Ep. 100 - Ouch! Why Does my Body Hurt?

 

Welcome healthy friends. To the reality of health podcast. Doing video again today. Hopefully it works out. Bear with me. I'm still new to this.

As some of you who have listened to me for a while now know that fascia. I talk about it. Fairly often. It was one of my favorite subjects. Today. I hope you will find it just as fascinating as I do. Because now we're going to show you the pictures. Let's get right into it.

So, as you can see on the screen here, This is what it looks like. And it's various forms, but essentially you can see that they all sort of look the same. Like a spider web or rigging. We'll just wait, wait to you see the video. I'm going to show you. It's going to blow your mind.

For me, this is one of the most fascinating aspects of the human body. It's kind of like an internal rigging system. It's what holds you together makes you look like a human structure.

It's the unsung hero of tissue health.

If you use your body in a functional way. The fascia we'll create a netting. Or an anchored, uh, sort of a rigged system that holds you together in the way that you want it to. I know, it sounds weird. I will show you just bear with me.

So if you play a sport, It will rig you in a way to play that sport. Then, if you play a different sport, sometimes you can get hurt because you are not rigged for the next sport.

If you're rigged for sitting like on the couch and then you get up too fast, you can stretch that fascia. And it hurts. You can break those rigging ropes, that netting, so to speak. And since that netting contains a neuronal network. Basically, which is an extension of your nervous system. You'll feel pain like a pulled muscle. I don't believe you, quote, pull a muscle.

I believe you pull fascia. Fascia is loaded. With neurons, you can feel pain in your fascia.

So you can see in this photo, all the different types. Right. CML here. We're going to get into why it's structured that way. Don't you worry? This one's a. More of a CG picture, but the rest of them, these are real.

So you, these tendrils, like right here and here. Like the here and here. All these. They are the rigging. They're like the ropes and then we're here. It attaches. It's kinda like the pulleys and you'll see this actually moves. So as the tendril moves like this one, This whole thing shapes itself. To hold on to all these it's constantly moving. It's so cool.

Video just, wow. I only picked a few spots. I highly recommend you watch the whole video.

Before I show you the next one. If you're. Not necessarily squeamish, but if you don't like to see anatomy. I'm not really going to show blood, but just, I'm just want to give you a warning, you know? It's not that bad, but you never know. Some people are sensitive and. I'm one of those. So. I can put this disclaimer out to you.

All right. So here we go with the next photo, if you don't want to see it. That's okay.

So here's a person, something probably a leg or an arm. That yellow. That's the fascia. When you have like a chicken breast with a skin on it, how does the skin hold to the meat? Well, or the muscle I should say. It's that fascia you've seen that underlying. So all this. Is a proteinous fascia structure. See how you can't pull it off.

You got to actually really tear at it. So, this is a really good representation of what fascia looks like in your body.

Now here's another look at it only now or not. We're like magnified, but we're not too up close, but you can see these are, these are more. You know, Zoomed in. So all of these tendrils and how all this matrix holds itself together, all this webbing. You can see how it's holding onto everything. It doesn't want to let go.

I mean, look at that right there. And like in here and stuff. This is phenomenal. You are held together by all of this. If you're listening audio, it just looks like a whole bunch of spiderwebs, all going all over the place. And in some cases, Uh, parallel to each other, but it's just grabbing on and holding on kind of like Spiderman's web.

It's all your tissues in your whole entire body.

They can adapt very quickly and to any situation longer than short-term situations. Like if you do something new in one day, you're not going to grow fascia to stabilize you in that way, it will adapt. But if you keep doing that same way. It will strengthen you in that way. Then when you get out of that way and you do something different, you pull on that fascia and you're going to feel it. You have to use your mind's eye while watching the video and thinking about how it's like a spiderweb constantly trying to hold onto all the points.

And when the points are stressed, it will actually create two or three or four or five new points. Don't worry. I will show you.

I know, it seems kind of complicated maybe, but think about it like this. If you had a static hold. And you do that static hold all the time. You create your body in that shape. Like when you're sitting a lot. Anything outside of that. Disrupts the fascia and it doesn't feel good.

And it can take a little bit to fix that.

So. Let's go to the video. All right. So this is not gross. It's kind of really cool, but it looks almost alien.

Here, we're going to show a little CG first and you can kind of get the idea. what you're going to see is how fascia will create new touch points. And it's stabilizing itself. It's constantly anchoring and holding on. It's keeping things from tearing apart. Or being too loose. So it's got this. Back and forth thing where it's holding on, but it's also letting you move. It's absolutely. Genius.

And I can only say pretty much something that a God would figure out how to do. And, you know, I believe in God.

