The Power of the Brain-Body Connection | Mat Boulé | TEDxLaval
Summary
TLDRThe video script explores the concept of posture and its impact on movement, learning, and emotions. It highlights research on how standing upright affects heart rate, blood pressure, and cognitive function, with insights into how the skin on the feet helps maintain balance. Posturology, a technique born in 1985, aims to improve posture by stimulating the feet and eyes. The script connects posture to brain function, learning, stress management, and hormonal profiles, suggesting that optimal alignment could enhance cognitive and emotional well-being without conscious effort.
Takeaways
- 🤔 The cost of standing upright is not monetary but involves physiological changes like increased heart rate and blood pressure.
- 🧠 Movement, learning, and thinking are interconnected, suggesting that how we move can influence how we learn and think.
- 🧍♂️ Standing upright is controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain, which organizes movements based on environmental perception.
- 👣 Neuroscientist JP Roll's research in 1998 highlighted the importance of the skin of the foot in maintaining upright posture and movement.
- 🔍 Posture Ology, developed in 1985, aims to optimize standing posture through stimulation of the feet and eyes without conscious thought.
- 🏫 The cerebellum, a common organ for both movement and academics, is activated by postural muscles used for standing upright.
- 🚹🚺 The script suggests that optimal information from postural muscles to the cerebellum could benefit individuals, enhancing brain function.
- 🧐 Research in 2006 found that adults with ADHD had a smaller frontal lobe, affecting both movement and attention.
- 🌌 A 1999 study reviewed how cognitive measures are affected by the absence of gravity, such as in space.
- 🧠 In 2015, research indicated that a smaller frontal lobe is associated with difficulty in managing stress and certain personality disorders.
- 💪 Amy Cuddy's 2015 TED talk suggested that power poses can influence hormone levels, reducing stress and potentially enhancing performance.
Q & A
What did the 1978 study find about the physiological effects of standing upright?
-The 1978 study found that standing upright increases both heart rate and blood pressure.
How do our movements relate to our learning and thinking processes?
-Our movements, learning, and thinking are interconnected, suggesting that how we move can influence how we learn and think.
What role does the frontal lobe play in organizing movements?
-The frontal lobe organizes movements based on how we perceive the environment.
According to the 1998 research by neuroscientist JP Roll, what part of the body do we use to stand upright and move?
-We use inputs from the skin of our feet to stand upright and move.
What is the aim of the technique called 'posture ology'?
-The aim of posture ology is to stimulate the feet and eyes with innovative technology and exercises to allow someone to stand upright optimally without having to think about it.
How does posture ology contribute to the results achieved by posture purel?
-Posture ology contributes to the results achieved by posture purel by enabling optimal alignment and posture without conscious thought.
What is the connection between movement, academics, and the cerebellum?
-Movement and academics share a common organ, the cerebellum, which is activated by postural muscles used to stand upright.
How does the cerebellum influence both motor and language areas of the brain?
-The cerebellum activates motor areas for movement and language areas for learning when postural muscles are engaged.
What did the 1999 study on cognitive measures in space reveal?
-The 1999 study found that cognitive measures appear to be affected while in space.
What did the 2006 research on adults with ADHD discover about the frontal lobe?
-The 2006 research found that the frontal lobe was smaller in adults with ADHD, which is crucial for both movement and attention.
How does the size of the frontal lobe relate to stress management and certain personality disorders?
-A smaller frontal lobe is associated with difficulty managing stress and certain personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline personality disorder.
What was the main point of Amy Cuddy's 2015 TED talk about power poses?
-Amy Cuddy's TED talk suggested that adopting power poses can increase testosterone and decrease cortisol, thereby improving hormonal balance and reducing stress.
Outlines
🧍 The Science of Standing Upright
This paragraph delves into the physiological and neurological aspects of standing upright. It begins by questioning the cost of standing upright and whether it varies by individual. Historical research from 1978 is cited, which discovered that standing increases heart rate and blood pressure. The discussion then shifts to how our movements, learning, and thinking are interconnected, and whether our control over movements is influenced by the frontal lobe's organization of movement based on environmental perception. The paragraph explores whether our movement strategies differ based on the surface we stand on, like ice, sand, or mud. In 1998, neuroscientist JP Roll's research on the role of the skin of the foot in maintaining an upright stance and movement is highlighted. The paragraph introduces 'posture ology', a technique developed in 1985, which uses technology and exercises to stimulate the feet and eyes, aiming to help individuals stand upright optimally without conscious thought. The benefits of posture ology are showcased through results from the Posture Pure research center in Montreal. The paragraph concludes by linking movement and academics through their common reliance on the cerebellum, emphasizing the importance of postural muscles in activating the cerebellum, which in turn affects motor and language areas of the brain.
