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Rick Burnett: Our topic for the next few weeks will be Detoxify your Physiology.  Dr. DiSiena, what is toxic physiology?

Dr. Douglas DiSiena:  First of all, the term physiology means the function of the body and how it works.  So, the term "toxic physiology" is physiology that goes bad.  It begins to dysfunction and therefore creates toxicity and ill health.

Dr. Robert A. Schuller:  When I look at what takes place in the body, I see basically three things that can go wrong.  The body gets out of whack chemically, for example if there is too much cholesterol, an MD will give you a drug to try and lower the cholesterol and get your chemistry in line.  Or, if a person has a ripped muscle, the surgeons will just sew that back together.  What they don't know how to deal with when the mechanical aspect of the body is out of whack and you have ligaments that aren't aligned just right, or a spinal cord that isn't aligned right, and the head is literally not attached to your shoulders your to your atlas just right - the medical doctors don't know how to make the physiological adjustments to correct that.  They will completely ignore all the structural aspects of physiology.  That's what's exciting about this book we've written together - to have this new component added to health and wellness. 

Rick Burnett: Explain the three stresses that inhibit the body from optimally functioning.

Dr. Douglas DiSiena:  First, I'd like to comment on what Robert just said.  In this book, we give people hope.  We believe there is life in the body, and life heals.  We encourage and promote life.  So, what we want to do is remove the blockages that inhibit life.  The old paradigm is to give something to someone, such as in high cholesterol situations, that might alter the high level of cholesterol; but, what we don't know is what that drug will do to thousands of other aspects of our physiological health and/or create toxicity.  For example, most all cholesterol-lowering drugs create tremendous liver toxicity.  In our book, the message is that the body can and will heal itself, if the blockages are removed.

Now, there are three stresses as you mentioned.  Trauma is a source of toxicity.  It is interesting to note that whenever there is a mechanical misalignment in the spine, one thing that happens is it pinches on a nerve and that nerve will emit a neurotoxin.  That neurotoxin transmits over the nerve itself and gets deposited in the organ that it supplies.  So, let's say if it's a nerve that goes to the liver, that never is pinched and a toxin is then deposited into the liver.  Another way we get toxins is obviously from the environment and toxins that we ingest.  Another way we ingest toxins is autosuggestion, with is really toxic thoughts. 

Dr. Robert A. Schuller: Doug, I think we need to remind everyone, and correct me if I'm wrong, but every single nerve in the entire body goes through the spine.  Every single nerve - from the tips of your fingers, so that if you touch something that immediately sends an impulse through your spine.  So, for example, if you're having some trouble with your fingers, numbness, etc., it could be that the nerve going through your spinal cord is pinched and causing the numbness.  So, when the pressure in the spine is relived the numbness goes away.  Yet, if you go to a MD, he will never look at that. 

Dr. Douglas DiSiena: What is interesting is that they have done most of the research.  Henry Windsor did research and he was quoted as saying: "every time there is a pinched nerve, there is always associated organ damage; the more serious the pinched nerve, the more serious the organ damage."  Another doctor who has a Ph.D. in neuro-biochemistry, said that anytime there is any mechanical distortion there is less energy to think, to heal and to metabolize.  So there is all this wonderful research out there that talks about the mind-body connection.  The fact is the mind uses a channel called the nerve system to transmit life, or function and if there is any distortion in that transmission, there is less life.  If there is less life there is more susceptibility to disease and illness. 

Rick Burnett:  That just gives us more reason to have regular chiropractic adjustments.  Many people don't go to a chiropractor until something is seriously out of whack and they are in serious pain.  Working to keep the spin in alignment will keep everything flowing as it should, correct?

Dr. Douglas DiSiena: I don't get too excited about a "crick" in the neck.  What excites me about this work and this chapter in the book is dealing with life and watching the miraculous healing of the body.  A typical doctor will try to heal the body from the outside.  What we are trying to do is relieve the stresses, and let the force that is within the body be expressed and then stand back and watch the amazing healing power. 

Dr. Robert A. Schuller:   We need to add that this doesn't take away from the medical community.  We are not trying to say that the medical doesn't have any contributions.  What we are saying is there is gap in wellness and in the fact that there are things that need to take place in your body from a physiological standpoint, about which the medical community is not educated.  As a result of that it is like not doing a certain test.  You want to do the least invasive things first.  If you are have symptoms of a problem, you want to take the least invasive approach first.  The least invasive approach in my opinion, because I haven't found anything less invasive, which is to have a chiropractor actually adjust the spine or the atlas or the extremities of your body first.  Then if there is no relief and no success taking place, then you may need further treatment, etc., to bring your body back to balance and health.  But, I believe you should start with the least invasive approach.  Unfortunately, most people just jump right over the least invasive and jump right into the medicines because they see it as an easy fix.  They have not been educated as to what the chiropractor community can do.  The assumption is that chiropractors are good for "bad backs."  That was my assumption also until I became educated.

Rick Burnett: We also need to address the autosuggestion topic, or toxic-negative thoughts.  What is autosuggestion and how does it work?

Dr. Robert A. Schuller: Well, autosuggestion is very real.  Just ask any golfer!  When a golfer goes up to the tee and sees water he thinks to himself, "I'm not going to hit the ball there", and what does he do, he hits the ball right into the water.  That's because he tells himself what not to do.  We have to realize that the brain does not recognize or understand a negative.   What you have to do is tell yourself what you ARE going to do.  This takes place in a physical aspect as well.  The best illustration I have of that is the first time I heard my father pray a prayer for a cancer victim.  It was a very touching prayer.  The prayer was, "Lord, I send these powerful blood cells to eat up the negative, cancerous cells which are in the body and use these blood warriors to create health and healing."  That is the way he prayed, creating a word picture of overcoming and dealing with such a severe thing as cancer.  We can do this in all areas of our life - we can create pictures of health and wellness and we can create goals for ourselves and these positive thoughts actually translate into reality.  We can't always understand it, we just know it is true.  When the bible says that we can say to your mountain get up and move, I believe it.  The mountains we face physically are cancer, arthritis, and any other physical tragedy that people face.  We need to remember that we can turn those tragedies into triumphs.