to process. Movement follows the same principle. It only supports us when it reflects how our bodies are designed to function.
You wouldn’t teach a dog to ride a bike. Its body isn’t built for it, and doing so would wreck its mechanics. Yet people are often taught to move in ways that go completely against how the human body is meant to operate.
Human movement and exercise should be built around the fundamentals: standing, walking, running, and throwing. These are the primary patterns we evolved to perform. Most athletic movement is just a derivative of those. But the further you drift from them, the more likely you are to feed dysfunction. Movements like yoga, deadlifts, and static stretching routines may be popular, but often lead to joint instability and disrupt how the body functions over time. So yes, the more you passively stretch your joints through yoga, or compress your spine excessively with deadlifts, the more those movements become poison, not medicine.
To get real benefits from your training, you have to start with the basics. Today, those basics include standing, walking, running, and throwing with sound mechanics. These are skills most people lose as they age.
So next time you’re selective about what you put in your body, ask the same about how you move.
Is it aligned with your biology, or slowly working against it?
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