Principle #17 states that every effect has a cause and every cause has effects. This relates to many aspects of biochemistry in the body. An example of this is insulin and glucagon regulation of blood sugar. This cause and effect system has a important function and if one is missing, the whole system is thrown off.

When you are hungry your glucagon levels are low and after you have eaten your blood sugar levels (glycogen levels) are high. If blood glucose levels are high it causes insulin to be secreted. If blood glucose levels are low, not insulin is secreted. If blood glucose levels are low it causes glucagon to be released. If blood glucose levels are high, no glucagon is secreted. Each cause has an effect in these systems. After you eat, your food is converted to glucose and sent through the bloodstream, which causes your blood glucose levels to increase. Since too much glucose in the blood stream is bad, insulin is secreted to take the glucose from the bloodstream to the cells to be used as energy. If there is excess glucose, it gets stored as glucagon. This glucagon is then converted back to glucose and can be used for energy between meals when the body is hungry. This cause and effect system ensures that your body always has energy.

When this system is thrown off and insulin is not secreted it results in diabetes. This is also a version of cause and effect. The system’s cause is insulin not being secreted to regulate blood glucose levels and this leads to the effect: diabetes. The body has regular functions (causes and effects) that are normal and external environmental factors can alter these functions. This relates to chiropractic because if you introduce thoughts, traumas, and toxins into the body it can cause a negative effect on the body’s functions. Likewise when you add too much sugar to the body it can cause and abnormal effect of the body ceasing to secrete insulin. Every cause has an effect and every effect has a cause.

 

 

I consider myself to be a healthy person and health and wellness has always been a passion of mine. By being a student at Sherman College of Chiropractic and learning more about health, someday I will be able to spread my knowledge from personal experiences as well as the knowledge I acquire at Sherman and long after with my patients and community. It is my belief that everything we need within our lives exists within the natural world and all we have to do is be open to believing it. I want to help as many people as I can realize that happiness, health, and healing can all be grouped together and by keeping our bodies functioning at the optimal level as naturally as possible will lead us all to living our best lives.

We do not need medicine because it is not within the natural world. Although, it is temporarily taking away the problem, it is harming your body in the long run, not healing it. I believe nutrition, exercise, sleep, and chiropractic are the most important aspects of maintaining health. If you are having a health problem, you should look within. You need to be self reflective and think about what you could do better to improve your health. Health problems do not occur without reason, it your body’s call for help and it should not be silenced by medicine because it will later cause further issues.

The reason why I want to be a chiropractor is to enlighten others that everything we need in life exists within the natural world if we are open to utilizing it. Chiropractic is one piece of health. But by utilizing chiropractic you are igniting your nervous system and allowing it to function properly. I want to change people’s perception of the world about putting health, success, opportunity, healing, longevity, and happiness into a positive light. We have the control. I believe the fate of our lives is in our hands. Your perception of the world is your reality. The world is yours if the making. I want to give people this epiphany.