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Observation
You might have noticed that many who sit in restaurants for long hours tend to either criss-cross their feet or rise their feet on the chair. Even you might have sat in the posture many times. So, what does this mean, and why do people do this?
Explanation
1. All the activities in our body are managed by an autonomic nervous system(ANS) that helps all the organs, such as the heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver, to function together.
2. ANS has two branches: The sympathetic Nervous System(SNS) and Parasympathetic Nervous System(PNS). When the body has excess demand, like working long hours, running(and even overthinking), this is supplied by autonomic stress, also called sympathetic dominance.
3. Role of SNS is to supply you energy(Thriving), Autonomic Stress(AS) is to supply excess short bursts of energy for survival(saving from threat), and the role of PNS is to help you digest, reproduce, and heal.
4. Energy production, management, and reusing are done through Phosphate bonds, where phosphates bind the energy-supplying amino acids(ATP, ADP, and AMP). The liver plays one of the major roles in this process. This process is called metabolism.
5. When your brain perceives that you are about to start eating, based on the senses, it estimates the amount of stomach acid and saliva you will need to digest the food. So, energy for SNS is reduced.
6. Now, you talk with friends and have fun in the bar and restaurants, which needs energy. Because your body has limited energy, you feel a lack of energy.
7. To compensate for the lack of energy, the body goes into sympathetic overdrive, and blood pressure and heart rate increase. On the other hand, when you increase the blood pressure, the sympathetic overdrive increase.
8. When you crisscross your feet, your blood pressure and energy supply increase. This is the way you induce Autonomic Stress.
9. On the other hand, if you sit with your feet on the chair, you save energy because your body has less.
10. This is why you must never cross your legs while taking a BP reading. By crossing your legs, your heart rate and BP will increase.
11. So, Criss-Crossing feet simply mean that they are pushing their body against the natural phenomenon of PNS, which is needed for Digestion.
12. Most people who tend to crisscross their legs have something called metabolic syndrome. Hair loss and belly fat are just two primary symptoms that they may have in common.
13. Most of those who crisscross their legs in the hotels tend to have bad digestion after the food because they forced their body into AS when it needed PNS.
You don’t need a blood test to identify the metabolic syndrome. If you crisscross your legs in the hotel before 20 minutes(approximate time for the liver to alter the metabolism), then you have metabolic syndrome.
When you push your body, the body punishes you.
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