Turning Tragedy Into Change

Last week there was another school shooting in the United States, home to more school shootings (by far) than any other country in the world.  Too often nowadays, tragedy leads not to action, but fearful avoidance.  There have been 74 school shootings in the last 18 months, fifteen of which were of the variety that make national headlines – the ones you would know about.  15 over 18 months is one every five weeks.  The time has passed for talking about it and the time has come to do something.  Many reasons exist for why these incidents have become more prevalent in the last twenty years than ever before.  Not to discount any of the other reasons that these occurrences have increased, but the primary intention of this column is to call into question the manner in which our society has chosen to deal with mental instability in children and offer solutions.

No matter the effect, there is always a cause.  According to the National Institute of Mental Health, close to 50% of all teenagers have been diagnosed with a mental disorder.  They also posit that 20% of teenagers have or will suffer from a “severe” mental health disorder.  There is quite a bit of controversy as to whether or not the cause leading to such effects is based on faulty diagnosing procedures (over diagnosis being the by-product) or real problems.  All the while, the use of medication to regulate behavior has spiked in the last decade, tripling the number of kids who are taking drugs.  The percentage of children in the United States currently on behavioral prescriptions is now around 10%.  Every pharmaceutical drug has side effects.  We need to be a lot more careful about making drugs the first option and transition them back to their place as the last resort.  “What’s not known about the long-term effects [of drugs prescribed for mental health disorders] is very troubling,” Christopher Bellonci, M.D., assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, said. “The younger you go, the more you can affect the developing brain.”  
 
If kids are angry, depressed, lacking in focus, or otherwise, the protocols for how to handle them has seen a sharp de-emphasis on the factors that can help these kids and their parents truly understand and overcome their less than desirable conduct and are further emphasizing putting them on prescription drugs.  It’s a consequence of the same dated mindset of treating disease by methods that produce opposite effects of symptoms designed to satiate our rabid societal desire for instant gratification.  The American Psychological Association has concluded, based on their research, “that all too often, Americans are taking medications that may not work or may be inappropriate for their mental health problems.”  Though it is not working, it continues to be a problem.  Back in 2009, the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported “that in 2006 more money was spent on treating mental disorders in children aged 0 to 17 than for any other medical condition, with a total of $8.9 billion. By comparison, the cost of treating trauma-related disorders, including fractures, sprains, burns, and other physical injuries, was only $6.1 billion.”  That’s a lot of money and not a lot of results.  People recognize that these pharmacological methods are ineffective and even dangerous, but little is being done about it.  Step one to doing something about it is spreading awareness that it’s a fundamental flaw in the system to over diagnose and under value the essential reasons why behavioral issues develop.

It would be helpful to have a general understanding of how brain activity is conducted.  The human body works via electrical circuitry similar to what you have in your house.  That circuitry is called the central nervous system.  The brainstem plays a regulatory role in the electrical activity throughout your body, including that of your brain.  There are basic processes that depend on the integrity of the central nervous system to allow for such normal functions as hearing or seeing something and being able to establish a rationale, cognitive thought in reaction to it – in other words, the inner workings that control behavioral response.  Rationale thoughts and behaviors – hard to call them “normal” when everyone is so different – require certain biochemical and neurologic procedures to be in place.  Upper Cervical Care is the process of detecting and removing such functional, neurologically based problems by ensuring that the brainstem is working the way it is designed to.  It should be a part of the revised protocol to help identify the root for mental health issues, as should the other things described below.  
 
As so little in our world is black and white, I believe that multiple factors have contributed to mental health problems being more prevalent than ever.  I agree that way too many kids are diagnosed with “disorders” when, in reality, they’re just being kids.  Sometimes, the mistakes children make are little more than their learning process for how to grow up and adapt in a world that’s increasingly different.  Yet, when it is an actual problem and not a few bad choices, there are nutritional factors to consider, as our foods have largely been stripped of their nutritional value in an effort to make eating more convenient and fast.  It is also a cultural shift, which has led to teachers being handcuffed in their ability to educate and entitled kids who don’t believe that they have anything to learn.  Then, the media is so negative and the TV shows so melodramatic that it is a wonder if children even know anymore that the world has a lot to offer them if they offer something to it.  Add to that the spotlight that kids are put under from early ages through social media and online influences and the generally regarded fact that kids no longer have a strong sense of personal responsibility.  
 
