Our brain is the control center of everything. It is the boss of our entire nervous system. We must provide our brain with superior care from in utero through each stage of our life.
People are living longer, but are they living better? Are they aging with vitality? The story of living longer and striving to be a centenarian is a worthless feat if the quality of those lives is compromised because of substandard health and loss of autonomy. No one wants to grow old and lose their independence! People don’t realize that brain health begins at a very young age.
Brain health is “the state of brain functioning across cognitive, sensory, social-emotional, behavioral and motor domains, allowing a person to realize their full potential over the life course, irrespective of the presence or absence of disorders.”
To ensure that people can do what they value and 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.
We can’t first look at the management of a condition once it surfaces. Instead, we must look at the epigenetics of a human being and understand the impacts of life events from birth, including:
- Birth traumas,
- The involvement of the brainstem, and
- How chiropractic care affects the trajectory of brain health for a lifetime.
Over the past two decades, chronic illness has risen at an alarming rate. In kids alone, we’ve seen ADHD and behavior problems, anxiety, depression, overall mental illness in kids, and staggering autism rates. The presence of ADHD and behavior problems in kids is currently 10-15%, anxiety is 11.6%, depression at 8.5%, overall mental illness is now affecting 1 in 6 children, and autism has increased by 241% since the turn of the century, equating to 1 out of every 44 children!
In adults, we see more strokes, migraines, dementia, meningitis, and epilepsy. Parkinson’s disease is the fastest-growing neurological disorder. Some say it’s because of “aging,” but we know better…
The presence of neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions is way too high! Why?!
Ok, back to the brain.