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Some people seem to expect a bout with a cold or the flu each year. If you haven’t had your quota yet, here are some things you can do:Eat a poor diet. If you want to catch a cold, make sure your body lacks the vitamins and minerals it needs to keep itself in good repair. Eat lots of processed foods, stripped of their nutritional value.
Avoid adequate rest. Deprive yourself of adequate rest. Stay up late and reduce the time you sleep as much as possible. Use tobacco, coffee and other stimulants to fool yourself into thinking you have plenty of energy.
Stop exercising. Reduce the effectiveness of your immune and lymphatic systems. Unlike the circulatory system, your lymphatic system depends upon exercise and movement to circulate these germ-fighting fluids.
Rarely wash your hands. Increase your chances of catching a cold by compromising your personal hygiene. Remember to use your dirty hands and fingers to rub your eyes, pick your nose or wipe your lips.
Think negative thoughts. Look for opportunities to visualize having a cold. Pay attention to news reports about outbreaks of the flu and pay close attention to advertising that sells medications for cold sufferers.
Invite stress. Stress yourself physically by experiencing extreme temperature and humidity changes. Stress yourself mentally with constant worry or fear.
Become dehydrated. Avoid drinking enough water. Reduce the effectiveness of your natural defense mechanisms and other bodily functions by avoiding fluids.
Forget your appointments. Ignore your nervous system, the master control of your immune system. Avoid these preventive strategies and shun our suggestions of periodic chiropractic checkups to help you stay well.
The only way to catch a cold or the flu is to make yourself a hospitable host to the millions of cold and flu germs around you every day. Include regular chiropractic care to keep you working at your very best.
One of the most common complaints these days is allergies. There are many ways our bodies alert us to allergic reactions. Some of the signs may include sneezing, running nose, itchy eyes, sinus congestion, skin rashes, itching, etc. Although these symptoms may make you miserable, they are all part of your body’s innate response to stress.
Health is expressed in the way your body reacts to stress.
The problem isn’t pet dander, pollen, chemicals or spicy food. While these and other allergens are often singled out as the culprit, it’s actually the person, not the allergen. If it were the allergen, everyone would react! Clearly, the problem must be with the person’s ability to adapt to the allergen. This always involves the nervous system, so it’s no surprise that many people with allergies also have spinal misalignments that hinder nerve flow (subluxation) and drain their body’s ability to adapt.
Think of your body’s ability to adapt to physical, chemical, and emotional stress as an empty bucket. Now you fill your bucket with the stress of poor nutrition, lack of exercise, deficient (or excessive) rest, a hectic career with a dreadful commute, a defeated mental attitude and other stressors, and your bucket is filled to the brim. Along comes tree pollen season or you encounter a house cat and you start wheezing. Your bucket is overflowing!
The pollen or the cat may get the blame, but only because your ability to adapt has been exhausted by the other stresses. Do you know someone with allergies? Introduce them to chiropractic. Chiropractic isn’t a treatment for allergies, but perhaps we can help them increase their ability to adapt by removing subluxations!
Just a month ago, many of us resolved to make changes in our lives and break bad habits. Yet many gyms, health food stores and weight loss centers are practically empty these days compared to the hustle and bustle of just a couple of weeks ago. What happened?
Improving your health is a lifestyle choice.
Thinking of improved fitness or weight loss or even chiropractic care as a short term “diet,” rather than a long-term lifestyle decision is the problem. If you, or someone you know, went overboard in the New Year’s resolution department there’s still hope. Let’s consider some ideas that’ll help us choose, and more importantly, keep healthy new habits:
Believe in your ability to change. Keeping old habits and forming new ones are choices that you control.
Don’t blame yourself or make excuses. Instead of giving up after a relapse, dust yourself off and recommit to your goal.
Concentrate on measurable results. Track your progress. Don’t be dissuaded by ups and downs.
Know why the resolution is important. See yourself as already having achieved the goal.
Make change a long-term lifestyle decision. Abandoning unhealthy habits requires thinking long term. Let’s put all of these ideas in action and recommit to our healthy new habits for 2008.
Are you alive or dead? If you’ve been suffering from a lot of discomfort or a chronic health problem, you may be wondering. The fact that you’re reading this pretty much assures us that you’re alive, and that’s good news! All living things possess certain characteristics, such as the ability to assimilate nutrients, adapt to the environment, and the capacity to regenerate and heal.
The power to heal lives within you.
The ability to heal comes from within, and nowhere else. Suppose you accidentally cut your finger. You clean it with an antiseptic, dress it with a bandage, wait a couple of weeks and when you take the bandage off, the wound is healed. What did the healing? The antiseptic did a good job of reducing or minimizing infection, but it doesn’t possess any healing properties. The bandage did a good job of keeping out debris and holding the wound closed, but it too doesn’t possess any healing properties. While the healing process certainly requires time, if you cut the finger of a dead man it won’t heal–ever. Something even more important than time is needed to heal your cut, your headaches, or any other health problem and that something is the intelligence of the body. The same intelligence that is responsible for making your heart beat and attending to a million other details that keep you alive is also involved in the healing process.
This intelligence works through your brain, spinal cord and all of your nerves to control all of the body’s functions. The ability of your body to heal as it was designed depends good on brain-to-body or body-to-brain communications. Poor communication over the nervous system results in diminished health and a slowed healing response.
If you’ve lost your health we can help you find it because we know where to look. Unlocking your body’s healing potential requires the removal of interference to nerve flow. As a chiropractor, my goal is to keep your spine well adjusted, removing nervous system interference so your body can work, regenerate, and heal the way it was designed.
It may surprise you or even be the exact opposite of what you’ve been taught, but let’s explore an idea that may be new to you. It’s the first step in bringing you closer to your goal of being healthy.
It’s better to be healthy than to feel good.
Unfortunately, many believe that feeling good is the key to health. We all want to feel good, but it has little to do with whether you are healthy or not. True health occurs when the body is working precisely as it was designed and is adapting to its environment. It has little to do with obvious symptoms. A person with undetected cancer may feel great, but clearly, they aren’t healthy.
True health is about the proper function of your body. Let’s say you eat some food that was poorly prepared. In a short time, you feel “sick” and race to the bathroom to vomit. Vomiting is one way the body is designed to deal with toxins. You could then take some medicine to suppress your body’s reaction to the toxins (symptoms). This might temporarily make you feel better, but it doesn’t make you healthy! While vomiting doesn’t feel too good, it is your body’s natural, healthy, adaptive response. You can’t judge health by how you feel.
Your brain, spinal cord, and all of your nerves control and regulate your body. Every cell, tissue, organ, and system take orders from your nervous system. Thus, true health is how well your nervous system is orchestrating the workings of your body. Compromised brain-to-body or body-to-brain communications are the underlying cause of a variety of health problems. As a chiropractor, my goal is to keep your spine well adjusted, removing nervous system interference so your body can work and adapt the way it was designed.
