“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.”
CHIROPRACTIC CARE & BLOOD PRESSURE HEALTH BENEFITS
NO DOCTOR ‘TREATS’ BLOOD PRESSURE… your body effectively regulates blood pressure based on the tonicity of the SYMPATHETIC nervous system. In a state of DESTRESS, i.e. if a tiger was in the room with you, your body will move its physiology into a state of MAXIMUM FIGHT OR FLIGHT TONE, where it will either be ready to fight the tiger, or flee from it at all costs. If the body is constantly in a state of STRESS, the vasoconstricting signals of the sympathetic nervous system can become a dominant tone. When we can REMOVE THE NERVOUS SYSTEM INTERFERENCE and allow the body to more accurately perceive its environment, the body is able to DESTRESS and move into a PARASYMPATHETIC, VAGUS NERVE TONE, where the body is able to REST, DIGEST, REPRODUCE, BALANCE HORMONES, SLEEP, REPAIR, and REGENERATE.
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