Health by yourself
trust the Designer of your body!
As the result of exercising (with Frolov's Device) sleep improved, cheerfulness appeared, pains in the joints decreased, for the first time there was no allergy to blossoming in summer
Health by yourself
trust the Designer of your body!
As the result of exercising (with Frolov's Device) sleep improved, cheerfulness appeared, pains in the joints decreased, for the first time there was no allergy to blossoming in summer.
Alan MacDiarmid, 56, New Zealand
Overview of Physiology
A healthy person detects and responds appropriately to the environment. When the environmental load is greater than what you can handle, disease occurs as a way to tweak the normal physiology so that it can withstand said force. There are three main dimensions in our teaching model with which we respond to the environment: Reflexes, Brainstem, and Cortex. So every disease should be able to be explained in relation to these systems. Also, all our treatments/training is related to these three systems.
When the doctor hits your knee with a hammer, you might kick him. This is called a reflex. The hammer causes a quick stretching of the muscle. The muscle detects the stretch, and sends a message to the spinal cord. The spinal cord receives the message, and responds by sending a message back to the muscle to contract. This reflex is a simple and necessary mechanism allowing for an immediate response to a person getting pushed over or stepping in a hole.
Before getting into some of the other reflexes let's first explain why reaction would probably be a better term. Technically, a reflex would mean that every time the hammer hit, the exact same response occurred. But this is not the case in adults. Depending on how excitable you are, your reflexes might be heightened or suppressed (like when sleeping). The simple point we are making here is that your reflexes are tuned to be more or less pronounced, which means they aren't reflexes but reactions. We will stick with the term reflexes to describe the loop from the body to the spinal cord in red and returning to the body via the blue line.
Inflammation in your body is controlled largely via reflexes. This is true on several levels, but we will just mention a simple one here to illustrate the basic fact. Your tissues have pain (properly called nocisensoric) receptors, and when there is an injury, the tissues detect the injury, and send a message to the spinal cord. The input reaches the spinal cord, and then sends a message back to the area around the injured tissues to cause the blood vessels in the area to constrict, with the obvious purpose of preventing excess bleeding in the damaged tissues. Because the degree of inflammation is related to the volume of blood flow (among other things), this reflex being more or less excitable means that the inflammation will occur to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the excitability of the nervous system. For example, as we will explain in greater detail elsewhere, a person who is working or doing sports would have a diminished inflammation reaction, and a person who is feeling overwhelmed would usually have a greater inflammation reaction. We point this out because common wisdom is that arthritis is a condition caused by some entity unrelated to us or by some genetic malfunction. We will also describe why certain characteristics lend themselves toward arthritis, and others preclude us from arthritis.
Another example of a reflex would be the the pupil reflex that occurs when a a bright light enters the eye. The mechanism involves detection of excess light, that message being sent to the central nervous system, which sends a logical response back to the pupil to constrict.
The reason we mentioned this last example is to make it obvious that these reactions are with purpose and need to occur quickly to have any value. Obviously, when light is shined the eye needs to react immediately, and the fact that the nerve pathway involves a short distance and there is no analyzing the information (goes in and comes out), time is saved. The same is true for the constriction of blood vessels, as well as the postural reflexes.
Electrical stimulation, acupuncture, all forms of exercise, manual therapies and many other modalities stimulate or inhibit these reflexes, and we will explain how each of them work in that context elsewhere.
You require a degree of defensiveness to deal with lights, injury, loud noises, etc. However, could you imagine how insane we would be if we were unable to curb these reflexes? For example, how would we ever sleep? What about times when you are in a dangerous situation, don't you need to be a little more on edge? Of course you do, and the brainstem is able to influence the reflexes one way or the other. You can see from the picture here that the reflexes are normally inhibited. If your arm is relaxed and someone goes to shake your hand, you wouldn't pull back strongly. If they jerked your arm hard, you might then pull back. So there is a certain reactivity of the reflex based on the fact that the brainstem inhibits input to the reflex up to a certain threshold. When someone has a stroke and the brainstem is injured, they might end up with their elbow stuck in the bent position because the brainstem is no longer able to inhibit the reflex.
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