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If you\u2019ve heard it once, you\u2019ve heard it a thousand times.\u00a0 Watch your posture!\u00a0 Be mindful of your posture! You keep hearing about it because it’s important.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever suffered a massive headache due to several hours\u2019 worth of improper sitting, you understand and appreciate why posture is so important.<\/p>\n
What few people realize, however, is that poor posture can do a lot more than simply giving you an aching neck or back.\u00a0 Over the long haul, it can literally reshape your spine and do even more than that.\u00a0 Here are a few of the other ways your posture can negatively impact your health:<\/p>\n
Nerve Constriction & Damage<\/strong><\/p>\n Your body was designed to stand and sit a certain way.\u00a0 Any time you do something that runs counter to your body\u2019s inherent design, it can cause nerves all over your body to become pinched and constricted.\u00a0 Pinched nerves can obviously cause pain in the immediate area where the nerve is, but they\u2019re all interconnected in a massive highway inside your body. That means a pinched nerve in your back can cause pain in your arms or legs too.\u00a0 Worse, these kinds of issues don\u2019t go away on their own.\u00a0 They\u2019ll only get more severe with time.<\/p>\n Increased Risk Of Heart Disease<\/strong><\/p>\n Just like poor posture can pinch nerves, it can also constrict blood flow by constricting blood vessels all over your body.\u00a0 This, in turn, can result in blood clots and a condition called \u2018Deep Vein Thrombosis,\u2019 both of which can and will increase your chances of developing heart disease.<\/p>\n Poor Digestion<\/strong><\/p>\n On top of that, poor posture, especially while seated in a slouching position, can compress the organs in your abdominal region, which includes your digestive tract.\u00a0 The effect isn\u2019t immediate, but over time, it can negatively impact your metabolism and your ability to digest food properly.<\/p>\n As you can see then, poor posture is bad news for lots of different reasons you may not have considered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve heard it once, you\u2019ve heard it a thousand times.\u00a0 Watch your posture!\u00a0 Be mindful of your posture! You keep hearing about it because it’s important.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}