Symptoms

What are symptoms? What is health? Simple and scientific answers.

Let’s see what the dictionary has to say about symptoms:

A sign or an indication of disorder or disease, especially when experienced by an individual as a change from normal function, sensation, or appearance.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Scientific: Symptoms are the body’s means of communicating or expressing an alteration of normal function to a state of compensation or adaptation to stressors. It is important to note that symptoms are not the causal agent for manifesting the adaptive physiology expressed by the individual. Rather, the symptoms are the innate expression of the body’s intelligence as it adapts to endogenous or exogenous stimuli.

Simple: Symptoms are the body’s normal response. They are simply telling you that you are doing something wrong. Symptoms are not a mistake. The body is working perfectly when you have symptoms.

Scientific: Symptoms are a necessary and required response for the full expression of health in a person experiencing dis-ease. Dis-ease is the natural response to the internal environment of the body adapting to an external stress; bacteria, virus, sedentary lifestyle, poor quality food, etc.

Simple: Symptoms are the response of the body to physical, chemical, and emotional stress.

Scientific: All nociceptors are free nerve endings that have their cell bodies outside the spinal column in the dorsal root gangliaand are named based upon their appearance at their sensory ends. Nociceptors can detect mechanical, thermal, and chemical stimuli, and are found in the skin and on internal surfaces such as the periosteum or joint surfaces. Deep internal surfaces are only weakly supplied with pain receptors and will propagate sensations of chronic, aching pain if tissue damage in these areas occurs.

Nociceptors do not adapt to stimuli. In some conditions, excitation of pain fibers becomes greater as the pain stimulus continues, leading to a condition called hyperalgesia.

Simple: Nociceptors are cells that detect negative stress. If you numb your nociceptors with drugs, herbs, potions, or lotions, while continuing with the stresses causing nociceptive activity, the body will react more strongly to these stimuli. Hyperalgesia means that normal pain stimuli are causing a greater than normal pain response.

What all this means is that symptoms are good. They are one of the ways that the body communicates to your aware conscious mind. Symptoms spur us on to take action.

However, waiting for symptoms before taking action is living a mechanistic lifestyle. The “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,” mentality that sets the stage for degenerative or chronic problems that rear their heads up later in life just isn’t working. Living a life where one embraces change and improvement on a daily basis empowers the individual to express health and vitality. Just “getting by” day-to-day is irresponsible and has a lasting impact on the person and their family.

Chiropractic adjustments address the presence of subluxations in the nervous system. Nothing else does. Everyone should be checked on a regular basis to ensure they are not subluxated. Get checked today and live a life free of subluxations.