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27 October 2020

By Irati García Chiropractor · Barcelona College of Chiropractic · AEQ member

Your body is intelligent!

Your body is intelligent!

Right now, while you read these lines, your heart pumps around 5 litres of blood every minute, you breathe thousands of litres of oxygen a day and your digestive system coordinates itself to do its job, all without you having to think about it.

So then, why do I only remember my body when something goes wrong?

Nobody likes feeling unwell, but it’s worth stopping every now and then to be aware of how well made the body is. Including you.

Think about the body’s responses to an infection: mucus, coughing, fever… Each one has a purpose. Mucus creates barriers where pathogens get trapped; coughing helps expel them; fever raises the temperature and hinders their proliferation. They are defence mechanisms.

Don’t each of these responses seem incredible to you? So then, why go against our body and not in its favour?

With chiropractic we help the body’s intelligence express its full potential and do its job: so that the great power that creates the body also favours its balance and its recovery.

The body is so intelligent that it sends us signals when something isn’t working well, often before the symptoms appear. Sometimes we don’t pay attention to them, but the body doesn’t stop being intelligent.

As a chiropractor, my job is to care for the integrity of the nervous system and look for the subtle indicators that guide me to understand what your body needs:

  • Assessment of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.
  • Palpation of the spine.
  • Locating vertebral subluxations.

«It’s a wonderful place.» — Ágata García