The Four Essentials of Health!

 

Health is something you are given at birth and it should be maintained throughout your lifetime.  Unfortunately, we are never taught what we need for health and what specifically needs to be maintained.  We are all born with a genetic health potential.  If we understand what can interfere with that potential we can avoid such interferences and keep it at its highest level.

 

To understand the essential of health we need to understand the essential of life.  Many things could come to mind in different categories such as physiological, psychological, or social.  However, in terms of basic physiological essentials for survival we can name four.

      

FOOD                         WATER                      OXYGEN                   NERVE IMPULSE

 

 

What makes these essential is that if nay of them were to stop, you would die.  If any of these were interfered with, your health would not be at its optimum potential.

 

 

Food:   Food is the fuel and building block for growth and reproduction of cells and tissues.  It consists of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.  If any of these were to stop you would die.  If their balance is interfered with your health potential would not be at its optimum.  For example, if you ate high fat or sugar foods (French fries, doughnuts, etc.) what would be the possible condition of your arteries in 10-20 years?  If you said closed with fat, you are probably right.  Result: lowered health potential.

 

 

 

Water:  (Fluids) – Seventy- five percent of your body is water.  It is used in almost every body reaction.  It is used in almost every body reaction.  If you drink unhealthy fluids (caffeine, alcohol, additives, preservatives, dyes, etc.) or not enough fluids, your body’s health potential is decreased. 

 

 

 

Oxygen:  Oxygen is also used in almost every reaction of the body and is carried by the pulmonary (lungs) and circulatory (blood) systems.  Interference to these systems could stop oxygen and result in death.  We should exercise and breathe deeply to increase our oxygenation to cells.  Researchers say that oxygen deprivation can cause almost anything from fatigue to cancer.  If oxygenation is not at its optimum, neither is your health potential.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nerve Impulse:  Nerve impulse is the most commonly overlooked essential for life and health.  Nerve impulse is an electrochemical charge transmitted by the brain through the nervous system to the body.  It is the life force that keeps us alive and “charged.”  All body function is dependent on this life force or brain impulse.  Cells must be electrically charged in order to vibrate and function.  If your brain stopped (generation the electrical impulses) you would die.  In fact in order to be legally dead brain impulse must stop.  If you severed the nerve to your heart, would it stop?  How about your stomach, lungs, or hands?  What if you just interfere with the normal nerve transmission?  Would these organs and tissues function at their optimum potential?

            One of the major causes for such nerve interference is a misalignment of the spine commonly termed by Chiropractors as “Subluxation.”  Subluxations can interfere with the nerve, the spinal cord and reflex nerve pathways resulting in abnormal function and a lower health potential.  If your spine is subluxated you cannot be at your optimum health potential regarding of how good your food, water, and oxygen is, because you are still interfering with one of the essentials of life and health.