Yet it was many months before the sailors developed the symptoms of disease. Interestingly, many developed symptoms later than others. The point is, however, that it takes time for the disease to occur. Therefore, it logically follows that most people have one or more subluxations in their spine reducing their ability to function in a state of health most of the time. The key word above is most of the time.
Ill health takes time to develop.
It does not occur in the absence of vertebral subluxation. What is truly amazing is the fact that the human body continues to function at any level when the average person who has never been to a chiropractor probably spends 99 percent of their life walking around subluxated. It has its detrimental effects, obviously, from our statements of fact but people do live the greater part of their lives subluxated. There is another important point to note. Even people under chiropractic care become ill and eventually die from the same diseases as people who have never been under chiropractic care.