Everyone IGNORES This Part of Their Body

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’ll share 9 fascinating facts about fascia and the secret to keeping it healthy.

1. Fascia is the material that surrounds every muscle in the body.

2. Fascia gives the body posture and shape.

3. Fascia adapts to the environment.

4. Cells of the fascia or collagen are called fibroblasts. You have billions of these cells that can migrate through the body and lay down ground substance to allow lubrication and movement.

5. Fascia is highly involved with immune function. Myofascial release, massage, and trigger point therapy can help improve inflammatory conditions of the fascia, such as fibromyalgia and plantar fasciitis.

6. Fascia is stiffened by lack of movement. People often assume they have stiff muscles when they really have stiff fascia.

7. Your fascia extends throughout your entire body and is connected from head to toe. This is why you can often relieve pain associated with tight or inflamed fascia by fascial manipulation in other related parts of the body.

8. Fascia is innervated by tiny nerves that allow the body to know where it is in space, so it’s critical for balance and coordination.

9. Fascia can change in material properties and go from being very rigid to very elastic.

Dynamic motions in different directions can help restore fascia, so don’t do the same stretches and exercises repeatedly! High doses of vitamin D3, along with the cofactors vitamin K2, magnesium, zinc, and vitamin B6, also support your fascia's health.

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0:00.0	There are nine things I'm going to talk about today about fascia that will literally blow your mind.
0:07.3	Now I went through a lot of training on the body, anatomy physiology.
0:11.5	When we talked about fascia, it was this extra passive tissue, you know, like bubble wrap that just packs certain things.
0:19.0	FASHA is the matrix or the material that surrounds every muscle in the body.
0:25.0	Like let me just give you an example.
0:27.0	We take this weight for example and I start lifting it like this, right?
0:31.0	For about, I don't know 20 times. I'm going to get tired right? I'm using a lot of
0:38.0	energy when I'm doing this. Now if we attach some fossil tissue to the weight, okay, and do that. I'm still lifting the weight,
0:49.2	but I'm using a lot less energy because I'm using the free energy from the elastic band that gives you a lot of transfer of energy.
0:58.8	Running, jumping, etc. is not just about contraction and relaxation of muscles.
1:04.0	It's about the loading of the tendons and ligaments in fascia and then releasing it.
1:10.0	Fascia gives you your posture.
1:12.0	I mean you ever see people when they get older, like some people literally are looking straight down when they're walking and that could have been totally prevented if they understood how to keep the FASHA healthy and repair it, which I'm going to tell you at the end of this video.
1:27.0	Fascia also gives you your body shape.
1:29.0	Fascia also has similar properties to liquid crystals in those like digital TVs. It has these
1:37.8	repeating patterns of similar type shapes that have the ability to change and adapt to the environment.
1:46.8	The little cells that make fascia or collagen are called fibroblasts.
1:53.8	And these little cells are like little spiders
1:56.0	that can migrate.
1:57.3	They can move through your body
1:59.2	and you have billions of them all over the place.
2:01.8	And they're basically laying down this,
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