Muscle Movement: Unlock Your Body's Healing Power

17 May 2025 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a spoken presentation explaining that muscle activity benefits health in two main ways: (1) increasing blood circulation and returning blood to the liver for cleansing, and (2) muscles releasing chemical/hormonal signals that promote healing. The speaker references research from roughly the last 20 years linking muscle-derived signals to repair of protective brain barriers affected by COVID-19.

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Well, okay, it makes sense. I'm exercising. But it also does two huge things. The more you move your muscles, the more you pump, the blood reserve forces it back to your liver to be cleaned again. And you have a cleaner blood reserve, which winds up helping. But another thing, again, more of the last 20 years, is our understanding that the muscles literally send out chemical signals. You could say some are kind of hormonal, some are more pure chemistry, and they actually will send out healing signals. There's this really amazing paper that came out that said, well, part of the damage with COVID is the. The protective brain barriers get, not protective. And it turns out that by moving our physical muscles, we actually send signals that tell it to. To fix itself. Oh, wow. Okay.