Failure to consider these fundamental factors and assuming that the best option is to essentially numb bad behaviors and thoughts is a dangerous game – literally.  “Some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs,” according to British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy.  Some sources say it’s actually 100%.  Enough is enough; it’s time for a change.  I sincerely hope that we will all soon come to the conclusion that these tragedies should stimulate a serious revamping of how we collectively view mental health.  
 
Thinking good things for you,

Dr. Chad

Groundhog Day - A Vicious Cycle

You wake up in the morning, groggy and feeling as though the previous seven hours spent sleeping never really happened.  Clearly, you slept.  The clock read “11:03 P.M.” right before you zonked out and you opened your eyes to “6:59 A.M.”  It doesn’t feel like it, though.  You push yourself out of bed and immediately notice that you’re leaning to one side.  Looking down at your feet, your eyes focus in as if staring at your knees, ankles, and toes might somehow reestablish a sense of normalcy during this all-too-common occurrence of seeming off balance.  Half stumbling and half walking, you maneuver yourself to the bathroom and flip on the light.  Once upon a time, this would have been when you sat down to eliminate the waste processed through your digestive tract from yesterday, but it has been a long time since that was the case.  Despite that gurgling sound in the pit of your stomach that suggests that a few moments on the porcelain God would be just what the doctor ordered, you’ve been through this routine enough to realize that nothing will happen if you do and that there are other things that have taken precedent in the morning routine.  

Two hours later, you are on your way to see what the day brings.  There’s that uncomfortable moment when you get into the car, your joints crackling as if you just sat down on bubble wrap.  The same thing happens when you get out of the car a bit later.  It always happens when you get in the car.  Speaking of the car, remember when you could turn your head so easily to check the blind spot over your right shoulder?  That online search for how “German engineers suggest using car mirrors” was quite helpful, you may recall.  In the future, you find out that using your mirrors in the manner recommended by BMW is actually a good thing, but it would have been nice to choose to do it that way rather than have to out of necessity.  Oh well.  Once the morning sluggishness finally wears off thanks to that third cup of coffee – or was it an energy drink today?  Memory isn’t what it used to be – you start your list of daily tasks.  You have to carefully concentrate on one thing at a time to avoid your mind traveling in a million different directions.  Did you put the clothes in the dryer?  That thing from the national board is due this week, right?  The dryer wasn’t left on, was it?  You never like leaving it on while you’re gone (just in case).  The meeting at 11:30.  Did you prepare?  You’ve got ample prep time, so you should be fine.  Whew, it’s been a long day already and it’s not even lunch time.
 
Lunch brings with it a set of challenges all its own.  You heart desires the Southwest chicken sandwich, but you know that eating something with a kick to it will make the afternoon a chore.  After all, it’s hard to get any work done when you’re constantly taking breaks.  You get that sort of nausea with it, too.  So, it’ll be the salad and soup again for the millionth time – “Just make sure that there’s no garlic in it” you call to the waiter, all the while thinking in the back of your mind how annoying it is to have to be so picky when you like so many things.  It’d be nice to have a “cheater day” and vary up the diet a bit.  The 11:30 presentation took a lot out of you and a dull ache has settled in the back of your head.  You barely notice it; it’s par for the course, at this point.  As the day continues, the ache spreads.  The more that you are on your feet, the greater the difficulty that you experience.  You don’t work out anymore – it hurts you too much to do so – but at the end of every day, you feel like you just worked out for the first time in two years.  As abnormal as it is, it has become normal for you, but - unbeknownst to you – it makes you very difficult to be around.  By dinner time, the day has worn you out and your patience has been reduced to nil.  Those close to you just assume that “it’s who you are, now” since the doctors said everything was normal.  You long since quit trying to find out why you feel and act the way that you do.  You guess that it’s just what getting older is like. 
You’ve become a human doing instead of a human being.  You exist more so than live.  Like the movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray awakes to the same February morning repeatedly, life has become an endless loop of days you’re just getting through.  
 
