How to Slow the Aging Process | Chiropractor for Anti Aging in Manahawkin, NJ
Hey everybody, its Dr. Nicole Bonner with Healing Hands of Manahawkin. Did you know that your spine can age faster physiologically than what you are chronologically? Yeah, it’s true. The spine has the potential to age or breakdown. Some people call it spinal degeneration. Have you ever heard that term before? I’m sure that you have. It’s very commonly used in the medical world. So what is all of this about?
How Your Spine Integrates With The Rest of Your Body
Well, first of all, your spine is literally your body’s lifeline, it runs right through the center of you, your spine has two really important jobs to do for you. This is why it’s your lifeline. Number one, it’s responsible for holding up your body Lee, that’s what we call your posture. So the stronger your spine is, the better posture a person will have, the weaker your spine is, well, then it loses its ability to hold up your body weight. So that’s why a person will have poor posture. Okay, so then what happens is your spine also is responsible for housing and encasing your spinal cord. Now, your spinal cord is essential for life in your body. Let me tell you why your brain controls everything in your body, and your brain is an electrical organism, isn’t it? Another words, there’s literally electricity that flows through the brain and through your nervous system, in order to be able for the brain to communicate with the body. That’s how the body controls control itself. That’s how that’s how the brain controls the body.
Your Brain, Your Spine and Organ Function
So the brain is responsible for organ function, the brain is responsible for cellular function, the brain is responsible for healing of the tissue, the brain is responsible for your expression of DNA, believe it or not, the brain is responsible for the movement and the strength in your arms and your legs. And your brain is also responsible for the chemistry balance within your body. And your brain handles all of this simultaneously through the nervous system through the spinal cord. So the way that this happens is the brain sends electrical messages over the spinal cord. And those messages flow over the spinal cord, just like electricity would flow through an electrical wire, when and then those electrical messages exit the spine in between the spinal bones, when they try and those messages travel over smaller nerves to all the different parts of the body. Every cell in your body relies upon that energy or that information from your brain to keep you alive. That’s what keeps you alive.
The Aging Process of Our Spines
So if you think in terms of the aging process, and you had a scale, where one end of the scale was totally alive, when the other end of the scale was totally dead, right? We’re somewhere in between, either are more alive, which is what we call being healthy, or we’re more dead, which is what we call being diseased and being and having illness right being ill, which results in a poor quality of life and which results in the body aging faster physiologically, then what you are chronologically. Well, nobody wants their body to age faster. So what does the spine have to do with this? Well, your spine has an aging process as well. You see when when you have different stresses or different traumas they can be a trauma, like a fall or a fender bender, or it could be something less dramatic, like repetitive, repetitive stress, like sitting at your computer or sleeping at night the wrong way. Shoot, sometimes people patients come in and they complain that they’ve got misalignments in their spine because they slept with their pet. How many of you guys have pets that you sleep with? And they cause you to be all contorted when you sleep? Right? I love my pet but I don’t sleep with them because I don’t want to get subluxations right?
Stresses on Spinal Bones Causing Subluxations
So anyway, when when we have these different stresses, it causes the spinal bone to shift out to shift out of the head of their normal alignment. And when they just they don’t just move gently out of the normal alignment. They move out of alignment, they get stuck there. They get stuck like they move out but they can’t move back. It’s like being stuck. It’s like a car being stuck in park. Okay. And when this happens, that misalignment in the spine causes stress to the nervous system it slows the whole nervous system down which ultimately slows your body out, which ultimately leads to the faster aging process of the body. But what it also does is it causes the joint in between the spinal bones to also age faster and break down. And and what that means when your spine gets stuck like that. That means that those joints are aging, we’re breaking down faster physiologically than what the than the age of the spine is chronologically if you could follow that, right. So that means that the spine is becoming degenerative.
Spinal Degeneration is Not Normal
Now, some times I hear from people like, they’ll say to me, Well, I know I have joint degeneration, but that’s normal. That’s not normal. If you had normal motion in your spine, you would not have degeneration. So the breakdown process and the accelerated aging process of anything in your body, including your spine is not a normal, healthy process. Now, it may be common in a group of people maybe that are not doing the things that they’re supposed to be doing to take care of their health. Because if you’re not taking care about your health, and if you’re not taking care of your spine, just like common sense would tell you things are going to break down in age faster than what they’re supposed to. You know, I’ll leave you with one quick story. You probably didn’t know this, but Jacquelene who was a fitness guru, so probably gonna be 47 here tomorrow, and so I’m assuming if you’re probably in your 40s, certainly 50s or 60s, you know who Jacqueline is? Well, by trade, most people don’t know this but Jacqueline was a chiropractor, and he knew something that other fitness gurus did not know. And he knew the power and the importance of having a strong healthy spine, healthy spinal cord and healthy nervous system. When Jacquelene was 86 years old. He was still running marathons, he was still running marathons.
So chronological age is not as important as physiological age, physiological age is the performance that your body has and that healing hands, we have a model and that model is to live your life limitless. There are no limits to what you can do and who you can be, what you can have, then you can certainly slow that physiological aging process down almost to a halt.
