Stress & Health User Manual For Humans - Pt1 2/5

and you get to the smaller parts and the

smaller parts and the smaller parts

reductionism means that you believe when

you got to the smallest part if you

understand that part you understand all

about the machine

and you can control and regulate

everything about it

the only problem is that's not true that

holds true for mechanical machines but

it does not hold true

or biology

one of the best analogies that I've

heard for that is if you have a radio

and you start taking the radio apart and

you look at all the little components

into the minute detail

then you still will never find the music

you cannot take the pieces of the radio

apart and find the music

because the music isn't in the radio

and the same is true with humans that

you can't take the the molecules apart

and find the life force you can't find

the intelligence in there and yet we

know it's there we know that's what

makes us human but it's not in there

it's playing through the the body okay

so

everything in your body that you don't

think about

is handled for you your nervous system

handles about one billion bits of

information every second

amount of information

and

it's about growing fingernails and hair

and repairing skin and digesting food

and regulating balance and regulating

blood pressure and

ingesting and excreting and all of those

things

one and still keeping track of where you

are and everything that goes around you

one billion bits of information every

second

out of that you are aware of one

thousand

your conscious awareness can take little

snapshots click click click of a

thousand bits per second

that means of all the stuff your brain

does there's a million times more going

on in the background than what you're

ever aware of

that's a lot of work and all of that is

handled for you by the autonomic nervous

system

so what the autonomic nervous system is

all about

it has two branches that are busy

figuring out where to send the resources

where do we

spend the the most appropriately spend

the resources in any given moment

and

in the body

a resource is always carried by the

blood

so

oxygen and nutrients and energy and

sugar and vitamin all those things are

sent by the blood so if we want to send

if we want to activate a body part we

just send more blood there it's just

like in your car if you want to speed up

the engine if you want to give it more

gas the engine revs up

it's the exact same thing with the body

you give more blood to a body body part

it wraps up

so allocating resources in the body

becomes the same thing as as deciding

where to send the blood at any given

time and that is basically what the

autonomic nervous system does

so it has two branches one is called the

sympathetic and one is called a

parasympathetic and you have all heard

that because I've told you a thousand

times you know it perfectly by now

that the sympathetic is your fight

flight

it says when there is a real or imagined

threat I need to allocate the resources

I need to send the blood to the places

that can help me stay alive and defend

me in this moment

and then there is the parasympathetic

that helps you

internalize resources

to stay alive for next year so we call

the sympathetic it's about defense and a

parasympathetic is about health

so which one would you say is more

important let's see a show of hands how

many people think health is more

important

takers okay how many think that defense

is more important

okay

you're a little more right

it's a trick question

both of them are vitally important

but they are appropriate in different

situations however defense is always

more important in this moment because if

you don't make it through the next few

seconds who cares about next year right

so because of that your body is wired in

such a way that the sympathetic always

comes first

always comes first and that is why we

are so stressed

okay

um

very good everything clear about that

so

what is it then that brings this this

out of balance and we said that this

sympathetic nervous system responds to

stress

and

so consequently what brings this out of

balance is really stress and stress

responses

so stress is not just we need to

understand it's not only when we think

about what people say oh I'm so stressed

that is when we are when we feel tense

and overwhelmed or inadequate then we

feel stressed

but that's just the tip of the iceberg

because all of stress is so much more

stress is anything that your body needs

to respond to and this is any sort of

chemical

structural or emotional stress

so a chemical stress is something that

you're allergic to it can also be

anything artificial that doesn't belong

your body

chemicals pollution heavy metals

artificial

sweeteners artificial colorings all

those things that are the the artificial

man-made molecules that don't occur

naturally in food they are a burden for

the body they interfere and the body has

to deal with them

a structural stress can be something

like

bad posture

too much exercise not enough exercise

slips and Falls any kind of imbalance if

we learn to walk imbalanced that's a

structural stress

and an emotional stress kind of speaks

for itself that's anything that that we

feel tense or upset about

um so the sum total becomes the body

burden and the total stress that the

body has to defend itself against

but we also must realize that it is not

the stress in terms of the stress or

it's not the thing it's not the event

out there that

that is the bad thing it doesn't become

harmful until we react to it

so

it's really more about the stress

response

that that matters so if we sit in

traffic and we have White Knuckles then

that's a stress response but if we're

sitting in traffic relaxing listening to

classical music it is not a stress

response

and we are wired to react differently to

lead to millions of different situations

in our life and they become automated

and habitual and we don't think about

them

so that's what the stress response is

and that's how some people can do get

all these things done and not be

stressed and other people can hardly get

anything done and yet they're just

stressed all the time

because it's a perception and the

important thing about that is that it

can be changed

so any questions so far everything

Crystal Clear excellent

and so why Chiropractic

when I talk about this stuff people say

yeah this makes a lot of sense but they

still fail to to connect to what any of

this has to do with Chiropractic

like well you're talking about health

you're talking about brain you're

talking about stress but I know

chiropractors move bones and they help

with pain

so just to clear that up we need to talk

a little bit about what Chiropractic

actually does

and uh

we'll we'll I'll just give you the the

quick

summary here and then we'll talk about

the details so Chiropractic interrupts

it neurological patterns that have

become stuck and this is on your slide

eight

should be on there so

if I number these correctly

Chiropractic stimulates brain activity

and therefore the Chiropractic

adjustment is a neurological event not