Chiropractic vs Medicine (DC vs MD)

Chiropractic versus medicine what's the difference? I'm gonna tell you. Hey I'm

Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master health by

understanding how the body really works make sure you subscribe and hit that

notification bell so that you don't miss anything so there are many different

ways of comparing healthcare different modalities of health care or treatment

so we're gonna look at one that you probably haven't thought of previously

and chiropractic we deal with trying to rebuild health primarily and in medicine

they primarily deal with treating symptoms and both of these are perfectly

fine because in an emergency you should be very very grateful that there's some

skilled medical doctors around but if you have a functional imbalance then

there's not a whole lot that they can do for you

whereas in chiropractic it is more about rebuilding so you could think of these

as this is the fire department this is emergency and this is more like a

carpenter or a landscaper or someone is trying to rebuild and create something

so one isn't bad we're wrong it's just there for different things so first I

want to talk about what is life what is it that makes something alive what is it

that we can measure from something that is alive that we can't measure from

something that is dead and the answer is signals everything that is alive has an

ability to receive and process and interpret and produce signals that's

what makes something alive from the little single cellular creature all the

way up to humans with somewhere around 40 50 trillion cells incredible

complexity but the way that this life is expressed is through signals and the

more of the appropriate signals that we have the better

life can be expressed the more vitality we have so when you move you are

creating signals when you think you're creating signals when you perceive

something you first have to receive signals and then process and then create

an output that's what perception is when you talk you have to create signals and

maybe most importantly when you feel good in order to feel good you have to

create a lot of signals and let's talk about that one for a little bit so your

brain processes everything about you and no one knows exactly how many signals

per second but just to like a ballpark they've estimated it processes about 1

billion bits of information every second that's a lot of information so that

information is coming in through the spinal cord up through the brainstem and

into the frontal lobe and the frontal lobe processes this information and then

it responds and sends signals out in response to the information it received

and here's the key to understanding what we're gonna talk about that the frontal

lobe has mostly inhibitory action that means for the most part it turns things

off so it gets a signal in and it turns it off it negates that signal and that

is how the brain creates balance and experience so when you have a negative

thought and the brain needs to do away with that the better frontal lobe

activity you have the better you can inhibit that thought if you have pain a

little bit of pain is good because if the pain is there so that you don't hurt

yourself so that you can detect dangerous situations but if you have

excessive pain the brain needs to be able to inhibit and dampen and turn that

pain down so some around 80 to 90 percent of what the brain does is to

turn things off those it's inhibitory signals

so life is signals and the brain processes all those signals so in this

perspective what's the difference between chiropractic and medicine and

why should we understand this why should we be very very concerned because

chiropractic is what's called a receptor based therapy that means we stimulate

receptors we put pressure on receptors we activate motion receptors we activate

stretch receptors in muscle spindles and joints mechanoreceptors in joint

capsules so in doing this we send very large amounts of specific signals to the

brain we activate the brain so the brain can create more signals and in order for

us to feel good we have to turn off a bunch of signals so this is why people

in meditation the people who report and I can attest to this as well that when

you find that highest state of meditation you are supremely happy

you're blissful and in that state you have a higher activity in that frontal

lobe than any other state and in that state the frontal lobe turns off more

stuff than any other time and that's why you feel so good

so in order to feel good you need to create lots and lots of signals in

chiropractic they actually through this receptor stimulation we increase signals

in the body okay and here is where the biggest difference in medicine comes in

medication by definition is designed to block signals it reduces the amount of

signaling in the body it interferes with signals in the body so in an emergency

that's not a bad thing if you're a burn victim if you broke a bone you're in so

much pain you just want that pain gone and cutting off that signal in that

crisis can make you much much more comfortable but long-term this mechanism

is devastating it interferes with health it reduces your

vitality is reduces the expression of health so that's why it's so critical to

understand the difference between increasing signals and decreasing

signals understanding the difference between health and crisis management

medicine is great at crisis management let's have them do that let's hope they

get better and better at it but let's take charge of our health by

understanding that it's about signals it's about filling in all the little

pieces of a healthy lifestyle eating better of moving better of thinking and

feeling better that's how you create health so again to put it in the

simplest possible term the difference between chiropractic and medicine is

that one increases signals and the other decreases signals if you enjoyed this

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