Explore every episode of the podcast Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman
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| Ep 163: Are Lungs Outside the Body? | 28 Aug 2024 | 01:05:26 | |
Biomechanist Katy Bowman talks with biologist Jeannette Loram about lung movement. Katy and Jeannette debate whether the lung surfaces are actually outside the body, similar to the tubes of the gut, and discuss how lung movement is not only important for breathing but also for immunity. They discuss the anatomy of our lungs and the mechanics of lung movement and explain how our lungs, just like our hips, have a range of motion that they need to be moved through on a regular basis. They discuss humans as endurance-adapted animals and explain how our ribcage anatomy is adapted for greater lung movement compared with non-endurance animals. They also discuss postural issues such as hyperkyphosis and forward shoulders that can limit our ability to take good breaths. Finally, they touch on some unique breathing scenarios such as high-altitude and aquatic environments. | |||
| Ep 162: Are Humans Natural Swimmers? | 14 Aug 2024 | 01:02:00 | |
Biomechanist Katy Bowman and biologist Jeannette Loram talk all about swimming. They discuss the history of human swimming; whether humans are natural-born swimmers, evidence for swimming in the past and physiological adaptations found in swimming and diving cultures. They discuss the four classic swimming strokes as well as other ways to move in the water and explore the movement macro-and micro-nutrients found in swimming. They talk about joint and bone support and the trade-offs of exercising in buoyant water. They also offer tips for avoiding swimming-related neck and back pain. Finally, Katy and Jeannette touch on the aquatic Olympics and athletic longevity and also share their personal swimming histories and favorite ways of moving through the water. | |||
| Ep 153: Sedentary Animals w/Dr. Andrea Graves | 28 Feb 2024 | 01:18:55 | |
Dr. Andrea Graves, an animal behavior expert, illuminates the profound significance of movement for animals and humans alike. Through personal anecdotes and scientific insights, Katy and Andrea delve into the essential role of providing enriching environments for animals to express their natural behaviors authentically. From discussing innovative approaches like creating "chicken jungle gyms" to exploring the ethical considerations surrounding AI integration in animal welfare, the conversation underscores the interconnectedness between movement, animal welfare, and environmental enrichment. | |||
| Ep 64 - Movement Ecology: Live Audience Podcast Recording | 01 Nov 2016 | 01:01:42 | |
Originally recorded in March 2016, this is a live audience podcast recorded at the Nutritious Movement Center in Sequim, Washington. It is a companion podcast to the book “Movement Matters” by Katy Bowman. | |||
| Ep 63 - Movement Matters #2: Personal Mission Statement | 18 Oct 2016 | 00:59:32 | |
The second part of a 3-episode companion series is intended as a sort of study guide for Katy’s upcoming book, Movement Matters, in which Katy discusses using a personal mission statement as a new alignment tool. | |||
| Ep 62 - Dani Reads Movement Matters | 04 Oct 2016 | 00:49:39 | |
| Ep 61 - Get a Grip! | 27 Sep 2016 | 00:27:49 | |
Studies reveal that millennials’ grip strength is 10% less than test subjects in the same age range 30 years ago. Cause for concern, or cause for setting the standards to a “new norm”? Is it because we’re not farming, or rather are we too good at thumb swiping? Katy does a quick double-take in this handy episode. | |||
| Ep 60 - Swingers | 13 Sep 2016 | 00:43:32 | |
What ARE you doing with your arms when you’re walking? What about uphill? What if you’re holding a dog leash? Let’s get down to arm-swing town with Katy as she breaks down the biomechanics of using those dangly things that hang from your shoulders. | |||
| Ep 59 - MEGA Movement Mailbag | 30 Aug 2016 | 00:48:53 | |
Housecleaning time, so Katy answers your letters in an extra-long, MEGA Movement Mailbag. | |||
| Ep 58 - A Funeral for Foot Pain | 16 Aug 2016 | 00:37:02 | |
Katy and Dani hold a festive wake for Katy’s first book, Every Woman’s Guide to Foot Pain Relief, and celebrate its reincarnation. | |||
| Ep 57 - Furniture-Free Freak Goes Mainstream | 05 Jul 2016 | 00:49:03 | |
Katy gives us some backstage access to the Prevention magazine feature that puts her message about movement in the centerfold, as well as sharing some insights into what her everyday world is like. Oh, and there are Muggles and roosters. And watermelons. | |||
| Ep 56 - Simple Steps to a Tech Break | 21 Jun 2016 | 00:52:06 | |
Originally intended as time savers, our handheld devices have become time gobblers, and the easiest way to fritter away time is with social media. Katy and Dani discuss many ways—both macro and micro—to help you assess your relationship with your device and then shape that relationship to one that works better for the sort of life you want to live. | |||
