Raise Your Hand if You're a Genius in Burlington

Dr. Judy Campanale

Did your hand go up? It certainly should have!!! You ARE a genius. Yes, YOU!!! You are a GENIUS!!! You don't believe me? Well let our team at High Point Chiropractic in Burlington prove it to you!!!

What did you have for breakfast this morning? Maybe an egg or some cereal or a piece of toast? Maybe you had a super good for you breakfast with vegetables and protein. Or maybe you had a not-so-good for you breakfast with a lot of sugar and junk. Either way, your body right now is taking whatever you put into it and turning it into the building blocks of your body. It's making heart tissue and lung tissue and muscle tissue.

Isn't that amazing!?! Whatever you ate this morning is being transformed into YOU. From an egg Mcmuffin into eyeball tissue. From CooCoo for Cocoa puffs into stomach tissue. From a bagel and cream cheese into blood cells. From orange juice into… orange you glad I'm not going to go on forever with these!?!

All kidding aside, that's how smart your body is. Now that doesn't mean you can just eat a bunch of junk. The better the food you eat, the better your body can work. But the truth is your body is SO smart, it will try to make good stuff out of whatever you put in it and it does that all the time without you ever even thinking about it. If that isn't genius I don't know what is!!!

Your stomach produces acid, known as hydrochloric acid, up to 2.5 quarts a day!!! The acid's job is to break down the food you eat. The amazing thing about this stomach acid is that it so strong that one drop of it on your skin would leave a painful blister, yet it doesn't harm the inside of your stomach at all.

Your body can do all of this because it talks to itself using your nerve system. Your brain talks to your stomach and your digestive system and it breaks down the food you eat, then keeps the good stuff and gets rid of the rest. The better your brain and nerve system can talk to your parts, the better your digestion is.

Sometimes, the bones of your spine can misalign because of things you do every day. Those misalignments can distort the communication between your brain and your body parts, then things might not work as well as they should or could. Your chiropractor will check your spine for these (called vertebral subluxations) and restore the communication whenever necessary so you can be the Genius you were meant to be. Call our outstanding team at High Point Chiropractic in Burlington today to become a healthier you!

Provided by Pathways to Family Wellness magazine, published by ICPA, Inc. For more information visit: www.pathwaystofamilywellness.org and www.icpa4kids.org.