Weekly Wellness Tip

Time to tackle health myth #3: Germs cause disease.

Think about this…right now, wherever you are, you are surrounded by millions of germs.  It’s a given, there is no escape from germs!  So why aren’t you sick 100% of the time?  After all, you’re exposed to germs 24/7!

Think back to grade school.  Do you remember the classmate that was always sick?  I bet you’re thinking of him or her right now!  You know, the one with snot all over his/her  face, sneezing, coughing, lethargic.  I know you know who I’m talking about!  Why is it that only one, or a handful of kids, from a class get sick when the entire class is exposed to all the same germs? 

People say all the time, “I’m concerned about hanging out in certain environments because I don’t want to catch the flu!”

In reality, germs do not cause disease!  If the germ theory of disease were true, there would be nobody alive to believe it!

So if ten of us were all in the same room with the same germs.  Who would come in contact with the germs?  Everybody, all ten of us.  But maybe only 4 of us get a cough, cold, flu, or fever.  The rest of us are just fine.  How does that happen?  Well, your nervous system controls every single part of your body, including your immune system.  So the person who has a weakened nervous system, also has a weakened immune system.  Their bodies cannot adapt properly to the environment leading to sickness and dis-ease.

So it’s not the seed, it’s the soil.  In other words, a perfectly good seed will not grow if the soil isn’t right.  Just the same, germs will not cause sickness if the environment within the body is not right (meaning you have a strong nervous/immune system to fight the bug off). 

What most drugs and medications do is treat the symptom so you “feel” better, but you’re actually still sick!  What Chiropractors do is work on building the body’s health by strengthening the nervous system which will strengthen the immune system and prevent the sickness in the first place!

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Love and Health,

Dr. Chaz

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Hi gang!  I hope you all are doing great! 

In the next few posts I want to tackle a few of the biggest health myths that I come across constantly.  The first myth is:

IF I FEEL GOOD, I’M HEALTHY!

I ask people all the time, “How’s your health?”  To which they respond, “Good!”  My next question is usually, “How do you know?”  They say, “Because I feel good!”

And this is how the conversation goes the majority of the time. 

Here’s the truth…you can’t judge your health by how you’re feeling!  Think about it.  We’ve all known people who felt great, and dropped dead of a heart attack or went in for a routine check-up, and were diagnosed with cancer.  Remember, they felt fine!  On the other end of the spectrum, what if you went out for dinner and got served some bad (contaminated) food.  You get home and you feel awful.  Stomach cramps, fever, vomiting, you name it.  Would you say your healthy or sick?  Most people think that is sickness because they “feel” bad.  Nothing could be further from the truth!  Your body is expressing health!  Your body is so amazingly smart that it knows something “bad” got in and it is going to do whatever it takes to kill off the bacteria and rid the body of the toxins.  Hence the fever and vomiting. 

Now, what most people do is run out to the drug store to get Pepto Bismal, aspirin, and other medications to stop this natural process.  So your body is trying to help you, and you just created interference in the process of masking the symptoms.  Now all those toxins and bacteria that your body was trying to get rid of naturally, will remain and could lead to further sickness, dis-ease, and even possibly death (if severe enough).

Again, your body is so amazingly smart!  You have more Innate wisdom in the tip of your pinky finger than all the doctors on this planet combined!   Nature needs no help just no interference! 

In conclusion, symptoms can be very misleading.  That’s why symptoms aren’t something principled Chiropractors track very carefully.  It’s not how you’re “feeling” that matters.  It’s how you’re “healing” that matters!  All healing begins with a healthy nervous system!

Love and Health,

Dr. Chaz

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