In the past month three friends have been diagnosed with intestinal blockages requiring surgery. Three people, similar age group, all of them dealing with a colon that has simply stopped working the way it was designed to work. I am perplexed. Why is this happening?

The research on colorectal health and the modern food supply in America is so clear and so consistent that it is impossible to look at what is happening to my friends and not connect it directly to what we have been eating.

There is a muscle deep inside your body that most people have never heard of and almost everyone has tightened without knowing it. It is called the psoas, pronounced so-az, and once you understand what it does, where it lives and why it matters so profoundly to everything from your posture and back pain to your emotional wellbeing, you will never stop thinking about it.