Boosting Your Immune System Naturally

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Boosting Your Immune SystemNaturally

• Presenter, Joe Family Chiropractic
• Writer, Dr. Gary Brodeur

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• What lies behind us and what lies before us are
  tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What Is Health?

• Whole, hale, holy
• Websters Dictionary Health is a condition of
  wholeness in which all of the organs are
  functioning at 100, all of the time
• Physical, Mental/Emotional,
• and Spiritual health

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Physical Health

• Optimal adaptation to environmental stresses,
  high resistance to disease, homeostasis,
  vitality, energy, relaxation, and ease
• When youre physically healthy all parts are
  connected structurally and work under the
  direction of your bodys innate wisdom without
  interference

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Mental/Emotional Health

• All parts of your personality (body/mind) are
  integrated (connected)
• The more connected you are with yourself the more
  you can connect with others and have fulfilling
  relationships
• The more happiness youll experience and the
  longer and healthier you will live
• An emotionally disconnected person holds pockets
  of stress (unresolved anger, fear, pain, et)
  locked up in their body which leads to chronic
  physical tension, emotional stress, and later on
  dis-ease (a precursor to disease)

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Spiritual Health

• The spiritually connected person is in harmony
  with their lifes purpose and meaning
• Follows their heart and trusts instincts
• Increasing inspiration, compassion, and intuition
• This person is closer to the love, energy, joy,
  and wisdom of their source (God, soul, universe,
  higher self, call it what you will)
• The disconnected person is out of touch with
  their deepest needs and desires and has a sense
  of isolation, loneliness, confusion and fear

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Health, Symptoms, and Adaptation

• Symptoms, although unpleasant, are signs that the
  body is struggling to adapt to stress and regain
  balance
• Adaptation Health
• Good health is a process of continuous adaptation
  to daily challenges
• Pain, fever, diarrhea sneezing, skin eruptions,
  symptoms of any kind should be regarded as
  positive responses stress

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Health, Symptoms, and Adaptation

• Suppression of symptoms drives the process deeper
  into the body and now becomes more chronic (even
  if current symptoms disappear)
• Orthodox medicine is often suppressive which
  mostly treats symptoms and leads to incomplete
  healing, deeper and more chronic conditions (You
  cant create health by treating disease)

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The Law Of The Cure(Herings Law)

• As a disease passes from an acute to chronic form
  symptoms move from the surface to the interior,
  from lower body to upper, from less vital to more
  vital organs
• In healing the movement is reversed
• only such patients remain well and are really
  cured who have been rid of their symptoms in
  reverse order of their development. C. Hering

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Flu Season

• Why is this time of year Flu Season?
• Why are many people susceptible to viruses and
  bacteria this time of year?
• Why should you avoid the flu vaccine?

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Getting Connected

• Lets now look at what you and your
• family can do to improve your
• immune function naturally.

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We Must Understand Our Bodys Vital Needs

• Food
• Water
• Air
• Nerve Supply
• How long can we last without each of the above?

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Getting ConnectedNutrition

• Prescription for nutritional healing
• Balch Balch
• Mercolas Total Health Cookbook Program
• Dr. Mercola www.mercola.com
• Better Health Through Natural Healing
• Tratler Jones

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The Importance of a Bioscan

• Measuring the carotenoid complexes in your skin
  as a biomarker for your bodys antioxidant levels.

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• Carotenoids Immunity
• A weakened immune system can wreak havoc on
  your health. Research shows that infections may
  contribute to heart disease, especially in people
  with weakened immune systems. Additionally,
  viruses are linked to some forms of cancer.
• However, research shows that carotenoids can
  help strengthen the immune system, thereby
  reducing the risk of contracting heart disease
  and cancer. In fact, science not only shows that
  carotenoids can fight the types of cancer that
  certain viruses cause, but also shows that the
  immune system plays a critical role in
  spontaneous remission of certain cancers,
  including melanoma.
• Carotenoids are also shown to provide strong
  anti-inflammatory benefits (inflammation is a
  characteristic of autoimmune disorders) in
  addition to acting as powerful antioxidants,
  which can strengthen the immune system.

