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Be Wary Of the Man Behind the Curtain… The Cover-Up
Nowadays in our society we are told about cover-ups, patches, and band-aids that manly just do just that…cover up the problem. The man behind the curtain relates to our so-called “health care” system. The two truths that will always remain the same in our lives are time and health. Unfortunately these truths can become blurred with false promises from the man behind the curtain, or our health care system. The only way for our patients to clarify what time and health mean to them personally, is to go back to the fundamental truths.
The Truth
Health was created by you! The very first entity that was developed and created was brain cellular tissue. Then the brain was BORN! Boom! Next, the brain made a body, and it accomplished this development and creation via a “construction” highway called your spinal cord. Collectively, the brain and spinal column is deemed your central nerve system. You were born healthy. “Look to the spine for the cause of disease,” -Hippocrates. Taking care of your spine via spinal check-ups is advertently taking care of your health.
The Man Behind The Curtain
The man behind the curtain is the taste of things that “muddy the waters”. What do we mean by this? In our society the man behind the curtain will get you to believe that time and health are easily bought. Fundamental truth number 1: You live your life through your central nerve system. Every human experience you have is processed, coordinated, controlled, and CREATED by your Central Nerve System. If you neglect your spinal hygiene, then any other therapy, pill, lotion, potion or external stimulant will be lesser or produce no benefit whatsoever. Biased? No. Just the truth. This is not a law that we make up, this is nature’s law. Don’t get caught up in what the man behind the curtain says…listen to your body’s innate intelligence.
Get To Work
Time and health cannot be bought. The super groin stretch that fixes your spine, the super diet pill, the 5 minute exercise burn that eliminates 20 pounds… it does not work. We are not truth-seekers or whistle blowers. Just use your mind and THINK. We understand that we were born to be healthy and health is created from the inside out and from the top down. Taking care of the fundamental truth will give you the best time that you have on this earth while providing the health to have the time.
Myth: Chiropractic Is Addictive
You have probably heard people say that once you start seeing a chiropractor you have to keep coming back. Or that chiropractic is addictive. While these statements are not factual, they do have some merit when in the proper context. When you understand how the body operates and was designed, being healthy becomes simple.
Being Healthy Is Addictive
Chiropractic is addictive or being healthy is addictive? One is in the same. Chiropractic is the study of life and what continues to make man live and be HEALTHY. So, let’s break chiropractic down into general principles. Chiropractic does not remove anything from your body (surgery), it does not add anything to your body (pills), it does not perform external interventions (lasers, lotions, potions, etc.). After eliminating all extraneous “stuff”, chiropractic sounds pretty basic in this day and age of health trends. Where does the addiction come from? It comes from choice.
Adapting Is Addictive
When you understand that the human body is designed to adapt and heal itself, health becomes addictive. Why would you want to take, consume, or limit your body from what it actually needs? Where does adapting come from? It comes from within your body, or it is innately given. Innate intelligence – the mission of innate intelligence is to maintain the material of the body of a “living thing” in active organization – Chiropractic Text Book.
Living Through The Inside
The inside for this matter is the brain and spinal cord (collectively called the central nerve system, or CNS). What is the importance of the CNS? It made every organ, cell, tissue, and material of your body. Every second the CNS is maintaining your life. When the CNS has stress placed on it, the body begins to mal-adapt and become dysfunctional. Regular check-ups via your chiropractor ensure that you have proper connection flowing through your CNS. A healthy lifestyle begins from taking care of your CNS. Being healthy is addictive.
You Have No Role In Your OWN Healing…False!
The statement that we have been told in our society is that “you have no role in your own healing,” and we need to ‘trust’ the system. What a big, fat LIE. The more you actually believe this, the sicker we become. Contrary to popular belief, you have every chance and opportunity to enable your body to heal. You just need to listen to it. You need to be taught the RIGHT way. As a doctor of Chiropractic, I embrace the role of doctor. Doctor means teacher. Let’s continue.
Healing Starts from The Inside
The capacity for cells to heal starts from the inside with the Central Nerve System. The CNS makes and coordinates every cell in your body, and cannot afford to take days off. So, why do some heal faster than others? If your CNS is intact and properly coordinating messages to every part of your body, your body will adapt and overcome. Guess what? You do not have to take any pill, supplement, or get zapped by a laser beam for this to happen.
Limiting Healing Starts from the Inside As Well
If dysfunction is present within your CNS, it’s called a subluxation. A subluxation breaks down the communication line between your brain and body. When the brain is unaware of what to properly heal…it doesn’t. A subluxation will disable your body from adapting and healing properly because it is creating chaos from the inside. This is why taking care of your spinal hygiene is crucial.
