A pinky-pull test might reveal joint hypermobility, which can signal that your gut's suspension system is too stretchy. When intestines sag under gravity, you get bloating, gas, and digestive problems. Get checked by a doctor if you can do these moves easily.
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So take your pinky.
Take your pinky.
And see how far back you can pull it.
So we're going to bend our pinky back.
Bend it back.
Okay.
And so you and I are at about 90 degrees.
Meaning my pinky is going straight back. It's not going—
Going straight back, but it's not bending way back. No. Right? And that's normal.
Okay.
And the other way to tell is if you can take your thumb.
Take my thumb.
And bend it all the way back to your forearm. I can't do that. People can touch their thumbs to their forearms? Turns out a number of your staff can.
That's right. We did this with our staff and over half the women that work here. Yeah. And we have 50 employees. Yeah. Over half can bend their thumb back to touch their arm.
To touch their arm. And those same people can touch the ground without bending their knees really easily. They may have kind of a double-jointed elbow. So if you can do those things, you might then ask yourself, do I have stomach issues? Do I have irritable bowel syndrome? Do I have, you know, like stomach pains sometimes?
Okay, so hold on a second. Why is there a connection between a bendy pinky or a thumb that touches the forearm and GI issues?
Yeah, it's gravity intolerance. If you're stretchy on the outside, you're probably stretchy on the inside too. And our gut, we talked about, it's like a sack of potatoes that that's sort of on these suspension systems. And when you stand up and you stand up straight, the system hangs down. It's almost like a marionette on strings. Like you can articulate the marionette with the strings. But if those strings were really, really stretchy, like elastic, the marionette would kind of collapse down. It would be hard to animate it. Well, if you're stretchy in your joints, the suspension cables inside are also stretchy. And the sack of potato gets pulled down by gravity and it compresses down, and you can get some digestion issues like bacterial overgrowth and gas issues. You should see a doctor, to be clear, but you can check it even with yourself, and that is a form of gravity intolerance.
