THE FOUR ESSENTIALS OF HEALTH

Health is something that we are given at birth and it should be maintained throughout our 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. When we buy a brand new car, we get a manual to maintain it. This tells us how to make the car last the longest possible time and run at its optimum potential with minimal problems. Yet when children are born, there is no manual in the “glove compartment” to know “when to change the oil”, rotate the tyres and get a tune up. In other words, we are not taught what to maintain and how to maintain it. To understand our highest optimal health potential we first have to know what the essentials of health are.

To understand the essentials of health we need to understand the essentials for life. The basic physiological essentials for survival are as follows:

FOOD -- WATER -- OXYGEN -- NERVE SUPPLY

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.

WATER: (Fluids) – seventy five percent of your body is water. It is used for almost every body reaction. If you stop fluid intake you will die. If you drink unhealthy fluids (caffeine, alcohol, additives, preservatives) 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 (generating these electrical impulses) you would die. In fact in order to be legally dead, the brain impulse must stop. If you severed the nerve to your heart would it stop? How about your stomach, lungs or hand? What if you just interfered with normal nerve transmission? Would these organs and tissues function at their optimum potential?

One of the major causes of nerve interference is misalignment of the spine commonly termed by chiropractors as subluxation . Subluxations can interfere with the nerve, the spinal chord and reflex nerve pathways resulting in abnormal function and a lowered health potential. If your spine is subluxated you cannot be at your optimal health potential regardless of how good your food, water and oxygen are, because you are still interfering with one of the essentials of life and health.