How To Boost Your Immune System

Hello, I am Dr. Sten Ekberg

I'm a chiropractor who practices neurologically based chiropractic

and we're going to talk about more holistic approach to different things

one concern for many people is colds and flus

that many, that many of us get this time year

So how does that work? How does one

boost the immune system and all that, and yes nutrition is important but you all

know eat more vegetables

take your vitamin C and all that. So were going to look at what the brain has to do

with it

and this here is your cortex

and then talk about the upper and lower brainstem

and when every something called stress

and that stress can be chemical or structural or emotional

its anything that your body needs deal with. That stress

is going to be picked up by the upper brainstem

which handles your stress responses called your sympathetic

or your fight/flight nervous system

And that sympathetic is going to do things like increase your blood pressure and heart rate and

blood sugar and your blood clotting factor

and your cholesterol. All to get you better

fit to survive in a crisis

but the sympathetic is also going to inhibit the para-sympathic

which is your feed/breed

that's what takes your your

digestion and your immune system

plus a number of other things but we're going to just focus a little bit

on the immune system's. So anytime that you have stress

that's going to increase the activity your sympathetic nervous system

and it's going to shut down our para-sympathic

so anytime increase something with stress

you going to decrease, your going to shutdown

effectively your immune system. That's why

everybody gets in school.. ah.. gets their colds and their

flus around finals. That's why people,

the more stress they have around the holidays even though its a

time joy people get really really busy

and they have more stress and they eat more sugar

and they shutdown immune system. So

one way to increase the

the function of this system to reverse the cycle

is the to increase the activity

of your prefrontal cortex, the front half of the brain.

And how does one do that?

Well if you get adjusted

chiropractic-ally it's not that there's a bone out of

place it's not that the bone is pushing on a nerve

that goes to your immune system that's not how it works

but the spine provides ninety percent

of the nutrition of the signals that becomes nutrition that becomes they're stimulating

brain and the brain just like any other world

any other cell in your body is uses or lose it

so whatever information that the brain receives

as electrical signals actually fuels the brains

jus keeps the brain going and ninety percent that

comes from the spine according to Nobel Prize winner

Reuters very so when this flying moos

we stimulate the cortex we can hit

sympathetic nervous system and thereby indirectly

increasing the function I'll parasympathetic nervous system

and consequently her back up

the function of the immune system so

when we'll have trauma

slips and falls sedentary lifestyles

and movement are the spine isn't working correctly

then they're also not signaling correctly to the brain

and the brain suffers any cannot hit

no stress responses appropriately and your immune system suffers

very simple mechanism budgets

heart how that whole system works so

digested do some light exercise

do some breathing exercises relaxation training

in addition to being that food and

you will be much better suited to fight off does

infections when the time comes thank you