How does your body communicate with the world around you?

How does your body communicate with itself and the world around you? The nervous system, right?

This is actually not entirely true! The fascial system is a crazy fast and critical messaging system in our body. Fascia wraps around muscles, bones, blood vessels, organs, and nerves, making it the only system in the body that touches all the rest. 

Dr. James Oschman, a pioneer for fascia research, discovered that cells within the fascia are not only able to communicate with the nervous system, but also with each other. Even cooler (because I’m a fascia nerd), messages traveling through the fascial system zip around at a whopping 750 mph (compared to only 150 mph of the average nerve message)! More about that in this article by Dr. Russell Schierling.

How is the speed so much faster? It’s largely due to the ECM (extracellular matrix) which is a water-based substance within our fascia tissue. The ECM plays many roles in our body, such as carrying food to nourish our cells, carrying out cellular waste, acting as our shock absorbing system, and helping our muscles glide easily. It helps keep us “greased” and hydrated! In relation to such fast communication, however, it’s simply that water is a fantastic conductor.

I understand that the article below is a straight-up research article, but for those of you burning to know more details on how fascia is able to effectively transfer energy and information throughout your body, it’s an interesting read.

I see this as support for why changes in your pain and mobility happen so quickly with The Fascia Remedy. We are able to contact all of the systems of your body through the fascial system. If fast and efficient communication is happening throughout the body while we work on it, it's possible that your fascia is able to immediately integrate changes in itself as well as in our muscles, blood vessels, joints, and neural pathways. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285208490_Fascia_as_a_body-wide_communication_system