Hello, I am Dr. Sten Ekberg
I'm a chiropractor who practices neurologically based chiropractic
and we're going to talk about more holistic approach to different things
one concern for many people is colds and flus
that many, that many of us get this time year
So how does that work? How does one
boost the immune system and all that, and yes nutrition is important but you all
know eat more vegetables
take your vitamin C and all that. So were going to look at what the brain has to do
with it
and this here is your cortex
and then talk about the upper and lower brainstem
and when every something called stress
and that stress can be chemical or structural or emotional
its anything that your body needs deal with. That stress
is going to be picked up by the upper brainstem
which handles your stress responses called your sympathetic
or your fight/flight nervous system
And that sympathetic is going to do things like increase your blood pressure and heart rate and
blood sugar and your blood clotting factor
and your cholesterol. All to get you better
fit to survive in a crisis
but the sympathetic is also going to inhibit the para-sympathic
which is your feed/breed
that's what takes your your
digestion and your immune system
plus a number of other things but we're going to just focus a little bit
on the immune system's. So anytime that you have stress
that's going to increase the activity your sympathetic nervous system
and it's going to shut down our para-sympathic
so anytime increase something with stress
you going to decrease, your going to shutdown
effectively your immune system. That's why
everybody gets in school.. ah.. gets their colds and their
flus around finals. That's why people,
the more stress they have around the holidays even though its a
time joy people get really really busy
and they have more stress and they eat more sugar
and they shutdown immune system. So
one way to increase the
the function of this system to reverse the cycle
is the to increase the activity
of your prefrontal cortex, the front half of the brain.
And how does one do that?
Well if you get adjusted
chiropractic-ally it's not that there's a bone out of
place it's not that the bone is pushing on a nerve
that goes to your immune system that's not how it works
but the spine provides ninety percent
of the nutrition of the signals that becomes nutrition that becomes they're stimulating
brain and the brain just like any other world
any other cell in your body is uses or lose it
so whatever information that the brain receives
as electrical signals actually fuels the brains
jus keeps the brain going and ninety percent that
comes from the spine according to Nobel Prize winner
Reuters very so when this flying moos
we stimulate the cortex we can hit
sympathetic nervous system and thereby indirectly
increasing the function I'll parasympathetic nervous system
and consequently her back up
the function of the immune system so
when we'll have trauma
slips and falls sedentary lifestyles
and movement are the spine isn't working correctly
then they're also not signaling correctly to the brain
and the brain suffers any cannot hit
no stress responses appropriately and your immune system suffers
very simple mechanism budgets
heart how that whole system works so
digested do some light exercise
do some breathing exercises relaxation training
in addition to being that food and
you will be much better suited to fight off does
infections when the time comes thank you