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I'm not so sold on a universal application of this spine theory. I know each of us has a unique and complex health state, and we each require specific nuanced remedies, so it is possible this could be the solution for someone. But, as an anecdotal report that would prove against this, my father does not have a curved back, and I do have minor scoliosis, and my hairline is better than his was at my age.
Doesn't have to be an either-or. 'Postural damage', as you put it, doesn't just happen spontaneously but rather has a definite cause. Typically this cause has its roots in chronic tension, which in turn is commonly perpetuated by psychological factors. At worst this creates a feedback loop in which the psychology and the physiology respond to each other, causing the situation to spiral further out of control. As such, it is common for psychological tension to resolve in tandem with physiological tension. Bursts of released emotions are common in deep postural work, as you likely have observed in your own journey.
This is my line of thinking at this point. Unprocessed trauma manifesting as tension in certain parts of the body.
That's interesting, I've noticed a similar thing when fasting where I seem to release long forgotten (sometimes negative) memories.
You can also shake these traumas off with TRE (trauma release exercise). The US army uses it to treat and prevent PTSD and many have found it miraculously helpful against all kinds of mental problems.
The studies that find moderate alcohol consumption reduces artery calcification, and autopsists that know alcoholics have spotless arteries.
Psychological factors in the sense that what goes on in your head affects what you end up doing. For instance if your body is under excess serotonin from bad food and excessive bacterial activity in the intestines, you are low dopamine. You might try to correct this by social media addiction. If you are weak and sit on your phone the whole day you probably don't have the willpower to hold up your hands so your phone is in your lap. You bend your back and especially neck to see the phone and get closer to the small screen. When you do this day after day and ignore the fatigue signals from your neck and shoulder region, you get fascial densification that progresses to fascial adhesions and fibrosis. Now you have the first layer of postural injury ingrained. Now if you do the same when you have the flu and your energetic capacity is drained, it might progress to calcification. When (if) you eventually get around to heal this the emotional flashback you get is one of low energy and unmet social needs, and perhaps intestinal upset.
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Same here.
It's not one specific post, i have polluted many threads over the past 2 years as i have gone through the process. Search for "chiropractic yoga" and "fascial unwinding" and you will find the longest posts probably. I have not had chiropractic treatment done on me, i use the term as the idea that chiropractic means applying external force to correct posture. I think i remember reading somewhere that it is impossible to correct all postural issues by just doing stretching and traditional yogic movements etc. and now that i have a undestanding of the tensegrity structure of the body it is clear, the more you stretch or apply weight to try to "get to" some stuck area the more the tensegrity can tighten down and prevent it's shifting. But when you for instance push your back against a wall or corner of a wall, you use completely different muscles to achieve it and the wall "pushes back" this does not cause tension in that area and allows for the shift.
So in this situation you are saying that the parents are already in a bad environment. I'm sure that the effects of the children born into that bad environment from those parents (who probably full of PUFA while pregnant, with lacking thyroid levels and progesterone in dirt, constantly using phone on top of stomach while pregnant, vaccinated etc) would be a lot worse off than the parents.
I'd imagine that you'll see a lot less of that in the future. When I was young (1980s in the UK), there were not as many young bald men as there are now. Things changed, diet, indoor v outdoor work, lifestyle.
Individual response to the environment likely matters more than the environment itself.
