Welcome to Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show. Today I'm going to do a talk about the importance of the brain body connection.
Welcome to the Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show, a podcast advocating wellness, life and healing from within. With 38 years in practice, 50,000 patients and over 1 million chiropractic adjustments, here's your host, Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr.
My name is Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr. I'm a Doctor of Chiropractic. And we're going to talk to you about the brain, how important the brain is. Stay tuned, I'm doing the show to educate the public on wellness and health, and how the body works and how it functions, and what we can do to be healthier.
So what does chiropractic have to do with the brain? The brain affects every function of the body. So how does the brain communicate with the rest of the body? Most people think, well, you know, the chiropractic is just something to do with the back, brain, back problems.
It's not that, it's a lot more than that. Chiropractic has to do with the brain, the nervous system, the nerves. So the nervous system controls pretty much every function in the body by sending messages from the brain.
So the communication there is so important. So how many messages go down from the brain to the rest of the body? Trillions of messages go through the brainstem, which is the stem below the skull, that goes into the spine, and it goes into the spinal cord, and eventually that goes to the nervous system. And basically, there's about 75 trillion neural pathways that run down the brainstem. And it's amazing how it works.
So in order to understand how this works, I think it's important to understand the embryology, how we are created and what's really the most important organ in the body. And obviously, the most important organ is the brain. But how does it happen in the early stage of conception? You have a cell from the mom, a cell from the dad, and it gets together and it forms one cell.
And then it multiplies into 2 cells, 4 cells, 8, 16, 32, 64. And eventually, that becomes a clump of cells, and that becomes the brain. And that's the first thing that's formed within days of conception. So the first organ to form is the brain. So from the brain, a little stem comes out which develops the spinal cord, and from there, it just grows and grows in and then eventually off the spinal cord, you have nerves that come out.