welcome my name is dr jonas marin this is a life without limits family wellness show they we're going to be talking about some of the long term effects of spinal stress but before we do that i want to talk to you about what spinal stress actually is there's been a lot of shows where we've gone over the your joints are no longer connecting you're in the appropriate context surfaces and we put them back that is never what happens they don't dislocate that's what that would be a supplication is irritation in the nervous system that over time hasn't been able to be addressed the body can't  it if that occurs then the result is an abnormal pattern that abnormal pattern in the spine results in or in the nervous system results in changes to your physiology as a whole so your body begins to go through this compensation process those patterns if established effect everything always on the side of physiology so from cell function to organ function to system function as a whole the body begins to change those patterns have to be interrupted in what the purpose of a chiropractor adjustment is it's in a rut that pattern if your bones really did pop out we would pop them back and that would be that we tell you to call us if it popped back out again unfortunately that language continues to be used by some chiropractors lots of g p s and even orthopedists i will get patients who come in and say you have a doc said my back's out or i pinched a nerve without severe trauma those things don't happen so i understanding the basis of what we're looking at and the long term effects becomes really crucial that pattern interruption process which  as i said is what the adjustment does requires consistent input one pattern interruption and think of this if you are a smoker stopping smoking for one hour does not mean you quit smoking it just means you haven't smoked for an hour there has to be a continuation a process that has to become a consistent new pattern and the adjustment then is repetitive for that reason it's not because you pop it out we pop it back and we have this back and forth process that goes on it's that we're seeking to create a new pattern in the nervous system what a lot of people are unaware of is that the nervous system  patterns on a regular basis as we learn so part of any learning process the body's going to go into a stab wishing actually hard connections in the brain so we'll get cells that will actually line up in order to establish normal easy efficient function if you think about brushing your teeth you've done it a million times you know how to do it with your eyes closed into the dark it's easy you've just done it and done it and done it so even that it's become a pattern for you to make this a more efficient pattern your body has adapted certain muscles to that process if you ever want to try this out or check this out try brushing teeth the other hand that is interest and or pattern you'll be able to do it but your gadget got a few times and you won't be as smooth at it until you practice it so those repetitive consistent inputs are what changed patterns and you have to not only change the psyche of that pattern meaning the mental component of it but you have to change a physical component that's where healing really comes in so those long term spinal stressors or supplications that are present alter our patterns they al physiology if this happens that we reduce our ability to heal so the three big ones i thought we talked about and i think a lot of people aren't aware of number one is that thirty two percent of people who have arthritis or obese so a full third of the arthritis the arthritic community out there has become obese now you could just put these two things together and go well you know that's nice what's the what's the correlation the understanding is this if you have any kind of long term subluxation you're going to have arthritis that is the natural outcome and we're not talking about rheumatoid arthritis or gautier threats we're talking about everyday run of the mill plain on arthritis it's called osteoarthritis degenerative joint disease it has hundreds of names they all mean the same thing that chronic stress to that particular region of the spine or it could be in your extremities results in inflammation chronic inflammatory processes cause the body to dump calcium into that area if you're going to put out a fire we would use water but the body uses calcium because it has a ton of it and it's a really good anti inflammatory so when you dump calcium into a joint you develop arthritis that arthritis process means the joy no longer moves properly so if you take a little barney or aunt susie or whoever it is and they've got chronic arthritis and the needs are not moving like they used to be in fact it's harder for them to get up from a chair or move around in general as a result their activity levels going to decrease now it's all the talk about changes in health care today and the president wants to do this and do that and all the stress that's being created about the  proposals that are there we have to consider what are the best ways to make changes that people can do on their own to begin empowering them so they know what's going on if we can do that then you can have an idea of how to combat a lot of things obesity is a huge deal billions of dollars are spent to combat or to deal with the symptoms relative to be sitting these other two issues both diabetes and heart disease are also related so if we've got chronic arthritis in there and you can't move like you used to that means you're not exercising as much as just not getting around as often as a result if your food intake stays the same but your activity level decreases you're going to you're going to increase your weight and weight gain on a body affects the heart it affects all of the organs it affects the nervous system it also affects your mood so this this correlation is a big deal in beginning to understand it from a perspective of overall health is important if we're going to seek to address this from the perspective of well we just have this one issue and understand all the things that's related