Chiropractic Four Essentials of Health

To understand the four essentials of health, we have to know the essentials of life. Many things may appear in mind making part of different categories, such as social or psychological. Anyway in terms of physiological essentials for survival, there are four:
1. FOOD
2. WATER
3. OXYGEN
4. NERVE IMPULSE
How do the ESSENTIALS appear? If one of them would stop, we would die. They are the most important things from our lives. If any of them are interfered with, your health is not at its optimum potential.

FOOD

Food is the fuel and building block for growth and reproduction of cells and tissue. It consists of protein, fats and carbohydrates. If any of these were to stop you would die. If their balance is interfered with, your health potential is not at its optimum. For example, if you ate high fat or sugar foods (french fries, doughnuts, etc.) what would be the possible condition of your arteries in 10-20 years? If you said "Clogged up with fat", you are right. Result = lower health potential.

WATER

Fluids - 75% of your body is water. It is used in almost every body process. If you stop fluid intake, you die. If you drink unhealthy fluids (caffeine, alcohol, additives, preservatives, dyes, etc.), or not enough fluids, your body's health potential is decreased.

OXYGEN

Oxygen is also used in almost every reaction of the body, and is carried through the body by the pulmonary (lungs), and circulatory (blood) systems. Interference to these systems could stop oxygen and result in death. We should exercise regularly and breathe deeply to increase our oxygenation to cells. Research finds that oxygen deprivation can cause anything from fatigue to cancer. If oxygenation is not at its optimum, neither is your health potential.

NERVE IMPULSE

Nerve impulse is the most commonly overlooked essential for life and health. Nerve impulse is an electrochemical charge transmitted by the brain through the nervous system to the body. It is the life force that keeps us alive and "charged". ALL BODY FUNCTIONS are dependent on this life force and brain impulse. Cells must be electrically charged in order to vibrate and function. If your brain stopped (generator for electrical impulses) you would die. In fact, to be declared legally dead, brain impulse must stop. If you severed the nerve to your heart, would it stop? How about your stomach, lungs, or hand? What if you just interfere with the normal nerve transmission? Would these organs and tissues function at their optimum potential?

One of the major causes for such nerve interference is a misalignment of the spine commonly termed by chiropractors as a subluxation. Subluxations can interfere with the nerve, the spinal cord, and reflex nerve pathways, resulting in abnormal function and a lower health potential. If your spine is subluxated you cannot be at your optimum health potential, regardless of how good your food, water, and oxygen is, because you are still interfering with one of the essentials of life and health.

The chiropractor's primary role is to locate and correct subluxations, thus removing nerve interference and allowing the body to restore its normal function. It is not a treatment for symptoms or a cure for disease, but merely a way of improving the body's optimum health potential, through proper nerve integrity. This is why everyone should see a chiropractor from the time they are born, and regularly throughout their lifetime. Maintenance of a healthy spine means optimum nerve integrity and optimum health potential.

So remember, to achieve and maintain optimum health potential, maintain the most optimum quality of the four essentials of health and life - food, water, oxygen and nerve impulse. But pay special attention to the most neglected one - nerve impulse - by having your spine checked for subluxations by a chiropractor. It could be the answer you have been searching for.