Welcome back to the Lyme podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we

bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness

help you optimize your mind, body, and movement. Today's gorgeous conversations

with my friend DJ Merakami.

DJ is one of the strongest people on the internet.

He is the founder of Strong Camps and the reason that I wanted to have him on is I have been watching him do something very interesting,

referred to his bite training for the last couple of years or so, at least the last year,

and I've been experimenting with it. It is very fascinating. Through engaging the

jaw, clenching, biting down while doing performing lifts and just general athletic feats.

You can increase your strength pretty dramatically.

There is some various different research that's been published. you can look it up on pub med,

that suggests that just through biting down it can increase your grip strength by, I believe it was

like 12.8 percent. Same thing with like extensions. I've experimented

with this quite a bit doing pull-ups, doing push-ups, various different exercises.

And so I wanted to have the man himself who has been

popularizing this on the internet on the show to discuss what the heck is going

on there. I also discuss how to take a person that has been habituated to kind of the

standard modern movement lifestyle, just sitting on chairs of various different forms throughout the day and start to integrate them into a more

You say it like primal mover or integrated mover or maybe functional mover all of these are kind of weird fluffy words but someone that is well

equipped to do what our ancestors have done for a very long time walk run lunge

squat throw things with the sort.

So this conversation very interesting,

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