and welcome to the life without limits family wellness show my name is dr jonas marin i'm a cover for actor in the community today we're going to be talking about cold laser but before we actually get to the benefits of cold laser and how it can impact your healing i want to reinstate something that we started probably last year which was kids corner was a focus on pediatric or family health care it's a big part of what we do in our office we see at least eighty percent of our she's me fifty percent of the pay patient bas pediatric so knowing what the needs of children are making sure we meet those needs where the families is really important and it's one of things we really try and focus on so today's topic comes out of this particular magazine which we keep in the office it's free to people you can stop by and pick one up there for our patients on a regular basis and it's a really good articles in here everything from gluten free living to whether or not your child should be able to sleep with you in your bed as as they're developing coast sleeping along with a variety of other really good topics the piece i took out here today though is actually not for kids it's for the parents when it's such a high stress world and we're moving so quickly and so often in so many directions that it tends to put a tremendous amount of strain on our daily activity and i know it's true in my family and in the people that i see so one of the topics in here happens to be about just restoring peace just taking a few minutes for stillness and relaxation even if it's five minutes you' be amazed at the benefits from that particular activity if you think about where you can do this you can do it in the car before you pick up the kids from school you can if you have to lock yourself in the bathroom for five minutes i know many a mom who said you know that's the only the only five minutes of my day and that's what it takes and that's what it takes but really what we're looking to do is just to institute some deep breathing deep breathing has a relaxing effect on the body as a whole we know when we see somebody who's really wound up or or a child who's really wound up the first thing we tell  is take a deep breath relax and you breathe with them and they do settle down the reason for that is because you brief alison's of times a day and that breathing process really sets the tone in the body as a whole and it affects the nervous system so when you do when you take the time to consciously focus on your breathing you really take advantage of that control system and it's one of the few places where you can really plug in and change all that system is working so if you take a few minutes just to sit down and deep breathe air like i said do it your car wherever you happen to be you just want to do it very simply and it's as easy as breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth in a very nice upright posture the key to that being that when we're when we're posturing correctly the diaphragm can relax and the abdomen can move like it's supposed to most of the townspeople deep breath they use their chest and they take this big breath in filling the lungs they think by moving the rip cage and you actually don't breathe as deeply that way and you also don't affect the lung entirely we want to really get to the bottom parts of the lung this helps to keep the lungs clean  you may notice that if you don't see this regular you happen to be a smoker you work in an environment where there's some kind of particulate in the air you might start coughing initially when you take these the press that's the body's way of getting those contaminants out so it's a normal action don't worry about keep going keep deep breathing like i said for five minutes a day you'll be amazed at the impact and what you're really doing is you're turning on the part of your nervous system that relaxes you you're turning on the part that creates the endorphins and then kathleen's these are the things that give you that natural high that everybody's looking for when they exercise or even when you eat chocolate it produces this but this is one of those things that you can do any time and if you remember in days gone by dentists using what was called laughing gas which is  actually gets produced in the upper part of the sinuses when you breathe that when you breathe deeply so you're changing the chemical properties within the blood in the body as a whole just by doing that in addition to turning on all the things you need to really stimulate that relaxation process the other key part of this is most people when they're in chronic high levels of stress and it's that was one of the reasons i decided to talk about the cold laser today because it really impacts that but something as simple as your breathing process gives you that same ability when you're in that high level of stress that chronic stress state you produce high levels of cortisol and cortisol has been linked to everything from heart attack and stroke all the way to retaining fat and the the issue with cort ol is it's a normal hormone it's what our body supposed to produce but only in certain amounts and it's certain times for people who have high cortisol levels you'll notice that there's a dryness in the mouth there's an inability to think clearly  there's tight muscles neck pain next train really commonly the areas that are affected all the lower back and be affected as well inability to to really focus on the words that you're looking for brain fog it's often called and that's all that i cortiso level the sleep patterns are interrupted cortisol levels normally are higher in the morning that's that's pretty typical but when we see somebody who's got chronic stress loads of this cortisol levels are increasing on a regular