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When The Cure is Worse Than The Cause
This is Dr. Rob with your weekly health blog. This week I’m concerned with an article I recently read. My concern is that a lot of times we do certain types of treatments on our bodies where the cure is actually worse than the cause. An article just came out in the New England Journal of Medicine stating “super-bugs” are being created due to an over-utilization of antibiotics. We’re using antibiotics for viral infections when they’re really designed for bacterial infections. What happens is when you take an antibiotic, most the bacteria die except for maybe a few, and those few will adapt over the course of weeks, months, and even years. Their offspring then become resistant to that antibiotic, so now when you go to take the antibiotic, it won’t work.
It forces our technology to try to keep up with the super-bugs, but what they’re finding is that it takes seven to ten years to develop a new antibiotic where it only takes a few months for super-bugs to multiply. We’re being faced on relying on our bodies to fight off these bugs where the antibiotics fail to work. We have to focus on building health from the inside out. We all know we have to eat right and exercise, but we also need a good nerve supply.
Why? Because the nerve system controls and coordinates the immune system.
When the body has interferences from subluxations, the immune system won’t work as well. So, it’s very important to get regular spinal checkups-even if you don’t have any pain- to make sure your body’s working well from the inside out.
Mental Stress that Causes Disease
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This week we’re talking about stress on the body, mental stress to be precise. I know none of you have mental stress, except me…just kidding.
The prior two weeks we’ve talked about physical stress, which comes in the form of traumas. We’ve talked about chemical stress, which is poison to the body. This week is mental stress.
They say 90% of mental stress is in the form of auto-suggestion. Which really is just us beating up on ourselves. When we’re in a stressed state, there are two different sides of that. We are in the fight or flight response, which is like pushing the pedal to the medal on the gas. That is where everything is in high alert, such as when you find yourself in a dark alley and someone jumps out at you. Everything goes into high alert, and the blood rushes to the areas to get you to stay and fight or take flight.
The problem with that is a lot of times we get so used to being in this fight or flight response that our levels stay at a steady state of high stress for long periods of time.
We may feel stressed states for trying to get to work on time, waking up and rushing off to work, time schedules, paperwork, school, work problems, marital problems, and relationship problems. All these things create mental stress which is looked at, depending on how you interpret it, as a fight or flight response, and causes stress to the body.
When it does that your body is in high alert all the time, which is not what it’s supposed to do, it only should be during those life threatening situations when you have to fight or flight to save your life.
Your body has a tendency to start breaking down at that state, because it never has a chance to go on the other side of the coin, which is the restorative type of resting state that you should be in most of the time, in order to repair your body.
It’s really important to look at things this way, because a lot of times we are so used to it that we don’t even know we’re in this stressed state, because, it’s such a normal situation for our society or our lifestyle to be in a high stressed state.
It can be very hard to break these patterns, especially patterns of thought. Sometimes you think of something and automatically it’ll bring up a negative thought or feeling. It’s a reflex type of situation, because you’ve programmed yourself subconsciously that way.
The way the brain works is if you don’t use it, you lose it, but the more you use it, you have a tendency to go that way. It’s as if you’re walking through snow, the more you walk through one path the easier it is to go through it. So if that path is a negative thought or a negative auto-suggestion, when a situation arises, you will, more often than not, subconsciously take that negative path. So it takes a conscious effort to watch your thoughts, to see what you’re thinking, so that you can slowly start carving a path towards how you want to think.
It is up to you to really have the will to catch those negative thoughts of auto-suggestion. I want to some it up with a parable.
An old Cherokee was teaching his young grandson one of life’s important lessons. He told the young boy the following parable:
“There is a fight going inside each of us. It is a terrible fight between two wolves”, he said.
“One wolf is evil. He is anger, rage, envy, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, lies,
false pride, superiority, and ego.
The second wolf is good. He is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, empathy, truth, compassion, and faith.”
The grandson thought about this for a moment.
The he asked his grandfather,
“Which wolf will win this fight?”
The old Cherokee simply replied,
“The one you feed.”
And it’s the same way with our bodies. Think about that, and next week we’ll go over the placebo effects of belief, which is very powerful as far as healing.
Maintain Your Spine
This week I’d like to talk about a concern of mine for others. A statistic came out stating that about 80-90% of all Americans will have a serious bout of back pain sometime in their life. It wouldn’t be the case if people learned how to maintain their spine.
Think about it. How many people maintain their spine? How many people actually know how to maintain their spine? Were you taught how to? No, because we weren’t taught that way.
We’re taught how to take care of our teeth. We know we have to brush and floss regularly, eat right, and get regular check-ups with a dentist, but we aren’t taught how to take care of our spine.
It’s a big concern of mine. I had a lady come in yesterday. Her first visit was in 2006, she had a serious bout of back pain; I adjusted her and her back pain went away. But, people don’t realize that if you don’t maintain your spine, it can create problems. One thing that can happen is that your spine can form a situation called Degenerative Disc Disease; most of the time is a silent process.
When you look at the neck, there should be a nice arc. But if you look at the patient who came in 2006, you can see she had a reverse forward posture. The posture resulted in decreased discs and a big bone spur in her neck. We went ahead and adjusted her, she felt fine after one adjustment, so she thought she was fixed. We talked about how to correct and maintain her spine, but the problem was that she thought that if she felt okay, she was okay. That’s the way we were taught to take care of our health and this concerns me.
She came back just yesterday, 5 years later, she had back pain again. We took another picture of the neck, and you can see that the area where she had the bone spur before is almost fused together and that there are other bones that are starting to do the same thing. She was completely shocked; she couldn’t understand. She hadn’t experienced pain since the last time she had come in.
“How can that be?” she asked. “Because,” I said, “if you don’t maintain your spine, it will degenerate.”
If you don’t maintain your spine, it will go down hill. That’s what we do here at Bates Chiropractic, we correct and maintain the spine. You want to maintain your spine and not your problems. Unfortunately, a lot of people only manage their problems. So, the key to it is really maintenance.
If you want to learn more about maintaining your spine and that of your family, you can contact us at Bates Chiropractic at (310)545-4188 or online at www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com
How To Build Your Health Account
This week we want to discuss on building health. You can think of health as a bank account. A lot of people go into their health account and continue withdrawing and withdrawing. And that is a symptomatic way of looking at things; once you have a symptom, you go ahead and withdraw from your health account instead of being more proactive and start building your health.
What are some of the ways that you can build your health? A lot people will say eating healthy and exercising. Those are the most obvious ways that you can do that. Some people as far as stress reduction will do pilates and yoga. A lot of people miss the other part of health. What actually controls your body and its ability to function is your brain, spinal chord, and nervous system. So, your brain, spinal chord, and nerve system control and coordinate all functions of your body, which means they will coordinate your immune system, your cardiovascular system, and your ability to function throughout the day. You would want to have a good nerve supply to all those organs; one way you can do that is through having regular chiropractic adjustments.
Building a bank account of health means that you’d be allowing the spine, the nerve channels of the spine, to stay freed up to all the organs, so you can have 100% of nerve flow to those organs.
So if you’re thinking of building health, it’s not just going to come from your insurance policy; it’s going to come from other things like eating right, exercising, and getting regular chiropractic check ups.
You are as old as your spine. People who have older spines, though they may just be 25, may act like they’re 60. So you want to prevent the spine from aging faster by getting chiropractic checkups to eliminate the nerve interference, so the brain can communicate to the rest of the body.
If you have any questions contact us @ our office or on our website.
If you want to pass this blog on to your friends and family and help add to their health bank account, let us know and we will email them as well.
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