RebuiltU #37 Over 30? Lost a step? Get your health back before it's too late.

Rebuilt U: A show about unlearning

Why 30? This is the magic age. I thought it was all BS too, but once I crossed 30 years old, I noticed more aches, more pain, less energy, and in general, a feeling of not being quite the same.

If you feel terrible and you aren't 30 years old, you have more trouble than you realize. Why? Because every decade after that gets harder, degeneration accelerates, nutritional deficiencies compound, and your ability to heal, in general, declines.

Take advantage of youth. If you are like me, and well north of 30, then life can still be great, it just takes a little more work. Hence, this 6 part series. We are going to walk through a basic plan to get most health conditions resolved.

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Take a quick look through the list above.

If you have no problems in this section, congrats. If you do, why do you think the problems exist? "Why" is the best question to ask.

For this particular section, these are all nervous system problems. What I didn't tell you on the graphic, is that there are parasympathetic and sympathetic problems mixed in. Those 2 parts of your nervous system control how you speed up and slow down your body. Are your organs running like the cartoon road runner or being dragged through the mud by a horse?

If the balance is off, you will be off.

There is a combination of chiropractic needs and nutritional problems mixed in there.

Earlier in the year, I put out a quick survey on what interests readers the most. Guess what was the run away winner? Detoxification. I'm cool with that. It's incredibly important in the modern age.

So why am I not starting with that? Well, there are two main reasons.

#1 I used to consult with people about nutrition and supplements 15 years ago. Back then, It was mainly over the phone. After 5 years of doing that, I noticed something that changed how I did everything. The people not getting adjusted by a chiropractor, even in their home towns, did significantly worse, no matter what supplements they took. Your nervous system is the master of your body. If it isn't balanced, nothing else works right.

#2 Dr. Nuzum said it best. He is a toxicologist with 7 doctorates. "If you are nutrient deficient, you are a toxic sponge." To give you an example, if you are iodine deficient, you will soak up fluorine and chlorine to block the function of iodine. That spells bad news for your thyroid. We will get to detoxification, but we have a few things to cover first and to get you ready for that.

If you have or still have problems in section one, I'll bet you want to know why? There are a lot of variables at play here. How old you are, how long the problems been there, what you eat, what your hobbies are, your work environment, your stress level, etc. It ultimately boils down to your ability to heal.

I even put a video online of a guy who was remarkably better in just a few visits, I interviewed him on his lifestyle. He ate amazing food. Two years ago, I wrote an article on accelerated healing. It was about my wife and an injury that left her unable to walk and 13 days later she ran a 1/2 marathon, on trails in Moab, Ut. What I've noticed over the years is that healing takes time. Often times, patients ability to heal is outpaced by their lifestyle, hobbies, or work stresses. When my daughter broke her leg, she needed time to heal and not be training for a 5k.

You might remember Rulon Gardner from The Biggest Loser or the Olympics. He won an Olympic gold medal against a guy who hadn't lost in 13 YEARS. He retired in 2004 and didn't take good care of himself. He ballooned up to 474 lbs over the next 8 years.

How humbling would that be? To go from the Olympics to the Biggest Loser.

Healing comes from within, right?

Do you think he's mad at the gym, or his coach, or at his spouse, because he let his body go?

Did he go to the gym just once? No, they worked him to death daily.

What if he only went to the gym every 3 months? What about every 6 months? Do you think he'd lose weight at all?

In a 2012 interview with ESPN, he said "Yet, in the end, it wasn't enough. Gardner admitted Saturday that his one regret was not focusing as much on his nutrition as he should have."

Rememeber those check boxes above?

Do you know what symptoms tell you? I know, stay with me though. They tell you something is wrong. Not only that, they tell you something is wrong enough, that your body can't deal with or adapt to it any more.

This survey section is a mixture of chiropractic specific problems and nutrition. If you aren't getting adjusted regularly, you are taking the longer, slower road to recovery. I've seen it in clinical practice over and over. This is why they've had a chiropractor head up the medical team for the Olympics. Chiropractic has saved some gold medals, but that's another story.

On the flip side, if you give no thought to your nutrition, you will never ultimately get 100% better. You will linger in the middle. This is why most people don't do very well if they don't get adjusted at least once a month. Life is busy, stressful, and hard on the body. Most people don't have the time to cook every meal or exercise every day, or go on TV and exercise your guts out and have a professional chef cook for you.

You can't go to a chiropractor once and expect it to undo 20 years of deterioration. Just like you can't go to the gym once and undo 200 lbs. of weight gain or just cook one organic meal at home and have it undo eating fast food all week. The laws of thermodynamics can't be ignored, the farther you drift from being healthy, the more work it takes to get back. The good news is that Rulon proved you can get back.

If you are struggling with section one, talk to me in the office or send me an email, because I can't give specific advice in this format.

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