The human body is far more complex than we think

This is perhaps my biggest conclusion from ten years of playing with these biomechanics.

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Folks post and share a lot of things on our community or as comments and often ask me to give me my opinion.

Some of it is ‘gurus’ explaining how various compensations work and their view on how to unwind it.

When I watch this stuff a lot of it ‘sounds’ very convincing. And I sit there and think to myself… “is that what I think is going on behind this unwind process that i’ve experienced?”

And the answer is almost always NO.

In that.. i just don’t think that that is the way it works.

Now let me explain.

These past 10 yrs i almost feel like I was the star of Groundhog Day #2. lol

I’ve spent 10 years screwing up and then fixing myself

For those of you that have read a lot of my past posts you have heard the story of how I entered this world in early 2014 when a dentist in Vietnam drilled my teeth.

I began fixing myself only to screw it up again.

I fixed and then screwed myself up many times in the ensuing 11 years.

This includes taking things ‘to the end’ around 2016. The exact date is a bit of a blurry memory but I remember clearly how it happened.

The scalp shed in clumps.

All of the skin on my jaw and most of my face broke and peeled like a bad sunburn.

Skin on other parts of my body broke and shed in the days before.

And eventually my jaw repositioned giving me back my profile and the skeleton sort of went clack-clack-clack and i felt at least a half inch taller.

My face was also more symmetric and with better angles than i ever remember it being in my entire life.

Then i screwed it up.

Then I fixed it to a lesser extent.

Then i screwed it up again.

Then i fixed it a bit.

And on and on. For years.

I literally do not think there is anyone walking on the face of this planet right now that knows more about this process than I do.

Because I had stumbled on the correct biomechanics to fix it.. but because I didn’t fully understand the whole puzzle, i kept screwing it up again.

The recovery process made me conclude that the human body is extremely complex

At a high level the recovery process during all these iterations always fell into the same pattern.

• Cognitive function would improve.

• My senses (like vision) would improve.

• My body would get tighter and go back into the correct shape.

• etc.

But the way that this happened was unlike anything I had ever read or seen before by any of these ‘experts’.

Random things would happen that I wouldn’t expect.

One day a muscle would release near my ear and fluid would flood out.

Then the next day things would feel tight on the other side.

Then my right calf would have a spasm i never even knew was there painfully release.

Then the same thing might happen in my left foot.

Then lines would appear on my hand and arm as if something had released.

It was impossible to predict these things that happened on a day-to-day basis. And there was zero relationship to the specific stretches i was doing.

I would not be able to trigger ANY of these releases if I tried.

It was just too complex.

And it was clear that the soft tissue (eg. fascia/skin/etc) played a far more important role than many folks believed.

Focusing on muscles/bones was pretty much useless as they were completely a function of the soft tissue.

For this reason I don’t go into much depth explaining how the body unwinds

What I took out of this process above was that at a high-level the way the recovery worked was very predictable.

The biomechanics literally fixed everything eventually.

Cognitive function, neurological function, symmetry, posture…. the shit ALL got fixed.

But the way that it happened was far far more complex than I would have ever thought.

Which is why when people ask me what to expect I pretty much never give any specific answers. Because I do not know.

The way that the body compensates and then unravels on a day-to-day basis is just very very complex. And is probably a bit different on everyone.

Everything is connected to everything and it acts like an integrated system.

The gurus are wrong

When I watch these self-proclaimed gurus explaining how parts of the body compensate and how you should unwind these compensations… i always end up shaking my head and disagreeing.

This guy Niel Hallinan, with 158k Youtube subscribers, is one of them who has come to my attention numerous times from various folks who asked me to take a look and give my opinion.

So i watched a bit of a couple of his videos.

And he talks a lot about the process of ‘postural restoration?

But how can you claim to know postural restoration when you don’t understand the underlying biomechanics that dictates the whole thing?

Answer: You CANNOT.

And so as i watched i just shook my head till i couldn’t watch anymore.

Sorry Niel.. that is not how i experienced any of it. You are going to end up being wrong.

And I want to go on record for predicting that in a couple years… the true postural changes of the folks doing Reviv for at least two years will absolutely OBLITERATE Niel’s best success stories.

Why?

Because this is how the shit ‘actually’ works.

If you don’t know how things like curve of spee work… you are just talkin’ shit in my view. Sorry for the brutal honesty.

Closing thoughts

This doctor friend of mine (who is wearing a mouthguard for awhile) and I were chatting on whatsapp today as we normally do and he was talking about how he had concluded many of the same things.

The human body is just extremely complex. Both in how it compensates and how it unwinds.

And he is looking at various injuries and compensations all day long.

But the thing that we also both agreed on is that even though the body is an EXTREMELY complex system… the way that you fix it is actually very simple in the end.

You just fix these biomechanics!

Which is possible with a mouthguard like Reviv and then some effort stretching. And taking a long game approach.