Summer gives us a chance to slow down and recharge.

More time outside. Walking. Movement. A vacation, a day at the beach, or simply getting out into nature.

These simple things are good for your nervous system.

Your nervous system is constantly responding to your environment. When life gets busy, stressful, and sedentary, your body feels it.

Summer gives us a chance to shift back toward rest, recovery, and repair.

Chiropractic care supports healthy nervous system function and helps your body move and function at its best. Adjustments can improve spinal movement, reduce tension, and support your body’s ability to adapt and recover.

But an adjustment is only one piece.

Your nervous system also needs the basics:

Move your body. Get outside. Breathe. Sleep well. Eat well. Take breaks.

You don’t need a complicated wellness routine. Sometimes the simplest things are the most important.

Use the summer to move more, slow down, and give your body some much-needed recovery.

And if it’s been a while since you’ve been adjusted, summer is a great time to check in and make sure your body is moving and functioning the way it should. 

Take good care of yourself. Get adjusted. And bring your friends.

– Dr. G

Life is stressful today. Whether it’s work, family, technology, poor posture, or everyday responsibilities, our bodies are constantly adapting to stress.

Your nervous system is designed to help you handle these challenges and return to balance.

Whether it’s a physical threat, a difficult conversation, sitting at a computer all day, or constantly worrying about your responsibilities, your body can activate the same stress response.

When your body senses stress, it goes into fight-or-flight mode. Your muscles tighten, your body becomes more alert, and you prepare to handle a threat.

That response is helpful when you need it.

The problem is when your body gets stuck there.

Chronic stress can leave you feeling like you are always “on.” Over time, this can contribute to neck and shoulder tension, back pain, headaches, fatigue, poor sleep, digestive issues, and feeling overwhelmed.

Your body needs a balance between stress and recovery.

The opposite of fight-or-flight is rest-and-digest — the state where your body can relax, repair, digest, and recover.

A healthy nervous system is not one that avoids stress. It is one that can adapt to stress and return to balance.

Chiropractic care focuses on supporting nervous system function and healthy movement patterns. By reducing areas of tension and improving spinal function, chiropractic care can help support your body’s ability to adapt and recover.

Stress is a part of life. The goal is not to eliminate stress, but to help your body handle it better.

Chiropractic care is one piece of helping your body adapt, recover, and function at its best. Life will always ask things of you. Just remember to take good care of yourself, and not always  bend over backward for everyone else. When your nervous system is functioning well, your body is more in balance and alignment, and life simply feels easier.  

– Dr. G

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Excerpts from Dr. BJ Palmer, the developer of Chiropractic, in his book, Fame and Fortune, published in 1955.  He remarks on the signs of intelligence of life in us and our human experience.  I can’t remark on the accuracy of the figures, as different findings may now be accepted since the information was written, but it doesn’t change his sentiments on the awe inspiring nature of our existence. 

Here he speaks on the conception of life. 

“All our heredity, our nature, is transmitted to us from our parents through tiny cells which connect our living substance with that of our forebears. Each human being takes its origin from the union of two of these bits of living matter, an egg from the mother which has been.

“Fertilized by a single sperm from the father. The egg is a tiny sphere hardly visible to the naked eye; it has been estimated that twenty million human eggs would weigh about one ounce. A sperm is visible only with the aid of a microscope, and its volume is about eighty-five thousand times smaller than that of an egg. Furthermore, a sperm is quite different from an egg in appearance being shaped like a thread inflated at one end to form a ‘head.’ Some idea of the sizes of these living links between the generations has been given by an eminent American biologist, H. J. Muller, who has calculated that if we could collect together all the eggs from which the present human population of the earth has sprung—two billion two hundred millions of them—they would all occupy the volume of about two and a half quarts. The sperm cells—two billions of them—would occupy the space of half an aspirin tablet.” 

“The chromosomes occupy a considerable fraction of the volume of the sperm, but only a tiny fraction of the volume of the egg. The combined volumes of the chromosomes in the 2,200,000,000 sperms and in the equal number of egg cells from which the human beings now living have sprung would add up to less bulk than an aspirin tablet. And yet, this minute amount of substance contained the heredity of the whole human race!” 

Here BJ Palmer highlights the super powers of our bodies in action. 

Every 24 hours your heart beats 103,689 times, your blood travels 168,000,000 miles, your lungs breathe 23,240 times.

“One tissue cell—let alone trillions that make up your body— Could he place them according to classification, assemble them into systems, coordinate all systems together into one grand harmonious whole, make them functionate naturally and healthily from birth to death?”

Innate is a SCULPTOR which shapes all living things; a MUSICIAN that teaches birds, insects, and men to sing; a CHEMIST which gives taste to fruit and spices, PERFUME to flowers, and transforms water and carbonic acid into sugar and wood. A transparent, mist-like drop of protoplasm, drawing energy from the sun, holds the seed of life and is the mother of everything that lives—both plant and animal. Where did it come from? 

“Thots” as he referred to them, from the original chiropractor, Dr. BJ Palmer.  Chiropractic is unique because it is built upon a science, art, and philosophy of our innate intelligence, the healing power of life.