basis then we know that not only are they higher in the morning they're higher all the time so just getting to sleep can be very difficult so what you want to do is just take a few minutes to do that deep breathing process in through the nose out through the mouth as often as you can do it if you can institute is a part of your daily activity you'll be amazed at the impact of it and take the time to teach it to your kids because they don't relax that there are plenty of parents who have said they've started this in their kids is that right down next to them and on the same thing think about it the pathways magazine like i said is available there's no charge for these it's a fantastic resource and if you need one  breathing we're going to go from the very large to the very small we're going to talk about the cold laser and its effect on cells interestingly it's really the same effect it's all about oxygenation of tissue and controlling inflammation so deep breathing has that effect on you but so does the cold laser called laser simply this light therapy has been around for years and years and years when you see the sun and we put up pieces of plastic colored plastic and what this does is it filters out certain raising a lot of others through those rays being related to color have a very specific effect on the body so called lasers and it's something like this now there's a lot of people called laser starting to pop up in the area there are very few that are using your konya will make her cunny unique is they  ones that really created the whole process they were the first to get f d a approval and it's their laser that was clear before anybody else is so they've kind of lay the foundation for all others as far as this particular laser type this is called the base station there are actually three of these that we use  and this is like i said it's unique i don't think anybody else in the air is using this particular type but the laser very simply gives us the ability to hold in our hand the power of the sun and so when you turn it on it gives you something as simple as this effect and people don't realize how much of an impact that has because not everybody really understands how the laser works i want to kind of go over today how it works and what the effects of that are very easy to control the latest one hundred percent safe but like all things there are cases where you have to be careful how  use it you can literally turn this on and stick it on your head for hours and hours and hours without any impact it's actually very good for brain function the place a laser is not safe is near the eyes and no laser is safe near the eyes it doesn't matter what color it is it doesn't matter what powered is doesn't matter if it's a laser pointer or a medical laser they're all dangerous to the to the eye itself so you never do you want to use an laser near the a lot of times i get asked because it's becoming very popular hey can you do you can you do the weight loss thing for me with a laser it actually does do that we don't do it so please don't come by looking for that weight loss is much more than just lasering a body part and there are only certain situations where the lasers affected for that although it is becoming more and more widely known but back to our real topic of what the laser does what the effects are and how it works a laser gives us a specific frequency of light and light or light itself is composed of little teeny packets of energy called photons now those photons are incredibly small because they are they can pass through the body the sun's rays do this and so does the laser give us this ability because they can pass into the body so deeply we can target any tissue type we want so whether we're talking about bone or muscle and nerve the spinal of the brain itself any organ veins arteries all these things are issues that we can specifically select for when we're using the laser and that's what makes it unique that frequency or that known frequency for those tissue types allow us to really dial in now at a cellular level we talk about the fact that this has a lot to do with our respiration our breathing our oxygenation levels and what the only really thing i want you to pull away from my very crude representation of a cell is it has three receptor types on it in all cells do they have three receptor types one is for hormones and hormones running around your system in a lot of different ways to either direct certain physiology or stages of growth neurotransmitters and these are also like  hormones that function that capacity and this is where the nervous system really speaks to the rest of the body it's why chiropractic is so concerned with the nervous system it's also why it's also why we adjust because the adjustment itself allows us to direct the physiology or your body function through the neurotransmitters each adjustment changes that nurturance matter function and last and this is the reason we're talking about it today or the photoreceptors every single cell in your body has a receptor site and these receptors sites are really just doorways but they're there to take in certain information so that information come make them intern or transmitters or hormones or photons so the laser gives us the ability to really direct this function on a cellular level and i'm just going to kind of go down through the list referencing  little bit there's so much information to be honest with you i can hold my head but cold laser function like i said been around for a very long time and it's called cold laser because most lasers when they're used today they're used for cutting or some kind of surgical procedure called laser is called a call as it has there's really no heat involved there's no light source that doesn't produce