NEWS WEEK MAGAZINE reported in its March 28, 1994 issue that “antibiotics had been bested by bacteria, the most primitive organisms on earth.”

Dr Stuart Levy, of Tufts University Medical School, states in his book, The Antibiotic Paradox, that “the rise of drug resistant bacteria is unparalleled in recorded biological history.”¹

“Superbugs, as these antibiotic resistant bacteria are called, acquire a trait that fights back against the antibi­otic making the microbe resistant to the drug;” he adds.¹

While antibiotics may cause your symptoms to temporarily disappear, they will almost assuredly leave behind a host of superbugs in your system. Because your body cannot readily fight off these superbugs, there is a strain placed on your immune system and you can actually develop an acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Sixty to seventy thousand people die each year from these types of infections, which cost an estimated $4.5 billion.²

“Children are especially at risk, for kids get sick more often than any­one else,” says Melinda Marshall in her article, “Warning: Antibiotics Could Endanger Your Child.”³

The use and abuse of antibiotics continue despite numerous objections to the practice, well demonstrated lack of efficacy and growing concerns about antibiotic resistance.⁴ In fact, the Lancet found that in the treatment of ear infections in young children, antibiotics made no difference in the clinical course, pain, temperature and duration of discharge; when compared with the children that received no treatrnents.⁵

Our obsession to treat these viral and bacterial infections with antibi­otics, rather than allow the body to heal itself is coming back to haunt us. One woman had such a severe reaction to a newly approved antibiotic, Omniflox, that she “nearly died from the side effects.”⁶

IMMUNE SYSTEM RESPONSE

While the most talked about acquired immune deficiency syn­drome is AIDS, superbugs caused by the indiscriminate use of antibiotics are far more devastating. In comparison to the 60,000 to 70,000 deaths a year from superinfection, the Centers for Disease Control reports that AIDS killed 31,256 people in 1995.⁷ No wonder people are doing all they can to stay away from hospitals and doctors eager to prescribe a pill, and are flocking to chiropractors and other holistic healers in record num­bers.

Rather than just treating the symptoms when their children get sick, parents are now seeking ways to provide wellness care for their fami­lies, so they can stay healthy and naturally keep their immune systems as strong as possible. Recent scientific dis­coveries about the nerve sys­tem controlling the immune system have enhanced the movement of people away from allopathic medicine toward chiropractic.

David Felten, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurobi­ology and anatomy at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, recent­ly discovered “nerve fibers going into virtually every organ of the immune system and forming direct contacts with the immune system cells.”

“Much to our surprise” Felten remarked, “we found that if you took the nerves away from the spleen or the lymph nodes, you virtually stopped immune responses in their tracks.”⁸

An article in the May 13, 1993 issue of the New York Times, entitled “Nerve Cells Tied To Immune System,” reported that, “Scientists have found the first evidence of an anatomical connection between the nervous system and the immune sys­tem.”⁹

“Nerve cell endings in the skin and white blood cells of the immune system are in intimate contact, and chemicals secreted by the nerves can shut down immune system cells nearby,” Dr Craig Elmets stated. “This could explain the connection between the nerve system and the immune system that we've all been looking for.”⁹

While medical specialists and scientists are excited about these findings because it is opening a new avenue of research for them to explore, chiropractors are saying that's exactly what we've been claim­ing for over 100 years.

While the medical community is just beginning to explore the relation­ship between the nerve system and the immune system, chiropractors have been mastering this relationship and providing true health and well-ness care to millions of people for over 100 years. Gravity existed long before the apple fell on Isaac Newton's head.

UNLOCKING THE INNATE INTELLIGENCE

Human beings, like all other liv­ing things, are self-healing and self-perpetuating organisms guided and directed by an inner or innate intelli­gence. This innate intelligence is in every cell of your body and is responsible for your health and wellness.

The brain is the head­quarters of this innate intelligence and is the primary organ of the immune system. The brain controls and coor­dinates every cell tissue and organ of your body via communication over the spinal cord and the nerve system. Mind body health care is based entirely on this premise.