Can you imagine if your body was not held together, it would be a sloppy mess. Fascia his ability to hold you together. Both in your structure. In your tissues. Is remarkable. It is constantly adjusting to your lifestyle and without it. You would be in worse shape. You'd be a literal blob of tissue mess. 📍

Okay. Let's watch a few of these.

I'll point out what you're seeing. Okay. So this is the movement. See all these tendrils everything's holding together. Right.

See, all that kind of gives you an idea. See how it's polling on itself. It's all stretching. But it's holding it all at the same time. Pretty cool.

See, all that stretching right there.

Yes. That's happening all throughout your body all the time. Every single time you move.

All right. Here's your tendrils. They are clear looking when you're up close, mind you. This is very, uh, zoomed in. This is really zoomed in. What they did is they took a camera. And put it under somebody's skin and then just kind of traced around and messed around inside there.

And they saw all of this. So it's underneath the skin, but between like the muscle or bone and this kind of thing. And what you're going to see. As these clear. Strands how liquid they are looking because they're full of water. So they're protein and water, just like your nerves are. All right.

Look at that.

Wow. Is that not amazing. That's going on underneath your well, it's going on in your whole entire body the entire time. You're breathing. It's doing it. Look. Watch out splits. See that it's splitting. And holding onto itself, it's never letting go.

Isn't that look at. I look at that, how it's letting go. It's splitting, but it's still holding on.

Fascinating.

Look at how gelatin is it looks, how clear.

All right, let's go to the next one. Okay.

Look at how it's separating. See that. Look, it's just nominal. Isn't it. That's. Hi blows my mind. Sorry, but I'm. How can you not be excited seeing this stuff?

All right. So this is more of a CG, but the interlay CG with the actual proteins doing its thing. You'll see this. They're going to go back and forth, try and explain it.

See how it's moving. See how that. Is running down each other. That's what's happening right here. It's. It's constantly adjusting. It's never losing contact. Some of these are, I know this is an not an HD video. I'm sorry. See how that's doing that. It's always staying in contact. Spreading out.

C. See how that right there. It's running the length. See how it runs the length. It never loses. How does it do that? They don't know, we don't know. Watch this.

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see that, that one just came in. Look how it separates. Watch this. See how watch this whole thing. It separates. It's creating a new one. You can't split it. Well, I mean, you can split it, but you can't rip it off. See that it just created all the new tendrils. Right there. I look at all those, creating them as it's moving.

And then this is what the matrix looks like. See how it's always moving everywhere that it's connected. It's like rigging, it just keeps moving up and down the ropes. Wow. Sure. I know I'm getting excited.

Well, how could that be? How neat was that? This'll be the last one of the videos.

All right. So you, that split. How it's not losing itself. It's staying con. Connected look at this. Look right here. Watch. It's splitting and keeping connection. It just changed itself and moved along. Wow. Okay. At that, doesn't like,

Tip your curiosity. I don't know what else will.

So if you pinch your skin,

And pull on. How come you can't rip your skin off. Because the fascia holds everything together. And it realizes you're pulling on it. And it'll create even more anchor points. Man. That's so awesome.

I do have the fascia episode. If you're interested in. Going deep into this one. Um, 41 minutes. So it's yeah, I describe a lot. There's no video, but it might be fun to listen. I find that episode, a lot of fun to do, and maybe you will find it fun to listen to. If you go back and listen to that episode. There's in the show notes right here.

You can click on that. And you can go to the video I just had and you can watch the whole thing, but there is a warning on it. That's you're going to see some real surgery. So it just, you know, just know that.

If you're disrupting your fascia, And creating it in the way you want.

That is going to be how you create a more mobile or. Free body. You know, not tight or.

Inflexible.

It's basically how everybody's body works regardless of what you do every day, all day. It's like a guy at a factory that does the same thing all day, every day. When he does the opposite. It's not going to feel good. And now you can kind of see why when you see those videos.

when you work against that, it's called fascia release. Basically, you're going to do things opposite of what you normally do to stretch that out. And release that fascia. Like let's say you're sitting at the desk all day and you're typing. Well, you're probably rounding your shoulders and you're pushing your hands forward. Periodically, put your head back, stretch out your pectoral, bring your shoulders back and your arms do the opposite of what you're doing all day and do it all the time. Remember. If you stay stationary in a static position, you're going to quote, grow that way, that fascia rigs itself in that position. And it's tough after many years to bring it out of that.

Trust me, I'm working on that right now. Doesn't feel awesome. I have to admit. But if I don't do it. It's going to be worse later.

All right. I don't know the next. So knees over toes guy. Have you ever heard of this guy? His name is Ben Patrick, and he has pretty much. Well, I should say he is a. A YouTube sensation. But he does this thing. Called the ATG squat.

It stretches that fascia in your hip. So we can see here. Look to the right. See how that does that. So this.