| Ep 55 - An Evening with Katy & Dani in Boulder | 07 Jun 2016 | 01:07:13 | |
Katy and Dani recorded a live-audience podcast at the historic Boulder Bookstore and share thoughts on their whirlwind day of food, fun, family and friends. We wish you could’ve been there with us, but this is the next best thing. | |||
| Ep 152: How Did You Move? How Will You Move? | 05 Jan 2024 | 01:03:10 | |
On this episode of the Move Your DNA podcast, Katy and her special guest Dani Alexander reflect on the past year, discuss movement goals for 2024, and emphasize the importance of choosing a guiding word. They also explore personal experiences with living in walkable communities, navigating perimenopause, and general aging. Looking ahead, they share specific goals and strategies for incorporating more movement into their life - plus they select their new movement theme words for the year. | |||
| Ep 54 - Sedentary Culture in the News | 25 May 2016 | 00:50:35 | |
Language—and words—matter. Recent headlines in the news can lead to a murky grasp of how health and wellness are really attained, and what we’re really discussing, for that matter. We’ll talk about recent news that will hopefully prompt a deeper examination of our sedentary culture and how it is shaped by both the biggest and smallest of things. | |||
| Ep 53 - Movement Mailbag #4 | 17 May 2016 | 00:13:50 | |
In this episode: walking with neuropathy pain, breathing while hanging, and tricky technical advice. | |||
| Ep 52 - Babies and Movement, Part 2 | 03 May 2016 | 00:53:56 | |
Katy and Dani deliver Part 2 of the Babies and Movement episode, and isn’t it a cutie? Katy follows up on some listener questions conceived during Part 1, and then discusses breastfeeding and baby ‘exercises’. Oh, and Did you know you are probably W.E.I.R.D. ? It’s okay…we are, too. | |||
| Ep 51- Babies and Movement, Part 1 | 19 Apr 2016 | 00:49:57 | |
In Part 1 of the Baby Show, Katy discusses baby biomechanics! Did you know that load and frequency affect the stages of development—like how babies from more primitive hunter/gather-type populations develop differently than our modern-lifestyle babies? We‘ll also talk about babywearing and baby carrying, and how this affects both the parent AND the baby. | |||
| Ep 50 - Movement, Period. | 12 Apr 2016 | 00:46:07 | |
This episode of Katy Says isn’t just for females! If you’re a real anatomy geek or student of human movement, this show is for you. Because if periods didn’t exist, neither would you! Learn about the movement of menstruation and the whole-body movements that affect it. | |||
| Ep 49 - Special Edition Katy Says Movement Mailbag! | 01 Apr 2016 | 00:19:01 | |
In this episode: Shoe wear, knee pain, Cheerios, muscle cars and cultural clarification | |||
| Ep 48 - Dem Bones | 29 Mar 2016 | 00:55:08 | |
What is osteoporosis? What about bone mineral density? In this episode, Katy helps us dig deeper into bone health. You’ll learn more about bone shapes, how bones are built and why your bone robusticity depends on a lot more than eating chocolate-calcium-chew-candies. | |||
| Ep 47 - Food Forces | 15 Mar 2016 | 00:50:18 | |
Sure, you guzzle lots of kale smoothies and there are no GMOs in your salad. But have you thought about the mechanical nutrition in your diet? In this episode, Katy cooks up a nice batch of food for thought that explains how the food forces in your life affect your whole body ecology. | |||
| Ep 46 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag #3 | 08 Mar 2016 | 00:17:10 | |
| Ep 45 - Natural Movement and Eyes | 01 Mar 2016 | 01:03:40 | |
You move your body, and your body is moved by your environment. The eyes are no exception. This episode focuses on two of your most important sensory input organs and how the way you use them has shaped the way they work. | |||
| Ep 151: How to Improve Your Grip Strength (and why it matters) | 25 Oct 2023 | 00:51:26 | |
Biomechanist Katy Bowman and her occasional co-host, Dani Alexander (an occupational therapist), explore the importance of grip strength for people of all ages. They discuss therapeutic interventions, such as weighted pencils and play-dough, to improve hand strength and sensory input. They also touch on the impact of weak grip strength on daily tasks and emphasize the need to incorporate grip-strengthening activities into everyday routines. Join Katy and Dani as they delve into the connection between grip strength, overall well-being, and maximizing our physical abilities. Episode Overview: | |||
| Ep 44 - The Skinny on Fat | 16 Feb 2016 | 00:46:56 | |
Katy spends some time helping reframe “fat” as we discuss fat and the roles it plays in our bodies, and how the fat we have is simply a response to input—just like everything else in our body. | |||
| Ep 43 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag | 09 Feb 2016 | 00:26:06 | |
In this episode: Squatting, Transitioning to Furniture-Free, & Inspiring Older Kids to Move Outside | |||
| Ep 42 - Cardio & Natural Movement | 02 Feb 2016 | 00:58:47 | |
