dr jonas marin this is a life without limits family wellness show they were going to be talking about just that life without limits some of the concepts that we're using today are definitely limiting our understanding of our health and where we should be going with that one of the things i like to throw up before we do really the meat of what we're going to talk about is some of the most recent research for years eggs have been condemned as cholesterol inducers and it was probably year or more ago that they said  you know this is the research came back outside and eggs are probably not so bad for in fact cholesterol is really important for a normal healthy nervous system for good skin for making normal healthy hormones there's a lot of those pieces that are dependent upon normal the most recent one that has come back around assault the research is just out the other day earlier this week salt doesn't really cause high blood pressure now we've known that for years but the status quo was if you have high blood pressure get off saw all the news research is saying that and salt may not really be the culprit and you actually need a certain salt level in order to maintain your electrolytes and other bodily functions so what we're going to be talking about today is some of the same things as fallacies that continue to get talked about that may or may not be one hundred percent accurate  one of the big ones is genetics i talk a lot about genetics and about the health of the body as it relates to your genetic predisposition and for a long time we were told that our genetics really define what our health is going to be like that's not true genetics are very very flexible we can't throw out the old model hundred percent but we do need to look at it very closely and determine what's still accurate and what isn't that genetic component is in fact a framework but it's the nervous system  environmental stimuli that comes through that nervous system that helps to to modify that genetic base or to select for what part of the genetic base you're going to begin to express the other part of that is your nervous system being hard wired as chiropractors were really not bone doctors most people think that if you're a chiropractor we're focused on your bones your bones are important in the sense that we want to take a look at that if there's been some degenerative change but your bones are really not our focus we're really much more along the lines of neurologists you have to have a normal functioning neurology or a nervous system brain and spinal cord in order for your body to to work like it's supposed to your nervous system controls in accordance every single function in your body from respiration indigestion reproduction keeping your body warm normal cell function all the way down to emotional states so that nervous system is really really critical as chiropractors were concerned with what the function of that nervous system is a neurologist is looking at that to determine if there's a disease state if there's some other process where maybe there's a congenital anomaly or something that has changed how that nervous system looks we're looking at it how's it expressing itself there's a lot of things that do affect that and like i said genetics is that piece we really want to kind of get into today because very often you're being told that your genetic predisposition is the key to health and so as a result people are left with the thought that i am however i am and there's not a lot i can do about that and that kind of that kind of gives you a deterministic thought process there's nothing i can do i'm just going to go through life and whatever my time's up my time's up getting careful felt line of thought as i said earlier there your environmental stimuli which your nervous system comes through or excuse me comes through your nervous system causes you to select for certain genetic factors so five percent i wrote two things on the board today in the really only the two pieces that we need five percent of your health or five percent of your diseases are genetic in nature that's it five percent if you listen to the news and you look at the research you would almost think that really everything is genetic and like i said there's nothing you can do about it that's the thought process that's out there we're doing a lot of research in that area and a lot of or our finances are going into that research and that's ok because the diseases they're working on are significant they do need to be evaluated but we need to stay in that place of understanding it's only five percent and some of even the genetic predispositions do not mean you're absolutely going to express that disease process given on that it's up there is eighty five percent of preventable written next to it eighty five percent of diseases are preventable now i know that's eighty five in five and it only goes ninety the other ten percent comes from trauma so that five percent that's genetic and ten percent that's traumatic it's not a lot we can do about europe by car you fall down the steps as a sports injury there's just not a lot we can do will fix the injuries but as far as that prevention goes  to our time that's ok because eighty five percent of that being prefer animals a pretty big deal and what we like to tell people is that eighty five percent of disease is one hundred percent preventable or talking of heart disease or stroke whether you're talking about obesity colon issues or just general every day things that most people think are normal that aren't arthritis is a c process things a lot of that nature we need to look a little more closely and redefine so if our genetic predisposition or urge an addict factor for diseases only five percent that eighty five percent changes but what that really means is you're responsible and that's where we lose a lot of people because nobody really wants to hear that i got to change this and change that what i like to teach our patients is that that eighty five percent that that's preventable you're going to spend the same amount of energy doing what you're doing now is you are if you change your lifestyle it just looks different so people look at that from where they are and they think you know i'm doing this i'm doing this and i'm doing this and you want to change all that it's just a matter of making a change it's not higher energy expenditure it's just you're used to this so you know what you go through every day is just become your pattern or your lifestyle what we're asking you to do will become the same thing given some time one of the most common things we talk about have talked about it here quite often and i talk about it every day in the office is posture posture is critical more and more research comes out every single day about how important posture is we've known it forever never never moms grandmothers the nuns there wasn't anybody who would smack if your posture wasn't right it's really crucial that is what posture is