Type of squat. We'll stretch out. Your hip flexor. Then you can do this one. So you put your knee up on there, like your couch. basically this is working all the tendons and fascia that are. From like sitting all day, like you and you're sitting like this all the time. Okay.

Most people are like sitting in a 30 to 90 degree with their hips.

That's their access point. And they're always bent. So when you get out of that, You can, or if you compress that too much, it hurts.

I highly recommend watching his videos. Pretty much do anything. He does. He has all of these. I know it's crazy. What he can do, but trust me, his story is phenomenal and I've learned so much from him. Highly recommend.

because you're stretching. Your fascia, which is very simple. It doesn't feel good. In the beginning. But it's simple. It's not hard to do.

If you do it on a 📍 regular basis, a little bit of stretching out that fascia opposite than what you're doing every day. Then you will definitely have more freedom of movement. I say welcome to the modern world. We no longer use our bodies. We 📍 just basically sit on the couch or we sit in our chair while we're at work or wherever.

And if you're on a manual labor job, but you're doing the same thing all the time. You're going to quote, grow that way. You get strong in one way, but not the opposite way. And that is super important.

📍 We used to have to bend down and pick up stuff all day long, heavy stuff and light stuff. We would twist and we'd turn, do all kinds of things. All the way up until we were almost a hundred years old. We don't do that nowadays. 📍 We sit. Bent. At 30 to 90 degrees, most of the day. Like when you're at your desk.

Alright. So how do you work your fascia? First you eat animal foods. Number one thing. If you're a vegan, vegetarian listening to this, you can move on from this, but if you're not, then this starts your healthy lifestyle right here. I'm a big fan. Of bone broth. Uh, you can make it yourself. It's not that hard. Make sure you buy quality bones. Or you can buy pre-made. But I tell you it has to be organic. And frozen nothing in a package that's shelf stable. At all.

This is the one that I like. Bonafide, you can get it a whole foods. And get it online, probably some other places. Oh, you can get it at fresh time. If you're around our region. And this is the one you want right there. So, let me show you.

You can do the chicken. Or the beef. They both have really good flavor. It's not going to be weird. It's not super animal gamey or anything like that. These are, in my opinion, the best. They taste super good. And you always want frozen.

They contain. All that collagen that makes up your fascia. So then in turn you have good super-strong fascia. Next don't poison your body. And that means in every way possible, find those poisons in your life in get rid of them. Trust me, you will feel better.

Then you do the opposing stretches for your situation. Let's see you're on the assembly line. And you do the same movement every day. Then you want to figure out how to do the very opposite of that movement.

You're going to have to figure it out for yourself. Think about what you're doing all day. And then do the stretching or exercises that oppose that daily movement.

📍 Now if you lift weights the same way all the time, you're going to get stuck. You're going to create fascia in the movement of lifting those weights in the same way. Every single time. You're going to get super strong in that one way, but you're stagnating.

You can change up that workout and you don't end up stagnating and you will get better results.

Also, you can do any form of stretching, generally speaking, whatever you'd like. I prefer you get with a stretching expert. They will know how to stretch you out for your daily life. Or if you're not into all of that stuff and you want to do something really simple to start, then I would 📍 say, try Tai Chi or chi gong. 📍 Or even physical therapy, there's nothing wrong with starting slow. These are gentle on the body. If your fascia is locked up. Then you definitely want to start slow. 📍 But I will say that it always starts with structured water. You can make your own, it's knocked down hard.

There are plenty of videos out there showing you how to do it. Water is the foundation of your body. If you don't get good water. Then you're dry, so to speak. Something that's dry does not stretch very easily. It's brittle. You saw.

In the video. There's water in your fascia and there's water on the fascia. There's water everywhere in your body. So if you're not hydrated, these become stiff. And that's gonna hurt when you pull on it.

I personally use filtered water and then I use what's called Analemma wand, that's this thing right here. You can go to the website. There's lots of other places you can buy it. It's amazing. Then I add, see plasma water. There's a few sources of those out there. If you want to cleanse and pull toxins out of your body. Then you just use straight filtered water and the Analemma wand. And by the way, with the analysts. I'm a wand. You can actually hold it in your hand. There are people that have done this and feel really good doing it. That's a whole thing. We'll get into that later. Let's just finish off where we're at right now. To put this into perspective. You are held together by a protein web, every movement. And all that you do holds your body together with this protein web. You have to use your imagination to see what you saw on the video happening under your skin and in your muscles and your tissues and your organs and your bones and your eyes and your digestive system. Every time you move every time you sit still. You utilize this protein system of either solidifying you or allowing you to move without falling apart. Isn't that super interesting. The human body is so fascinating. 📍 Thank you for listening. If you need coaching or consultation, you can reach out to me. Take care of yourselves.