some small amount of heat but this isn't like a surgical laser where you would cut with so i guess that it's safe on anybody and it's safe on any part of the body except the eyes  cold lasers live around for a long time and what is really changes the fact that we can hold it in our hand now we've got the technologies are going to reduce the electronics of it so that we can be handheld one of the big benefits to using a cold laser is it increases your ability repair or injure tissue it decreases the inflammatory response it modulators pain so i don't know if you guys remember lance armstrong and all the tour de france work he did but when he was writing for the u s postal team there are a lot of wrecks a lot of injuries involved in his personal doctor actually happen to be a chiropractor he traveled with him everywhere he was the knowledge camps and he took care of those guys on the whole team every single evening and what he did was to work on them he'd adjust them he'd do the consistent muscle work the massaging my fashion work consistently and armstrong himself credits this kind of consistent work on him for a lot of the aspects of his wins him being able to stay out there and stay healthy so crucial bits of information as far as controlling pain  helping healing time one of the things that we do know will get to the minute is that when you get laser on site as well as the adjustment as quickly as possible with within two to three hours of an injury we see that we cut the rehab time in half which is significant for athletes in our armchair athletes are weak and that leads they get injured and they're still going to absolutely benefit from the laser but it's not like we're talking about a professional athlete the guys who need to be right back out there and in the past the only the only things they were using were the chemical aspects of cell function they weren't able to actually use the photoreceptors because nobody knew so we were using steroids and things along that line the problem is long term these aren't healthy may damage the tendons and ligaments whereas with the laser we don't having those negative effects as i said there's it's one hundred percent safe they've actually tried to cause problems with the laser by increasing times that they've actually used a laser on a particular site increasing those times by the thousands so your treatment time may have been one hundred seconds and they went up to two or three or five thousand seconds still no damage as i said the eyes of the air we have to be concerned about so we're talking about the professional athlete and i've worked with that with athletes everything from youth athletics to international competitors to pro athletes and i know the effects of this as well as the injuries at the same myself being and in athletics and specifically martial arts for a number of years i've had a lot of the injuries that i see come in i know the healing times without this type of technology because we just didn't have it around then and i see the changes now and the professional athletes as international high level competitors really appreciate the ability to get back to their training as quickly as possible that's just one piece the other is our burn victims and one of probably the most startling aspects of laser therapy  its ability to help such a wide range of injury the thing that really pushed me over the edge when i was evaluating whether i want to bring this type of technology in the office was i saw a burn victim and we're talking about a third degree burn and they were able to chronicle that person's  healing through time with pictures and you're able to see this very black damaged tissue begin to through time maybe six eight weeks which is unheard of in that kind of burn begin to become pink again and be restored so when we have burn victims we have an increase in healing by twenty five to forty percent with less scarring and if anybody knows someone who's been had a serious burn i'm not talking about your finger on the stove first second or curling or serious second or third degree burns then you realize that the scarring can become a very big deal for them later as time goes on it creates contraction which can affect muscle function range of motion and joints just as well as blood flow so being able to really impact the scar formation is a big deal but the fact that we see twenty five to forty percent increase in healing off the charts our next one and really the reason that i became so interested in this was nervous spinal injuries when you're talking about nerve injuries for the longest time we thought the body was hard wired so the way the nervous system was the way it was there wasn't  can do about that again because technology is advancing our thinking has advanced we know that the body is not hard wired yes you have a nervous system in place but that number system is very pliable very flexible enough to know that the brain is very very flexible so its ability to take information from damaged areas and actually relocate it or find other means of accessing it is very real so we're talking all people smile according to reserve profile nerve injuries which could be somebody who's diabetic this becomes important because what we know is at the university of health and science and that says a maryland they found that in fourteen days of treatment for ninety minutes total there was a three hundred percent increase in healing of nerve tissue which  as i said is not been heard of before that kind of healing time when you're talking about complex tissue like nerves not was only dreamed of but we're absolutely seeing this i don't care if that person has a spinal cord injury wheelchair bound may be has been for a long time certainly the sooner we get ahold of an injury the