to that i think we reduce our chances of being successful and how we how we go about it so thirty two percent of the full third of arthritis patients are obese something they consider how can we talk to them about exercise how can we modify perhaps what it is they're doing what a lot of people are and where i was with arthritis if you catch it early very much like a cavity if you catch it really early it will heal it doesn't take much to correct it and it will heal relatively quickly the other thing i think a lot of people aren't aware of is that arthritis affects ten percent of all ten year olds most people think arthritis is a disease of old people it is not arthritis is a disease that affects people or a condition that affects people as a result of chronic subluxation and inflammation so our ten year olds getting this the backpacks are too heavy postures are poor or they're overweight because we are seeing obesity in young children and this can go both ways you can have obesity putting greater strain on the joints resulting in a breakdown of that tissue or you can have the arthritis it's causing abuses in the first place so becoming aware that that's not something that you get when you're seventy or eighty it isn't a normal process it's not how you're supposed to age and there's something you can do about it is a big deal like i said if you catch it early it's correctable if you catch it late then it may not be fully correctable but getting adjusted will stop the process of its evolution it won't continue to advance this is really important if you say we have it i've already got arthritis in my knee was nothing i can do perhaps that's the case but we can keep it from progressing that's important to think about it in your spine having arthritis and one of the areas in your neck there seven spinal segments in the neck having arthritis and one of those areas is not so great but getting it corrected or at least addressing it if it won't fully heal prevents it from moving into the other areas because you want to think of us like an assembly line if i've got ten people on line and five people quit the five workers that are still there they'll still be able to do the job but they won't be as efficient they won't last as long and they're not going to be able to maintain the level of function that the ten people had so we want to maintain healthy throughout so if somebody says arity have arthritis there's nothing i can do that's not true we may not be able to fully correct or restore that area but we will prevent it from moving into those other areas and we will stabilize that joint because if its uses whether that's a surgical fusion or physiological fusion meaning your body corrected it on its own you didn't do anything to continue to lay down calcium it just grew those joints together which is not good and there isn't anything we can do once that happens you're done there's no surgery that will fix that there's no judgment you can correct that but it does that there is above and below are under greater stress and we do want to consider those areas and correct them if there is additional stress there so a third of our obese patients are having arthritis big deal we need it we need to very look very closely at that and decide what it is that we can do if we go down to the next one fifty three percent of our diabetics have arthritis you know diabetes and obesity can tend to go hand in hand the type of diabetes we're talking about here cite two not type one does occur in type one but for our purposes we want to stick with type two meaning it well there's not something we're born with that isn't something in her that occurred when they were young it's a completely different issue it's not insulin dependent is really the big differentiating factor there but fifty three percent over half of our diabetic patients have arthritis here we are again and what's really important for a diabetic person is controlling that blood sugar level but what again most people don't know is your nervous system is crucial  responsible in a large part for helping to do that because your nervous system controls and coordinates every function in the body so if we've got a diabetic person who's got an injury whether it was to the joint or to the extremity let's say because we see diabetic also if that's the case we know they have a harder time healing we want to make sure that nervous system is healthy because continued spinal stress means the preferred nerves the nerves out in the extremities are having a more difficult time and we know for a fact that when you take nerve function away from the tissue tissue to tissues degenerate doesn't matter talking about an organ or a blood vessel or anything else that tissue is going to break down so it becomes really crucial that we maintain normal spinal health if that many people have arthritis in that diabetic community then we know again they're not moving like they should the putting additional weight on which is stressing the joints even further stressing the organism as a whole meaning you and we've got to make some changes they're getting adjusted is going to begin to facilitate greater movement that means we can pull some of that weight off addressing factor one that obesity issue it's also going to mean through that exercise program we're going to have a little bit better ability or a bigger toll box when it comes to controlling his blood sugar levels not just any exercise will do each diabetic is a little different you gotta be careful what you exercise to do some can push you over the edge some are just right so talking to your doctor about exactly what that is becomes crucial but in understanding this and getting those people moving really important beginning to establish normal functioning they're really important and the other factor being the research is already done it's been done for almost one hundred years we know for sure that people have that subway station at different areas of their spine have organs that don't like work like they're supposed to so a diabetic is having what we're dealing with see it clearly and approach that problem from as many