Health Comes From The Inside-Out

If you are reading this article and you are struggling with your health you may be interested in knowing what health is. How we define health and our philosophy to approaching our health-challenges have a great influence on our outcomes.

The World Health Organization and Dorland’s Medical Dictionary has defined health as “Total physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.  This would therefore imply a consideration to how our minds and bodies work. And then we must ask, “How do our minds and bodies work?” The answer to that can be most poignantly observed when realizing how we come to experience life itself. When the cells of a man and a woman come together to form the embryological zygote, we have the early stage of human development. And once cell differentiation begins, and body parts and systems are formed the brain and spinal cord form first. What does this mean? It means without it (our Central Nervous System or CNS) nothing else can happen. We cannot see function occur in our other body parts and systems. And isn’t it interesting that of all the systems we have working in our bodies to keep us functioning and healthy, the CNS is the ONLY system completely encased and protected in bone (our skull and spine)? What does this mean?

Chiropractic philosophy recognizes that the human body is a self-healing, self-regulating organism and that the brain and spinal cord (CNS) is the master-system and controller of the body. Deductively, we must therefore surmise, that any interference with that system (CNS) will decrease the ability to heal and regulate (function).  It is in recognizing this simple truth that we can direct our attention to the primary causes of dis-ease in our bodies. Once we focus on causes (interference) rather than their effects (symptoms) we can begin changing the course of our health and our lives.