SLCSAW #22 Even the super healthy need to watch their backs

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She does yoga, exercises almost daily, she eats better than you do, lectures on health to 1000's of people, she's written a book on health, all doctor's should read. Heck, I even contributed to the book. She runs a health food store. She's spent most of her life dedicated to health and helping others when no one else will. This lady may be one of the healthiest ladies in the Salt Lake Valley.

What can be wrong?

She has a severely degenerative spine and she suffers from a common human trait, procrastination and a little bad luck. Oh, yeah I forgot, she doesn't have any pain...until I touch one spot on her spine. So walking around she feels great. But, she knew chiropractic can improve health, so she has been going for years and years.

Now, you might be thinking, why the heck didn't a lot of chiropractic adjustments help, or the yoga, or the exercise, or the rockin' diet?

Actually, I'm pretty sure they did. I think she'd be in very serious trouble and possibly in a wheelchair if she hadn't. That's how severe some of the degeneration is. Let me back up, You're probably thinking, "what's so bad?"

When degeneration happens the nervous system itself is affected and that can alter the function of any part of your body at the other end. Think, your organs, your hands, your feet, your brain, etc.

Back in the 1920's a medical doctor (Dr. Harry Windsor) studied 50 cadavers "to determine whether any connection existed between minor curvatures of the spine, on the one hand, and diseased organs on the other."

In these 50 cadavers there were 139 diseased organs. He traced 128 of those diseased organs to a curve in the spine, directly.

So what went wrong?

This one time being health conscious hurt her. She didn't want xrays. I don't really blame her, the radiation isn't good for you. I could tell there was something wrong, and over a year ago asked her to get some xrays to see what was going on. There are times the benefits outweight the risks.

Guess what...she finally got them done. (with a little extra pressure :)

I now knew why she could never get better and her spine was wearing out at an accelerated rate. She was born with a nearly 2cm short leg. Her whole pelvis was dropping to one side. Her spine is sitting on a slant and has no chance of EVER being straight, unless she wears a heal lift. That's why yoga, exercise, or chiropractic could never fully fix it.

This would be like if your new neighborhood hired the crappiest cement contractor and when they put in your sidewalks they all sloped to the right 2 inches. It would be annoying to walk on.

or...

This is like driving your car on misaligned tires FOREVER. You would be mad that you have to replace your tires every year, but you CAN replace your tires. Your spine is not replaceable.

This is continued online, the xrays are worth seeing. There's much more on our blog SLCSAW.com