It All Comes Down To Hard Work
To be honest, to be healthy is hard work. If you take care of your spine, it will take care of you and anything else you throw at your body. Be wary of “new” things that people will try to sell you that are bright and shiny and get you out of the hard work. Healing and adapting is 100% innately given. Trust it well.
Learning From Goldilocks; Putting Health into Perspective
Everyone remembers the fairytale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. What can we learn from Goldilocks? During her quest to find what was ‘just right’ she went through porridge, chairs, and beds. Goldilocks found some things too hot, and some things too cold before finding the just right. The body’s self-regulating capacity is extraordinary and innately knows what is “just right.” Unfortunately, our society allows us to cover-up and suppress innate actions that we were born with.
Temperature IS A GOOD Thing…In Perspective
Goldilocks knew when sampling the porridge which one was the right temperature. When your body produces too much temperature, aka inflammation, initially it is a good thing, as long as your body adequately adapts to what it is “inflaming” from. Too little temperature and the body suffers as well. Maintaining balance is regulated and controlled via your central nerve system.
Get Rid Of The Cover-Ups… Get Rid Of Goldilocks
The cover-ups that inhibit your body from healing and adapting are artificial stimulants, or drugs. When we consume mind altering substances they attempt to artificially make things ‘just right’ by creating improper chemical reactions. Drugs are a crude attempt to make everything ‘just right’ in the body. You must take care of yourself on a regular basis to remain healthy and it is not in the form of a pill. Goldilocks did not belong just like cover-ups do not belong. Listen to what your body needs, let your body be your guide.
Health Is Your Central Nerve System
Health begins and ends with the master controller, the central nerve system (CNS), which is perfectly protected by your skull and spine. By removing interference and stress on the spine, the CNS will make sure that everything in your body is ‘just right.’ Influence the system that controls all other systems of your body and natural NORMAL healing ensues. #getchecked
4.5 Reasons to See a Chiropractor during Your Pregnancy
4.5 reasons to see a chiropractor during your pregnancy. Why 4.5? This is a blog, and literacy standards and protocols go out the window and we are allowed to do whatever we want. A mom’s body is constantly changing and altering in order to develop a child. Every source of nutrition, function, and coordination to the developing child is sustained and controlled via the mother’s central nerve system and her spinal health. Healthy spine = Healthy Pregnancy.
1. The Most Notorious = Pain
Low back pain is caused by pelvis dysfunction. The body is changing and adapting to the new physical stress placed on it. Most expecting mothers will try to off-set the developing child and create a type of “sway-back” that ultimately creates more problems than it should. According to the Canadian Chiropractic Association (CCA) 16/17 women saw clinical improvement from of back pain and relief from discomfort after seeking chiropractic care.
2. Shorter Labor
According to the CCA, 50% of mothers will experience easier labor and delivery with regular chiropractic check-ups. With regular spinal checkups the pelvis and sacrum can be balanced, creating the environment for an ideal birth. A balanced pelvis eliminates undue tension to muscles and ligaments which will enhance optimal fetal positioning.
3. Regulating Your Hormones
Relaxin. One of the “top” hormones that is essential for pregnant mothers is also a hormone that creates constant instability in muscle tissue. 80% of pregnant women did not receive treatment for muscle pain related to pregnancy while under chiropractic care. Regular spinal checkups can help regulate relaxin levels, resulting in less muscle pain and tension.
4. Supporting Mother’s Health
Healthy living can be over-whelming and daunting for expectant mothers. With regular check-ups not only are you supporting your physical needs, your emotional needs become elevated as well. Your overall quality of pregnancy will increase by allowing you to maintain your activity level (motion). Because life is motion and motion is life.
4.5 The Just In Case
The breech position. Chiropractors have been trained in and can utilize a specific technique called the Webster’s Technique. The Webster’s Technique has an 82% success rate in moving babies from breech to cephalic position. Considering the high rate of cesareans today (plus the unwillingness of more OBs to deliver a breech baby), the Webster technique should be an option for every eligible pregnant woman. Just in case.
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Banish Seasonal Allergies Naturally
Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Focus on creating a lifestyle that supports your mind, body and your spirit. Don’t rely or turn to medicine and its probability. Seasonal allergies do not have to hold you back from the world you want to experience. This is not a gimmick, fad or a sale. Seasonal allergies become apparent when your body is failing to heal and adapt to the stress placed on it.
Why Do Seasonal Allergies Occur?
There are two obvious reasons. First, we begin to spend more time outside and begin to acclimate to the changes that are occurring. Secondly, your body is responding to the allergens that have technically always been here. When the irritant/allergen is inhaled, eaten or touched, the body produces specific antibodies called immunoglobulin, which triggers the release of histamines. Once released, histamines begin ravaging the body. Blood pressure drops, nearby blood vessels dilate, and the spaces between surrounding cells fill with fluid. This inflammatory response launches a cascade of miserable symptoms, from itching and sneezing to nausea and vomiting.