I’ve met so many people in my career that would relate to the above.  I know that I sure relate to it.  That was me.  Upper Cervical Care gave me my life back and it took years of self reflection to find out when I actually lost it, ultimately realizing that it was gradual and cumulative.  By the time that I learned about Upper Cervical, I had developed a quiet assumption that I was never going to get better and had begun going through the motions of living.  Your level of health simply doesn’t always reflect what it says on some lab test.  Thankfully, I was fortunate enough to have the bar raised for what I should expect from my life.  I sincerely hope that you are allowing us to help you raise that bar for your life.  Too many of us think that scenarios similar to the above are OK.  They’re not.  We should all want more and go get more from life…and that begins with your health.  
 
The Power of Upper Cervical documentary presentation – Tuesday, June 17^th at 6:30PM
 
“You people will know…soon” states Dr. Drew Hall in the final line of Storyville Studios acclaimed documentary, The Power of Upper Cervical.  The fact of the matter is that most people don’t know about Upper Cervical Care.  This documentary is an excellent way for the uninformed to become informed.  Across the board, our collective health is suffering because we simply don’t understand the basics for what it takes to be healthy.  Like one of the patients in the movie says, “I didn’t know. I didn’t know any different.”  This film will teach you and your loved ones the “difference” that Upper Cervical Care can make.  Please join us!  Seating is limited, so please RSVP via email or by calling the office.  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH711pGGXiI
 
Thinking good things for all of you,

Dr. Chad

Why is There Not More Research on Upper Cervical Care?

Many patients have previously asked - and many others have likely thought about it – “Why isn’t there more research out there about Upper Cervical Care?”

The answer to that question was, perhaps, best exemplified in a recent email that updated me about the progress of a study, which I donated money to about three months ago.
 
A little bit of background information before I continue: for the last several years, there has been a lot of research conducted in tandem between Upper Cervical Practitioners and Medical Doctors in Italy where Upper Cervical Care was given the wings of several Italian hospitals.  This is not unprecedented, as these types of joint tasks have occurred here in the United States, but suffice to say that a lot more research has been going on over in Italy where the system is better built to help patients find the root causes of their respective health problems.  Here in the States, there is a lot more bias toward the term “chiropractic,” creating a barrier between the paradigms which can often be difficult to overcome.  In Italy, this is less of a problem, in part because the Italian version of the AMA, as I understand it, does not view Upper Cervical Care and Chiropractic as the same entity.  Though groundbreaking discoveries are achieved in the USA when the two professions are able to collaborate -- such as in the University of Chicago Medical Center study that determined Upper Cervical Care is more effective than two blood pressure lowering medications! -- it has proven easier for more research to occur, with less hassle, overseas than in the US.

So, over in Italy about five years ago, the UC DCs and MDs combined to study whether the brainstem subluxation (misalignment of one of the top two vertebrae in the spine, to the point that the brainstem which rests within those bones is compromised) is one of the causes of Multiple Sclerosis, by using functional MRI to better assess the area.  Other forms of imaging have long-since established the neurological consequences of a foundational shift where the head and the neck meet, but the scientific community prefers the functional MRI.  That being stated, the brainstem subluxation was found to be a common link amongst M.S. patients in the Italian study.  Furthermore, it was found that not only was there a correlation, but that there a causative relationship; in fact, the brainstem subluxation was determined to be one of the four primary causes of M.S.  Powerful information, and game-changing for the scientific community.  For an Upper Cervical Practitioner, this study merely confirmed what we already knew, but as this information becomes scientifically solidified, it will begin to reach the public; and when it reaches the public, the manner in which M.S. and related conditions are handled is going to change… a much needed change.
 
