Dr. Axe: Hey, guys.
Dr. Josh Axe here.
I'm so excited to have you here with us today.
Today we have Dr. Billy DeMoss.
He is a doctor of chiropractic and an expert in anti-aging, treating pain naturally, and
also just living a long and healthy life.
There are a lot of people out there, I know many of you watching right now, who really
want to work on having healthier skin, hair, and nails.
You want to reduce pain in your life and overall you just want to feel and look your best.
Dr. Billy is going to share with us today some of his secrets on anti-aging.
In fact, there is a way of anti-aging you may not be aware of.
A lot of times when we hear anti-aging we think of things like goji berries and acai
berries and yoga and meditation, and different things along those lines, but he's going to
share with you today one of the number one secrets for anti-aging you may not be aware
of.
So Dr. Billy, great to have you here with me today.
Dr. Billy: Happy to be here, Josh.
I appreciate it.
Dr. Axe: So anti-aging is a big topic.
I know that you take care of hundreds and hundreds of patients in Orange County, California.
Talk to me a little bit about this secret that you have discovered.
I know this is a way you practice, I know we're going to talk about chiropractic here
specifically, but how does that help with anti-aging?
Dr. Billy: Well, most people have this conception or misconception, that chiropractic is only
about back pain, and usually that's what most people will come to me for, is back pain.
But I try to get them to understand the true essence of what chiropractic is really about
and where chiropractic is headed.
If you really understand the brain and nervous system and how that controls every function
of life, you understand how nurturing that brain and nervous system, through nutrition
obviously and proper exercise and proper thought patterns and regular sleep.
But the one most people don't understand, and that's one of my objectives is to try
to teach people, like you take care of your teeth, it's super important that we take care
of our spine and nervous system to really maximize just the expression of that nervous
system, but also to nurture it to extend the life of the spine and nervous system.
So it's all about longevity, it's all about getting the body working at a higher level.
Most people come to you with severe pain, and you've waited too long in my opinion.
It's just like if you waited to start eating healthy until you found out you had diabetes
or a heart attack.
You want to do stuff now on a daily basis that contributes to maximizing your life.
What chiropractic is about is removing interference.
In chiropractic the term is called subluxation, and to me a subluxation would be analogous
to, in the dental profession, what a cavity is.
So what a chiropractor does is we assess alignment, and when there are areas of the spine that
are out of alignment and not moving properly, we call that a subluxation.
What that creates is interference from the brain through the spinal cord out to all the
organs, and also the organs need to communicate back to the brain.
What we do is we detect where those subluxations are at through palpation, feeling the spine,
checking range of motion, but also we take x-rays, we run thermographic scans.
With that we can determine where a person needs to be adjusted specifically, and then
we remove that subluxation to allow greater communication through that circuitry from
the brain, spinal cord, to the nerves, to the organs, and then back to the spine.
So if we can get a person free of that interference we allow a greater expression of that intelligence,
just raising the level of a person's health expression.
Dr. Axe: Yeah.
One of the unique things I've heard you talk about, Dr. Billy, is this sympathetic versus
parasympathetic response by the body.
Now we know the sympathetic nervous system is your body's fight or flight response.
If a bear is chasing you and you get really stressed out, we know blood flow and all these
things go to the extremities, but some people live in this state of this sympathetic response.
This is really one of the keys of anti-aging.
Talk to me about how this sympathetic versus parasympathetic and how a chiropractic adjustment
maybe with the vagus nerve or some of those different areas really helps bring the body
back to that parasympathetic state.
Dr. Billy: Great question.
What people need to realize is 85% to probably 90% of disease is caused from being in a state
of stress.
We all know that stress causes disease.
What happens when the spine is out of alignment, there is tension on the spinal cord, there's
irritation of the nerves, and it's going to push us more into sympathetic, more into fight
or flight.
The body is designed to be in fight or flight periodically, like if there's a tiger in here
that's going to eat us, we need to be in sympathetic.
Our heart rate goes up, blood pressure goes up, and a lot of other physiologic activities.
It's good for an emergency situation, but most people live their lives in that, and
that's why they end up getting heart disease or cancer or a myriad of other diseases.
We've got studies now that support the fact that if we remove subluxation, work with changing
a person's posture out of this flex position which most people get from working on computers,
looking at their phone all day, just sitting, flying on planes.
Typically most people spend eight hours a day sitting, which destroys posture, which
again is going to push us more into that sympathetic zone.
What we do through specific chiropractic adjustments and giving them specific exercises that they
can do, we help to remove the subluxation, normalize posture, which takes tension off
the spinal cord.