The Chemical Cascade of Histamines
If two people are standing right next to each other, breathing the same air, why would Person A start producing mucus buildup and sneezing while Person B is completely fine? What is the difference? It’s the same air quality for both. There are MANY factors that are the same and MANY that are different. Ultimately, it depends on person A’s central nerve system (CNS) and how it responds and processes the air. Person A will begin to produce more histamines, but then will typically go to Walgreen’s and buy Anti-Histamines. Person A fails to realize that their body is still making histamines and their “cure” is a cover-up for a couple hours. They never truly address the cause.
Chiropractic “Heals” The Body
Chiropractors are nerve system specialists. We focus on subluxations (misalignment’s in the spine) that irritate the CNS and cause damage to your tissues cells. Cells of the immune system and inflammatory cells receive orders and communicate in their response via the CNS. Stress can be defined as “a state of disharmony or threatened homeostasis provoked by psychological, environmental, and physiological stressors.” By removing subluxations, your body is able to adapt and heal from the so called “seasonal allergies”. Why deal with symptoms when you can go straight to the cause with chiropractic!
Why do you Have Butterflies in Your Stomach?
Have You Swallowed Butterflies?
A good majority of people have probably experienced an episode of butterflies in their stomach. You may have felt this sensation before a public speaking event, asking a lady on a date or feeling embarrassed for some reason. Butterflies in your stomach is technically not a sensation, but more of a reaction. This reaction is brought on by your innate ability to protect yourself.
Butterflies In Your Stomach Protect You!
A branch of nerves called the sympathetic nerve system is also known as your fight or flight response. When your internal monologue enters into survival mode, you automatically trigger the fight or flight response. The Brain-Gut connection comes into fruition with this reaction to stressors. The brain has a tendency to “overreact” and send more electrical messages to the gut when our body is responding to stress. Basically, it’s the muscles in your stomach freaking out.
Balancing the Stressors
The central nerve system (CNS) goes to every organ, gland, tissue, muscle and cell of the body. Chiropractic’s focus is to allow the CNS to function without interference or to remove the subluxation. The subluxation is a “blown fuse” and your body reacts by expressing itself outwardly via symptoms. Chiropractic adjustments do not “cure” the butterflies in your stomach; instead they balance your stress response by releasing ‘feel good’ factors in the body. After an adjustment, your body becomes ENHANCED and begins adapting, particularity the pre-frontal cortex in the brain which controls your thoughts, emotions, and cognitive behavior.
Watch Out For Butterflies in Your Stomach
What can we learn from this? As we teach patients about their health and well-being, we stress the importance of knowing us before you need us. The best time to get checked and adjusted is before your event. You want to make sure your body is firing on all cylinders and this begins with your CNS. Your brain controls every cell in your body, even the butterflies in your stomach. Keep your spine aligned and the connection flowing with chiropractic.
3 Affects Occurring On Your Spine Due To The “I” Hunch
Your Spine Dislikes Gadgets
Your spine is prone to continual stress every single day. Your spine is specifically designed for two important functions. Its top priority is to protect the most important structure within your body… the central nerve system (brain and spinal cord). Secondly, the spine is designed to withstand stress, such as gravity, that is applied every single day. In this day and age the TOP stressor that plagues our body is “The Gadgets”. Cellphones, iPads, Kindle’s, etc. When we continuously look down at gadgets, our entire spinal structure is under constant stress.
#1 – The Reverse Neck Curve Begins
Postural deviations that start in childhood and are left undetected and uncorrected will generally lead to bigger problems when those children become adults. The more children are looking down at gadgets from earlier ages, the greater significance of cervical curve changes. These changes are not for the better.
#2 – Your Spine Is Working Overtime
Having your head in a forward posture can add up to thirty pounds of abnormal leverage on the cervical spine. This can pull the entire spine out of alignment – Rene Cailliet, M.D. When we focus on the immediate we only focus on the cervical spine. When in reality the entire spine will have to work over time. This means that constant muscle tension, knots, and irritation will be existing all over the spine due to the imbalance in the neck area.
#3 -Your Spine Creates Unnecessary Stress
Constant forward head lean will put automatic stress on the central nerve system (CNS). When you begin to alter your spinal curvature due to repetitive stress, this will result in a variety of health problems. Why? Without proper spinal support, the spinal bones will create tension and stress on your CNS. Repetitive head lean is equivalent to adding an extra 60lbs of pressure on your spinal column…which means 60lbs of undo stress on your CNS.
Everyone has had poor posture at some point. It only becomes a problem if you decide not to do anything about it. Checking your posture and getting your spine checked for subluxations enables your body to adapt to the constant stress.
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