You're a fruit salad

Seriously, "fruit salad" is my analogy of the human body and how fascia (fash-uh) relates within it.

Visualize a jello fruit salad mold, maybe some red jello in a clear glass bowl. Instead of there being pieces of fruit in the jello, imagine chunks of sponge cake. The jello is your fascia, aka connective tissue, and the cake chunks are your muscles. Those muscles are literally pervasively saturated in fascia. If you try to separate the fascia from the muscle, you end up with a mess. Back to the jello salad - if you gently press your fingertip on the top of the salad (not hard enough to punch a hole in the jello), you'll see the entire contents of the salad shifting. All those sponge cake chunks move under the pressure of one area of the salad. Your body is much like that. Fascia connects everything to everything else in a remarkable way. Of course, bones, ligaments, organs, skin and other connective tissues are also involved, but since I work primarily with the fascia of the muscles, I'll keep it simple.

Fact: The primary ingredient in Jell-O is gelatin, which is made from the structural protein collagen. Collagen makes up nearly a third of all the protein in the human body. The collagen in Jell-O is usually from the bones of pigs or cows.