Body in Context
Essays on nutrition, movement, recovery, and health through the lens of context, physiology, and lived experience. Exploring how bodies actually work in real life.
Alignment Is a Skill
Alignment is something your nervous system learns. Your posture is shaped by what you repeat, what you avoid, and what your body thinks it needs to protect. You are already training your posture. The question is whether you like how it adapts.
Defining Nutrition
Nutrition is not a label claim and it is not a macro. Nourishment is defined by what the body can absorb and use, not what is highlighted on the front of the package. Protein-focused marketing often flattens a much more complex conversation.
Defining Diet
Diet is not something you start or stop. It is the ongoing pattern of nourishment, always in motion. When diet became a verb, shame and restriction followed. A return to the noun. A return to something steady. A return to what is lived, not controlled.
The Food Rules We Teach Without Saying a Word
Children learn food rules by watching how adults eat, speak about their bodies, and move through meals—not through lectures. The quiet modeling happens long before the rules are ever named
BMI: More Like BM-Why Is This Still a Thing?
BMI was designed to describe populations, not individual bodies. Used as a personal health metric, it often hides more than it reveals.
Weight Loss Prescribed Without Context
Being told to “lose weight” is not the same as being supported in your health. When context, body composition, and recovery are ignored, weight-focused advice can cause more harm than good.
The Breakdown of Bone Health, Weight Loss, and Exercise Care
General exercise advice often lacks the specificity needed to support bone health. When weight loss and muscle preservation are mismanaged, skeletal integrity pays the price.
Is Ozempic a Dirty Word?
GLP-1 medications can support weight loss, but their effects on muscle, bone, and long-term function shape long-term outcomes. Nutrition and exercise are essential parts of care. Support determines outcome.
The Cost of Ketosis
Ketosis is a metabolic state, not a performance strategy. When it becomes a lifestyle rather than a tool, the cost to recovery, muscle preservation, and long-term health is often underestimated. What is marketed as discipline often shows up as depletion.
Emotional Side Effects of Underfueling
When food intake drops below what the body requires, the first system affected is often the nervous system. Irritability, anxiety, low mood, and emotional reactivity are predictable biological responses to energy scarcity.
Muscle Matters Beyond Aesthetics
Muscle is more than a cosmetic goal. It plays a key role in metabolism, joint support, bone health, and how well the body moves over time. It is infrastructure, not decoration. It determines how capable you feel in your own body. Without it, the body compensates.
Testosterone, Lifestyle, and the Body’s Baseline
Testosterone is responsive to training, nutrition, recovery, and stress. When those inputs are misaligned, testosterone reflects the mismatch. When they improve, the signal follows.
Daytime Behavior Shapes Evening Appetite
Fat loss is not won at dinner. It is shaped by the habits you repeat in the middle of the day. Learn how two simple midday power moves can support energy, appetite, and sustainable fat loss.
Exercise Considerations for hEDS, HSD, POTS, and MCAS
Standard group fitness classes are rarely designed with hypermobility or dysautonomia in mind. Different bodies require different support.
Some Like It Hot. The Body Does Not.
Heat changes how the body responds to exercise. Heated environments alter training capacity, recovery, and safety, particularly for individuals with dysautonomia.
POTS and Planes
Flying is a perfect storm for POTS. Less movement, less blood volume, and less efficient circulation all at once. If planes make you dizzy, nauseous, or one bad step away from a golf cart ride off the tarmac, this is why and what actually helps.
Strength Starts at the Ground
The body moves as a connected system. One of the most effective ways to address persistent discomfort or dysfunction higher up is to start at the ground. When support is missing at the ground, the body borrows it elsewhere.
ACL Rehab Ends Before Recovery Does
Many people complete ACL rehabilitation and are medically cleared, yet still do not feel confident in their knee. Clearance does not always equal readiness.
I Feel It in My Bones
Weather-related joint pain is not superstition. Changes in barometric pressure, temperature, and humidity can affect joint tissue, inflammation, and nervous system sensitivity. For many bodies, especially those with prior injury or connective tissue differences, the ache before a storm is real and predictable.
