fundamentally need in order to maintain good health – are presently used as treatments to put them out. That has to change.


It is unlikely to change anytime soon, though. Nearly all manners of forward-thinking in healthcare are directed toward innovations in treatment, with one particularly noteworthy exception. Among the latest and greatest treatments in the 21st century is stem-cell therapy, which is an intriguing concept that has rapidly expanded its footprint and repute. Stem-cells are like blank tiles in Scrabble, capable of becoming any cell type that our bodies need them to be, and they are a key facet in the constant and automatic natural regeneration that takes place inside our bodies all the time; stem-cell therapy, then, aims to extract stem-cells and place them where damage has accumulated most on account of injury or breakdown. Plenty of controversy surrounds the concept, from the source of the stem-cells to the long-term safety of manipulating something as delicate as a living cell; the therapy also falls beyond the orthodox bubble, threatening to disrupt the dis- ease management system status quo and thus generally cost- ing, for a series of treatments, what the average household in America spends on healthcare all year. Nevertheless, stem-cell treatments are quietly developing a solid reputation for their benefits, and even an opponent of the therapy would have to admit that it makes far more sense to try and channel the body’s innate capacity to repair itself than to stick with the tired idea of chemical introduction to disrupt biochemistry, the hallmark premise of conventional pharmaceutics. Still, even if the proliferation of the above becomes a pil- lar for healthcare modernization in the coming decade or beyond, that it will simultaneously serve to push us collec-


tively further down the rabbit-hole of operating healthcare out of the reactive realm, focusing attention not on the efficacy of preventing disease and breakdown, but on what to do once already broken down and in a diseased state, is concerning. It is in our nature to want to understand and to want to


solve problems, but perhaps the best understanding we could ever reach is that most health problems are caused by losing a game of percentages; more stress than stress management skills, consistent interference within the body’s internal com- munication network (like putting a dimmer switch on innate functional capacity) minus the tools to eliminate the distortion, and a lifestyle described as sedentary instead of physically active exemplify how abnormal begins to overtake normal, making poor health an inevitability, the end result primarily of a long-term process of degradation rather than the by-product of bad luck or otherwise. To win the game of percentages, we have to put in the necessary effort; and victory is but a drastic mindset shift away.


Health is not something that can be manufactured; like wealth, it must be earned and continually maintained. Preven- tion of sickness alludes to well-being, the maintenance of which – in accordance with a broader definition of health inclusive of the various aforementioned foundational pieces (function, structural balance, nutrition, stress management, and exercise) – signifies a state of wellness strong enough to dramatically reduce the need for treatment protocols. In order to adopt a more preventative approach, we would need to put the responsibility for health back in the hands of the people, whose own roles have been preposterously mar- ginalized; part of the process to achieve that cultural shift would involve teaching people that they can and should trust that


causes any STRUCTURE to break down Pain


Numbness/Tingling Dizziness Arthritis Headaches


The body’s foundation is the head and


starts to break down.


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Logical. Simple.


Effective.


Triad Upper Cervical Clinic 432A W. Mountain St.,


Kernersville


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upper cervical spine. When it shifts out of balance, the body


Ignoring the FOUNDATION


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