If You Sit All Day, THIS Is Falling Apart Inside You

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about the benefits of stretching every day. A simple stretching workout can provide the following benefits:

•Improved sleep

•Decreased inflammation

•Decreased pain

•Counters past injuries

•Calms the nervous system

Many people think their muscles are tight when it’s really the fascia! Your fascia is like a wetsuit that surrounds the entire body.

Helene Langevin of the National Institutes of Health discovered through acupuncture that when a needle is inserted into the skin, collagen fibers of the fascia begin winding around the needle!

When you injure your fascia, you develop scar tissue, which can interfere with movement. Healthy fascia should be dynamic, movable, flexible, and even has electrical properties! Unhealthy or injured fascia develops a disorganized pattern of connective tissue. Stretching at home daily keeps your fascia healthy.

Tight muscles and tissues that cause bad posture are one of the biggest problems you can have with your fascia. The more you can elongate your connective tissue, the better it will be for your fascia.

A good daily stretching routine is one of the best ways to prevent stiffness associated with aging.

Follow along and try this easy stretching routine for healthy fascia, flexibility, and improved posture!

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	This is why I stretch every single day. Here are the benefits that I found personally with myself. It helps my sleep. It helps reduce pain and decrease inflammation. And it takes me out of what's called the fight or flight mode. And I also stretch to counter all of the injuries that I've had over the years. Most people have this confusion that the problem is the muscle. The muscle's too
0:21.1	tight, so I need to stretch. That's actually not true. What really becomes tight is something that we're
0:26.0	going to talk about called the fascia. If you think of a wetsuit that surrounds the entire body,
0:30.9	that would be fasha. And the thing about fasha, it's totally connected. There's a very interesting
0:35.7	short clip I want to share with you on the dynamics of
0:39.7	how living or how alive your fash is. Check this out. Alain LaGivant of the National Institutes of
0:46.1	Health, however, made a bizarre discovery while learning acupuncture. She noticed that as the needle
0:51.6	was inserted into the skin, something seemed to be grabbing and pulling at it.
0:56.0	When Lajavan took these results to the lab, an MRI revealed that the collagen fibers of the fascia were actually winding themselves around the needle, like spaghetti on a fork.
1:06.0	And what's more, the fibroblasts sent out chemical signals to the surrounding tissue,
1:10.9	allowing it to expand and then relax.
1:13.5	The fibroblasts that are inside the tissues up to several centimeters away,
1:18.4	not just only at the needle, they expand.
1:21.3	They respond. It relaxes the tissue.
1:24.1	So the research is showing that the best thing for fascia is for it to move, to stretch,
1:28.5	and not be stagnant. But what happens if you don't really move at all? If you're super sedentary,
1:33.1	you haven't tried to touch your toes in a very long time, and you have body parts that haven't
1:38.4	been through their full range of motion in a long, long while. When you injure your fascia, you develop scar tissue.
1:46.9	So what happens, the fascia layers can no longer glide.
1:50.3	They get stuck together like glue.
1:51.8	Healthy fascia is supposed to be dynamic, movable, flexible, and it even has electrical
1:57.4	properties.
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