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How to Structure Your Own Water
What is structured water, and how can you make it yourself? This article covers simple methods like sunlight, sound, vortices, and saline solution for structuring water at home.
Nutrition for the Cells
Iron is a vital mineral, a so-called micromineral, a trace element, that we need in small micro-amounts to be healthy. Too high an intake of iron, however, becomes toxic to the bo…
Fascia & The Living Planet – Resources for lecture
How can we understand pain if we don’t realize that the body is part of the living Earth – built on frequencies, water, magnetic fields, and solar energy?
The Body's Iron Balance
Iron is a vital mineral, a so-called micromineral or trace element, which we need in small amounts to stay healthy. Too high an intake of iron, however, is toxic to the body.
What is a body, really?
Many of us are surely asked often, sometimes daily, "How are you?". The answer often comes automatically without a second thought: "Fine, thanks." But what does it really mean to…
Should Gerald Pollack Receive the Nobel Prize?
Few scientific discoveries have the potential to reshape our understanding of life as profoundly as Gerald H. Pollack’s work on water. For over two decades, Professor Pollack, bio…
New research suggests fascia should be recognized as its own anatomical system
A new study published in the Journal of Anatomy, led by Professor Carla Stecco, proposes that fascia should be recognized as its own anatomical system. The research identifies fou…
There Are No Scissors on the Savannah
The fascia receives and relieves pressure. What does that mean? Simply that it distributes the pressure over a larger volume. If you get a blow to the shoulder, the shoulder of co…
What do we mean when we say 'releasing pressure'?
The fascia receives and relieves pressure. So what does that mean? Simply that it distributes pressure over a larger volume. If you get hit on the shoulder, the shoulder of course…
We become the environment we live in
The environment we are in affects us in many different ways, both physically and psychologically. Not least, our physical and mental health are affected. So what do we mean by our…
We become what we think and feel
In daily life, we don't think about if or how we breathe. It usually happens unconsciously and automatically, controlled from the brainstem by the autonomic nervous system (involu…
What does it mean to feel good, and how good can you feel?
Many of us are probably asked the question often, sometimes daily, 'How are you?'. The answer often comes automatically without a second thought, 'Fine, thanks'. But what does it…
Exploring the Ecology of Life
My book, 'When Logic Came to Town and Man Broke in Two'—the final version of which is nearing completion—contains a chapter on how I believe we should understand the concept of ec…
Redefining what it means to be human
Good news is no news – this is, in principle, the motto behind all current media. It has always been this way. The only thing that varies is the intensity of the bad news.
Collagen as a Dietary Supplement
Collagen is the body's most abundant protein and provides structure to the entire body. It builds the skeleton, all types of Fascia such as tendons, ligaments, joint capsules, ski…
Are you listening to your body?
We've all heard it many times before: 'You have to listen to your body.' It may seem trivial, but for many of us, it's very difficult to do, and it's incredibly important.
Stress and Stress Management
Stress is a natural and vital physiological process for survival, providing the extra energy needed to handle a demanding situation that is hopefully short-lived.
Sleep, Rest, and Recovery
Two factors primarily control our sleep: the circadian rhythm and sleep pressure. We have a biological clock in the brain that governs the circadian rhythm in cycles of about 24 h…
Are You Getting the Right Nutrients?
The body needs nutrients for all its functions and systems to work. These nutrients are processed in cellular metabolism, creating energy for the cell's work of producing various…
Are You Moving Enough Every Day?
We are made to move at a moderate pace and far more than most of us do today. Long ago, when humans lived as hunter-gatherers, they moved for most of their waking hours. They coul…
Do You Have Good Posture and Balance?
What do good posture and balance mean? In physics, something is said to be in balance when it is in equilibrium. The center of mass is then located above the base of support (the…
How Do You Breathe?
In daily life, we don't think about if or how we breathe. It usually happens unconsciously and automatically, controlled from the brainstem by the autonomic nervous system (which…
To take a stand for the Living
I princip alla känner till PH-värde, men visste du att PH-värde i själva verket är en laddning?
How Good Can You Feel?
What does it really mean to feel good, and how good can you feel? Is well-being the same as being okay or being pain-free? Or is there another level of well-being? A level where y…
Treatment of pneumonia
The main purpose of this report is to provide an overview of research studies on how manual and osteopathic treatment affects lymphatic flow
Fascia and The Living Body
“Fascia and the Living Body” is a document about the scientific understanding of the body as a living whole.
Are my problems related to Fascia?
Most of the questions we receive are about various issues and discomforts related to Fascia. How can Fascia represent a new way to treat and prevent problems?
The building blocks, collagen as a supplement
Kollagen är kroppens vanligaste protein och bygger upp det mesta i vår kropp, Fascia, benvävnad, brosk, blodkärl, lymfkärl, ögon, hud, naglar, mm, mm.
