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Boosting Your Immune System with Chiropractic Care

As we progress through the remainder of the cold and flu season and enter allergy season, keeping yourself healthy becomes increasingly important, unless you want to spend days recovering from a cold, or worse, the flu. Our lifestyle plays a huge role in whether or not we stay healthy on a consistent basis, and it can be hard to bring the right nutrients into your daily eating regimen to assure you are boosting your immune system. Our immune system is a vital part of us staying healthy, as well as our body being able to function to its potential.

Even if you do everything in your power to avoid the germs and bacteria, there can still be unresolved weaknesses in your body that are leaving you open to common illnesses.

The solution: contact your chiropractor!!

What is the role of my Immune System?:

The immune system is the body’s line of defense designed to fight off bacterial and viral infections.  Many factors contribute to a person’s immune system’s ability to maintain optimal health.  Nutrition, exercise, posture, stress, and fatigue are important, but so is the health of your spine.  While we are in the midst of cold and flu season, let me explain how chiropractic care can support your immune system and keep you well.

How can an Adjustment Help?:

While many may associate chiropractic treatment with those that are suffering from neck or back pain, know that there are more benefits than that! Chiropractic care aides in the overall health of patients and although adjustments of the spine help in relieving the pain of those suffering from back and neck discomfort, these adjustments also aide in our immune system. Our immune system is directly connected to our spine and when it is not aligned, it may throw your entire system off track. One of the main causes of immune system problems comes from subluxations (compression of nerve pathways). Chiropractors may use a variety of spinal manipulation to help relieve this compression and in turn may boost your immune system.  Within minutes of a spinal adjustment, the white blood cell and antibody counts in your bloodstream are boosted, helping prevent you from becoming sick.

Even if your spine is in perfect alignment, you still have to keep your immune system strong and your body healthy. The doctors at Bettendorf Chiropractic Wellness Center can help you do that by recommending necessary vitamins and supplements, as well creating exercise programs that improve your overall health. There is no better way to keep your body strong than by eating healthy, sleeping well, exercising and getting adjusted. For more information on how to maintain healthy immune and nervous systems, contact us at Bettendorf Chiropractic Wellness Center today, 563-359-5600!