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The
Healthy Life
Is nutrition really important?
Recently a friend of mine sarcastically asked me why I talk about
nutrition with everyone. "Don't you just fix sore backs?"
He asked. He insisted that I must be getting rich on selling vitamins.
I had to smile since I don't sell ANY vitamins at all.
The fact is
chiropractic care is about living life to the fullest. It's about
helping people to be as healthy as physically possible. It's not
about sore backs. When we start a patient under care we have a goal
of reducing their spinal misalignments so that their spinal cord
and all the spinal tissues can heal and function at 100%. That significantly
affects the health of the entire body. Proper nutrition plays an
absolutely VITAL role in the healing process.
For instance,
people with chronic overall body aches and pains may have a vitamin
D deficiency. That's according to a report in the recent Mayo Clinic
Proceedings.
A study of 150 children and adults at the University of Minnesota
found that 93% of all subjects with non-specific musculoskeletal
pain were vitamin D deficient. All of the African-American, East
African, Hispanic and Native American subjects were vitamin D deficient.
In addition, all study patients under age 30 were vitamin D deficient.
Of these, 55 percent were severely deficient.
"These findings are remarkably different than what is taught
in medical school. We would expect vitamin D deficiency in old persons
or housebound persons," says chief investigator Dr. Greg Plotnikoff.
"We found the worst vitamin D deficiency in young persons -
especially women of childbearing age. We were stunned to find no
vitamin D at all in five patients who had been told their pain was
'all in their head.' "
I think its important to point out that vitamin D deficiency is
also associated with osteoporosis, hypertension, diabetes, cancer
and autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. It is also harmful
for developing fetuses and causes rickets in children. You can look
for that study in Mayo Clinic Proceedings - December 2003;78:1463-70.
http://www.mayo.edu/proceedings/
So to answer
my friend's question, I go over proper nutritional intake with my
patients to make sure each and ever one of my patients is getting
the absolute most out of my care and out of life. I know in my heart
that when a person has a healthy spine and nervous system it can
save their life. When we combine that with good nutritional support,
a truly healthy diet, daily exercise and avoidance of unhealthy
habits like smoking…life can be a miracle!
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