I'm gonna tell you how posture can save your life
Hi I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg with Wellness For Life and by subscribing to our
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today I'm going to talk about posture and a lot of kids learn growing up their
mom said oh stand up straight and don't slouch and all that but what does that
really have to do with anything we do know that people who feel bad cannot
look like this and people to feel good look more like this well it does it
reflect on how well the brain is working also so one of the functions of the
brain is to control the body so we can see how stress manifests in the body and
here is what we would call a normal posture so my arms are hanging straight
my shoulders are square and my palms are facing in toward my body in a relaxed
normal posture if we look at it from the side then you see that my head zone
straight and my ear is approximately straight over the shoulder joint that's
in normal posture when the neck is positioned like that it can signal
properly to the brain but what you will see more often than not today is you'll
see people's shoulders doing this and you see people's hand almost always
facing more or less backwards and this is actually a sign of a weakened frontal
lobe because the job of the frontal lobe is to inhibit a stress response and to
inhibit internal rotation and flexion so when we have stress when if we were in a
fight if we have a bear coming after Earth or if we're attacked then our body
goes into a state of stress and the first thing that your brain is going to
do is to protect you so you pull your shoulders up you pull your shoulders
forward you bend your arms a little bit and you activate your flexors and your
internal rotators so when you see people walking around like this it's a sign of
chronic stress it's a form of stress their brain is not working as well as it
should their frontal lobe is a little bit depressed if you will the properly
when the brain works better then it can inhibit these things and we get back
into a full posture if you think about an infant an infant is born in a curled
up fetal position that's why it's called fetal position and it's because their
brain hasn't developed yet to inhibit this primary flexion and the same thing
happens to Grandpa when they start going senile that when the brain gets more and
more and more degenerated now you start seeing that the posture goes more like
this again if someone has a stroke then we get what's called in decorticate
posture where whatever part of the brain doesn't work to inhibit that we get an
extreme flexion and in and internal rotation so all of these are little
clues for you that you can look for look at yourself in the mirror don't cheat
just kind of get in the front of the mirror and relax and see what your hands
are doing if one hand is turned in and the other one is not chances are that
you have one side of your brain it's a little better one side is a little
stronger than the other one and by working on your posture and by doing
simple exercises like you can check out my video on the three winged friends
which are postural exercises you can actually do exercises to stimulate the
signals that restore the posture that restore
the signaling and actually start building up that that frontal lobe again
and in doing that it's not that just that you get better posture but when
your brain starts working better when your frontal lobe get some more
activation you can also start finding better balance between stress and
relaxation most people are in a state of chronic stress they have what's called
sympathetic dominance sympathetic is a stress response but in all cases of
health we want balance so by doing postural exercises and by doing
relaxation exercises like breathing you help your body find balance and in doing
that you improve the immune system you improve digestion you improve sleep and
on and on and on that's what holism is when you improve one thing you improve
they have done studies that show that for every inch of anterior head carriage
we increase the strain and there's a direct correlation between anterior head
carriage and disease between anterior head carriage and mortality so keep that
in mind when you think about what we call refer to as a Twitter neck that
today when they examine the next the cervical spine and the curves of
children there is virtually no normal spines anymore even kids below five
years old have started developing Twitter necks and when we see just look
around look around that in the stores in public
anywhere you go you will see people looking like this and it is devastating
it is not just a nuisance it's not just that they get socially isolated that
they don't develop any skills except this it is truly devastating to their
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