How well is your body responding to your bouts of cardio exercise? Katy defines what we’re talking about when we refer to “cardio”, and then finds it a place in the bigger picture of natural movement. | |||
| Ep 41 - 5 Ways to Move You Closer to Better Health | 19 Jan 2016 | 00:33:48 | |
Health isn’t just about the numbers, and there are many signs of success when it comes to moving you toward a healthier lifestyle. Katy suggests 5 health goals that have little to do with the scale but a lot to do with your overall health. Make 2016 a year of Moving Your DNA! | |||
| Ep 40 - Katy Says Movement Mailbag | 12 Jan 2016 | 00:21:24 | |
In this episode: leg length discrepancies, diastasis recti limitations and squats and pelvic floor health alternatives for a wheelchair-bound listener. | |||
| Ep 39 - Stack Your Life for More Natural Movement | 05 Jan 2016 | 00:47:22 | |
We are all given the same 24 hours but it always seems like it takes a trade-off to fit certain things in to that day. If you want to work out, does it mean you’ve got to drop your kids at the gym’s childcare? Or, you can spend time with your kids, playing Candyland for 2 hours, but will you then have time to fix a whole food meal? Learn how to stack all the things that matter to you so that you can move more and stress less. | |||
| Ep 38 - How Did You Move in 2015? | 29 Dec 2015 | 00:49:03 | |
Resolutions are only about what you hope to accomplish, but a health recap lets you look both forward and back in order to more clearly define your goals for the coming year and to give yourself some kudos about all that you did in the past year. Join Katy and Dani as we do our own 2015 Health Recap and invite you to join in with your own. | |||
| Ep 37 - Moving Through the Winter | 15 Dec 2015 | 00:45:26 | |
Short, dark days and long, cold night might make you want to crawl under a blanket until April, but Katy makes the case for getting your natural movement during less-than-friendly weather. Learn why it matters not only that you get outside, but that you move outside. Also, we provide tips and tricks for getting the entire household moving before the cooped-up-crazies set in. | |||
| Ep 36 - Nutritious Movement | 01 Dec 2015 | 00:46:49 | |
We’ve dipped our toes in the water before, but now let’s dive in and define “Junk Food Movement” in the way that we use it when defining Nutritious Movement. This episode is a satisfying culmination of our previous discussions on Junk Food Movement—and will leave you with the tools and understanding to be a more critical thinker when it comes to your movement diet. | |||
| Ep 35 - Diastasis Recti—The Book! | 17 Nov 2015 | 00:53:36 | |
Katy Bowman’s 6th book is out—and looks like it might be the biggest yet. Why? Because so many people deal with diastasis recti but have little success with traditional methods. Katy talks about why her book: Diastasis Recti-The Whole-Body Solution To Abdominal Weakness And Separation is going to make a difference. | |||
| Ep 150: How I Feel About Minimal Shoes After My Foot Injury | 11 Oct 2023 | 00:46:53 | |
Biomechanist, Katy Bowman and her husband Michael discuss foot injuries as a natural part of life. Sharing their own experiences, they emphasize the need for adjustments in movement patterns and highlight the importance of staying active as we age. They also address the psychological aspects of injury and provide strategies for avoiding future injuries. Overall, the message is to embrace change, prioritize healing, and always listen to your body. Episode Overview: | |||
| Ep 34 - Thoughts on Incontinence | 03 Nov 2015 | 01:07:47 | |
Over 25 million Americans suffer from some form of incontinence. Most sufferers don’t like to talk about it. For those that do, they are offered few solutions aside from adult diapers, pharmaceuticals or surgery. But incontinence is a symptom of greater movement and lifestyle issues, and there are steps—LITERALLY!—that you can take to begin improving the health of your pelvis and the functions housed within. * Listener Discretion Advised: there is no profanity in this episode, but it does contain (sometimes silly) discussions about sex, poop, and penises, so choose your listening company and environment accordingly. | |||
| Ep 33 - Cycling | 20 Oct 2015 | 01:10:01 | |
If you cycle, you’re fit, right? Riding a bike is not a natural human movement, and cycling a lot with little other movement endeavors has the components of a junk-food movement diet. Let’s look beyond the few single nutrients that biking provides and explore a more nutritious movement diet—because doing the same thing over and over again means you are missing a whole spectrum of movement nutrients. Katy answers questions about bone density, kids and bikes, and the biological tax of bicycles. | |||
| Ep 32 - Enter the Gait Lab | 06 Oct 2015 | 00:48:21 | |
Do you walk? Is the nutritional value of your walking the equivalent of eating only Cheese Puffs for sustenance? Walking, like every natural human movement, comes with its own host of variables that provide our bodies the loads required for optimal health and expression. Listen as Katy gives a clear and understandable explanation as to why we need to consider both the micro-and macronutrients of walking and how to get more of them. | |||
