This is Dr. Rob with this week’s health blog. There’s a very powerful concept we’re going to go over today. There are certain things you can do that can increase your life expectancy and decrease all diseases across the board, especially the major diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and stroke.
Studies done on lab rats all the way up to primates show that decreasing the calorie intake by up to 30% will increase your life expectancy and decrease diseases across the board.
What does that mean to us here? If you find the foods that are low in calorie but high in nutrition, not only are you going to lose weight, but you’re going to live longer, feel better, and have less disease!
It’s a powerful concept that we are going to be discussing in more detail at our Nutrition Workshop that we will have in early June.
If you have any questions regarding this topic don’t hesitate in contacting us at Bates Chiropractic at (310) 545-4188 or via our website: www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com
Don’t forget to stay regular with your adjustments, because you need a great nerve supply in order to build a new body.
The Number One Cause of Disease
The number one cause of disease is your body’s inability to adapt to its environment. Anything that happens to you is called adaptive physiology. The physiology of your body is to constantly adapt.
There is no such thing as disease.
For example, there is a certain intelligence inside our body that allows it to function; it keeps the lungs breathing, the heart beating, and the immune system functioning. All those functions keep going day in and day out without us thinking about it. Without that, we wouldn’t be alive today.
Our bodies are made of about 70 to 100 trillion cells. Each one of those cells are like little chemical factories where there is about 100,000 chemical reactions going on every minute. Multiply that by 70 trillion cells, and that’s a lot of zeros!
That intelligence is much smarter than us, it adapts to what we’re doing to it, and it keeps us going despite of things we may do to ourselves.
What we want to do is look for ways that we can get out of the way and allow it to work better so we can be healthier than we have ever been in our entire lives.
In the next couple of weeks, we’re going to look at the physical ways that interfere with the innate intelligence, as well as some nutritional ways, chemical ways, and even emotional ways.
If you want to have optimal health, the key is to allow the intelligence of the body to adapt to an environment the way it should to where you don’t even have to think about it.
We are self healing mechanisms. We should be able to get out of the way and let our body heal itself.
Amazing Accidental Event Reveals The Primary Cause of Dis-ease
In 1949 a rare embryological accident occurred in Soviet Russia, resulting in the formation and birth of conjoined twin girls named Masha and Dasha. These unfortunate children were joined at the hip and in such a way that surgical separation was impossible. Between them they had four arms, but only three legs. The third leg had eight toes. Masha could feel pain in only four. They had two stomachs and two upper bowels which joined together to form a single lower bowel. They had four kidneys, but only one bladder and often could not agree on when to urinate.
The girls’ circulatory system was interconnected; if one were to drink poison, both would die. Their genetic makeup was identical. They had a common reproductive system and doctors said there was no physiological reason why the girls could not conceive and give birth. Although their spines were joined at the base, their nervous systems were entirely separate. The twins lived almost twenty years and provided some startling information to the doctors and scientists who observed them during that period.
Since the late 1700’s scientists have disagreed over the primary cause of sickness and disease. One group held to the position that ill health was cause by external factors: germs, the weather, environment, etc. Another group disagreed and said that while external factors existed, the primary cause was the internal resistance of the individual. Here, in Masha and Dasha, was an opportunity for the argument to be settled. Both girls were exposed to the same external factors. More so than any other two human beings, they shared the same environment. They breathed the same air, went to bed and got up at the same time. With a common bloodstream what they ate would supply nutrition to both. They exercised together, learning to walk, dance, and even ride a bicycle!
Without realizing it, these two unfortunate children left the world a scientific truth and settled the external/internal argument for all time. You see Masha and Dasha got sick at different times! Masha would get a cold and Dasha would not. One would have a fever, the other’s temperature would be normal. They even contracted childhood diseases, like measles and chickenpox at different times. Eventually, one of the sisters developed cancer and died as a result. Her sister was still healthy, although she died not long after because her sister’s body could not be separated from hers.
Clearly, it is primarily the internal resistance that determine whether a person gets sick or not, with colds, flu and even cancer. It is not the external environment that is the determining factor. But a further principle was established that is important to chiropractors. For you see, they also shared a common internal environment, bloodstream, nutrition, genetics, etc. It was only their nervous systems and the vertebral column housing the spinal cord that were separate. Chiropractors have maintained long before Masha and Dasha were born that a good nerve supply is a necessary requirement and a prerequisite to health, and further that an interference in the nervous system will adversely affect the body’s internal environment and predispose one to sickness and ill health. Two little girls living in Soviet Russia have demonstrated that principle.
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Chemical Causes of Disease
We’re here to talk about the major causes of disease, which will interfere with your innate intelligence to express itself. Basically there are three major causes that don’t allow your body to adapt to stress, which were the physical causes that we talked about last week, the chemical causes which we are going to talk about today, and next week we’re going to talk about the chemical causes.
Today as far as chemical is more of what is poisonous to the body. It can be done through the environment and it also can be done through things you ingest, for example, things like food, water, and also breathing.
Food is a big thing, because 90% of what Americans eat is processed food loaded with chemicals and preservatives that make it very difficult for your body’s intelligence to adapt to it; which will cause a stress response to your body, meaning it will eventually cause it to breakdown and cause a disease state.
The goal is increasing your diet with raw, organic, unprocessed foods. 90% of your diet should be made up of unprocessed foods and not the other way around. In prior blogs we’ve talked about what one should be eating, like the one pound rule. You can look back and check out our weight-loss blog on what to eat!
I also suggest a book called “Eat to Live” by Doctor Joel Furhman. That gives you a good basic understanding of what you should be eating.
Another thing that we have to concern ourselves with is other chemicals that we take in: drugs. Pushed or prescribed, a drug is still poison to the body. Prescribed drugs are always a concern, because we think it’s really going to be helping ourselves but really it is just a poison that the body is taking on. For example, a person going through chemo for cancer, all that’s doing is killing the body and hopefully killing more of the cancer cells so that by the end of the treatment, hopefully the innate intelligence can rebuild the body.
Again, push or prescribed drugs are still a poison to your body. You should really look at what is in your control and try to eliminate the drugs from your diet and life and look at increasing your body with whole, organic, unprocessed foods.
Supplements should be added to your diet as well. Think of it as if you were building a ship. To build ship, you have wood and you have nails. The wood of the ship represents you, your body. The wood of the ship is the macro-nutrition; it’s all the food you should be eating, the whole foods. But also you should have the proper vitamins, nutrients, and minerals, which are the supplements. The supplements are the nails that hold the ship together. You need both of those to have a sturdy ship, especially in today’s environment where the soil is depleted. You won’t get the same minerals, nutrients, and phytochemicals in your produce like we used to.
Investigate and not rely on just the supplements, your body needs the whole foods as well.
Chemical stress is important, it’s a large topic. We have to look at the food we’re eating, the water we’re drinking, the air we’re breathing in, and the poison we’re taking in. These things are in our control: our diet, what we’re drinking, and eliminating the drugs.