Don't expect two posts in one day very often! I am already excited about the feedback that I have gotten. Share this site with your friends! It is time for those of us who feel that our bodies are capable of being healthy by themselves to band together and start changing people's perception of what health and wellness is!
I chose the title 'Take Back Your Health' because too many people are trying to convince us that health and sickness are things that we must react to and that we are independent of. Examples: When someone gets sick or has a disease, how do we react? Do we ask ourselves what that person could have done to make their health better, or do we simply blame bad genes, bad germs, and bad luck? If you went into a chamber (who goes into chambers these days, anyway?) with 10 other people and pumped a common flu virus into the room, how many would get sick? 5, 7, 8? NOT ALL! We know that - not everyone that comes in contact with any germ gets sick and if they get sick, some get more sick than others. How do we account for this if it is all the germ? We CAN'T - the people who take care of their immune systems do not get as sick as the people with worse immune systems - FACT!
Okay, what about genes? Do you know that the human genome hasn't changed in at least 6,000 years? How can we blame a diabetes gene for the terrible rise in type II diabetes just recently if that gene has been around for all that time? We CAN'T - people can turn on or off genes depending on their LIFE STYLE!
Bad luck? That is just silly. Obesity hasn't grown 600% in 10 years because we are less lucky than our predecessors. Cancer wouldn't have risen to 1 in 3 because our parents and grandparents were luckier than we are. Now, if you think that someone you know does everything 'healthy' and still has these problems, read my first post, and find out if they are taking care of their nervous system.
So, to make a long post longer, it is time to Take Back Our Health! There are things you can do RIGHT NOW (Reading this blog is one of them) that can help your health and bring you farther from sickness. There are also things you can do RIGHT NOW (drinking that diet coke while reading this is one of them!) that can move you closer to sickness. EVERY CHOICE that you make through out your day is either taking you closer to health or closer to sickness. How your health is in the future is simply the summation of these choices. YOU ARE IN CHARGE! That is why I chose this title - I am fighting the type II diabetes gene in my life right now! I am fighting the cancer genes right now! Through lifestyle decisions, I can turn those genes off - science has PROVEN this! So, get off your butt and go get your health!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Bring on the Blog
I am officially joining the Blogger world! I finally decided to get all of my musings, rants, ideas, and general thoughts about health, chiropractic and wellness in one place. I hope everyone enjoys!!
I wanted to first and foremost reaffirm my position on the importance of the nervous system in health. For those who don't know much about Chiropractic, we are ultimately concerned with the health of the brain, spinal cord, and other nerves in the whole body. Where does the nervous system go? EVERYWHERE! What does the nervous system regulate? EVERYTHING! (I feel like I'm in a commercial now!) The nervous system is the FIRST thing formed in the human body way back before the female even knows she is pregnant. It then can regulate the rest of the systems to develop and work properly. So, if we want to begin to bring on TRUE health, we must start with the health of the nervous system!
Science can measure deficiencies in nervous output and imbalances from one side to the other. These deficiencies and imbalances cause interference to and from the central nervous system which will ultimately change how the body is functioning in a negative way. This interference is called SUBLUXATION. Though symptoms may not be present, subluxation will make it so the body is not performing with 100% efficiency. If I cut a nerve that goes to the heart, the effects would be immediate and catastrophic. With 0% input to the heart, life doesn't last long! What about 90% or 80% input to the heart? Death wouldn't be imminent, but the heart wouldn't be as healthy as it could or should, and the longer it goes untreated, the more harm it will do. Chiropractic removes this intereference and makes sure that the body is working at 100% all the time! I believe that the body is a self-healing, self-regulating mechanism, but in order to heal itself, it must be working at optimum potential.
So everything that you may be doing to be healthy can only do so much good if the nervous system isn't working properly. My first charge and your first step is to go and get your nervous system checked by a professional. Doctors of Chiropractic are trained to find and correct subluxations. If you only go once to find out how you are functioning, at least you won't be in the dark anymore! There will be many other topics discussed here, and I will go on and on (and on some more sometimes) about many other health topics, but it is IMPERITIVE to note that if you don't start taking care of the health of your nervous system you are doing yourself the ultimate disservice!
I wanted to first and foremost reaffirm my position on the importance of the nervous system in health. For those who don't know much about Chiropractic, we are ultimately concerned with the health of the brain, spinal cord, and other nerves in the whole body. Where does the nervous system go? EVERYWHERE! What does the nervous system regulate? EVERYTHING! (I feel like I'm in a commercial now!) The nervous system is the FIRST thing formed in the human body way back before the female even knows she is pregnant. It then can regulate the rest of the systems to develop and work properly. So, if we want to begin to bring on TRUE health, we must start with the health of the nervous system!
Science can measure deficiencies in nervous output and imbalances from one side to the other. These deficiencies and imbalances cause interference to and from the central nervous system which will ultimately change how the body is functioning in a negative way. This interference is called SUBLUXATION. Though symptoms may not be present, subluxation will make it so the body is not performing with 100% efficiency. If I cut a nerve that goes to the heart, the effects would be immediate and catastrophic. With 0% input to the heart, life doesn't last long! What about 90% or 80% input to the heart? Death wouldn't be imminent, but the heart wouldn't be as healthy as it could or should, and the longer it goes untreated, the more harm it will do. Chiropractic removes this intereference and makes sure that the body is working at 100% all the time! I believe that the body is a self-healing, self-regulating mechanism, but in order to heal itself, it must be working at optimum potential.
So everything that you may be doing to be healthy can only do so much good if the nervous system isn't working properly. My first charge and your first step is to go and get your nervous system checked by a professional. Doctors of Chiropractic are trained to find and correct subluxations. If you only go once to find out how you are functioning, at least you won't be in the dark anymore! There will be many other topics discussed here, and I will go on and on (and on some more sometimes) about many other health topics, but it is IMPERITIVE to note that if you don't start taking care of the health of your nervous system you are doing yourself the ultimate disservice!
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