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• Daily Carotenoid Complex Boosts overall immune
  function A USDA study published in The American
  Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1997) shows that
  Carotenoid Complex boosts overall immune function
  by 37 in just 20 days
• Increases natural killer cells A USDA study
  showed that Carotenoid Complex boosts the number
  of natural killer cells by 20 in just 20 days
  more than twice the effect measured with
  beta-carotene alone.

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Beating Cancer

• Our bodies fight cancer every day
• The Body Victorious

Natural killer cells eating cancer cell
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• Limit alcohol, caffeine or chocolate
• Only use medication that is vital to your
  survival (preferably reduce and eliminate)
• Sugar breaks down the immune system

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• Consume 8-12 glasses of good quality water
  daily

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Getting Connected Exercise

Theres an exercise for everyone. Move it or lose
it!
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Sleep Habits

• Quality sleep is a must
• Same time to bed and to wake

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The Chiropractic Way

• Brain and nerve system are the master system
• Your spine protects your nerve system
• There can be interference to the nerve system
  (subluxation)
• Chiropractors correct this interference
• Result on WBCs
• David Felton PhD. research

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VSC - SUBLUXATION

• Interference with nerve transmission which
  disconnects you from your inner healer and
  results in pain, symptoms, and ill health.
  Correction results in a more complete expression
  of life, love, emotions, and health on all levels

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Nobel Prize winner for brain research, Dr. Roger
Sperry, discovered that the more misalignments in
the spine, the less energy was available for
thinking, healing and metabolizing.
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90 of the stimulation and nutrition to the brain
is generated by movement of the spine.
Source Dr. Roger Sperry, Noble Prize recipient
for brain research.
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Homeopathy

• Homeopathy is a therapeutic method that uses
  natural substances in micro-doses to relieve
  symptoms. Non toxic, and three are not any
  interactions with medications.
• Working with a classical homeopath or naturopath
  is strongly recommended

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Never Underestimate The Natural Powers You Have
Been Given

• The literature suggeststhat Chiropractic
  adjustments influence T and B lymphocyte numbers,
  natural killer cell numbers, antibody levels,
  phagocytic activity and plasma endorphin
  levels. Source The effects of Chiropractic on
  the immune system a review of the literature.
  Allen JM, Chiropractic Journal of Australia,
  1993 23132-135

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An abundance of evidence is now available to show
that psychological stress in both animals and
humans can produce physiological changes that
suppress the immune system and may make us prone
to illness.
David S. Sobel, MD, MPH, The Healing Brain, A
Scientific Reader, Edited by Robert Ornstewin,
PhD and Charles Swencionis, PhD The Gilford
Press, New York, 1990
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Henry Windsor, M.D. who in one study performed
117 autopsies found a nearly 100 correlation
between minor curvatures of the spine and
disease of the internal organ.
Source Windsor, H. Sympathetic segmental
disturbances II, The evidence of the
association, in dissected cadavers, of visceral
disease with the vertebrae deformities of the
same sympathetic segments. Medical Times, Nov.
1921, 49, pp, 267-271
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The Choice is yours
Connection, wholeness, complete expression of life
Disconnection, dis-ease, ill health, stress,
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Your Action Steps

• Self care Things we can do on ourselves or
  for ourselves
• Health Care Things that we cannot do on
  ourselves or for ourselves
• Crisis Care Medication, surgery, current
  model of health care system

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A Healthy World I live in a healthy world
A world free from drugs and disease A world
free from pain and suffering A world free from
poverty and war A world free from anger and
hostility A world free from chemical imbalance
and ill mental health A world free from
vertebral subluxation I live in a healthy world
A world full of love and happiness A world
full of health and vitality A world full of
peace and harmony A world full of children
laughing and playing A world full of prosperity
and vision A world full of life and energy I
live in a healthy world