appropriate that we have better digestion lower blood pressure better brain function the heart actually has room to work because we're not closing that chest cavity down the spine of course stays more flexible but most importantly that nervous system that's inside that spinal column is able to function better so posture is one of those basic things that when we talk to them about the changes that we're looking for standing up yes it requires a little more energy but it's just a pattern it's just a habit so our preventable state is there it always has been it's simple changes lots of times we talk about food that's an easy one because christmas is right around the corner and everybody's going to be eating probably a little differently than they normally do eating some richer foods maybe going to bed a little later these are things that stress out the nervous system and as a result sometimes lower the immune system one of my favorite questions is you know what am i supposed to do everybody gets sick in the winter there's nothing i can do about that assuming that in the winter bugs are out in the summer they're not and why don't people get the flu in the summer but they get it in the winter there's two answers to that one we said is lifestyle the bodies in that state of increased activity generally increase stress and sometimes it's not that all stress is bad high excitement is stress it's you're still pushing your adrenaline you're still pushing cortisol levels and that's ok just when we do it for a long time couple of maybe not getting the sleep that we need to overdoing it running around shopping or doing errands and like you said maybe changing our normal diet the body begins to become rundown so the same bugs that were there last week last month the last year are there now your body fat susceptible develops an issue if it's not susceptible it doesn't and so you have people i just talked to a lady yesterday her daughter's in class that class had i think ten or fifteen kids out of it because they were sick while there wasn't a whole class it's certainly a large number but the same kids are sitting in a class with other kids who weren't sick so if it were just a germ issue and it really was about one germ jumping from another or to another person then everybody would be sick all the time and that's not the case we know the immune system is strong enough in fact one of the lead researchers researching each of units today says specifically we don't need to do all of the extra extraneous work that we're doing in certain cases of aids we need to boost the immune system now if that's a full blown aids patient they need certain care there's no doubt about that and he didn't refute that but what he said is we're talking about this virus as if it's something we can't be overcome and all disease can be overcome if the body is well problem is most of us aren't on the day to day things to do that and that's where we run into our prevention issue people not understanding completely what that looks like and what we need to how we need to approach it one of the other things for flu and i was having this conversation my daughter the other day she was talking to me about germs jumping from one person to another and so i started to talk to her about this and ask her a few simple questions and i asked her what the difference was between the winner in the summertime and what she thought may be the reason for that and what we finally got down to was there's more sunlight ah sleep in the summer there is the winter especially in the area that we live in sunlight has a huge impact on making your sunshine vitamin or vitamin d vitamin d is absolutely essential for normal immune function and so when we're in the winter months we're having less light during the day as a whole the days are just shorter and most often are not given the same amount of sunlight exposure if you can't do that  vitamin d are generally kind of low and you want to talk your doctor about that your health care provider team is that handles your nutritional component but they're generally pretty low vitamin d again being one of those things in our da's being one of those things where we say you can only do this so that we know of children who are autistic high levels of vitamin d and you need to work with somebody on this but high levels of vitamin d have shown amazing changes in chile with autism as far as reducing the inflammation in the brain causing them to move into a place where the brain is actually in a learning state with a child in our office right now who's night and day for the first day i met him the very typical autistic tendencies to him coming in now sitting on my table having a conversation with me following his mom's directions tell a different kid so we need to look at some of those limiting thoughts in the world in the tradition as well but back to the flu issue since so many people seem to be dealing with that we want to get our vitamin d levels we want to make sure we're getting a little bit of extra rest and one support the immune system one of the simplest ways you can support the immune system is by deep breathing i know i kind of beat that horse a lot but you got to understand that when you deep breathe it down regulate your stress levels and when that happens the immune system goes up and does what it's supposed to and you would be amazed at how strong your immune system is if we go to cancer for just a second there are three full layers of protection in the body at a cellular level at a genetic level they protect us against cancer development you have to really really stress a cell and you have to do it for a long period of time before actually turn and become ill a problem with that is a double edged sword one the body's really resilient but two if you continue stress and you're not aware it's going on you may be developing symptoms and not be aware of it so we need to pay attention that i think it's bank rata cancer the research just came out and when people get pancreatic cancer what kind of takes a little bit of a breath in because you know it's not good pancreatic cancer tends to be very very aggressive not because it's a fast acting cancer but because it takes about ten to twelve years for to actually show up symptomatically so there's a long time that that's been going on before we actually see the symptoms if we move into it in a state of understanding where we're talking prevention where we're living that lifestyle we're reducing our exposure and if we do have a change like that we're going to pick it up a lot sooner because there are ways to pick those things up one of the tests we do in the office is a stress response analysis or necessary hopefully we get to show you that before this year is out but what it does is it graphs all the changes going on in your autonomic nervous system that's the part that controls and chordates all of yourself functions all of your bodily functions and so what we do is we stress that person through couple