By lack of knowledge people perish. When people are lacking the knowledge of the causes of health, health is unattainable. Let’s set out to abolish the causes of sickness and disease. The great emancipator Frederick Douglass stated, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” We are in a struggle to abolish the sickness and disease that enslaves the families and patients under our care. The battle is won through education and its application. Thus, we must become an emancipator proclaiming and applying the natural causes of healing and health.
We are slaves to gravity. By the law of gravity, we are held in bondage to the earth to our own benefit or demise. Even within our bodies there are mechanotransduction receptors, nerve cells that convert a physical force like gravity or pressure gradients into a biological or living signal that is transmitted to our brain so that we can then respond or react to mechanical changes. Healthy mechanotransduction determines the position and course our body takes to achieve health and balance in recovery from sickness and this is dependent upon the health of our spine biomechanics.
A very accurate and precise example of mechanotransduction occurs in the hair follicles of our inner ear. Sound waves mechanically activate the ear follicles creating a mechanical action potential that is converted into a biological potential that is received by the acoustic nerve and WOW! we can hear! And we can detect head movement! We can then react, respond and mechanically move to this sound. Was mechanotransduction at work in 1895 when Daniel D. Palmer adjusted the spine of a deaf man, Harvey Lillard, and Mr. Lillard’s hearing instantly returned to him?
Our mechanoreceptors activate the nervous system responses through our senses of touch, balance/space interpretation, proprioception (e.g. am I sitting or standing), hearing (directional orientation), pressure expansion (am I full after eating), and many more functions. Keeping our mechanoreceptors happy and healthy so they do not become overworked and nonfunctional is essential to everything we do.
Joints are another example. All our joints are rich in mechanoreceptor nerves because our spine supports our body in space and communicates our position in space to the inner ear to ensure our survival. By this we know if we are standing, sitting or lying down, walking or running, slipping and falling.
What does one need to do to have healthy mechanotransduction? Like Frederick Douglass stated, “If there is no struggle, there in no progress.” Our nervous system is in a struggle to always maintain our health, so let’s help it out with three simple steps:
#1. Reduce the stress on those mechanoreceptors nerves by keeping your spinal joints subluxation free, flexible, resilient and strong through Chiropractic care.
#2. Utilize daily nutritional support for your nervous system with Standard Process (SP) Neurotrophin PMG 1-3/day, SP Cataplex B-Core 3-6/day, and SP SuperEFF, 4-6/day.
#3. Look at your posture. Our emotions are expressed in our spinal posture. Is your spine slumped and sad or upright and strong? The utilization of Neuro-Emotional Technique clears our nervous system of toxic negative emotions that are often associated with physical problems.
Today we are all in a struggle to maintain optimum health. And when we are struggling, we seek out, learn, and apply the knowledge that the struggle brings to us. We use the tools and methods that abolish sickness. Thus, this struggle for balance can result in a heightened life force, supporting our passion and purpose.
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