Health Essentials - Why Some People Get Sick and Others Don’t
Hey everybody, Dr. Fedich here, Village Family Clinic, with a quick little story for you. I got a question today from a patient. They said, “You know, everyone in my family—there’s a lot of illnesses going around. One of my kids got sick, and my husband got sick. I slept in the same bed, I didn’t get sick, and my other kid didn’t get sick. So how does that happen?”
So, we subscribe to this germ theory. The germs are all around us—they surely are—but germs are all over your body all the time. So why would one person get sick and another not? There are two philosophies in chiropractic that really explain this well.
One is a little more crude: the rats and the dumpster. So think of a dumpster out there. There are rats crawling all around this dumpster, right? Now these rats are taking over, they’re really getting in the way, so the city comes in and puts a bunch of rat poison down. That’ll kill the rats, right? The rats will be gone after they put the poison down, but what happens in a couple of months? The rats come back, right?
Why do the rats come back? You killed the ones that were there, but the poison just killed the rats—you didn’t clean up the dump. So it attracts more rats to come in. Kind of the same thing with some antibiotics and stuff, right? If your body, your immune system, is weakened, you get sick, antibiotics kill the germs, but then you get sick again. We all have that friend or family member who’s getting sick all the time. That’s because the body is not in shape, the immune system’s not able to fight off these germs, and we’re just putting poison in to kill the rats and not cleaning up the dump.
The other analogy is very similar, maybe a little less crass: the fish tank. You’ve got a fish in a fish tank, and the tank is filthy. It’s dirty, germs everywhere. You haven’t cleaned it in months—just filthy—and the fish gets sick. So we go to the pet store, get a couple drops, get rid of whatever’s making the fish sick, right? But the same thing happens. A couple of weeks, a couple of months later, the fish is sick again. You give it more drops, the fish is sick again.
It’s not that the fish needs more medicine—it’s that the tank is dirty. And what I’m trying to tell you is the human body works the same way. If our immune system’s not in great shape, if we’re not taking care of ourselves, if we don’t have proper spinal alignment, these things tend to happen.
I’m standing by our nerve path chart here. Everybody knows if you pinch a nerve in the back, you get sciatica. We’ve all had a friend with that, right? You pinch a nerve in the back, it lights up the nerves—sciatica. Most of us probably had a friend pinch a nerve in the neck as well, and you get pain, tingling in the hands. That kind of makes sense too, right?
Now if you pinch a nerve in the upper neck, you get headaches—we treat that all day. That makes sense. But what people forget is that these nerves go everywhere. The nerves come out of the spine and go to every cell, tissue, and organ in the body. They go to your heart, your lungs, your reproductive organs, your bowels. People have trouble going to the bathroom when they’re older.
So we all know if you pinch a nerve in the back, you get leg pain, and the chiropractor unpinches that nerve. But the same thing happens with other nerves, right? If you’re pinching the nerve that goes to your lungs, you might have trouble breathing, and you might not know that’s something a chiropractor can help you with. Same thing with digestive problems—I see digestive problems get better with chiropractic every day. If you’re having irritation to the nerve that goes to the stomach, we unpinch that nerve, get some pressure off there, and the digestive system can get better.
Same thing with the immune system. If those nerves aren’t flowing 100% between the brain and the body, it can impair immune function, and people will keep getting sick.
So this time of year, there are a lot of illnesses going around, a lot of people are sick. It’s really important to maintain your body—proper nutrition, proper hydration, proper vitamins, proper chiropractic care. Make sure you get 100% nerve power from your brain to every cell, tissue, and organ in the body. Clean up your immune system, your reproductive system, all that stuff, and we don’t want to end up with big problems when we get older down the road.
So it’s really important to maintain your spinal health. Send this video to someone you know, and we can help them with the problem as well.
