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“Life is programmed to live. Life is created to live. Life does not surrender easily. We can be strong If we choose to be strong. We can be energetic If we choose to be energetic. We can be pain-free If we choose to be pain-free. We can be independent If we choose to be independent. But if we choose all that, we must choose to move.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“The pace of time is calm and steady; it is not desperate or frantic.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“We have two clear choices, action and inaction—there is no third choice.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“Time never stops, so neither can we.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“The 200 bones in our body are the structure around which we are shaped. When the bones soften, the structure collapses, and we look deformed and shrunken.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“A sedentary lifestyle—too much time spent on couches or at desks and not enough movement—is the most common trigger for muscular atrophy. When we move our muscles as little as possible, with a sedentary lifestyle, we turn down our furnaces and literally cause our muscles to atrophy. When the cells atrophy, we feel even more tired because we have fewer mitochondria generating ATP. A vicious circle begins: less energy leading to less movement, which leads to less energy, which leads to less movement. Atrophy from a sedentary lifestyle leads to weight gain, loss of energy, and chronic aches and pains. But atrophy can be easily prevented, stopped, and even reversed with daily gentle full-body exercise.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“Doing nothing is a sin of omission rather than commission. Doing nothing is a choice to let your body decay before its time. Doing something is the choice to stay vital, healthy, and youthful.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“FASCIA: THE TIES THAT BIND Imagine a collagen-rich, stretchy slipcover for every organ, nerve, bone, and muscle in our bodies, and you start to get a sense of how fundamental connective tissue—specifically fascia—is to the entire body. Suspending our organs inside our torso, connecting our head to our back to our feet, fascia protects, supports, and literally binds our body together. Fascia can be gossamer-thin and translucent, like a spider web, or thick and tough like rope. Ounce for ounce, fascia is stronger than steel. Other specialized types of connective tissue include bones, ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and fat (adipose) tissue. Even blood, strictly speaking, is considered connective tissue. But to me, the most exciting aspect of the latest research on connective tissue relates to fascia. Fascia is the stretchy tissue that forms an uninterrupted, three-dimensional web within our body. Our body has sheets, bags, and strings of fascia of varying thickness and size, some superficial and some deep. Fascia envelops both individual microscopic muscle filaments as well as whole muscle groups, such as the trapezius, pectorals, and quadriceps. For example, one of the largest fascia configurations in the body is known as the “trousers,” a massive sheet of fascia that crosses over the knees and ends near the waist, giving the appearance of short leggings. This fascia trouser is thicker around the knees and thinner as it continues up the legs and over the hips, thickening again near the waist. When the fascia trouser is healthy, supple, and resilient, it acts like a girdle, giving the body a firm shape. Fascia helps muscles transmit their force so we can convert that force into movement. The system of fascia is bound by tensile links (think of the structure of a geodesic dome, like the one at Epcot in Disney World), with space and fluid between the links that can help absorb external pressure and more evenly distribute force across the fascial structure. This allows our bodies to withstand tremendous force instead of absorbing it in one local area, which would lead to increased pain and injury. Fascia is also a second nervous system in and of itself, with almost 10 times the number of sensory nerve endings as muscle. Helene Langevin, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has done landmark studies on the function and importance of connective tissue and its impact on pain. One of the leading researchers in the field today, Langevin describes fascia as a “living matrix” whose health is essential to our well-being.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“Many people dread turning 40.”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
“Nothing feels as good as feeling young in your own body. THE”
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day
― Aging Backwards: Reverse the Aging Process and Look 10 Years Younger in 30 Minutes a Day