010- Aligning Posture for Improved Performance and Global Health with Annette Verpillot

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Ben Pakulski

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🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Joining us today is Canadian Posturologist Annette Verpillot. Annette has worked with some of the biggest names in strength and conditioning including Ben's friend and mentor the great Charles Poliquin. Annette's approach to aligning posture through the eyes, mouth and feet has garnered a reputation for its effect of immediate strength increases of up to 50 percent. In this episode we discuss what good posture means, the nuances to aligning it and the incredible effects it has on the nervous system, neurochemistry, and endocrine function.

Time Stamps

Can we define an ideal posture? Where does she begin her assessment process when seeing a new client? [3:02]
How if you have a brain imbalance, you are OUT of balance. [9:45]
What are some things in the first three years life that can affect our posture? [11:55]
What are some of the common postural deficiencies you see? What causes them? [16:15]
Where does she start when someone comes to her with a contortion in their pelvis? [19:20]
Are most of our postural limitations a result of poor childhood development or current lifestyles? [22:44]
What would she prescribe to someone with thoracic spine issues? [24:05]
Would doing cross body pattern movements be correlated with increased dopamine? [28:52]
What strategies would she recommend for someone to begin to increase dopamine levels TODAY? [31:03]
How does someone go about alleviating anterior pelvic tilt? [32:33]
How can one get their jaw back in alignment? [34:14]
Tips to correct a postural imbalance. [36:54]
How movement builds the brain. [40:30]
Does she practice what she preaches? [42:30]
Why we must start looking at the body from a global perspective. [45:35]
Where can we find more about her upcoming courses? [51:40]

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0:00.0	We know that posture affects our hormone production.
0:04.0	Now, these movement patterns that we have, the way that we develop them, you know, I mean, if we look at the brain stem, it's like the stem of a cauliflower or broccoli, for example, and the broccoli being the brain, if we start to look at how these movement patterns start to emerge
0:21.8	and we start looking at these different areas of the brain,
0:24.8	some of these areas are linked to serotonin and dopamine production,
0:28.4	dopamine production being in the midbrain.
0:30.6	And that's specifically involved with crawling and contralateral movements.
1:12.9	Okay. involved with crawling and contralateral movements. ...with crawling and contralateral movements. Hey, everybody, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast.
1:14.8	I am your host, Ben Pocoski.
1:19.2	We frame this podcast around living your greatest life and a body that you absolutely love.
1:21.8	And posture is a really, really big thing.
1:24.1	So whether you're standing or sitting right now,
1:27.5	which is sit up straight, stand up straight, pull your shoulders back.
1:33.1	Acknowledge how that feels. Now I want you to roll your shoulders forward, drive your head forward a little bit, and acknowledge how all the muscles of your back, of your cervical spine have to now
1:38.3	extend your body. All those muscles are active. Your brain is active in firing and contracting those muscles.
1:44.9	And if that position in any way is our default position,
1:47.9	your brain will be hyperactive to keep your body stable.
1:51.3	This is the same with having proper or poor foot mechanics,
1:56.9	hip mechanics.
1:58.4	If your center of mass is in any way outside of your body and shifting,
2:03.2	all those muscles that are on the opposite side have to contract and be active to hold you up.
2:10.6	Now, think about what implications that could be having in your autonomic nervous system,
2:14.4	in your brain as far as driving sympathetic stress.
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