If you want to live up to your potential thoughout your lifetime, you must take care of your beautiful brain. Your brain and nervous system are absolutely amazing and should not be taken for granted. Here are a few spectacular facts and health tips about your beautiful brain to ponder: Your brain consists of about 100 billion neurons. There are anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for each neuron. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so the brain can feel no pain. There … [Read more...] about Your Beautiful Brain
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Learning From Symptoms
There’s a lot we can learn from symptoms. If you have been suffering from symptoms for any length of time, you are probably tired of the learning process. However, the more you learn about them and address their underlying cause rather than just treat them, the better you're able to make choices that minimize symptoms and keep your body functioning at its highest level for a lifetime. Lesson 1: Symptoms don’t always mean your body is broken. If you have ever had food poisoning for example, … [Read more...] about Learning From Symptoms
An Epidemic of Nerve Disorders
Nerve disorders ranging from autism in children, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease in seniors, represent just a fraction of the growing number of nerve conditions that are affecting people of all ages in our society today. So much so that Robert Zieve, MD recently wrote in an article called Neurological Disorders: The Growing Epidemic of the 21st-Century, that chronic neurological diseases are fast becoming the debilitating epidemic of our time. Different than the headline grabbing … [Read more...] about An Epidemic of Nerve Disorders
Ultimate Health Care Technology
The Ultimate Health Care Technology requires no batteries or electricity of any kind. It adapts to changes in weather, food intake, stress levels, and work habits. It also adapts to changes in your environment and the intensity of your physical training and exercise. You can direct it to perform at the highest level possible with your choices. This Ultimate Health Care Technology is your body's Innate Intelligence. You Have This! You have, within you, an Innate Intelligence. Present from … [Read more...] about Ultimate Health Care Technology
Neuroplasticity and Nerve Regeneration
How many of us know someone who has been affected by a brain injury or a disease like Autism, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, ALS, Alzheimer's, or Dementia? Or how many of us wish we could just focus better, improve our brain power, and protect ourselves from neurodegenerative diseases? Science has long proclaimed that the human body could not regenerate nerves once they are lost or damaged. But, luckily for us Innate Intelligence finds a way to prove us wrong. Doctors of Chiropractic have … [Read more...] about Neuroplasticity and Nerve Regeneration
Trends, Casualties and Control
Longevity trends continue to show that people are living longer than ever. A recent article in The Atlantic (featured image) titled What Happens When We All Live to 100 reveals that life expectancy has increased by three months per year since 1840. If this trend continues, and it appears to be, life expectancy will be 88 by the middle of this century and 100 by the year 2100. This is a staggering statistic. Interestingly according to The Atlantic, "the lengthening of life spans seems … [Read more...] about Trends, Casualties and Control
Immune System Science Simplified
A report by the American Physiological Society has confirmed and clarified the importance of the nervous system in regulating the immune system. The report entitled Neural Control of the Immune System states “Neural reflexes support homeostasis by modulating the function of organ systems. Recent advances in neuroscience and immunology have revealed that neural reflexes also regulate the immune system.”1 This important research validates what many chiropractic patients have been experiencing … [Read more...] about Immune System Science Simplified
Opioid Crisis: Explosion and Solutions
The Opioid epidemic is one of the most damaging health crises of our era. According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control, between July 2016 and September 2017, the locations under study (across 45 states) had a 30 percent increase in Opioid-related fatalities. 1 Even overall life expectancy is now in decline, in part from the spike in deaths caused by Opioids, according to a staggering report by NPR in December.2 You probably know someone that has been affected by … [Read more...] about Opioid Crisis: Explosion and Solutions
An Important Timeless Question
“I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?” asked DD Palmer. This important timeless question is as relevant today as it was over a century ago when Dr. Palmer's quest for answers became the foundation of the Chiropractic industry, celebrating its birthday this week on … [Read more...] about An Important Timeless Question
What’s Harming Your Brain?
Neurotoxins are everywhere. Yet, what exactly is a neurotoxin? Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a neurotoxin as "a poisonous substance that acts on the nervous system and disrupts the normal function of nerve cells." The 7 neurotoxins listed below are only a few of the many chemicals we all encounter on a daily basis that can be detrimental to the health of our brain and nervous system. They should be avoided as much as possible. Glyphosate aka Roundup (Herbicide) Herbicide is found in … [Read more...] about What’s Harming Your Brain?
