This is a guest post by Dr. Richard Barwell.

While on route to my home in Cocoa Beach, Florida from the busy city of Atlanta, Georgia, I found a source of stress in my life. Other drivers!!! This comes as no surprise to my dear wife and frequent traveling companion. Now I have to admit that with age I have lost the tendency to see how fast I can go in a vehicle, and today I am much more content to travel at a safe (meaning safe from obtaining a speeding ticket) five miles an hour over the posted limit. The stress doesn’t have anything to do with my speed but rather with those sharing parts of the road. I say parts due to the fact that many times we are only occupying shared bits of the highway as they fly past. Then you get the left lane hogs, and in this wonderful age of technology everyone seems to be driving with a cell phone pressed against the head. Talk about life in the fast lane – traveling 90 to 95 miles an hour and multi-tasking. Add the last two parts of these driving stressors: never ending highway construction lane changes with varying speed limits and the individual drivers who think that as long as they are doing 40 miles an hour all is well with the world, in putting these all together I have found the source of one of my main stressors in life.

By the end of an eight hour trip I have become a very grumpy person. My wife will tell you this is true for both of us as she isn’t much better having had to listen to my verbal abuse for the last eight hours. It takes me about a day to recover and get my systems back to some level of normal.

I remember days in my youth when it seems to me that the pace of life was much slower. Perhaps it is just an illusion, but I still think that all of our modern conveniences and technology designed to make life easier has in fact done the opposite. Now instead of getting physically fit through physical work that produces a product, we buy the product produced by a machine and spend money to work out at a gym. We have Television that runs our lives, the internet that stops personal contact, instant pudding and microwave dinners. Kids have to play sports with all the professional equipment and immense pressure to win. What is the rush?

The effect of all of this constant pressure has turned the world into a very frantic and hostile place. Our inborn ability to deal with stress was never designed to handle this amount of constant bombardment and there is a price we are paying. At first we only equated stress with illnesses such as ulcers, but today an entirely different story is emerging. The constant exposure to stressors, we now know, creates damages within the nervous system which then directly affect the immune system’s ability to keep us healthy.

No longer are the medical researchers talking about germs as the cause of disease but are now focused on the relationship between the nervous system and the immune system. It wasn’t until the mid 1980s that medicine actually admitted they were directly connected, which was something that Chiropractic had been stating for the last 100 years.

Today research is showing that the majority of illness and disease starts from within and is caused by a breakdown in immune system response due to an imbalance or misdirection within the nervous system. This goes as far as to the cause of cancer with misdirected information from the central nervous system, resulting in an imbalance of T1 and T2 Helper Cells. These cells are the stem cells for all the major immune cells of the body. When imbalance happens, there are two responses 1. the cells of the body lose the ability to defend themselves and 2. other systems become more sensitive to stress. Our defenses go down and we become reactive. This is showing up as increases in chemical sensitivity, food allergies, asthma etc. Autoimmune system disorders are increasing faster than global warming because of the great increases of stressors due to life style.

Today, health is taking on a new look. There is a great need to change our frantic pace and take some time to allow our nervous systems to regain some balance. Today we have the ability to examine the condition of our nervous system and how it is handling those stressors. The NeuroInfiniti instrument, a Thought Technology product, with software developed by Richard Barwell, D.C., does a Stress Response Evaluation (SRE) which provides information on the effects of stress in your life. This information provides a window into the type of care you need to regain normal function.

While we may not be able to get out of the fast lane in life we now have the ability to learn how to cool down and regain our health.

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1 877 233 0022, visit Neuroinfiniti.com or contact DeDe@neuroInfiniti.com