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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.