HEART HEALTH

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, there is no better time to talk about Heart Health. 

First we need to recognize the significance of heart disease in our culture!

• About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year (1 in every 4 deaths).
• Heart disease is a leading cause of death for both men and women.
• Coronary heart disease alone costs the United States $108.9 billion each year.

Since 1984, more women than men have died each year from heart disease. Heart disease is a major killer of women. Yet only 56 percent of American women realize that heart disease is one of their greatest health threats. In fact, among both men and women the first symptom of a heart problem is very often a heart attack!

So, the numbers are in and they are shocking. It’s time for everyone to now know that the spine plays an important role in allowing full function to the heart and vascular system.

"No doctor can directly affect heart" function without drugs or surgery more than a Chiropractor!” –Dr. Dan Sullivan

It is well understood that stress plays an integral role in our health and quality of life.

The same way a cat arches its back when threatened or afraid, this “defense posture” happens to us when we’re stressed. Our heads pull forward and shoulders become rounded with tailbone tucked.

This creates alterations and stretching in the position or movement of the spinal cord and vertebrae (called vertebral subluxations by Chiropractors) and alters blood chemistry through changes in a small part of the brain known as the hypothalamus. When a person is subluxated, they have an increased release of stress hormones into the blood. These stress hormones, referred to as catecholamines, release and trigger the “fight or flight” response. The fight or flight stress response is a direct result of increased and sustained sympathetic nervous system tone.

 IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT INCREASED SYMPATHETIC TONE IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS AND DISEASE!

Low force chiropractic adjustments reduce sympathetic tone by influencing the nervous system via the hypothalamus.

This is why studies like the 2007 research out of the Chicago-based Rush Hypertension Center achieved amazing results with blood pressure by adjusting the upper cervical spine. The evidence is clear. The science is real. The missing element is awareness!

Time to bring awareness and solutions to one of the most dangerous threats to heart disease… vertebral subluxation!