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Spring Series Part II: Five Essentials for Life

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Welcome to our Spring Series. Since spring is all about rebirth, I thought we’d take a look at how this concept related to Chiropractic. 

In our last post, we looked at how the body develops, from central to peripheral. The key thing now is once you are born, what does this material body need now to function properly and stay healthy?  The secret is to unlock your body’s innate power to heal itself, what we call “vitalistic” health – the concept in which we do not treat that symptom that you come in with, but rather activate function in your body. So how does this work?

Now the material body, which is animated by this life force or innate intelligence, is now outside of the womb … No longer getting umbilical food, blood, and nutrients it needs. So what do we need once where out of the womb? Well that life force that built you from the time of conception to where you are today didn’t leave you, but we’ve got to figure out, “What do we need while we’re on this planet to survive and adapt?”

  1. First of all: nerve supply, otherwise known as life force. There’s something in you that separates you from the people that are up at the funeral home down the road. You’ve got something in you that’s not in a corpse, animating your material body. Nerve supply, number one requirement.
  2. Then air. You can only go a few seconds without nerve supply, but you can go about three to six minutes without air. Not very long, so we would consider air to be the next most vital supply that you need. This never supply is from within your body, now we need things from without.
  3. Third thing: water. A couple of seconds without nerve supply, a few minutes without air … Water? Maybe three, four days. Water is essential. In fact, if people would just drink more good pure water their health conditions would change immediately. Quit drinking the soda. Quit drinking all the fruit juice. Sugar kills you. We can talk more about site-specific cancers and the relationship to insulin. Heavy stuff.
  4. Next thing: essential nutrients. What are essential nutrients? They’re the building blocks for your body. Essential fats and essential proteins, amino acids. Notice I didn’t say that carbohydrates were essential. Although your brain and your muscles both run on glucose, you can make glucose from fat and protein. Look at The Inuit Paradox. It’s a great study on the The Inuit Indians. They eat very few carbohydrates, very low insulin response which is proven to be why they live so long and one of the reasons why they’re so healthy.Get good fats in your body: avocados, good oils, good animal fats from grass-fed beef. Animal fats are okay as long it’s from grass-fed. Your vegetarian forms of fat are good as well. Essential amino acids and protein; you can do it right through a vegetarian diet, but you’ve got to pay attention. If you’re a vegetarian or vegan, you’ve got to really be strict on how you eat. Grass-fed beef, good wild-caught fish, all those things; those are the things you want to eat. Free-range chicken if you’re not a vegan. I’m an omnivore. I choose to eat meat, but it’s got to be good meat. Essential nutrients.
  5. The last thing: motion. Motion is an essential nutrient for your brain to stay engaged with your body. Without motion, the brain disconnects from the body. Remember, the first video we said things work from central to peripheral; now we see the importance of peripheral to central. Every joint in your body is lined with receptors that communicate to your brain and grease the rails of health and actually activate and regulate all the organ functions in your body. Without movement, your brain and body become disconnected. That’s why we see hypertension. That’s why we see elevated cholesterol levels. That’s why we see these chronic disease issues in the body. Chronic disease is the big deal. Okay? We’re dealing with chronic disease in this country; that’s what’s killing us, that’s what’s breaking our healthcare system. If you follow what I’m telling you about, you’ll avoid chronic disease later in life. You’ve got to move. I do tai chi daily. I walk. You have to move.

Chiropractic works on these two things and the integral relationship between nerve supply and motion. If your spine doesn’t work correctly, and you don’t move correctly on a segmental level, you have nerve interference. Like we talked about in the previous video, every organ in your body formed from central to peripheral based on the quality of nerve supply and life force that it received. It’s essential that once you’re born you keep your spine in tune and in motion, so that you can restore and maintain and project that energy through your body as you live. Without that life force animating your body, your body deteriorates rather rapidly and you’re set up for chronic disease.

Nerve supply, life force: Interchangeable terms. Motion affects nerve supply to the body. Nerve supply without motion, it doesn’t get there. Have a great day. Turn the power on.

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Dr. John Murray

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