The problem is that research – and this goes back to the question asked in the beginning – requires a lot of money.  The M.S. study in Italy ran out of it.  I happened upon this unfortunate fact on Facebook, of all places.  One of my colleagues posted a link asking for help in raising the remaining funds necessary to complete the study.  I made a donation.  Several months and tens of thousands of dollars later (from mostly UC docs and patient advocates), there still is not enough money to finish it.  Medical schools in the United States receive research grants provided by huge corporations with a vested interest in the results.  At least one pain medication earned well over a billion dollars in 2013.  As compared to the research described above, there is an endless funnel of money pouring into the studies on how to “treat” disease and infirmity, but a study that seeks the cause of such disease and infirmity gets stonewalled by too few dollars and cents.
 
Research in the Upper Cervical world does get done, but because we, the practitioners, essentially have to fund it on our own, it takes a lot longer.  Greater resources would lead to faster speed of completion, which would mean faster publication of results, which would make it faster and easier for the public to acquire access to that knowledge which the research concludes.  I once had a patient who asked me to verify the comments that I had made about another autoimmune disease.  I said, “I believe that if we can find out why your immune system is attacking your body, then we can do more than treat your diagnosis – we can put you in position to truly overcome.”  This patient abruptly quit receiving Upper Cervical care, because we could not provide him with the double blind, randomly controlled trials to back up such a statement.  No amount of philosophical discussion about the Law of Life that governs what we do as Upper Cervical Practitioners could knock down the mental barricade constructed by years of medical theories validated by research (but then, often, disproved by further research).  It took me 5 months to find the research for him; it now sits on my office’s educational wall.  Unfortunately, that patient left one month prior.
 
Upper Cervical has grown leaps and bounds in the last decade.  The relationship established with the Italian MDs has been a great one.  They literally said, “Upper Cervical Care makes all the sense in the world.  It is logical and reasonable.  We want to help you prove it scientifically.”  Good things are in the works, ladies and gentlemen.  For now, though, we, as doctors and patients, as well as the research community, simply have to be patient.  Money grows on trees if you want to spend hours in a lab trying to “cure” cancer, but it’s hard to find the location of those trees if your aim is to prove what causes it.
 
Thinking good things for you,

-Dr. Chad

PS - If, in reading this article, you find yourself inclined to learn more about Upper Cervical research and/or how you can contribute to it, visit http://www.ucrf.org/

Choices Today That Affect Tomorrow

Recently, a patient asked me, “With all the advances in technology and years spent studying certain body parts, don’t you think they’d have figured out by now how to do something about (X, Y, and Z conditions/diseases)?”  My response was fueled by an article that I had read the day before – the published results of a 75 year study conducted through Harvard University.  I replied, “I think that we can pour a ton of resources into better understanding these various conditions, but until the research stops being all about finding ways to treat these problems once they have already developed, we’re unlikely to find the cures.  The future of health science – when all the major advances will come – will begin the moment that our society recognizes the futility in trying treat disease when nearly every disease is preventable.  Once we focus on preventing sickness and disease, the research is going to make people look back at the currently modern era of USA healthcare and roll their eyes.”

It goes back to age old adage about “an apple a day will keep the doctor away.”  If you make smart choices today, then you’re going to benefit from them tomorrow.  Part of the curse of the instant gratification mindset toward modern medicine is that it often does not eye the future.  Short-term gains using that model rarely result in long-term successes.  The aforementioned Harvard study has compiled three quarters of a century’s worth of data to prove it.  Back in 1938, a team of researchers gathered several hundred undergraduate students and enlisted them for a lifelong project designed to answer that which all of us are concerned about: what makes people happy?  I found it unsurprising that many of the suggested keys to life were grounded in good health – nor was I surprised to find that good health was largely shaped, according to the research, by the choices that were made early in life.  Hereditary factors were not disregarded, just as we at the office do not disregard them, but the conclusions drawn are quite firm in their observations that the family tree had far less to do with health in the long-term than did more controllable factors.  When smart choices were made in adulthood, for instance, there was a far better outcome in overall health in the elderly years. 