better but we're still seeing changes it may change if the degree of change may be different if that person's been like that for twenty years but it's still worth looking at because we don't have all the research and we know it helps but we don't have anybody right now saying there are no they're not worth trying on so consider it if you get you know somebody who is diabetic or has a cord injury or just has a peripheral nerve injury whether you know it could be a work injury something else it's a big deal it's worth looking at i know that i've seen personally using this technology along with the adjustment huge increases in people who are going to be who are considered to be left with a permanent deficit or disability and their doctors have just been amazing so w to see the the comeback that they've been able to make strengthening muscles return and function as far as and stations go just a big deal and remember if you've ever if you've ever listened to anything going on the show we constantly talk about the fact that if your nervous system doesn't work nothing does it controls and coordinates all the other self issues and organs in the body so if we get the nervous system healing the effects could be huge cancer another big one cancer patients have been shown repetitive to with a laser to be able to decrease abnormal cell growth so the laser can actually inhibit abnormal cell growth so our cancer patients absolutely benefit from the laser and hospitals are starting to pick up on that and they're also beginning to bring the technology into into their a well so you can see this in a and a kairos office you may see this in your hospital you're definitely going to start seeing it in the plastic surgeons office because of the weight loss component but are cancer patients really benefit and if that were all i were going to say about cancer that inhibits abnormal saw growth that would be worth it but there's another piece to this which is it stimulates healthy tissue repair it doesn't all the other situations there's no reason for it not to here and we find it absolutely does so that person has maybe been through chemotherapy or radiation or any number of other approaches even if it's surgical could still benefit and absolutely should be utilizing this the nice thing is it can be utilized at the same time as their character it is going on it's nothing that's going to prevent them from progressing it's absolutely going to be a benefit to other injuries just constitute what we see a lot of which is just your standard neuro muscular skeletal injuries the sprains the fall the overuse injuries and so on the fact that we can have such an impact on inflammatory process and pain modulation is a big deal that inflammatory process is necessary for healing when you have inflammation you're increasing blood flow to the area by about ten times so you bring white cells to that area bring nutrients that area for but like your stove at home if you believe you turn the fire on the stove you can cook a meal if you burn the whole house down never really achieved much so they want to control information before we were using it's a shotgun approach and by far the steroids were being used more than anything the problem is steroids cause too much of a change and we want to really be able to be precise and we want to be able to impact just that tissue and again the lazy gives us the ability that without irritating the got or suppressing the immune system which steroids do this is going to suppress the immune system is actually means inflammation connective tissue disorders there's your sprains and strains disk injuries muscle injuries and neurological disorders which we talked about and we're back to neuritis is in headaches and things of that nature so consider the effects of the laser when you're thinking about health it doesn't matter what it is and also consider that it's appropriate for any age range of use this on my children on these that on children in the office i've used it on this youth athletics who are injured but they have a game saturday and they've got to get back out there and i've used it on the elderly as well as i said there's no real detriment to using the laser unless you get it near the eyes and it's very simple not to do we also use glasses that cover the eyes and we are lasering to keep at an extra level of protection but it's a very simple process and most people benefit from it now one of the things we didn't talk about specifically was the immune system the laser is does have the ability to kind of up regulate that immune system adjustments do that as well when you get adjusted you get about a thirty percent increase in immune function every single time the thing most people forget about the mean system is they think that the mean system is for defending the body it is but that's half of what it does it's also involved in repair and healing so if you can up regulate that immune system through the adjustment proper nutrition getting the rest doing the deep breathing that we started talking about starting the show with then you're really beginning to enhance the calling the function just like everything else there are steps that need to be taken a recipe in essence if you follow that you have the right outcome if you don't then you kind of just roll the dice and as far as your health goes and i think that's a good idea so if you have any questions feel free to stop by if you want to get research based information number of good articles and an actual book on this so if you want to look or you think maybe somebody could benefit or if you're wondering if somebody in another area might benefit feel free to call the office we'll be happy to direct you to somebody if we can it's utilizing this technology and give you some further