Your Body is a Champion

Your body is smart! Your body is strong! And as long as you are alive, your body is and will be continually working to help you adapt to whatever circumstances you encounter in your environment. That’s how it works! That is what it is does! You are not a victim of your circumstances at all. Instead, you are a champion of them!! Think about it. When it is hot outside, your body sweats and helps you cool down so that your internal temperature stays the same. When it’s cold, your muscles contract to make more heat. That doesn’t just happen, although it DOES happen without you thinking about it. The truth is, many things need to happen to obtain the desired result. Your body first encounters the challenge, in this case either heat or cold. Then it sends signals to your brain and your brain configures a plan and sends out more signals. Chemicals may need to be made, organs may need to be involved, all to achieve the desired effect. And your body is doing way more complicated things than that and many of them all at one time!! And your body doesn’t just do sometimes; it does this ALL THE TIME. Your body is on the job ALL THE TIME. For example, you are constantly encountering germs and viruses, whether you are at school, at the store, or even at home. They are everywhere!!! Lots of them!!! But your body is also CONSTANTLY on the job monitoring what you encounter (much of which is not a problem) and sending signals about potential threats. Your body uses your nerve system as a communication system to relay messages and signals. Your nerve system is made of many tiny cells called neurons. Your brain alone has billions of neurons. These cells relay information to each other through a complex electrochemical process. Messages are sent from your body parts to the brain via one part of your nerve system (afferent neurons). Then messages are sent back from the brain to the body parts via another part of your nerve system (efferent neurons.) In this manner, your nerve system controls every other system and function of your body. Your nerve system is so important that it is protected by bone. The skull protects the brain and the bones of the spine protect the spinal cord and nerve roots. But sometimes, the bones of the spine can become misaligned and instead of protecting the nerve tissue it can distort the proper function and communication within the nerve system. This is called a vertebral subluxation. This would obviously be a problem because if your nerve system isn’t working at its best, then your communication system is on the blink, and Continue reading on page 2 Chiropractic Newsletter Your Amazing Body Provided and published by ICPA. For more information, visit discoverkidshealth.com 2 the rest of your body can’t work at its best either. Chiropractors check to make sure the bones of your spine are properly aligned so there is no disruption to your communication system and your whole body can work at its best. Isn’t it amazing to know that this is how your body works!?! No, you are surely not a victim of your circumstances at all. We are champions indeed!! The greatest of all time!!! 

—By Judy Nutz Campanale, DC, ACP