Collagen
Kollagen är kroppens vanligaste protein och bygger upp all struktur i kroppen. Det bygger upp skelett, all typ av Fascia som senor, ligament, ledkapslar, hud, blodkärl, lymfkärl,…
Quercetin
Quercetin är en flavonoid och kraftig antioxidant, som finns naturligt i många färgstarka växter, till exempel lök och kapris. Den hör också till en grupp av växter som kallas fyt…
Resveratrol
Resveratrol är en kraftfull antioxidant som hjälper till att stärka immunförsvaret och skydda kroppens celler mot för tidigt åldrande, motverkar klimakteriebesvär med förbättrad k…
How do you know how to place your feet – what is proprioception?
Proprioception is often described as the innate ability to sense the body’s position in relation to the environment and space, also known as spatial awareness. It’s a vital skill…
Is the body smarter than a supercomputer?
All living beings require water, that’s something we all know. Water is so common and obvious to us that it has become uninteresting, almost too simple to study. We think we know…
A new possible treatment for patients with Frozen Shoulder
A new possible treatment for patients with Frozen Shoulder? JTVCdGhlX2FkJTIwaWQlM0QlMjIxNDQ2NSUyMiU1RA== Can myofascial treatment with pulsating vibrations improve mobility for pa…
The building blocks, collagen as a supplement
Collagen is the most common protein in our body and makes up most of our body’s structures such as fascia, bone tissue, cartilage, blood vessels, lymph vessels, eyes, skin, nails,…
Therefore, the researchers believe that the nervous system resides in Fascia
The fascial network exists in various compositions, structures, and configurations throughout the entire body and is a crucial and essential part of the body’s function…
The strength of collagen
In order for a tendon or ligament to become strong, a lot of collagen fibers are required, as well as sufficient cross-links to stabilize the fibers so that they do not “slide” ag…
Hyaluronic acid and densification
Fascian skapar ett tredimensionellt nätverk i kroppen, av omväxlande lös och tät bindväv, som möjliggör att alla celler och organsystem i kroppen kan samarbeta som en integrerad h…
The hormone cortisol
Long-term stress and strain on the body, due to factors such as excessive worrying, lack of sleep, and overworking for extended periods of time, can impair your immune system.
Synthetic or natural vitamin C?
Ascorbic acid is an organic acid that was discovered in the 1920s by Albert von Szent Györgyi, who extracted it from peppers.
Why do some doctors say that vitamin C supplements are unnecessary and even harmful?
In the public healthcare system, there is often a cool attitude towards nutritional supplements such as vitamins and minerals.
Disease is excess oxidation
Diseases are an excess of oxidation – Redox physiology is an excess of oxidation greater than reduction.
Vibrations and fascia
Rhythmic and dynamic moments, actually different vibrations, have been a cornerstone of osteopathic treatment since the late 1800s when Andrew Taylor Still founded osteopathy.
What happens in the Fascia when we treat with vibrations?
Fascia creates a three-dimensional network in the body of alternating loose and dense connective tissue that enables all cells and organ systems in the body to collaborate as an i…
Is your Fascia acidic?
When the food we eat is metabolized, metabolites are formed. The metabolites can be acidic or alkaline, depending on what we eat.
Fascia is nothing new!
There is a lot of talk about Fascia now, but Fascia is not new. Over the past 10-20 years, Fascia research has had a huge upswing and has also become more interdisciplinary.
Guimberteau
Surgeon Jean Claude Guimberteau has spent 15 years conducting over 1,200 examinations of Fascia, which he filmed with an endoscope in vivo (in a living subject)
Why is resistance to vitamin C still so great?
Why do all “experts” on TV say that we don’t need or that it’s harmful to take extra vitamin C?
Fascia is the largest organ in the body
Fascia or interstitium? Two different terms for the body’s “newly discovered” largest organ.
Fascial Net Plastination Project
In January 2018, a fascinating project began: to create the world's first anatomical 3D model of the human body with a focus on fascia. The project is called the Fascial Net Plast…
What is special about viruses?
A virus consists of genetic material, DNA or RNA, protected by a protein shell. It is so small that it can only be seen with powerful electron microscopes.
Glutathione
Glutathione helps strengthen the immune system and protect the body, and is necessary for other antioxidants such as vitamin E and vitamin C to function effectively.
Omega 3
The body needs Omega-3 fatty acids but cannot produce them on its own.
The influence of mechanical forces on Fascia?
Connective tissue / fascia is an incredibly adaptable and plastic tissue. It is transformed, remodeled and strengthened or weakened according to the mechanical stimulation (load)…
Why is it more common for women to have back pain?
More women than men suffer from back pain, sprains, ACL injuries, and similar conditions. How come?
Is fascia affected by sex hormones?
Banbrytande ny forskning visar hur kollagenproduktionen över hela kroppen påverkas av könshormoner, som t ex östrogen. Läs mer här
Training for strengthened Fascia
Exercise increases collagen production in tendons, ligaments and all Fascia. To stimulate collagen formation in tendons and ligaments, it doesn’t matter if the exercise is eccentr…
Can you heal osteoarthritis?
The function of the articular cartilage is to reduce friction between the two articular cartilage surfaces and facilitate sliding when the joint moves, and to absorb the load when…
Selenium
Important antioxidant that protects cells from oxidative stress.
Vitamin E
Important antioxidant that protects cells from oxidative stress.