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.
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.
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.