It will move us from sympathetic into parasympathetic, which is where we get to rest and digest,
and the body rebuilds itself, again promoting a healthier state, preventing disease, and
allowing the body to rebuild itself with healthy cells, prolonging life and creating longevity.
Dr. Axe: Wow.
Yeah, one of these things you said, and I think you hit the nail right on the head,
Dr. Billy, is that most people today, around 80% or more live in this high stress state.
When you look at a lot of conditions today and things that I've treated over the years,
things like autoimmune disease, ADHD and autism, most hormone imbalance, adrenal fatigue, even
types of thyroid issues, many of these actually are, their root cause is related in this high
sympathetic strait, this neurological stress that can happen on the body.
So as you're saying, "Hey, start removing pressure, get pressure off that spinal cord
is going to help those areas relax," and one of the things that you may not realize is
that your body is always communicating with different organs.
So your brain is your master control system.
It tells your heart to beat, your lungs to breathe, your stomach to digest food, and
this is something I see with a lot of patients with digestive issues.
If they have a severe emotionally traumatic experience or they're taking a test as a student,
it will affect their body just as negatively if not more than eating gluten if they're
not supposed to or some form of conventional dairy product that would wreck their system.
Well, stress does it in the same way.
So there's no doubt that chiropractic is one of the most powerful tools at removing stress
from the body.
Now, one of the questions I know that my viewers have a lot of times is, I know you probably
have some evidence from what you've seen in your clinic.
Any studies showing that less stress on the nerve system or an adjustment can actually
help the body in that way?
Dr. Billy: Yeah, there is research out there.
I don't have the quotes off the top of my head, and we can probably provide links for
that if that's something people would be interested in.
But what's interesting is most people will come to you with whatever their back pain
issue is, and I do re-exams on people typically, and some of the things that I see, you see
that people come out of that sympathetic into parasympathetic . . . The number one thing
I hear from people the most is that they sleep better.
If you sleep better obviously that's going to promote longevity, but you're going to
have more energy because being in sympathetic all the time is a drain on the system.
But also one of the main issues, people come in and they've better digestion, their body
just starts to work better.
The pain is the symptom that brought them in the office, and then when you remove that
subluxation and get rid of the pain, the warning signal, then the body gets a chance, like
I said, to better communicate with itself.
But what's even more interesting to me is that now we've got tons of research especially
through Deed Harrison and his work in biophysics, that spinal degeneration is going to be perpetuated
or increased when the spine is out of alignment.
I use kind of an analogy that some people understand.
If the tires on your car are out of alignment they're going to wear prematurely.
Sometimes people come in and they've got all this degeneration in their spine, and I tell
them it's like if you drove your tires until they're bald or the threads start showing,
we can't put tread back on.
So it's all about, just like with eating healthy and thinking healthy thoughts, it's all about
things that we can do to prolong the life of the spine.
Just because the spine is under the stress of gravity and everything that we can do to
promote normal alignment is going to prolong the life of the spine.
What we see epidemic in society is this forward head posture, which is going to put a lot
of stress on the vertebrae and disk, and it's going to promote degenerative changes in the
spine, i.e. osteoarthritis.
Which most people understand when we're laying down bone in the spinal column and where the
nerves come out, we call them foramina, the more bone that's laid down the more it kind
of strangulates or just compresses those nerves.
That's just going to decrease the body's capacity to communicate with itself because you've
got more and more pressure on the spinal cord and nerves which restricts that flow of lipid,
which is so important to keep us healthy and promote a long lifestyle.
Dr. Axe: Yeah, Dr. Billy.
I wrote an article a few years back called, "Chiropractic as Your Body's Natural Antioxidant,"
because there was a great study showing that actually chiropractic adjustments reduce oxidative
stress on the body.
We know oxidation, if you take a bite out of an apple it starts to turn brown, that's
oxidation.
The same thing can happen to your skin.
You start to get those brown age spots.
That's oxidation.
Well, imagine the same thing happening internally to your organs, liver, kidney, and reproductive
organs.
They start to age.
Well, chiropractic has been shown in medical studies to actually reduce oxidative stress,
aging on the body.
So I want to encourage you guys to check out Dr. Billy DeMoss online.
Check out his website.
He's got a great natural health event I'm going to be speaking at in the near future
called Cal Jam.
So you can check that out online.
Cal Jam.
There are as well some of the world's best speakers on health, nutrition, natural remedies,
and things like that are going to be speaking at that event as well.
Also just remember this, go and find your local chiropractor.
Start getting chiropractic adjustments and start working on improving your posture and
reducing that neural stress because by doing that, you're reducing oxidative stress.
It's also going to help you live a longer, healthier life.
Dr. Billy, I want to say thanks so much, my man for doing this training today.
Hey, I hope you guys have enjoyed this YouTube video.
Have a great week.