Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

The Fascinating Science of Posture (& Its Full-Body Health Effects!) With Annette Verpillot

2 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from the YouTube video "The Fascinating Science of Posture (& Its Full-Body Health Effects!)" featuring Annette Verpillot, the speaker explains how visual (eye) imbalances can cascade into vestibular system disturbances. The vestibular system, located in the inner ear, governs balance and spatial orientation. When it is destabilized, it can alter a person’s sense of bodily stability, affect breathing patterns, posture, and elevate stress levels. Verpillot emphasizes that anxiety can literally reside in the vestibular system, as the imbalance triggers activation of specific neural circuits that influence attention, gait, balance, and overall alertness. The passage underscores the interconnectedness of vision, inner‑ear balance, and higher‑order brain functions, suggesting that correcting eye alignment may have downstream benefits for posture, mental state, and physical performance.

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The way that we see the world has an incredible impact on our state of mind, on our breathing, on our posture, and on our stress level. Because if we have an eye imbalance, it's going to create an imbalance in our vestibular system. And if there's an imbalance in our vestibular system, which is our inner ear, our sense of balance, there's going to be an imbalance in how stable, or there's going to be a disruption in how stable we feel. Feel within our own body. Anxiety actually lives in the vestibular system. If there's an imbalance with the eyes, there's an imbalance with the vestibular system, and that could ultimately create anxiety. What we're doing is we're triggering the activation of different neural circuits in the brain that can actually impact our attention, our gait, our balance, because that's going to involve the vestibular system, as well as our alertness.