Re-Charge Your Brain

Your brain is a battery, plain and simple.  Your brain controls every single function in your entire body.  When your nervous system is working properly, signals should travel freely from your brain to your body, and more importantly, from your body back up to your brain.

You see, just like any battery, your brain needs to be charged.  Your brain is charged by movement of your body.  Specifically the proper movement of the 24 spinal bones in your vertebral column.

When these bones are not moving properly, this is called the Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) or Subluxation.  This is a fancy term for vertebrae that are not moving correctly in your spine and are stuck in the wrong position.  When subluxation is present, the signals that normally charge the brain are severely diminished.  The fancy term for this is dysafferentation.  This condition is negatively affecting the health of millions.

Because the brain is so wonderful at adapting (it’s the ultimate super-computer), one may not initially feel the effects of subluxation and dysafferentation.  However, over time, the results are devastating.  Symptoms such as back pain, headaches, neck pain, depression/anxiety, visceral dysfunction, high blood pressure, ADD, ADHD, dizziness, poor balance, weak muscles, etc. will eventually spring up.

Why?  Because the brain is not getting charged.

So, how do you charge your brain?  It’s simple: MOVEMENT.  Get off the couch and move.  Walk the dog.  Do 10 jumping jacks.  Run.  Mow the lawn (with a push mower).  Any type of movement charges the brain.  However, if you want your brain to be super-charged, you need to make sure your spinal vertebrae are moving correctly.  Subluxations do not go away on their own.  Remember, subluxation is the #1 cause of a poorly charged brain.

Only a comprehensive chiropractic evaluation can determine if you have subluxation or not.  Only specific corrective chiropractic adjustments can remove subluxation.  Bottom line:  GET YOUR SPINE CHECKED BY A CHIROPRACTOR.

You only get one brain in life.  Make sure it stays charged.

In Health,

Dr. Patrick McCuaig

Swine Flu Protection: Eat Less Sugar

Okay, I’m tired of hearing about the swine flu.  The media attention that this supposed “pandemic” is getting is crazy.  My advice:  take a deep breath and educate yourself. 

Before I even knew about the dangers of vaccines, I was a bit skeptical.  In high school I recieved the seasonal flu vaccine 3 years in a row.  Guess what?  I came down with the flu every year.  The vaccine obviously did not work (or it made me sick) and who knows how many toxins were placed in my body along with those injections.  Needless to say, I gave up on vaccines a long time ago.

One of the big issues that the media is focusing on is the number of deaths or the risk of death from H1N1.  Question #1:  How many deaths have been caused by H1N1 in any given population.  Question #2:  Did those who died with H1N1 have underlying illnesses that compromised their health, leaving them more susceptible to severe complications?

“In Canada as of October 17, 2009 there had been a total of 1,604 hospitalizations, and 83 deaths associated with H1N1.”1

So, in a country with about 35 million people there were 83 deaths.  With simple math we can conclude that up to this point your chance of dying of H1N1 is 0.0002%…not too scary in my book.

“It is not easy to get exact numbers on the number of deaths that are caused by underlying conditions or secondary bacterial infections but estimates are that these would represent 99% of all deaths associated with H1N1.”2

So, if you do not already have some form of bacteria or viral infection, your chances of dying from H1N1 is 1% of 0.0002%.  I can live with those odds.

You have a greater chance of dying in a car accident on your way to get the vaccine than dying from H1N1! 

So what if you aren’t worried about dying from H1N1, but you still don’t want to contract it and get sick?  One of the simplest ways to pump up your immune system is to cut back on sugar consumption. 

Glucose and vitamin C are almost identical in structure, and they compete with the same receptor sites to enter the cells of your body.  When you eat high amounts of sugar (Halloween candy) most of the receptor sites on your cells are being taken up by blood glucose.

“The phagocytic cells of the immune system require high amounts of Vitamin C to work properly.  A blood sugar value of 120 reduces the phagocytic index 75%.  One saltine cracker will cause the blood sugar to go over 100 and in many people it will cause the blood sugar to go to 150 for a variety of reasons.”3

This is the reason why eating sugar suppresses your immune system and leaves you more susceptible to H1N1.  It is not a lack of vitamin C in your system, rather toxic amounts of sugar in your diet that are blocking the vitamin C from getting to the cells that power your immune system!

Cutting back on sugar consumption, eating more fruits and vegetables, working out regularly and maintaining your spinal health will keep your immune system on point and prepared to fight off any bugs that come your way…even the dreaded swine flu. 

In Health,

Dr. Patrick McCuaig

1,2 Chestnut, James (The H1N1 Issue: Flu Pandemic, Fear Pandemic, or Both? p. 1-2)

3 Chestnut, James (The Innate Diet & Natural Hygiene p. 81)