simple tests one is a math test and we're looking for cortical activity before brain up here this part of the brain  really sets you apart makes you human makes you who you are a math this is an easy way to stress that part of the brain because it's where you do math higher language skills higher math skills when we do that test we're looking to see not can they do math or looking to see when we stress them how do they handle it and do they recover we give them a simple test we're listening to sounds those sounds stress the mid part of the brain or the middle portion of the brain that causes the body also to go into a state where it has to deal with those sounds and again see if it can recover and the last part  simple breathing test and we just said how important breathing is if we find through their breathing test that they're able to go into deep breathing and relaxation we also want to see them recover if we find you can recover after those stressors we know that your overall level of health wellness is much higher than the general population and that's what we're looking for looking for to be highly adaptable because most people out there who are considered to be well but don't know if they're nervous system or don't have a nervous system so adaptable are about two hundred times  less protective when it comes to their their immune system so they're walking around looking just like we are but if they don't have that healthy nervous system they're about two hundred times more likely to have an issue and remember your immune system does a couple of things your nervous system your immune system the immune system has been redefined as a floating nervous system that immune system not only fights infection but it repairs it builds it restores even on that cellular level so that you need a predisposition we talked about earlier that says hey this is the way you are and we're saying that's not really true if we have a body that works right we can redefine a repair recalibrate what's going on in that structure the other piece of this is that high adaptable state really brings us to a day to day level of health that we would normally have there's a blood test out right now we didn't we wouldn't need to be able to do it because there were only a couple laps in the whole world that could do it and as a result was really really expensive so it was out of reach for most people  what we have now is because about ten or fifteen years of gone by we have a much more accessible test and it's called a serum file test serum files go up when you get adjusted in fact people who are getting adjusted about once a month for two years or more have very very high serum file levels so when they look at this particular test it's actually geneticist they got together the chiropractor and they started discussing and working back and forth that serum file test have been around but as they started discussing the impact of the adjustment on overall health the genesis said hey this is something we've got to look at a foot you say is true we should be able to see this document and reproduce it so they got together and they started doing the testing and this was in that fifteen year timeframe where wasn't really available to everybody else  done in the research level what they found is that people with as regular justice have higher serum file levels than everybody else and it was estimated that you could get in that ninety one hundred one hundred five range with your serum files most people they were seeing were in the fifty's and sixty's if you're down in the thirty's we know the body is headed for a breakdown and that breakdown could be liver disease it could be diabetes it could be heart disease stroke or cancer there's really nine major factors out there kidney disease and so on there are really things we've got to look out for if you're developing that kind of issue we know you've been in a bad place for a long time and that's the thing symptoms don't always show up right away so when they did the test and they started looking at people they're fine in the sixty's fifty's some seventy's they said if you guys are what you're saying is true we should see much higher numbers and they started looking at chiropractors and they were looking at them because they've been getting adjusted for a long time it was a real simple sample population it was easy to know that you know these guys have been under care and what they found is th estimated levels of maybe we could get two hundred five they existed they existed on five hundred fifteen one hundred twenty which were just thought to maybe possibly be something we could reach that's where most of those groups who are and we will we know your numbers are up that high we know your likelihood for developing the disease is extremely low and we also know this is the big piece that your genetic predisposition or gross of what it is is reduced for expressing that disease that's huge and that's how we move into prevention by keeping the body functioning like it's supposed to by doing our daily activities that we're looking to do that are really going to change your outcomes you've got to understand you've got to be able to link your actions to your outcomes if we can do that everything changes but lots of times people are doing things and they don't realise that that activity has a very specific outcome but because there's a time delay between or they don't really see that outcome at least not right away they're not aware that that's the change if you ask anybody to smoking cause cancer unanimously except for a few hard core smokers are going to get yeah it does we know that the research is done it's proven but if you ask anyone who's currently smoking if they think they're going to get cancer the answer is almost always no actions and outcomes are not linked because the thought process is well yeah happens but it isn't going to happen to me if on the very first puff of that cigarette somebody instantly got cancer you'd see people quit in droves overnight it wouldn't be new year's resolutions it only last a week it would be people who really quit if you saw what was happening on the inside but because we're not connecting those actions in those outcomes because there's a time delay people figure well it's not going to happen to me or i have lots of time to quit so our lifestyle choices are prevention mode is way down regulated because nothing really go on the most compliant patients i have are the ones that are in the most pain and that's sad fact because it's usually they wait till they're really bad shape c m i tell me what they've got to do and they do it every day like clockwork the minute people start to feel better doc i forgot or i was going to get to that later and compliance goes down the problem with that is just because symptoms are down it doesn't mean your body is functioning at the level would like it to just as we said that serum vial tests we're looking at people who we thought were well