SOUTH SHORE FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC
Monthly News - February 2007

DISINTERGRATION
Did you ever think about the fact that our bodies are really nothing more than a small pile of dust?  What makes them appear like and act like more than dust? The fact is that they are integrated.  All those molecules are forming cells, tissues, organs, and systems.  The body is acting as a whole. 

When the body stops acting as a whole it loses its integrity.  What is it that keeps us whole and maintains our physical integrity?  It is what chiropractors call the “innate intelligence” of the body.  This principle controls, integrates, and coordinates the function of billions of cells every minute.  Thousands of chemical reactions occur simultaneously at just the right instant to carry on every function of the body.  All these functions are working without any thought on our part. 

The human body is integrated, each cell working for the good of the whole under the direction of the body’s innate intelligence, which utilizes the nervous system to control and coordinate all of the parts. To accomplish this task a complex coordinating system is needed.  In the human organism this system is the nervous system.  However, for the nervous system to function as it should, its integrity needs to be maintained. 

When a vertebra in the spine becomes subluxated, the integrity of the nervous system is compromised.  The result of this is that the cells that the nerves supply can no longer work in an integrated manner. Vertebral subluxation interferes with the function of the nervous system and thereby causes the body to begin to disintegrate.  Unfortunately, we do not often notice this disintegration right away.

The disintegration may not be obvious at first.  If it was, perhaps we would be more likely to address it.  That is the purpose of regular chiropractic adjustments, to maintain the integrity of the nervous system so that all the cells of the body will be integrated thereby successfully preventing any disintegration.

-Dr. Bill