The World's Greatest Drugstore
By
O.J. Ressel, B.Sc, DC
Do you think
about everything that happens inside your body? No. Everything happens
without your conscious control. You don't have to tell your stomach:
"produce two ounces of digestive juice please," or tell your
pancreas to "please make one-quarter ounce of insulin," or
cortisone or antibiotics. You don't have to think about running your
body because, along with the ability to create all the chemicals you
need and the ability to run all your organs, you have within you an
"intelligence." This is your "greatest doctor in the
world" and it writes prescriptions for the "drugstore."
This internal doctor sends its prescriptions for running the body along
your communications network - the nervous system.
The nerves send instructions from the innate intelligence in the brain
to every part of your body. It tells your body what to do to remain
healthy. As long as your internal doctor can communicate effectively
with your body it will do everything necessary to make and keep you
healthy. If the communication lines or nerves weren't working properly,
your internal built-in doctor would lose control and you wouldn't be
healthy any more. Your body wouldn't know the right chemicals to make,
at the right time, in the right amount. You wouldn't be able to fight
infections properly and a simple cold could turn into pneumonia. If
your chemical balance is off, dangerous cells, which would have been
destroyed, could grow into cancer. As a matter of fact almost anything
could go wrong if your innate intelligence isn't properly controlling
the functions of your body.
When the control mechanism of the brain isn't doing its job, your body
is in a state of "dis-ease"-it's not working right. That means
you can't effectively adapt to changes in either your internal or external
environment. So how do you get rid of disease and protect your child
from it? First find out what caused it and learn a little about its
anatomy. The brain sends messages to all parts of the body by way of
the nervous system. It's your internal "Internet." The nerves
that run your body exit between the bones of your spine called vertebrae.
Much like the roots of a tree, they reach out to every cell, organ and
tissue to convey instructions sent by the brain. If a vertebra becomes
misaligned, certain nerves fail to transmit vital messages. The result
is that the body is not able to do what the brain wants it to. This
results in chaos and causes disease.
How can you regain control? All that's necessary is to correct the misalignment,
so the messages can once more travel without interference over the nerves
to the whole body. That's the job of the doctor of chiropractic. A chiropractor
is specially trained to correct spinal problems, allowing you to enjoy
excellent health. Once nerve control between your brain and your body
is restored to normal, the right chemicals will be made again in the
right amounts at the right times. The greatest drugstore will be working
properly once again under the direction of the greatest doctor. That's
what health is all about!
Your child's body knows what to do. Influence him or her to eat well
and exercise so nature can work easily.
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