Welcome back!!! Did you know that chiropractic is steeped in a different philosophy compared to medicine? What follows today is what this can mean FOR YOU!

If your body is sick or damaged, there are two rather distinctly different ways of looking at the same situation.

1. You are broken, can’t be fixed, and need perpetual drugs, or the removal of an organ or body part to keep going.

2. Something is preventing you from functioning correctly, and your normal, inborn capacity to remain healthy needs to be restored.

Modern medicine with its emphasis on drugging and cutting has made a “killing’ for over a century masking the symptoms of illness with the philosophy described in #1 above.

Chiropractic for over a century has been using the philosophy of #2 above to get folks to understand that we are designed to be self-healing, and if we are not for any reason, we need to work to restore that property to our bodies to regain and maintain our health.

Experiments in the laboratory on animals designed to see how various chemicals affect their physiology is only the starting point for pharmaceutical testing. If a drug passes this stage, it goes out into the world. If we zoom way out and look at this standard of health care over time—where has it taken us? FACT - We consume far more drugs and undergo far more surgeries than any other nation on earth, yet we rank constantly near the bottom of the list when it comes to our level of general health.

More drugs—yet have higher rates of disease?

How is MODERN MEDICINE’S PHILOSOPHY working, my friends? In the literal sense, we are not lab rats—but figuratively we have been part of an ongoing failed experiment.

MODERN MEDICINE’S PHILOSOPHY where general health is concerned? - Failure

Simply Stated:

• We are designed to be healthy and self-healing.

• We call this our inborn INNATE INTELLIGENCE.

• Innate intelligence needs no assistance, just no interference. 

This is the philosophy of chiropractic ( and a few other natural healing professions). Where health and healing is concerned, the job of the doctor when adhering to this philosophy is simply to find the interference, help the patient to remove it, and then stand back and watch how the body heals.

INTERFERENCE

If you have been reading my newsletters, you have learned the inference is always some kind of physical, chemical, or emotional stress. My editions on dietary self-help are geared toward the chemical stress aspect. Our standard way of eating interferes with how the body needs to regulate itself.

Self-help and prevention is always best, but sometimes we need assistance. This is where the BIG IDEA fits closely with what we do to you as chiropractors. Chiropractic adjustments are not simply about healing from spinal pain. They are about ensuring proper function in every aspect of your body.

The chart above shows us how the ‘involuntary nervous system’ connects via the brain and spine to all of our organs to allow them to function normally. The specific approach chiropractic has to the BIG IDEA is to ensure that nothing is preventing the brain via nerves from properly communicating with the organs to produce normal function - also known as health! Stress and injury to the spine results in subluxations (misalignments) that can cause this kind of nerve interference. Chiropractic adjustments release subluxations.

Physical stress on the spine can be a cause of ‘functional disorders’ in the organ systems. If you are suffering ill health, why not look at things like proper diet, emotional stress management, and chiropractic care instead of the ongoing failed experiment of drug driven medicine.

On the Level

REPRIEVE - Modern medicine has indeed been a miracle in crisis/emergency care. Gunshot wounds, severely broken bones, run-away infections, poisoning—modern medicine has been a miraculous lifesaving technology, while at the same time, a miserable failure at prevention of disease and keeping us healthy.

Medicine’s philosophy works great in crisis. Chiropractic’s BIG IDEA works great for prevention and regaining the normal function and self-healing we call health. My essays to you will always go toward this purpose.

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Until next time,

Blessings to you!