How stress stops you spiralling

An underestimated factor in recovery - how chronic stress impacts cellular structure, potentially preventing effective recovery. Stress is written in the very architecture of cells but is rarely addressed in recovery. So what can we do? Read more...

Acts 15:29 “you must abstain from … the meat of Strangled Animals”

In a recent vivid dream I was asking the question “what is the structural difference in the meat of strangled animals verses those humanely killed?” I demanded this a few times until 2 glass slides appeared and the blurry image of cells began to form. A strange dream for a vegetarian.

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When I woke, my question still burned in my mind. So I began researching it.

The basic answers were interesting: in humane slaughter, the animal is stunned and bled quickly. This lets the muscles use up their glycogen, producing lactic acid and dropping the pH. The meat stays tender and pink. In strangling, the animal dies in extreme stress without proper bleeding. Glycogen gets burned up during the struggle, the pH stays high, and you end up with dark, firm, dry meat that spoils faster.

Interesting - but my dream wasn’t really asking about chemistry or texture. It wanted to know about architecture — what actually happens to the structure of the cells themselves.

What I found was surprisingly relevant to the work I do.

In high-stress death, the rapid changes while the tissue is still warm cause proteins and the internal lattice inside the muscle cells to break down. Water gets pushed into the wrong spaces. The neat geometric arrangement of the cytoskeleton gets distorted and disordered. The more the animal suffers, the more the cellular architecture is changed.

This got me thinking.

I work with people who have complex chronic conditions, long-term pain, and cancer. Over the years of developing Bio Coding™, I’ve become more and more interested in geometry at the particle level — how symmetry and oblique angles seem to matter for coherence in signalling, wave functions and maintaining optimal, low energy structures.

You can see the principle clearly with ocean waves. Waves that cross at oblique (slanted) angles usually pass through each other with little disruption. Waves that meet head-on or at right angles tend to break and scatter.

The same pattern appears in nature: in DNA helices, the spiralling of the heart, and the microscopic structure of microtubules in the brain. Oblique symmetry seems to support smooth, uninterrupted flow.

So what happens when chronic stress disrupts this geometry in our own bodies?

Research shows it how it affects cellular architecture:

• Microtubules become destabilised

• Tau proteins detach, causing bundling and collapse of the lattice

• Dendrites atrophy and change shape

• Muscle cells develop denser, fibrotic patterns

All of this creates distorted signalling and makes cells more vulnerable.

The big question then becomes: If we have experienced trauma or chronic stress, can we help the body restore that lost symmetry and obliqueness?

The answer, surprisingly, seems to be yes — and one of the most powerful tools we have is movement.

Movement generates mechanical forces that cells can use to reorganise their internal scaffolding through a process called mechanotransduction. This doesn’t necessarily need to be forced exercise. In my own practice I have found the best results come from the kind of spontaneous, variable, cross-pattern, and corrective movements that emerge naturally in Bio Coding™ sessions, allowing the body exploration and variability.

In short: the body appears to know how to rehearse healthier geometric patterns that restore coherence and reduce symptoms when given the right conditions and permission.

I’ll write more about the practical side of this soon — how Bio Coding and the other pillars of the work support this restoration process.

But the dream has stayed with me. Maybe the old instruction about avoiding the meat of strangled animals wasn’t just about ritual purity. Maybe it was pointing toward something deeper about how stress and suffering leave their mark on living tissue.

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