🧠 Brain Research and Postural Impact
The second paragraph continues the exploration of the impact of posture on cognitive and emotional functions, focusing on brain research. It starts by discussing a 1999 study that analyzed cognitive measures in space, suggesting that cognitive abilities are affected in zero-gravity environments. On Earth, a 2006 study on adults with ADHD found a smaller frontal lobe, which is crucial for both movement and attention. The paragraph then connects the frontal lobe's role in movement and learning to its importance in emotional regulation, citing a 2015 study that found a smaller frontal lobe in individuals with difficulty managing stress and certain personality disorders. Amy Cuddy's 2015 TED talk on power poses is mentioned, which showed that adopting certain postures can increase testosterone and decrease cortisol, the stress hormone. The paragraph concludes by hypothesizing about the potential for 'power postures' that could improve hormonal profiles and overall well-being without conscious effort, and it poses a final question about the readiness for posture ology as a field, given its potential benefits.
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Keywords
💡Upright posture
💡Heart rate
💡Blood pressure
💡Frontal lobe
💡Cerebellum
💡Posture ology
💡Gravity
💡Cognitive measures
💡ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
💡Stress management
💡Power poses
Highlights
Standing upright increases both heart rate and blood pressure.
In 1978, researchers began exploring the physiological costs of standing upright.
How we move, learn, and think may be interconnected.
In 1998, neuroscientist JP Roll discovered that inputs from the skin of the feet are crucial for standing upright and movement.
Posturology, a technique introduced in 1985, aims to improve posture through foot and eye stimulation.
Posturology allows people to stand upright optimally without consciously thinking about it.
Movement and academics share a common organ: the cerebellum.
Postural muscles activate the cerebellum, which is responsible for motor control and also linked to cognitive functions like language.
Postural imbalances affect the entire brain's ability to function at full potential.
Resisting the force of gravity activates postural muscles.
In 1999, researchers examined cognitive measures in space and found that gravity affects cognitive function.
A 2006 study found that adults with ADHD have smaller frontal lobes, which are involved in movement and attention.
The frontal lobe is critical for managing emotions, and individuals with high stress or certain personality disorders have smaller frontal lobes.
Amy Cuddy's research on power poses showed they can increase testosterone and reduce cortisol.
The concept of 'power postures' aims to optimize alignment and improve hormonal profiles without conscious effort.
Transcripts
I have a question for you how much does
it cost to stand upright does anyone
here have the answer to that question
I'm not too sure anyone has the answer
to that question and besides could it be
that the answer differs based on the
individual in 1978 researchers asked
themselves the same question what they
found out was that standing upright
increases both heart rate and blood
pressure in 2016
the question is could it be that how we
move how we learn and how we think is
interconnecting to move better are we
really in control of our movements if
it's true that we organize movements
with the frontal lobe this is based on
how we perceive the environment and so
would you think that the strategy to
move is the same whether we stand on ice
on sand or in the mud in 1998
neuroscientist JP roll published on the
role of the skin of the foot what he
found out was that we use inputs from
the skin of our feet to stand upright
and to move and so knowing this how do
you think this foot stance contributes
to posture in 1985 a technique entitled
posture ology was born and posture
ologies aim is to stimulate the feet and
the eyes with innovative technology and
exercises to allow someone to stand
upright optimally and this is the kicker
without them having to actually think
about it
these are the types of results achieved
by posture ologists across the world
these are specifically from posture
purel our research centre here in
Montreal what you see here is what's
possible with posture ology to learn
better how would you say movement and
academics are related well movement and
academics actually share a common organ
that organ is called the cerebellum it
is postural muscles that are responsible
for turning on the cerebellum and
postural muscles are the ones we use to
stand upright so knowing this when
looking at these two individuals which
one do you think benefits from optimal
information being sent from their
muscles to the cerebellum in order to
light up the entire brain if it's true
that the cerebellum turns on the motor
areas of the brain the cerebellum also
turns on the language areas and so what
you have to understand is that with the
partial imbalance it's the entire brain
that doesn't get led up to its full
potential and it is both movement and
learning that suffer now to turn on
postural muscles one needs to resist the
force and that force is the force of
gravity
so the question is what happens when
there's no gravity in 1999 researchers
actually looked at that what they did is
they scrutinized 29 different studies
looking at six different cognitive
measures what they found out was that
while in space cognitive measures
actually do appear to be affected
meanwhile here on earth in 2006
researchers studied the brains of adults
with ADHD what they found out is that
there was a particular brain area that
was smaller and that area was for both
movement and attention that area was
indeed the frontal lobe and so the next
time you think of a learning disability
will you be able to think of this versus
this to think better if it's true that
the frontal lobe is really important for
movement and learning it's also critical
in how we manage emotions in 2015
researchers again have studied the size
of the brains now this time of
individuals that had a hard time
managing stress I'm not too sure where
they found those people they must be
really hard to find but what they did is
that they looked at the size of the
brains of those people now people that
had a hard time managing stress the
frontal lobe was smaller the frontal
lobe was also smaller in individuals
that were affected with antisocial
personality disorder as well as
borderline personality disorder in 2015
Amy Cuddy and her famous TED talk spoke
about power poses and what she was able
to prove was that by adopting these
power poses we could increase the Stas
drone and decrease cortisol which is the
stress hormone so my thought is this
what if we could create power postures
where people walk around mourning
tonight with optimal alignment their
hormonal profile improved and again the
kicker without them having to actually
think about it
well the question was how much does it
cost to stand upright and this is 2016
the real question is if this is possible
then are you ready for posture ology
thank you
you
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