You are not moving enough to keep your body and overall health from deteriorating. And when you do move, because this “motion starvation” is acute, the movement violated the design of the body with every step you take.

In time, many patients who have had hip replacement surgery start experiencing knee problems.

The inactive muscle is in the first stages of dying.

Pain is the body’s way of getting our attention … We assume that things like everted feet, rounded shoulders, one leg being shorter than the other are nothing more than heredity or birth defects … The discrepancy was caused by the man bearing most of his weight on the left or “longer” leg, which, in the course of doing the extra work, has shifted the pelvis vertically and horizontally. One side of the pelvis, the ilium, has been pulled downward, and the other one pushed upward (and forward).

The voluntary side, by enervating the muscles which move the bones, energized the involuntary systems: in turn, those sustain the voluntary functions by distributing oxygen and deploying white the blood cells and making other vital contributions … In short, we’ve got to move the body or we lose it.

Nutritionists are urging us to eat more fiber because it decreases what they call the “transit time” between intake and elimination, thereby reducing the risk of colon cancer. The quicker waste products are moved through the body, the less risk there is of toxic residues leaching out into the internal organs. But fiber, or lack of it, is just one element of the problem. Transit time increases as the body’s movement decreases.

All that means is that you have inherited Dad’s environment, including its requisite motion or lack of motion, which produces the characteristic family shoulder.

Dysfunctional shoulder and back muscles can hardly be expected to hold the head in an upright position … Drop your chin toward your chest and you’ll feel a tightness across the top of your upper back. The “echo” of that tightness reverberates all the way to the hip. The muscles in your upper torso are fighting to keep your in an upright position and it’s a losing battle. Back spasms, neck aches, migraine headaches, excruciating jaw pain, dizziness, blurred vision are all indications of how hard the body is struggling to stay upright … The flow of blood and oxygen is all uphill, and it doesn’t help matters when the upper torso is dysfunctional and under strain … The poor performance is reflected in the postures.

Humans only do what gives them pleasure.

(eversion tips the pelvis forward, inversion tips it to the rear)

I don’t believe in being macho about pain. It must not be ignored.

What I am looking for initially I Condition I: hips titled forward, feet everted.

Everted feet mean you are walking with your hips. The feet evert because the gait muscles have become lazy and transferred the walking function to the hips flexor muscles. If I shot a slow-motion video tape of a functional foot and leg in the act of walking, we would see the heel strike the ground, the foot traveling forward and down  in a straight line until the ball contacts the surface (the foot’s arch acts as a fulcrum), which creates a launching pad that slows for a solid downstroke with the toes providing traction and balance. The lower leg, the knee, and the thigh, meanwhile, lift and move forward in a straight line powered by muscles in the calf and thigh.
A tape of a dysfunctional foot and leg would show this: AS the heel strikes, the foot shears off at an angles instead of a falling in a straight line; to keep the walker moving forward, the knee struggles to bring the foot around to where it is supposed to be according to the design of the body, and the result is the weight that would properly fall on the ball of the foot is transmitted somewhere along the inside of outside edges of the foot, which means that our walker is actually performing a skating movement with his feet. At the same time, the lower leg, knee and thigh are being hoisted off the ground at the hip and swung forward. Aside from the muscles involved in the articulation of the knee joint, all other gait musc.es are taking a free ride at the expense of the hip flexor

If the heels of your shoes wear unevenly, your feet are everting (or, in rare cases, inverting).

By getting the head back into the functional position, the sinus cavities were level and able to drain. It’s logical to assume that the other “systems” of the head, including the basic flow of oxygen to the brain, are similarly impacted.

Fashion models throw their hips forward this way to counteract dysfunctional shoulders and hips—and we’ve come to think that it looks sexy!
Another way to tell is to stand against a wall or lie on the floor. If the back is instantly flat against the surface, it’s a sign of Condition III hip dysfunction.

• Do remember the four socket position; shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles should be in line, feet pointed straight ahead; the head should also be back.
• Don’t forget to breathe with your diaphragm and use your stomach; not shallow little puffs, make your lungs fill the chest cavity.

Wall crunches energize the abdominal muscles, but a full traditional situp doesn’t do that because the powerful hip flexors kick in after about six degrees of elevation. Hence, the situp crazies at the gym are building terrific hip flexors when what they’re really trying to do is flatten their stomachs.

Many people almost stop breathing while they are doing exercises. The gasping and grunting and desperation that set in during a rigorous workout are often the result of simple oxygen starvation. Breathe!

Like the gears of the car’s engine and transmission, the muscles and joints are still working no matter what the brace is doing to the exterior of your body.
The brace give you a false sense of structural stability and it overrides the boy’s mechanism for warning your, with pain, that you are doing things that will cause damage. That’s what pain is there for.

Breathing properly is very important. Slouching over a keyboard or leaning back in the chair impedes your respiratory system. And it’s wise to avoid putting anything into your bloodstream that interferes with the red blood cells’ oxygen-bearing capabilities.

Almost everything in the modern home, work place, and school environment is at war with the body’s need to maintain adequate levels of fluid. The list includes central heating, air conditioning, overhead lighting, pressurized airplane cabins, and high salt content in food.

One sign of dehydration is lack of mental concentration—you can see it in a person’s unfocused eyes and wandering attention.

Rowers and boxers should take heed as well—particularly boxers. A head hat’s forward and out of position, which is characteristic of all three conditions, is an invitation to brain damage.

Shin splints result when feet strike the ground improperly. Most often the runner is everting the feet. Thus, he or she is probably running on the outside of the heels instead of the balls of the feet. When the foot hits the pavement, it produces lateral torque that travels up the lower leg, chafing the muscles and producing the pain of a shin splint.

Stress eliminates learned behavior.

The activity of a type of white blood cell, tagged NK cells for “natural killer” cells, is stimulated by moderate exercise. Without exercise, the NK cells are not up to the job of defending the body. Thus, carcinogens get a head start; the NK cells, sensing that they are at a disadvantage, pile on in overreaction.

Essentially, our engines run on glucose, which results from the way the digestive system converts the food we eat. No glucose, no energy (except when we are burning off our fat supply).
Therefore, the body keeps close tags on input and output. When we overeat and underexercise, instead of generating an unnecessary supply of glucose, some of the excess is converted to glycogen, a starch, and stored away ion the muscles and liver to be available on demand for the next day’s hunting and gathering. But the remaining extra glucose must also be dealt with. One of the mechanisms form regulating the glucose supply in the bloodstream sis the pancreas; it functions as the enforcer or hit man. After an extra handful of elk meat is converted into glucose that won’t be used—the hunter rolls over the takes  a nap—the pancreas then goes into action. It releases insulin to burn off or convert the glucose. Ten thousand years ago, the pancreatic hit man rarely needed to get tough because the supply and demand for glucose was in balance. But the pancreas was always there just in case of a glucose overload.
The body, being a marvelously efficient machine, does not do any more work than it has to, and digestion is a lot of work. When a cheap and abundant supply of fuel comes along in the form of pure sugar, it doesn’t bother going to the trouble of converting, processing, and sorting. The sugar is passed directly into the bloodstream as instant glucose.

The back is designed to bear its own weight without help from foam rubber or tufted leather.