| Ep 31 - Wassup, Katy? | 29 Sep 2015 | 00:52:03 | |
One of the awesome things about Katy Bowman is how much useful content she produces for our human bodies—and this past summer she was crazy busy writing and releasing books for her Whole Body series, filming DVDs and finishing up the new Nutritious Movement Center Northwest. Following her on Facebook and Instagram is fun, but it’s nice to hear from Katy about all the projects she’s been working on. | |||
| Ep 30 - Back-to-School Biomechanics | 15 Sep 2015 | 00:55:04 | |
Back-to-school time is here! A kid needs a decent breakfast to start the school day, but what about movement nutrients? School can bring movement-hindering shoes and desks, long, sedentary days and repetitive loads to a developing body. Whatever your method of schooling, Katy offers some tips to help both you and your wee charges get more of what their body needs. And, if you’re all grown up and done with school and don’t have kids, this episode probably still applies. | |||
| Ep 29 - The Skin Show | 08 Sep 2015 | 00:44:52 | |
Katy’s Got Skin in the Game You squat, you hang, you climb, and you threw your couch to the curb—all for the sake of more natural movement. But are your arrector pili getting their movement nutrients? Wait, what ARE your arrector pili? Katy scratches the surface of that oft-neglected but serious player in your whole body health—your skin! Of course, this vast subject needs more than one episode, but this is a good start on a fascinating topic. | |||
| Ep 28 - It’s a Mail Bag Show! | 18 Aug 2015 | 00:51:15 | |
Mail call! Katy answers listener questions! From cracked heels to torso troubles, and psoas release for special populations to flaccid muscles, these aren’t your average call-in questions! | |||
| Ep 27 - Fashion Movement | 04 Aug 2015 | 00:44:56 | |
Skinny jeans, tight belts, compression undergarments—when your clothing changes your shape, it also changes how you move and the results can be hard on your body. This episode deals with the choices we make in our everyday wear and how the biological tax we pay for fashion can sometimes be high. | |||
| Ep 26 - The Ben Show | 21 Jul 2015 | 00:41:47 | |
So, this guy—Ben—mentions Katy in a tweet. But it wasn’t just any tweet. It featured one of the coolest, most inspiring transformation stories we’ve come across in a long time. Ben had reached a point in his life where change needed to happen. So he made it happen with a few steps at a time, and ended up with a bucketful of benefits that went way beyond his smaller waist size. Join us as we talk about Ben’s cooler-than-cool inspirational story. | |||
| Ep 25 - Headlines that Move | 07 Jul 2015 | 00:45:35 | |
The news lately has been filled with exciting body nerd news: After 56 years perched in high heels, Barbie can now wear flats. That’s big news, right? And two days later, NPR featured a story on lost postures and a theory as to why indigenous people don’t suffer from back pain like First-world folks. Headlines ARE grabby, but it’s always wise to dig a little deeper. Tackling a deeper understanding of how our bodies really work is an important step, and this episode features a hearty discussion of headlines that deserve deeper exploration. | |||
| Ep 149: Headphone Dents: What it Takes to Reshape a Skull | 26 Jul 2023 | 01:13:21 | |
In this episode, Katy is talking about technology. Specifically where technology meets your head. No, not how technology affects mental health or how you think, but how it could be affecting the actual structure of your skull. Katy and her guests get into headphone dents, tech neck, and bone horns. Episode Overview: | |||
| Ep 24 - Community | 23 Jun 2015 | 00:37:37 | |
This episode of Katy Says focuses on building and leveraging your community—both in town and online—to help achieve goals of healthier, happier living. Whether sharing chores or meals, trading time or goods, or creating community efforts that benefit everyone, all you have to do is ask, and the rest just follows. | |||
| Ep 23 - Nature School | 09 Jun 2015 | 00:49:53 | |
A School Without Walls Most kids in America spend 7 hours a day sitting in a chair inside a building for their education. Other options exist for educating children—one of them is Nature School. In this episode, Katy will describe the nature school in her community, and we’ll share what some other schools in the US and around the world are doing to help decrease our “nature deficit disorder”. We’ll also offer resources and ideas to help you and your kids enjoy the benefits of learning outside. | |||
| Ep 22 - Household Movement Hacks | 19 May 2015 | 00:43:31 | |
Getting more natural movement can be challenging in our comfortable, modern-convenience society. Katy shares ideas for movement hacks—using your daily tasks and household furnishings—that will get you thinking about your living environment and everyday chores in a whole-body way. | |||