and they were down in the forty's fifty's and sixt versus people who were truly healthy but they looked the same on the surface so understanding that becomes really crucial that symptoms are not really an indicator they're not what we go by the road signs that tell us hey we need to look more closely here or there but they're not the  pain does not mean you have no issue that back to that lifestyle component if we get lifestyle choices in the right place simply being eating that good diet and a good diet without making it complex is lots of vegetables the only thing you got to watch on the vegetable the things is why potatoes and carrots because they're highly glycaemic index they push your pancreas and they cause a lot insulin to be released that can lead to inflammation irritation and inflammation is really the key to those disease factors that creep up even the ones in the five percent range vegetables clean meats doesn't you can ever have read me but meat on a regular basis yeah it's a good idea you've got to have protein now for the vegetarians who would balk at that and go no way you can be a vegetarian a real simple way to get your nutrients in certain plants do have protein upon them but you got to make sure if you're going to be a vegetarian a true vague and that you're getting enough diversity to get all the proteins that you need because you've got to have protein to make enzymes and you get a protein to make muscle and a whole bunch of other pieces to each and every cell so it's crucial that protein is present alas on that than that nutritional of the things watch for grains all grains turn into sugar so they talk about pasta or rice or breads you gotta watch because they turn into sugar and sugar is the real issue it's the one that pushes the buttons on our list here it's one that pushes us over the edge chronic sugar can sumption regardless of what form it's in simple sugars are complex and the brain likes glucose that's ok you need certain sugars but you've got to watch how much but chronic sugar consumption absolutely pushes our inflammatory response and if you take inflammation for instance wear it with regard to heart disease heart disease most often is related to chronic inflammation in the arteries and we get that from high levels of sugar so if the r is a constant inflame the body's going to come by and say hey we need to get this fixed it's going to fix it with cholesterol and that's why we've got to have a closure on hand it's not an ideal patch but it's what your body's going to use if it's very short term if it's an acute event in the body recovers you're going to get a little teeny patch almost like spackle and that's how the body uses cholesterol if you stay in that flame state then we're going to definitely see changes in this arteries and going to start speckling everywhere and orders are supposed to be soft and flexible not hard and that's what that spackle creates so one or two little spots is not a big deal it's actually an appropriate correction but a long term exposure to inflammation to the sugars causes all the horror tiriel system to begin being over spackle that's a big deal we see that same event with arthritis a common common common issue we spend millions of dollars treating it whether it's on over the counter stuff or you're taking something but arthritis is preventable also because it's in that inflammatory state and if we get information out of control the joints do not stay as inflamed it is they reduce that inflammatory response they heal arthritis will heal you don't ever hear that it's not on the news because it doesn't sell mosher and i mean profane and all the rest but arthritis if caught early will heal if you catch it late you may not be able to heal it all the way but you can stop its progression and that's big too because a mild degree of arthritis is one thing a moderate is another if we catch you before you can become severe then we're taking out of that risk factor for having a hip replacement or something else so that allows us to maintain a certain level of lifestyle quality of life that we're looking for water is the other one  and again i know i say this to all the time as well but you're hydration levels are critical your blood is eighty percent water your spinal fluids almost one hundred percent water even your bones are twenty percent water your muscles are seventy so just like a plant that's kind of drooped over when you watered it stands back up your body is no different and as you hydrate you really do increase immune function you get rid of toxins and right now there's a lot of talk out there about you don't need as much water as people say a caveman didn't walk around water bottles and all the rest they also very very differently than we do even just  hundred years ago people very differently than we do have and that water in there is absolutely critical to keep your body clean and clear so there's a lot of ways you can move into prevention that prevention step does not have to be painful also this is not mean in a week or week and a half you've got to suddenly start exercising twenty four seven include everything you're doing in there all the food out your pantry but it does mean if you know the basics if you understand stress is the key diet can be a stressor it can also be a help rest is absolutely critical because that's when you repair you seventy percent your healing when you sleep if you get those few things in place then you'll be amazed at how flexible the body is and what you're capable of doing and you will move yourself up into that eighty five percent range where you're preventing it's much easier to prevent disease than is the fix it once that happens so that little bit of time spent on the front end is going to be a much greater investment at all the time you have to do on the back and to try to fix something and by the way i really want you to keep in mind this applies to kids just as does if they're two or twelve or twenty it applies to children so it's really important you understand that and you're applying those same thoughts to your kids giving them good parameters helping them make healthy choices especially now when moving the holiday and helping them rest so i hope this is help you hope you understand that prevention is key it's not that painful and you take that in your holiday absolutely enjoy yourselves go ahead and splurge a little bit but after that move back into your regular habits and your daily activities if you have those in place that's an easy transition for if you don't you're always struggling most diets last about seventy two hours people make a decision going down on monday they struggle on tuesday they get tired of and quit on wednesday they've been from thursday friday and saturday on sunday to decide to go back on a diet monday don't let that be you make a different decision put those simple pieces in place so you can be successful if you have a great holiday thank you for your time and see the new year