This innate intelli­gence, within you, is responsible for your body creating 8,000,000 new red blood cells every second and for sending mes­sages over your nerve system at up to 300 miles per hour. ¹⁰  When this sys­tem is functioning at 100 percent without interference, your body has the ability to heal itself from any dis­ease known to mankind, even cancer.

In fact, Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology states that your body produces cancer cells every day, but the reason everyone doesn't get cancer is that the cancer cells are destroyed by the immune system.¹¹  Since your immune system is controlled by your nerve system, you must keep your nerve system healthy to reach your true health potential.

Scientific research has discovered a condition, known as the vertebral subluxation com­plex (VSC) which causes dis-ease and disharmony in the body by inter­fering with nerve system func­tion, draining life energy.  Because VSC is epidemic in our stressful, high-tech society, it is causing sickness, pain and disease in millions of unsuspecting people and limiting the quality of life in our society.

CHIROPRACTIC PATIENTS RESPOND BETTER

Responsible pediatricians are cautious about prescribing antibiotics and actually recommend chiro­practic.  World famous author and pediatrician Dr Robert Mendelsohn stated that, "Chiropractors will never be as busy as they could and should be."¹²

Dr. Jeff Abrams, a well-known Atlanta pediatrician, is very responsible about this issue He stated that, “Antibiotics are prescribed much too quickly by many pediatricians more to appease the parents than for the benefit of the child, Most of the time, the body will heal itself and the child's immune system will get stronger for it. Chiropractic care removes inter­ference in the nerve system and helps the body to heal itself”

Recent research, comparing the health of 200 chiropractors' children and 200 medical doc­tors' children, found that in the medical group there was a 19 percent no occurrence rate of ear infections, as compared to a 79 percent no occurrence rate for the chiropractic kids.¹³

Additional research on HIV positive patients revealed that those who received chiropractic care showed a 48 percent increase in CD4 blood cells, compared to the group that did not receive chiropractic care These are huge statistical differ­ences.¹⁴

All the families in our com­munity need to take heed and learn all they can about true wellness.   As we all work together to stop the rampant abuse of antibiotics and other legal drugs, our community will become healthier.  Shop for new doctors and health-care spe­cialists who are wellness orient­ed and can provide drug-free care for your family.  Join with me as I work one family at a time to help create a healthier drug-free world.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Dr. Johnson and the Chiropractic & Nutrition Wellness Center also have available in the Children’s Chiropractic Information Center articles on children’s health challenges (ADD/ADHD, Hyperactivity, vaccines, trauma, antibiotics, ear infections, and more).

Call for more information.

 (586) 731-8840 or (586) 726-KIDS

References

1.       Begley,  S., "Antibiotics The End of Miracle Drugs,”  Newsweek, March 28, 1994.

2.       "Special Report," New England Journal of Medicine, April 28, 1994, p. 1248.

3.       Marshall, M., "Warning Antibiotics Could Endanger Your Child."

4.       Cook, A., The Top 10.

5.       Van Buchan, Dunk, Van't Hof, "Therapy of Acute Otitis Media, ”The Lancet, October 24, 1981.

6.       Golden, D., "Stakes High in Clinical Drug Trials.” Boston Globe, January 6, 1994.

7.       Centers for Disease Control, AIDS Deaths, Surveillance Report, annual., No.134.

8.       Moyers, B, Healing and the Mind, p.213-214.

9.       Kolata, G, "Nerve Cells Tied To Immune System:' New York Times, May 13, 1994.

10.     Dowling and Tsioaras, "Body voyage,” Life Magazine, Feb.1997.

11.     Guyton, A., Textbook  of Medical Physiology, WB. Saunders Company, 6th Edition,  p..38.

12.     Barge, F, One cause, One Cure, 1996, p.38.

13.     Breda, W. and  J., "A Comparison Study,” Journal of Chiropractic Research, Summer, 1989.

14.     Selano, Hightower, Pfleger, Peeley, Collins, Grostic, "The Effects of Upper Cervical        Adjustments on the CD4 Counts of HIV Positive Patients,”  Chiropractic Research  Journal, Vol.3, No. 1, 1994.