This would seem like common sense if we thought about it more often.  Choose to eat organic and drink the recommended consumption of water per day in your 30s or 40s and the odds are statistically and significantly stronger that you’re going to not just outlive your peers that do not maintain those habits, but that you will also maintain a far greater quality of life.  It is time that we all collectively begin to make the connection between lousy food and a lack of health the way that we do cigarettes or alcohol.  Just as overconsumption of alcohol, which is quite common, and the use of nicotine products are associated with health conditions such as liver disease, lung cancer, depression, and other neuroses, the same can be said of processed foods.  At the end of the day, debate the specific dangers all you want, but the common denominator amongst them is chemicals.  If you put chemicals into your body – and especially if you bombard your body with chemicals like those that drink multiple sodas per day – then you’re setting yourself up for failure.  If the quality of the foods that you eat is not up to par and then you, additionally, do not adequately keep yourself hydrated with water (preferably filtered via reverse osmosis), you are basically sending an open invitation to become (or remain) sickly.  Water filters the toxins out of our bodies.  In regards to lousy foods, it helps take the chemical waste to the kidneys to the bladder to be eliminated from the body.  Soda, Gatorade, coffee, and tea do not as effectively produce this vitally important result. 

One of the common myths about eating organic food or drinking high quality water is that it costs more.  Ditto for the idea that doing things to improve your health that are not covered by your medical insurance cost you more.  In the long run, that is not true.  Maybe – and it’s a big maybe, honestly (a big part of the myth) – they might cost more on the front end, but these are the things that take your body from a toxic, broken down invitation for sickness and disease and make you a healthier version of yourself protected against the onset of the 14,900 diagnoses that can be billed by your providers.  Ultimately, that SAVES you money.  It’s far more cost effective to maintain a car rather than wait for it to break down.  The same goes for your body.  It just makes sense to put constructive things into your body.  If you’re not doing that right now, then start doing that right now.  There’s no time like the present – your future depends on it.  

Other common sense additions to your healthcare quest are structural balance, normal function, and a good attitude.  Bodies that aren’t balanced break down instead of wear down.  Organs that fail to receive proper communication from the brain work abnormally instead of normally.  Bad attitudes equate to more stress and all the muck that comes with it.  So, start forming better habits across the board.  You only get one body. 

Thinking good things for you,

-Dr. Chad

Intervention vs. Non-Interference

(Dr. Chad Note – This month’s newsletter was inspired by a message delivered by Dr. Robert Brooks in “The Power of Upper Cervical” documentary)

Have you ever been in a situation where you saw someone that you loved spiraling out of control?  Maybe it was one of your children when their grades started slipping or your spouse when he/she seemed to be frequently coming home from work acting as if it that day had been the worst in a series of horrible days in succession.  Maybe it was your college roommate going out every night and getting into a habit of addiction.  Do you recall when it was that you deemed it necessary to intervene?

It was a slippery slope, was it not?  Intervening in someone’s life should be a process of careful, calculated decisions.  You have to know when the right time to do it is.  At the wrong time, the “OK, look at what you’re doing to yourself” talk where you simultaneously offer your help might actually make matters worse.  Often, we choose a role of non-interference instead.  Non-interference ranges from stepping back and hoping that the person will recognize the area of his/her life that needs changing or subtly hinting in such a way that gets them thinking about it.  Intervention is a last resort.  Non-interference the preferred, first option. 

