“Every medical or health-related text will confirm that the central nervous system is the master controller of the human body and every single function reflects its activity. Nerve impulses travel from the brain down the spinal cord and out through nerves to all parts of the body, and return to the brain through specialized pathways. There are more than 100 billion neurons or nerve cells in the human central nervous system, and the number of possible interconnections between these cells is greater than the total number of electrons in the known universe” (2)

Robert Ornstein, PhD and David Sobel, MD, have written that, “To understand health is to understand the central role of the brain and nervous system in maintaining the resistance of the body. Health maintenance is the primary function of the brain, not educational thoughts, language, poetry and other functions usually associated with the brain.”

Therefore, “the foundation of health is a properly functioning central nervous system, and we can equate levels of functioning and healing capability with the ability of the nervous system to send and receive information”. (2)

How Chiropractic May Boost The Immune System

Chiropractors look to the Nervous System for any interference in the transmission of signals from the brain to the rest of the body. These disruptions in communications are called subluxations. Doctors of Chiropractic are trained to locate these subluxations. Chiropractors have approximately 3 times as many class hours on neurology as medical students’ courses.

Through palpation, checking range of motion in the joints, posture analysis and sometimes X-Rays, a subluxation can be located and corrected through a gentle chiropractic adjustment. This restores the nervous system to an optimum level of function, which maximizes the body’s inherent healing potential.

Chiropractic adjustments can help restore normal nerve function by improving spinal biomechanics, increasing range of motion and reflex arcs, and improving posture, all of which are essential to a properly functioning nervous system. (2)

Research 

“Chiropractic care was first linked to improved immunity during the deadly flu epidemic of 1917 and 1918. The funny thing was: Chiropractic patients fared better than the general population. This observation spurred a study of the field. The data reported that flu victims under chiropractic care had an estimated .25 percent death rate, a lot less than the normal rate of 5 percent among flu victims who did not receive chiropractic care.”  This equates to Chiropractic patients having a 20 fold (20 times better) result. (3)

• In his 3 year study, Dr. Pero found that the 107 chiropractic patients had a 200% greater immune competence than people who had not received chiropractic care, and in fact a 400% greater immune competence than other people who had cancer or other serious disease. Further he found that the immune system superiority of those under chiropractic care, did not diminish with age. Dr. Pero commented, “I have never seen a group other than this chiropractic group experience a 200% increase over the normal patients. This is why it is so dramatically important.”
• Specifically the study demonstrated that the cells responsible for engulfing and destroying viruses, bacteria, parasites and cancer cells are anywhere from 2 times to 4 times more active in people who get regular chiropractic care. Scientifically the study demonstrated that the “phagocytic respiratory burst of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) and monocytes were enhanced in people that had been adjusted by chiropractors.” Later it was commented by other parties that the study should have taken into account the diet of the patients.

“Chiropractic adjustments increased immune cell counts 48% in AIDS patients. At the same time for the control group who did not receive any chiropractic care the immune cell counts actually fell 8%. So the patients receiving the Chiropractic care were very much better off for it” (4)

Another study looked at certain immune system cells, and found that they were stronger in several ways after patients had had their spines adjusted. Those same differences did not show up in patients who’d been “sham treated” (physically manipulated but not adjusted), nor in those who just had their soft-tissues worked on. (5)

Dr. Nathan would love to help your family boost their immunity naturally.

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Sources

1. https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/immune.html

3. This study was performed by the chief of cancer prevention at New York’s Preventive Medicine Institute and professor of medicine at New York University – Ronald Pero, Ph.D.

4. Chiropractic Research Journal, 1994

5. P. C. Brennan et Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 14 (1991): 399-408.