I’m stoked to be presenting at the Ancestral Health Symposium this August in Hotlanta Georgia! This is my abstract, in case you’re interested: Paleo Parenting: A Biomechanical Perspective Children come with a myriad of developmental reflexes that are often suppressed through modern parenting practices. Parents wishing for a culture-free perspective on topics such as breastfeeding, shoe-wearing, infant exercise and baby-devices…read more →
Dear World, I have a lot of things to get done today. Would you mind not covering stories like Hip Replacements More Likely to Fail in Women all posting it all over the place? It’s distracting and I find myself unable to get anything done until a post is written about this. It’s a personal problem and not your fault…read more →
When you are a researcher or practitioner raised in a shoe-lovin’ culture, it is easy to conclude that the foot is something that “needs support” and the ankle is something that needs to wobble through three planes in order for the body to move forward. We’re all susceptible to “perceptual blindness,” but more on that in another post. For those…read more →
I was talking to a dear friend on the phone the other day when I mentioned I was breastfeeding my oldest kid, 21 months. “You’re still breastfeeding him? Because I listened to a very good doctor’s workshop who said that the eruption of a child’s incisors was the signal to stop breastfeeding and that to continue to do so is…read more →
This is a picture from one of my favorite art/anatomy books, The Human Machine. This is what the paragraph below the image reads: The mouth was made to cut and grind food. To save this trouble and work, mechanical devices such as the millstone were put into operation. Here the upper stone ground while the lower was stationary. In the…read more →