In modern healthcare, “when and when not to intervene” is a rare discussion.  More often than not, patients are categorized into a series of diagnoses for their various ailments and an intervention is offered.  While there is care taken to not misdiagnose, the evidence suggests that very little mind is paid to determining whether or not an intervention is necessary.  Go to the doctor with a chief complaint of pain, for instance, and you will likely receive one of many potential prescriptions for analgesics (painkillers), with often just the most serious/catastrophic reasons for pain ruled out in the “fact finding” process that leads to your trip to the pharmacy.  As a result, Americans consume 80% of the drugs produced worldwide.  In the vast majority of cases, health problems can be resolved through methods that adhere to the same principles of “non-interference” described in the life scenarios above.  If you have pain because your hips are out of balance, it is a signal alerting you to the fact that something needs to change (i.e. getting your hips rebalanced).  A foundational shift where the head and the neck converge around the brainstem causes a structural adaptation in the hips.  Identifying the fundamental discrepancy in physical health and making the specific correction necessary to return the body back to normal is more a case of, as Dr. Robert Brooks states in “The Power of Upper Cervical” documentary, “finding what’s wrong in my life and getting that out of my life” (non-interference). 

As my colleague, Dr. Tom Forest, states in the same documentary, “I wouldn’t go the dentist (for an invasive procedure) without Novocain.”  That would be an obvious example of when an intervention is necessary.  Failure to numb the mouth when a cavity is being filled would extremely painful and not worth the emotional turmoil, one could argue.  Most health related problems, though, are simple deficiencies in one or multiple areas that can be overcome through a non-interference-based approach.  Diagnosed with high blood pressure?  Your heart is working too hard, so find out what is causing it to work harder than necessary and remove it.  Intervening with a blood pressure lowering drug merely slows down the heart; it does not change the fact that your brainstem (which regulates your heart) may be pressured by the same foundational misalignment that caused your hips to be out of balance, creating for disruption of the signals down to your heart that govern your heart’s ability to function normally; nor does it change the fact that you might be too sedentary and/or eating poorly to cause you to gain weight and prompt your heart to have to pump more blood through your body.   

Too much intervention and not enough non-interference has been the primary culprit in the United States ranking 40^th out of 40 amongst industrialized countries in the world in health statistics.  It is time to revisit the manner in which we make choices.  Far more scrutiny need be used.  As is frequently the case in life situations, intervention before the time has truly come to intervene can be a major setback in progressing toward the ultimate objective – and, it comes to health, the objective is to be well.  As of now, we’re being told to intervene at every sign of discord in the human body.  With deaths, hospitalizations, and the like from adverse reactions / side effects of medications and surgical errors at an all-time high, it is time to scrap the current model and build a new one from the ground up that deemphasizes medical interventions and stresses the importance of non-interference (getting things out of your life that stand in the way of health).   

Thinking good things for you,

-Dr. Chad

Who Taught You to be Healthy?

Disclaimer - The information in this newsletter should not be interpreted as medical advice for any condition.  Dr. McIntyre is a licensed healthcare professional, but this column is intended only to make you aware and to make you think.

If the teachers responsible for educating engineers were not proficient in math, then we would churn out a lousy crop of engineers.  If those parents responsible for teaching their children right from wrong had no moral compass, then we would soon live in a society full of miscreants.  Imagine that for a moment.  Think of the chaos.

Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the people that are responsible for educating the public about health have very little idea how to be healthy.  The chaos is very real.  Further evidence is produced on a daily basis that the public is being duped by poorly researched "facts" that are proven false only a few years after they are so clearly stated by healthcare professionals.  These professionals then proceed to stand their ground even though their feet are in quick sand.  To those that pay close attention, these professionals look foolish and their stance indefensible.  

