Chiropractic versus medicine what's the difference? I'm gonna tell you. Hey I'm
Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master health by
understanding how the body really works make sure you subscribe and hit that
notification bell so that you don't miss anything so there are many different
ways of comparing healthcare different modalities of health care or treatment
so we're gonna look at one that you probably haven't thought of previously
and chiropractic we deal with trying to rebuild health primarily and in medicine
they primarily deal with treating symptoms and both of these are perfectly
fine because in an emergency you should be very very grateful that there's some
skilled medical doctors around but if you have a functional imbalance then
there's not a whole lot that they can do for you
whereas in chiropractic it is more about rebuilding so you could think of these
as this is the fire department this is emergency and this is more like a
carpenter or a landscaper or someone is trying to rebuild and create something
so one isn't bad we're wrong it's just there for different things so first I
want to talk about what is life what is it that makes something alive what is it
that we can measure from something that is alive that we can't measure from
something that is dead and the answer is signals everything that is alive has an
ability to receive and process and interpret and produce signals that's
what makes something alive from the little single cellular creature all the
way up to humans with somewhere around 40 50 trillion cells incredible
complexity but the way that this life is expressed is through signals and the
more of the appropriate signals that we have the better
life can be expressed the more vitality we have so when you move you are
creating signals when you think you're creating signals when you perceive
something you first have to receive signals and then process and then create
an output that's what perception is when you talk you have to create signals and
maybe most importantly when you feel good in order to feel good you have to
create a lot of signals and let's talk about that one for a little bit so your
brain processes everything about you and no one knows exactly how many signals
per second but just to like a ballpark they've estimated it processes about 1
billion bits of information every second that's a lot of information so that
information is coming in through the spinal cord up through the brainstem and
into the frontal lobe and the frontal lobe processes this information and then
it responds and sends signals out in response to the information it received
and here's the key to understanding what we're gonna talk about that the frontal
lobe has mostly inhibitory action that means for the most part it turns things
off so it gets a signal in and it turns it off it negates that signal and that
is how the brain creates balance and experience so when you have a negative
thought and the brain needs to do away with that the better frontal lobe
activity you have the better you can inhibit that thought if you have pain a
little bit of pain is good because if the pain is there so that you don't hurt
yourself so that you can detect dangerous situations but if you have
excessive pain the brain needs to be able to inhibit and dampen and turn that
pain down so some around 80 to 90 percent of what the brain does is to
turn things off those it's inhibitory signals
so life is signals and the brain processes all those signals so in this
perspective what's the difference between chiropractic and medicine and
why should we understand this why should we be very very concerned because
chiropractic is what's called a receptor based therapy that means we stimulate
receptors we put pressure on receptors we activate motion receptors we activate
stretch receptors in muscle spindles and joints mechanoreceptors in joint
capsules so in doing this we send very large amounts of specific signals to the
brain we activate the brain so the brain can create more signals and in order for
us to feel good we have to turn off a bunch of signals so this is why people
in meditation the people who report and I can attest to this as well that when
you find that highest state of meditation you are supremely happy
you're blissful and in that state you have a higher activity in that frontal
lobe than any other state and in that state the frontal lobe turns off more
stuff than any other time and that's why you feel so good
so in order to feel good you need to create lots and lots of signals in
chiropractic they actually through this receptor stimulation we increase signals
in the body okay and here is where the biggest difference in medicine comes in
medication by definition is designed to block signals it reduces the amount of
signaling in the body it interferes with signals in the body so in an emergency
that's not a bad thing if you're a burn victim if you broke a bone you're in so
much pain you just want that pain gone and cutting off that signal in that
crisis can make you much much more comfortable but long-term this mechanism
is devastating it interferes with health it reduces your
vitality is reduces the expression of health so that's why it's so critical to
understand the difference between increasing signals and decreasing
signals understanding the difference between health and crisis management
medicine is great at crisis management let's have them do that let's hope they
get better and better at it but let's take charge of our health by
understanding that it's about signals it's about filling in all the little
pieces of a healthy lifestyle eating better of moving better of thinking and
feeling better that's how you create health so again to put it in the
simplest possible term the difference between chiropractic and medicine is
that one increases signals and the other decreases signals if you enjoyed this
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