The problem today is there is so much information out there and it is all accessible with a few clicks of the mouse. What I find to be someone’s worst nightmare when it comes to health is WebMD and all these pharmaceutical commercials! I don’t know how it is in the rest of the world but here in the U.S., there’s a drug commercial every time a show cuts to commercials; sometimes more than 1! If someone from another country came here, do you know what they would think of us? All men have erectile dysfunction, no one can get to sleep at night, all women are on birth control, everyone is depressed, and since we are all fat we are trying to go the easy route and take a pill to make us lose weight. I mean seriously, do we need all these commercials?
A lot of problems with our health is not because we are not taking enough drugs people. A lot of it is because we are taking too many drugs. Everyone seems to be competing to be the one to take the most pills. It’s rare you find any one now days that only takes Tylenol every once in a while. People are on a whole list of drugs and these people think it’s getting them better. I’m not ignorant and I know SOME people need drugs but there are way, WAY too many people that are taking drugs that don’t need to be on any. These people will start by taking 1 drug and then come in a week later and tell the doc, “I’m constipated now”. They will then be prescribed another drug to take care of that. Now on 2 drugs, they come in a week later say they have bad head aches. The doc prescribes another drug to counter that “side effect”. Now on 3 drugs, they come back in and say they are dizzy all the time. They get another pill. Do you see how this cycle keeps going? It will get to the point where the person is on 10-20 drugs.
How can you think that is good for your body? Taking more drugs to cover up each “side effect”. And I love how they list the side effects such as “irregular bleeding” or even “DEATH”. Death?! As a side effect? Heck no, keep me away from that. We’ve all heard stories of girls dying do to side effects of taking birth control. If you can die from a drug, doesn’t that tell you something about taking it??? We are living in a time where pharmaceutical companies rule our nation right now. They can say whatever they want and get away with it even if it’s bad for someone. Example; for a drug to be passed, it must work 35% of the time on people. So it works 1 out of 3 times. Do you know how well a placebo works? 33% of the time. How can a placebo work almost just as well as “the real thing”.
In Chiropractic school, we are taught that we can fix a lot of people’s problems without them having to resort to using drugs. Many people don’t know what chiropractors do. The basis behind what we do is to realign vertebrae and bones to allow proper energy flow through the nervous system. Just think about it like this. What controls your body (movements, a lot of hormone levels, organs, etc)? Your brain. How does it convey it’s energy to the body? Through the spinal cord and from there it goes to the nerves which go to your muscles (organs, limbs, skin, etc). What do you think happens if something irritates that signal? It would irritate whatever muscle that is connected by the nerve you just irritated. How do nerves become irritated? Bones and muscles around the bones. Usually all it takes is of that bone to be put back into place by an adjustment from a chiropractor and the nerve signal will be able to properly convey it’s signal.
How do I know if I need to go to a chiropractor then? I feel fine. Many people don’t think chiropractors can fix certain things so they won’t mention that they have something wrong. People will come up with a sore neck, they get adjusted and feel fine. They come in a week or two later and ask the doc, What did you do? I’m no longer constipated, I’ve not had a head ache since then, and my asthma has pretty much disappeared. Did you do that? This happens quite often. Even you you don’t have any symptoms, your body knows how to compensate and make up for irregularities but it’s only a matter of time before that system breaks down and it hits you hard.
I hope to further go into the benefits of chiropractics in later blogs but I wanted to touch upon it in this blog to let everyone know that you don’t have to take all those drugs and that there are alternative, more healthier ways to go about fixing your problems. People say they are scared of a chiropractor breaking their neck. Hollywood makes it look way to easy to break someone’s neck and in reality, it’s VERY unlikely for an event like that to happen. I’ve not researched it to say that it has never happened, but from my experiences, it would be rather tough to do and you’d have to be as big and strong as Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime.
