09/16/2026
A Partial Understanding of Disease
Disease is not a normal function. Production of cancer cells is not normal. Creation of an autoimmune disease, as asthma, is not normal. Those are created by the body, but only in response to some stress.
The body needs a stimulus to do anything. Heat/cold, chemicals, physical force, mental stress. Without stimulus, nothing can happen. The body sees no need to make a change. For a ‘disease’ to occur there needs to be an initiator and a continual stressor. It’s the continual stressors over time, or one gigantic initial stressor that push the body so deep beyond it’s ‘normal’ adaptive capability, to where its adaptive physiology becomes problematic, maybe even a disease condition. A two-minute cold plunge stressor can stimulate the body for productive, adaptive mechanisms without major damage. A shiver here, some dopamine here, some contracting of the vessels there, and then it’s over. And most people will recover nicely, with an adaptive capability to do it longer next time. An hour cold plunge stressor may stimulate the body’s adaptive physiology so much and lead to things that are permantly chaged. Same initial reaction, shiver, contracting blood vessels, and give enough time, frostbite, hypothermia, things that the body may not be able to recover from. Same stress, one seemingly good adaptive stress, the other, well, the adative response can kill. I highly doubt one cigarette will cause anyone cancer. However, the continued barrage of ci******es and adaption of the cells to survive in a highly unnatural smoky environment may cause those ‘adaptive’ cancer cells in the lungs to not absorb O2 very well. In that case, the lung cells can survive, just not work as usual.
Health is normal. Stress beyond a point pushes the body to a point where symptoms of disease are evident. The pathology is not normal; it is a response. Intelligent enough to save your life, but deadly enough if too severe or left to go on and on. If you can apply this to your daily habits of how the body is responding to your environment, you’ll notice the tremendous benefits in your later years, when a lifetime of decisions will catch up to you. Chiropractic helps ensure the body’s adaptive response is normal. Stress causes Fight or Flight. Muscle tension always ensues, even in an unnoticeable way sometimes, or maybe with the case of cold, a shiver. The squeezing of the muscles causes the nerves of the spine to have stress. Once the stress is gone, if that joint cannot come back to a normal articulating position, that FoF response, the ‘adaptive’ response will still be there, leading further to an adaptive physiology response. Removing that nerve interference with chiropractic adjustments will allow more normal function to result.