different perspectives as possible so that we can induce healing and least create some options for the patient the last one is fifty two percent again over half of our patients with heart disease have arthritis so when we talk about these numbers we see really the big three you know obesity rising quickly heart disease at the top of the list of preventable diseases for a long long long time and diabetes a major complicating factor to every health condition  but over half of our heart patients having arthritis is again a big deal because we reduce their ability to move which means the heart isn't getting the normal exercise by stressing it like we would like to and again the nerves that come out of th again the upper mid back the lower portion of the neck are feeding the heart now the heart will beat all on itself it has to pacemakers it will be about fifty to sixty beats per minute but that is not enough for you to sustain any kind of activity even just walking across a large room with fifty sixty beats for a minute may not be good enough so the heart has to adapt its activity level for it's its speed it's going to it's going to increase its heart rate or decrease it's all right depending upon environmental stressors if the nervous system is functioning properly it's speaking to that organ and saying here's what's going on here's how we need to change we're going up steps will be more work out you were going to bed we needed to slow down so getting that nervous system functioning properly because if we've got arthritis in the spine we're decreasing normal nerve input into the organs getting that functioning properly is crucial to healing and it's also one more piece of the puzzle as a whole the other thing i really want to discuss is what each of these are slightly different they have tremendous overlap but one of the main causes of all of this is stress what we said this topic was it's a long term spinal stressors stress is the number one cause of disease it doesn't matter what you're talking about the only time stress is not put into a category relative to health as we have a cute injury or trauma car wreck fell down the steps not that stress can be an issue there but when we're talking about chronic health problems which is the majority of what we deal with we're talking about stressors if those stressors are present in their present for a long time they're actually changing your body's biochemistry changing the chemicals in the system causes an alteration in the function that's that's this it's that simple chronic stress research just came out maybe a month or two ago showing chronic stress causes cancer and we're in what would be called a sympathetic dominant state that sympathetic dominant state is that fight or flight response and that pushes your cortisol levels up that can cause weight gain so there's the first one chronic cortisol levels that are high are going to push the adrenals as well having your adrenalin or your adrenals be squeezed constantly is putting greater stress on the heart and it's decreasing our ability says i just and use nutrients properly so there's an absolute common thread to this whole process it's how we handle stressors healthier your nervous system the better your ability to handle the stressors the more supple excited you are the less your ability to handle that stressor so suck station has an impact both locally if it's in the spine that particular area is going to have a problem if it's in the spine but it's going to an organ you're affecting the system as a whole because there's a big feedback loop so your body has to send information back to the brain the brain can reprocess and send new information back down to the body if somewhere in that cycle we get a disruption of that process we're going to change what's going on in this organ systems and it isn't just these areas it's the whole body your immune system is a big part of this i talk a lot about the immune system because it's so important another factor that most people aren't aware of is the fact that each time you get adjusted there's a thirty percent increase in immune function people that are under regular chiropractor care have a two hundred times greater functioning immune system the people who are not but considered to be well so it's a big deal we also know that on a cellular level  the body's ability heal and repair goes up we've done blood studies and we're able to see that post adjustment we're seeing higher levels of certain chemical markers in the blood and those levels are indicative of cellular repair of d n a repair so overall function addressing that sympathetic dominance they getting the body back towards that normal natural state and we're not having to create anything new the body came perfectly adapted to do this process it knows what health is it's just that some of our activities impact us in a way that break our bodies down and it doesn't mean you can never go out and have pizza or you can't have ice cream or you have to exercise every single day but it does mean you have to develop a balance otherwise we get a shift in those patterns that's completely changing how our bodies work and having a basic understanding of what that looks like just a power to give you it gives you the tools that we're talking about before and i told box that make it easier for you to begin making changes without going home thinking i've got to get rid of everything in the pantry or i've got to go out and buy exercise equipment that everybody hang their clothes on and nobody uses anyway finding something that works for you and having a basic understanding of what this process looks like much more effective then you can really dial in how this should look for  you now if you are one of these patients if you are in that category of being obese if you are a diabetic or if you have heart disease then you may have to go out a little more slowly and make sure you get really good information as to how you're going to do it but don't think that because one of these things are going on that you can't do anything about it or that you're stuck with only drug therapy lots of times those are really