Birth Trauma and Brain Health | Chiropractor for Brain Health in Manahawkin, NJ
Hey guys, it’s me, Dr. Nicole Bonner with Healing Hands of Manahawkin and welcome back. What is the most important organ in your body? You guessed it, it’s your brain. That’s right!
Your Health and Your Brain
So here’s the deal to ensure that people can do what they want to do when they want to do it, and that they can live a longer and healthier life, it is essential to be made aware of contributing factors to brain health, and how these things can affect someone’s capacity to express their highest level of health. Notice, I just didn’t say thoughts or feelings, I said, Hell, yes, even physical health, we can’t first look at the management of a condition once it surfaces. Instead, we must look at the genetics of a human being and understand the impact of life events, starting all the way back from the birthing process. So there are three major life events that can contribute to declining health that starts in the brain. The first is birth traumas. The second are brainstem injuries that that happened throughout the course of the person’s life, but lifetime through impact. And the third thing we need to discuss is how chiropractic care can affect the trajectory of Brain Health for a Lifetime.
Chronic Illness and Brain Health
Here’s the deal over the last two decades, the last 20 years chronic illness has risen at an alarming rate. In kids alone. In kids alone, we have seen ADHD skyrocket, anxiety, depression and overall mental illness in children have risen at staggering rates when the OT autism rates are off the charts. The prevalence of ADHD and behavior problems in kids is currently at 10 to 15%. What does that mean? That means out of out of out of 10 children, one and a half of them are diagnosed with ADHD and behavior problems. That’s a lot. Anxiety is at an all time high of almost 12% of children. Depression is that 8.5 overall mental illness is now affecting one in six children. Then catch this. This is important guys. Autism has increased by 241%. Since the turn of the century, what the heck is happening? What’s happening? All of these are our brain issues. Okay? So even in adults, we see problems that are happening with the brain we see more strokes than ever before we see more migrants than ever before dementia is on an rise, then in giantess is on a rise, and epilepsy as well. Parkinson’s, Parkinson’s disease is the fastest growing neurological disorder right now. So in kids, we’re seeing the fastest neurological disorder that’s growing as autism. And in adults, it’s Parkinson’s disease. So what the heck is happening?
Brain Health and The Aging Process
Well, some people are just saying, well, it’s just genetics, or they’re saying it’s just because of my age, but we know better. Hey, listen. 2030 4050 years old people aged exactly like we do today. We still age, right? We’re every year we still gain an age. So what’s different? Why is Why is autism up to one out of 44 children? All right, where it when we were kids, it was it was I don’t even know the exact exam on this, but it had to be like one in 1000. When we were kids, we never even heard the word autism. So where do these brain injuries come from? Well, we’re going to split this up. But the first thing I want to talk to you about is I want to talk about how how the birthing process, especially here in the United States, can cause neurological damage. Okay, so no one really talks about the neurological trauma that babies endure when they’re born. Right. Why? Because we see it as such a normal natural process and yes, it is a normal natural process. However, here in the US, we birth differently than other areas around the world. We actually birth our babies against gravity.
The Stress of Birthing on Babies
Have you ever thought about that? In many places of the world, women actually birth their babies with gravity. Here in the US the baby is actually pulled by the neck and the head It can be up to 120 pounds of pulling pressure on a baby’s delicate neck and head to to get them out of the mother’s womb, especially when going up gravity, right. So we’ve been taught, you know, when we see health conditions come up, we’ve been taught to blame it on genetics, blame it on toxins blaming on poor foods and diet. But the reality is that birth is traumatic for both the baby and the this first begins with maternal and prenatal stress during pregnancy, including physical stress and a fear of anything going wrong during the process. And then when you add things that include induced Labor’s now, unnecessary C sections, still forceps and vacuum and manual assistance to get the baby out how without the contractions of the uterus that helps the baby into the birthing canal for delivery. Those contractions are strong enough for Mama to be unable to walk or talk. Imagine the force being applied to that baby during this time. So what do we do?
Labor Delivery and Subluxations in Babies
Well, now what we know, that we didn’t know before, is that all of this stress during the pregnancy and the labor and delivery can cause a condition of a baby’s spine that we call subluxation. You guys hear this word a lot in our office, it’s a condition of the spine, where the normal alignment of the spine is shifted out of alignment. When the bones go out of alignment, it causes stress to the delicate parts of the nervous system. And when a nerve is under stress, the nerve transmission is altered. What does that mean? That means that if we have a subluxation here in the upper part of the neck, which is what most babies get when they’re through the birthing process or the delivery process, what that means is that alters the messages between the brain and the rest of the body, then these altered messages, make the make the person not be able to express the greatest optimum potential for health and wellness as they get older. And that leads to dysfunction in in the systems of the body, it leads to weakness in the immune system, and it certainly leads to weakness in the overall body. That’s how important your brain is.
So I’m gonna leave you on that. I know I gave you a lot of information. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, leave them in the comment box. We’d love to hear from you guys. Show us your love. And hopefully this video blesses you with a tremendous amount of value.