Take, for instance, Gardasil - the controversial drug that supposedly prevents cervical cancer.  Many of you may have heard of HPV - Human Papilloma Virus.  It is said that HPV causes cervical cancer, so researchers went out and created a vaccine for it.  40,000 adverse reactions in kids resulting in a death rate of 1 in every 912 shots given later and we've got yet another case of pharmaceutical side effects destroying lives while ignorant doctors keep pushing against logic.  Your daughters' doctors have been selling you something dangerous as if it is necessary, under the guise that it might actually keep them safer and healthier.  These are the people being given the responsibility of teaching you and your family how to be healthy.  They're saying that a VIRUS that is responsible for deaths in just 1 out of every 40,000 cases per year is so dangerous that you should voluntarily (or in some states involuntarily) allow your daughter (12 years old is the starting age) to receive a vaccine responsible for 1 death in every 912 shots.  Deaths!   Gardasil reportedly made $1.2 billion in revenue in 2012.  “I just wish someone had warned me about Gardasil," said a mourning Rhonda Renata.  "My (18 year old daughter) Jasmine would still be here with us.”  I just wish that someone would hold these people responsible for their actions.

Upper Cervical Practitioner Perspective: 70% of the cases of HPV resolve themselves in one year without treatment.  Most viruses will be eradicated if you give your body a chance to do its job.  The immune system is built to stop foreign invaders, making it of paramount importance that your immune system is doing its job at its best.  The brainstem regulates the immune system, but is one of the most common adversely affected structures in the body when traumas occur (accidents, slips, falls, sports injuries, etc.).  Upper Cervical Care ensures that the brainstem can ideally regulate immune response, giving you faster and more efficient reactions to foreign invaders like HPV and other viruses. 

Thinking good things for you, as always,

-Dr. Chad

P.S. - Don't forget about our next screening of "The Power of Upper Cervical" documentary.  It's a big screen-worthy film that changes live.  Tuesday, October 22nd at 6:30PM - please call the office to reserve your seats for you and a guest(s).  On a personal note, I want to reiterate how much we appreciate your efforts in spreading the word about Upper Cervical Care. 

It Just Makes Sense...

Every electronic gadget out there was invented based on principles found right within your own body.  Dr. BJ Palmer liked to use the assembly line example, but there are so many modern devices that you can see lying around the space that you're reading this.  The computer you're using...your cell phone...your television...all of it.  It's all based on electrical energy, just as your body.  The brainstem generates power, the brain is in and of itself a super computer, the spinal cord is a passage through which to transmit the power to all of the organs, muscles, and tissues in the body by way of the nerves that branch off the spinal cord.  It's all quite amazing.

The body was (extremely) intelligently designed in a repeatable pattern - heart, lungs, liver, digestive system, immune system, the muscles of the arms, legs, torso, head, face, and neck, etc.  Every Ford F150 is built in the same way.  Over and over; repeated.  Each unit is needed to create the completed, perfect truck.  The same is true for the body - each organ, muscle, tissue, and cell needs to be assembled and place the right time and place in the right quantity.  This is irrefutable and cannot be reproduced by scientists.  It's above education.  It just is what it is. 

The entire repeatable human system is run by electrical power through muscles.  Muscles need that electrical power in proper quantity to ensure the desired result, i.e. pancreas creates enough insulin, heart pumps enough blood, liver produces enough cholesterol, thyroid the right balance of hormones, the immune system enough healing cells, etc.  Yet, by reducing the electrical power to those muscles, the desired result cannot be achieved.  Something less will be achieved and the consequences will follow.  A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so if one muscular power unit is disrupted, then everything else is (quietly at first, but then louder as time goes on) thrown into disarray. 

Death occurs when the power supply is cut off.  Dis-ease occurs when the power is reduced.

The electrical power runs through your body's version of electrical wires - the nerves that extend off the spinal cord.  The cord transmits the electrical power from the brainstem/brain.  Many examples have been used throughout history to describe this physiologic imbalance.  An electrical short as a result of a pinched cable; a kink in the garden hose resulting in reduction of water supply to the plants.  These are simple, easy to understand metaphors, but they don't quite stress the importance of what we're talking about to the degree that it needs to be stressed.  THIS IS LIFE!  THIS IS HEALTH!  THIS IS YOUR ONE AND ONLY BODY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!


100% power supply is needed for health.  All organs, muscles, and tissues must work NORMALLY to achieve that so-called elusive thing known as HEALTH.