Chiropractic In The Wild
Those of us called to be chiropractors are faced with a compelling phenomenon. While a growing percentage of people have “been” to a chiropractor, roughly 97-98.5% of the population does not go to a chiropractor.
People are growing more and more open to chiropractic. Which further emphasizes our plight. What are we missing that stops the number of committed patients from growing and instead keeps the number flat to declining?
There are several implications here:
1) For those of us that understand the life-saving value of minimizing the negative effects of sublaxation and maximizing the health of the nervous system; we are to live our lives yearning for the masses of people to make the choice to use chiropractic.
2) We realize that the families we don’t reach could be getting so much more from their lives and reach further into the future.
3) We recognize that the world could actually be a safer, healthier place if fewer people use a wait-until-a-crisis approach to wellness with chemico-physiologic manipulation as the core solution.
Generic risk of breast cancer proven again to be minimized with lifestyle!
John Hopkins University research team proves you can mitigate the risk associated with genetics. While millions have been told to fear genes linked to diseases like cancer of the breast, how you are living plays a far more significant role and allows you to remove the triggers that activate any bad genes.
The study found that women who were highest at risk due to genetic factors, but who did not smoke, had a low BMI, were non-drinkers and were not taking hormone drugs had no more risk than anyone else.
“People think that their genetic risk for developing cancer is set in stone,” senior author Nilanjan Chatterjee from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Hopkins said in a statement. “While you can’t change your genes, this study tells us even people who are at high genetic risk can change their health outlook by making better lifestyle choices such as eating right, exercising and quitting smoking.”
To develop their risk prediction model, Chatterjee and his colleagues drew upon genetic data and questionnaire information from 17,171 cases and 19,862 controls from the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3), a collection of eight prospective cohorts from Australia, Europe, and the US.”
The head researcher told us what we have already known for years, you are not doomed by your genetics,. Additionally, if you choose to address lifestyle factors, you do not have to take extreme measures such as prophylactic breast removal.
Two additional, critical points:
1) Studies show that it’s lifestyle and not genes when it comes to most every health issue. What is really encouraging is that they generally only evaluate the health benefits of a few lifestyle areas. Imagine if you also really choose the ideal nutritional path, saw a chiropractor, took the right vitamins, and actually got in shape? What would the risk become them?
2) Studies like these don’t create profits for the medical industry. Money goes into studies where the results lead to the need for expensive tests, prescription or over the counter drugs, and high-end surgeries. There is almost always negative backlash to studies like these that show you can take control of your own health, without outside in treatments,- even when they are performed by their own Johns Hopkins.
The chiropractor in the wild is the one “out there” where the just under 100% of all people live who are not under chiropractic care. The lives of the masses are roaming the wilderness, sick, subluxated, drugged, and in need of your help. In the social media, web, text era, many leave the wild and become civilized. Living in our homes and offices trying to reach the world rather than taking responsibility for the well-being of those in the wild.
You’re shopping, bowling, eating out, going to movies, attending the kids events, etc. You’re in the wild but only become a chiropractor in the wild when you see it as an opportunity to spread the word.
“Breast Cancer Genetic Risk Can Be Mitigated With Lifestyle Fixes, Researchers Say,” Genome, Web May 26,2016
