There are two philosophies when it comes to healthcare: mechanism and vitalism. Our “healthcare” system today is a mechanistic model, and this model basically says everything must be scientifically proven and evidence based. It says everything can be taken and compartmentalize and anatomized; that we are more or less just parts. For example, love is just a chemical reaction in our body; a cascade of hormones – nothing more and nothing less.
Medical doctors practice this way as well as what I like to call medical chiropractors. This mechanistic model is just an equation and the formula looks like this:
Diagnose —– Treat —— Symptom Resolution = Health
To these folks no symptoms equals health. We both know this is not true. We’ve all heard of the person who was healthy and felt great one day only to drop dead of a heart attack the next day. Or a person who was feeling great and went in for their annual exam and found out they had cancer. No symptoms does not mean health. Conversely, having symptoms does not necessarily mean you are unhealthy. Say you go to a restaurant and order chicken, and later that night you are puking your guts out because you have food poisoning. This is your body’s healthy reaction to get rid of those toxins.
This mechanistic side is controlled by money; money from third party payers like insurance. Insurance companies do not care about your health. If they did they would pay for running shoes, gym memberships, farm fresh meats and produce, yoga classes, etc. They don’t care about your health; what they care about is their money. Insurance companies are contractually obligate to pay for treatment until your symptoms are gone – that’s it. Conversely, medical doctors and medical chiropractors are contractually obligated to provide treatment to the point of no symptoms.
Medical doctors and medical chiropractors figured out that equation, and figured out that by plugging things into that equation they could access the big pool of insurance money. And let me tell you, there is a LOT of money in that insurance pot – a lot of money. In order to access that money these doctors must diagnose – they must put a name on symptoms so they have something to treat. Because while insurance won’t pay for health they will pay a lot of money for treatment.
Principled, straight chiropractors practice under the vitalistic health model. Without getting too complicated vitalism means that we recognize the fact that you are more than the sum of your parts. You can take every bone, muscle, tissue, organ and gland in the body and catalog, anatomize and categorize them, but there will still be something else, something that organizes these, directs, controls and coordinates them. We recognize a universal intelligence.
Universal intelligence is the thing that ensures the computer you are reading this on will always remain a computer and will never become a giraffe. The sun is where it is, the earth is where it is, the moon is where it is, and everything is exactly as it should be or we wouldn’t be here to write or read this post. Just as there is this universal intelligence there is also an intelligence inside your body that directs and controls it’s function, health and life. Chiropractors call this innate intelligence and we believe innate intelligence resides in your brain and nervous system. I will explain why.
We all started as two very small cells: the egg cell and the sperm cell. These two cells joined and formed one cell which then grew and multiplied exponentially until it resembled a black berry. Once it his this point a portion of it changed and differentiated. A dent forms on one side of this mass of cells, this dent is what scientists call the primitive streak and it will go on to form the first organ in the human body. It always fascinates me as a chiropractor to know that the first organ to form is the brain and spinal cord. I wondered why this was so I looked it up in medical literature and found that the brain and spinal cord are the first to form because they are the master control system which will direct and control all other systems of the body from that point through the rest of life. And then, without any input from scientists, doctors, chiropractors or physicians this little speck of life somehow knows how to form a perfect human being, and in 280 days innate intelligence has done its job and a perfect human being is born.
Your brain contains life giving electrical energy and sends these nerve impulses down your spinal cord, out the nerves and to every cell in your body, and the body sends signals back up to the brain. These nerve impulses are the difference between your living body and a corpse. Now, since your brain is so vital to life your body has designed a way to protect it, so it is encased in your skull. At the base of you skull is a hole called the foramen magnum, and through this hole your brain travels down into your body as the spinal cord. Since it is just as important down in your body as it is up in your head, your body has designed a way to protect it here. Your spinal cord, made up of millions and millions of nerve fibers, is surrounded by the 24 moveable vertebra that make up your spine. Your spine serves to protect this vital nerve tissue while allowing for motion and mobility. In between each pair of vertebra there is a small opening where nerve fibers branch off the spinal cord and travel all throughout your body carrying that electric life power to all your cells.
When your brain and nervous system are able to send signals to your body without interference then you will function and heal at 100%. What can happen is one or more of these vertebra can become misaligned which causes interference in the transmission of nerve impulses between your brain and your body. Chiropractors call this a vertebral subluxation. Subluxation robs your body of this nerve energy and therefore decreases health and life in your body. If you cut the nerve supply to any organ it will die, but your body is smart and has made it so most of your organs receive multiple nerve supplies. So, if you have a subluxation to your heart it won’t kill it, but it will cut the power down to it. Now you have a heart that’s working at perhaps 85%, and while you may not notice it now, over time it will take its toll.
Subluxations occur due to common, everyday activities such as CrossFit, sleeping in a weird position, stress, anxiety, eating crappy food, poor posture, and so on. Subluxations can occur and you may not even know it! I’m a chiropractor and I don’t even know if I have subluxation right now that’s robbing my organs of the ability to function fully!Chiropractors are the only professionals trained to locate and correct subluxation, thereby restoring the connection between your brain and body and allowing your innate intelligence to express itself at 100%.
This is why I tell people I want to be their chiropractor until one of us dies, and that we should be adjusted from womb to tomb. Often our first subluxation occurs at birth! Think about it, have you ever seen a baby being born? It’s enough all right! Kids fall down all the time, and while falling off their trike at age three won’t give them a heart attack from a subluxation right then, running around for 20, 30, 40 years with a heart working at 85% sure will!
The only thing that removes subluxation and turns your power back up is a chiropractic adjustment. Subluxations slowly cut down the power in your body and decrease your health and life. Adjustments remove this interference, and gradually, over time will turn the power back up and allow your body to do what it was made to do – function fully and heal perfectly. Each adjustment brings you closer to 100%, and who wouldn’t want that?
So who should be adjusted, and when? If you’ve read this far you should know the answer is everybody and right NOW! Nobody in their right mind would want to walk around with a subluxation cutting power off to their organs. Don’t wait until you are sick to get care, get in now and experience all that life has to offer! Evolved Health Chiropractic is set up so that you and your family can receive regular chiropractic care that is affordable and accessible. One, low monthly fee gets you unlimited chiropractic care with no appointments necessary. It’s 100% chiropractic so you can express 100% life.
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