Spine is key of good helth

It has been a few weeks since my last column, so I am going to quickly re-iterate what we talked about. It all starts at the top. Our brain is every thought and controls every movement, sensation, function and healing through-out our entire body. In the right circumstances, it performs perfectly.

However, it relies completely on the spinal cord to deliver messages to every part of the body. Your brain is delicate. That's why you have a skull to protect it. Your spinal cord is just as delicate and that is the primary purpose of your spine, to protect your spinal cord. Spinal misalignments cause your spine to break down six to 10 times faster than normal and cause degeneration, arthritis and pain.....ouch!.

More importantly though, they immediately affect the spinal cord and alter the signals that it carries to and from the body. How the spinal cord is affected by misalignment of the spine is the focus of all of our future columns. If you noticed the title at the top, you'll see I have given this column the title, The Spine Diaries.

 

My goal is to write a column each week about someone's life that has been changed, or saved, by having spinal cord pressure removed. Correcting the spine allows the brain to breathe life to the rest of the body. Sometimes the correction literally allows the person to breathe. For this first story with X-rays showing corrective change, I have decided to share with you a case that spinal correction restored Natacha's ability to breathe and to really live again:

 

"This is the story of how my life changed. In high school, I was a medium distance runner. But things changed when I was diagnosed with asthma. I was placed on a large dose of medication and was told that I should limit my physical activity or there could be horrible consequences. I would sometimes cough for over an hour at a time, especially in the evening, and sometimes it was even worse. It wasn't just coughing, but it became choking and would make me be sick to my stomach. 

Thankfully, after university I started seeing a chiropractor who would help cure me of the disease that held me captive for many years. After I was adjusted for a while, the coughing stopped and I could breathe again. After I felt better a few years past, I worked out here and there but I found myself 20 pounds overweight and felt miserable about it. In July 2008, my husband mentioned to me that I should train for a half

marathon. He ran one the year before and was going to run one again in the fall. 

I thought that he was crazy! You see, even though I no longer had asthma, I still worried that if I over did it, it would return. But I wanted to lose the weight and a race might do the trick. I accepted his challenge and decided to train. The first month killed me. But I persevered and with a lot of hard work I ran the whole 21 kilometre race with the worst chest cold I have had in years and finished the race five minutes faster than my goal time: asthma free. I feel healthier than I've felt my entire life. Through chiropractic, I know that I have found one of the keys to amazing health."

The sole purpose of telling you this story is to help you to understand that the power that allowed her to breathe normally again is the same power that is in you, but that power needs to get to each and every part of your body for you to be truly healthy, just like it did in Natacha.