important you've got to use them but it doesn't mean that's the end that's all you should be looking for and if you are one of those patients with arthritis even if it is rheumatoid or gal you're  arthritis not just an everyday reference it doesn't mean there aren't other things that can't be done with talk about touchy on the show once before it's a class i teach at our wellness center i've taught it to people in chairs people who couldn't move or couldn't walk there's nothing that can't be adapted i know plenty of people in the in the community that teach yoga really low intensity and they teach it in a chair for those people as well so if you've got one of those issues it doesn't mean you can't explore one of these other options and begin to be able to do something the other thing to know as arthritis is an issue that has its impact because we can no longer move the joint joints only get fat if they move and what i mean by that is the cartilage is only going to be maintained in a healthy state if the joint can actually move the joints stop moving and tighten up and that's what you feel when you get up when you use you r stretching and trying to get on in the morning and you feel like something ran you over those are all those muscles that are getting tight that's that pattern that we were talking bout if that's going on then that joint is no longer being fed so that stiffness that you've got to get up and say yeah i'm a little stiff in the morning but once i get going it's not so bad it's an early warning sign it's an indicator letting you know hey you got to do some about this and kids can have it as well as adults we don't see it in them as often but it doesn't mean it's not occurring you've got to pay attention to how they're moving one of the simplest things you can ever do for children this evaluate their posture posture is the key component to that early warning system to let you know something's going on or not because if you take a kid you put him up against just a neutrally colored wall a solid wall and you just stand there and look at him and they've got a shoulder here and a head that's over here and i had these look at their ears or hip that's way up or a foot that's turned out you're getting real good indicators as to what's going on with their body when we see postural changes we know for sure the  affects every physiological function in the body so everything from hormone production to growth and healing i mean system digestion blood pressure heart rate even brain function if you're seeing changes in the posturing others that there's an effect going on in the body the other thing is you can see those p changes before it becomes a full blown supplication and corrected simple stretching a little bit of activity what i see most often because our office is about fifty percent pediatric we see a lot of kids for a lot of reasons everything from ear infections the sports injuries what i see most often is just repetitive activity you know the soccer player comes in in the foot is turned way out because that's a kicking foot in a plant with the other leg and it kicks through that same way over and over and over simply in parents you can do this coaches if you're watching pay attention get  working both sides something as simple as soccer get be able use both feet anyway i've been in karate for years the thing i like about it the most and it's great for kids is it's bilateral you gotta learn to do your thing off both sides and punch and block off both sides kick off both sides it's a whole body activity  in what they're doing if we're doing this kind of things we're reducing the chances of arthritis or using the body better we're feeding those particular areas of the blood that need fed and we're pattern or pattern interrupting any of those problems that may have begun but if you see those p changes pay attention get those kits checked i've had lots of parents came in with kids whose heads are really crooked right after birth the heads around like this they talk to pediatrician about it and just not part of their training so i don't blame them but unfortunately the language that they're using is it's cosmetic don't worry about it it is not cosmetic it is an issue that needs to be corrected in there's a correction for so the cricket has in the you know look at the family photos of johnny's heads in every picture like this he's got a problem in his neck if he's a kid with asthma or ear infections or one of those other issues that's why it's part of the spinal stress those chronic stresses that left unchecked develop and all kinds of things not necessarily these issues but they do develop into other issues that are affecting our health and because they're correctable we need to know we need to do something about it taking those steps really simple if you're not sure what to do call or office e mail us whatever you need to do we'll be happy to direct you  to either one of our classes we do regular monday night wellness classes they're free to the public anybody can come there at seven o'clock or we'll be happy to direct you to an outlet where you can get that information or follow up as needed lots of times i get patients come in and say hey i really like what you had to say i totally get it i've seen these changes in my kid i want my aunt to know about this because she needs it for her kids but she lives halfway across the country we're part of a network of the international car project pediatric association you can find him online or the i c p a for kids dot com it's the number four in there they've got docs all over the place and they tend to be family wellness centers like we are not just paediatric they're a great place to start and plug in your zip code and they'll be able to tell you who's in the area within a certain radius and you can expand that radius out find somebody who really understands this information and can work with your whole family on the process so if you have or ever have any questions please call us in the meantime that's all we have for today if anybody needs any additional information please say have a safe summer if we don't see it for another show