EPISODE 12
Matthew Wallden: Evolution in Action
The study of evolution has long fascinated Matt Wallden.
In this episode, Matt – CHEK Institute Faculty Member and Global Head of Education – and Paul examine evolution and all of the intended and unintended consequences from a far deeper and much wider perspective than you’ve probably ever heard, from professional footballers suffering hamstring injuries to traveling to other dimensions.
SHOW NOTES
- Could evolution play a role in professional athletes in hamstring injuries? (2:45)
- The differences between professional bodybuilding and functional weightlifting. (4:35)
- The design of a scientific study often limits what we can learn from it. (10:29)
- The barefoot movement. (11:57)
- Developing a new shoe to solve a problem the previous shoe created in the first place. (19:30)
- Transitioning from wearing shoes all the time to going barefoot takes time. (22:17)
- How’s your sleep posture? (29:37)
- Sensory motor amnesia in the real world. (31:28)
- The blood pressure test, gut inflammation and activating the transverse abdominus. (37:25)
- Do you learn anything from the pain you feel or take drugs to block that relationship? (39:35)
- Survival of the fittest, the default mechanism for life? (44:30)
- Could the mass media be complicit in the extermination of the various links to holistic health? (50:00)
- Do genes really have an impact on your susceptibility to disease? (53:20)
- The rise of epigenetics. (58:30)
- The rise of medical doctors and pharmacists as priests with divine knowledge of the modern world. (1:00:55)
- Sex with beer bottles may stop 100 million-year-old evolution dead in its tracks… (1:06:00)
- Humans barely perceive reality as it truly is. (1:11:46)
- The inner voice as magical consciousness. (1:16:45)
- The purpose of evolution: God exploring God. (1:25:03)
- How did Jesus REALLY find four male friends conveniently named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? (1:32:01)
- Are we living in a simulation? (1:34:35)
- If you’ve ever had an orgasm in a dream, is that virtual reality? (1:37:35)
- Anything that you can conceive is possible… (1:42:20)
- The reality of homeopathic medicines. (1:47:15)
- Traveling to different dimensions. (1:50:28)
- Neurons that receive together weave together. (1:57:39)
- There’s no winners and losers in life. It’s really about winners and learners. (2:02:25)
- Studying the human disease of “not waking up.” (2:05:03)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Naturopathic Physical Medicine: Theory and Practice for Manual Therapists and Naturopaths by Leon Chaitow
- Therapeutic Exercise for Spinal Segmental Stabilization in Low Back Pain: Scientific Basis and Clinical Approach by Carolyn Richardson, Gwendolen Jull, Paul Hodges and Julie Hides
- Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: An anthropological and zoological approach to the treatment of low back and joint pain from the British Medical Journal by Michael Tetley
- Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution, a 1973 essay by Theodosius Dobzhansky
- The work of Thomas Hanna
- The work of Philip Beach
- The Lamarckian theory of evolution
- The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies by David Wilcock
- The work of Bruce Lipton
- Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams
- The work of Donald Hoffman
- The Relevance of Persistence Hunting to Human Evolution by Louis Liebenberg
- CHEK Totem Pole
- Primal Pattern® Movements
- How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!
- The Reflexive Universe: Evolution of Consciousness by Arthur Young and Huston Smith
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- The ghost in the machine: Is musculoskeletal medicine lacking soul? by Matt Wallden and Paul Chek
- Learn more about Matt Wallden at mattwallden.com
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