Sudden Cardiac Death

New research in the Neurocardiac field is showing that sudden unexpected heart attacks from disruptive life events in seemingly healthy individuals is directly related to the nervous systems influence over the heart.

It seems that a sudden increase in stimulation too the nervous system will cause elevation in catecholemines, which is a stress hormone. This increased level of hormone has a toxic effect on direct contact with heart tissue and is what causes the attack to occur.

These disruptive life events were categorized the following way:
1) Collapse or Death of a close person
2) Acute Grief
3) Threat of loss of a close person
4) During mourning or an anniversary
5) Loss of status or self-esteem
6) Personal danger or threat of injury
7) After danger is over
8) Reunion or triumph

All were said to involve overwhelming excitation, giving up, or both.

A lack of balance in the body's ability to deal with stress has serious implications and consequences. It is directly related to how your brain and spinal cord transmit information. If there is interference to this information then there will be inappropriate responses. Sudden Cardiac Death is an inappropriate response to the disruptive life events listed above.

1) MA Samuels, The Brain-Heart Connection (part 1), Contemporary Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, Circulation. 2007;116:77-84.

Interesting Fact About the Brain

The weight of your brain is only about 3% of your total body weight, yet it uses 20% of your energy.

Stress, The Nervous System, and Immunity

Stress will activate your autonomic nervous system, and lead to an increase in stress hormones being released. Hormones like; epinephrine, nor epinephrine, and glucocorticoids. These hormones act on the immune system and increase activity and also bring the body back to base line. A short term increase in immunity will follow, but if the stress is prolonged then an actual decrease in immunity will occur and possibly lead to auto immune disease.

In fact long term exposure or elevated levels of glucocorticoids(stress hormones) has been linked to a host of problems. Too name a few...fatigue, muscle atrophy, diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, reproductive decline, and immune suppression.

Do you know how your nervous system is reacting to stress and how that is effecting your body? Do you want to find out? Call Now 734-244-4383. Or visit our website www.chiromonroe.com

Pain and the Nervous System

The only reason you percieve pain is due to the Nervous System. As a matter of fact, pain or any symptom for that matter is simply the manifestation of an unbalanced Nervous System. The more unbalanced you are the more suseptable to illness and injury you become.

If you would like to discuss this matter further and how it applies to your health: call for a free consultation 734-244-4383.

Stress and Cholesterol

Long term stress plays a serious role in cholesterol levels. This is how...stress be it real or perceived causes the release cholesterol from the liver into the blood stream. Why? If your brain perceives a threat it prepares and calls into action a host of physiologic responses. One of the responses is to prepare for bleeding, or to stop bleeding. Cholesterol contains sticky platelets, and this is what your body uses to stop bleeding and form clots. This response occurs whether you are actually getting ready to fight a bear or you get cut off on the way to work. The degree of the response is what matters. So you can feel free to eat all the egg yolks you want, but take a minute to relax, breath, and get into the chiropractor to get your nervous system balanced. At our office we actually measure how your nervous system is responding to stress. Call for a consultation 734-244-4383.

Muscles have memory?

This is something you here pretty often. And at first glance seems plausible. We have all worked out or practiced something for a period of time and stopped for whatever reason. Then gone back to working out and it doesn't take as long to get back in shape or regain your form.

I have often heard this is due to muscle memory. The truth is muscles don't have memory. There isn't a little brain in each muscle storing information for each action. It's your brain and nervous system that creates a pathway or neuronal network that remembers the task performed. The pathway is what is remembered by the brain. This is why it is easier to get in shape the second time around.

Great Quote

"While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment." ~ BJ Palmer, DC

Our genes are expressed according to the environment, not by random chance. So most diseases are largely lifestyle related and thus can be avoided by making better decisions.