Family Matters: A Heartbreaking Tragedy When They Fail to Call a Chiropractor

Matt Hammett, DC, a chiropractor with New Life Family Chiropractic Center PC and host of Dynamism Biohack Podcast. The Dynamism Biohack Podcast will show you the latest biohacking secrets, tips, and tricks of how to make the right choice in nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Starting from the basics we will show you how... more
In this article, you will learn that not sharing what you have learned in this training with your loved ones, is your own detriment. Why KISS Syndrome is NOT a sweet kiss on an infant's forehead, but a neurological nightmare impacting the brain health, growth, and development of your kiddos, and why it’s virtually always misdiagnosed by doctors. Finally, you will learn that what a dentist is for the teeth, a chiropractor is for the central nervous system. Just as you would never visit a medical doctor for a dental problem, nor should you visit a medical doctor for a chiropractic problem.
I discuss: The information you learn in these trainings can not only save your life, and your family. The #1 misdiagnosed birth injury most kiddos experience when they are born, KISS Syndrome What evidence demonstrated MD versus DC for primary care.
5 Key Concepts: What science teaches about bad posture: KISS Syndrome: The concept of Lifetime Chiropractic Care: Chiropractic Versus Medical Care a literature review: The Big Idea.
I wish to share a powerful story. A woman used to visit her best friend Jaimie from grade school who had many small children. Unlike Jaimie, she was regularly visiting a chiropractor, not for back pain, but because it helped her asthma. Often during the visit, she would witness Jaimie’s five-year-old daughter suffer from an asthma attack. On two different occasions, an ambulance came to Jaimie’s house while the friend was present. At no occurrence did the friend mention chiropractic care and how it had helped her with her asthma.
Time went by and the little girl was given drug prescriptions for her asthma along with many antibiotics and often needed emergency services for her attacks. One day, Jaimie was gardening and hurt her back. Like most American’s who suffer from back pain, she sought chiropractic care for her back pain. While receiving chiropractic care, she learned how chiropractic is not really about back pain, but about enhancing nervous system function and overall wellbeing.
Jaimie learned from her chiropractor that chiropractic adjustments are beneficial for everything under the sun including things like asthma. She decided to bring her five-year-old daughter to the chiropractor and in time, her daughter no longer had an asthmatic attack or any need for medications for her asthma. Like most people who learn that chiropractic can help things beyond back and neck pain, Jaimie was flabbergasted.
One day, her friend returned to Jaimie’s house for a visit. But something happened that day that forever changed the dynamics of their life-long friendship. Jamie’s friend was going to a chiropractor for the same asthmatic problem as her little girl. Her friend witnessed ambulances coming to the house because the little girl almost died from asthma, and the friend never once told Jaimie or the little girl about how chiropractic care helped her with asthma. An emotional confrontation occurred between Jaimie and her best friend. That friend drove home that day in tears no longer having Jamie as her best friend since grade school.
The friendship extinguished that moment. To this day, the last thing she heard from Jaimie was, “How could you stand there in my kitchen watching my little girl just five years old hauled away on a stretcher suffocating with asthma watching me cry to God that He won’t take my little girl! When you had asthma and found a natural treatment for it for yourself? How could you not tell me about chiropractic? Get out of my life; you are not my friend.” This is a true story, and I ask you to think about this. Do you think Jaimie’s reaction was extreme? I don’t. Once again, if you have never brushed your teeth or took a soap shower, would you tell your friend about proper hygiene?
How much more important is proper brain function and spinal hygiene to proper lung function, organ function, tissue function, and cell function? Not telling your family and friends about chiropractic care and spinal hygiene, or not telling them about these trainings because of cultural conditioning is no excuse.
The information you learn in these trainings can not only save your life, and your family. It can save the lives of your neighbors across the street and your Facebook friends online. All you have to do is send them a text or a link to this show, and you will be giving the gift of life to your loved ones. Not to do so, would be as immoral and wrong as what happened to Jamie.
Her friend didn’t tell Jamie because she thought she would get rejected the way her husband rejected her for visiting a chiropractor. Cultural conditioning, ignorance, and darn right discrimination are a part of our society. As a global culture, we can no longer tolerate discrimination, especially provider discrimination. Please don’t allow yourself to be trapped into that discrimination cycle just because someone is of different color, race, ethnicity, or a physician with different letters behind their name other than an MD.
Most especially if it can save the lives of one of our littlest ones and provide the answer to chronic disease (diseases-of-civilization) that modern medicine can do little about. The decision is yours. You can continue living as a caged person and remain part of the problem, never researching these things online, never investing in yourself, just doing what the first doctor you saw says- without question or you can live like a dynamic person and Be the solution!
It’s not so much of a healthcare crisis in our world today, as it is a self-care crisis. If your doctor hates your questioning and hates your research, that is a sign of a bad doctor, and probably more importantly, that is a doctor unsure of themself. A good doctor is empowered with questions and excited when his or her patients get online and research these things. Any other doctor should be fired. They don’t have your interest at stake, they have their own. So, just like in the dentist field, which introduced new concepts like bad tartar and cavities, chiropractic has introduced new concepts like subluxation and Bad Posture. Just like in the 17th century, we had two types of doctors. We had a medical doctor with pliers and whiskey, and we had the new dentist profession. Which do you prefer for your dental problem? Think about that? Which do you prefer for your chiropractic problem? Think about that. Having bad posture has nothing to do with philosophy or New Age thinking.
Besides checking out my video on Facebook about forward head posture, This is what science teaches about bad posture: yeah, I’m gonna get Star Trek geeky nerdy here again, but then I’m gonna bring it back to practicality. Bad forward head posture impacts the level of mechanoreceptor activity into layer seven of the spinal cord out to the sympathetic chain ganglia up to upper brain centers and into the hypothalamus that affects the stress hormones. That’s why, breathing, heart rate, digestion, and all these visceral systemic things are negatively impacted by bad posture. It’s because of vertebral subluxation.
Cavities of teeth are subluxation of the spine. Tartar in teeth is bad posture in the spine. They both can and do kill someone every day. When we improve the motion of the spine with chiropractic care, you improve posture and stop decay because you improve neurology. When you improve flossing to your teeth with dentistry, you improve gum health and prevent decay. This is easy to get, isn’t it? See, after we take Latin out of the language, which is a dead language, and simplify it, anyone can understand science. Did you know, at one time the greater world spoke Latin? Keeping our science in Latin stops people from engaging in their health, and investing in the care of their body.
They are victims, to the drug culture of America, a pill for an ill, the blame it, name it, and tame it with a drug attitude. Do you see the evil in that? Please research your diagnosis and get two or three opinions about your condition. You will be doing yourself, and saving headaches for your loved ones who are quarreling right now about your condition. Trust me on this, I see this every day in my practice.
A researcher took six hundred infant humans under the age of two because he wanted to find out about this condition called KISS Syndrome. I can’t make this stuff up, no I’m not blowing you a kiss…it’s a real syndrome someone named this condition kiss syndrome. It means kinematic imbalance due to suboccipital strain, or upper cervical subluxation. In my last training, I shared the science about how important mechanoreceptors 300 grams per tissue, compared to, let’s say 9 grams of tissue in other areas of the body that have mechanoreceptors.
A different conversation here, but if you get physical therapy, without having chiropractic upper cervical work, you are limiting your ability to heal, metabolize, and improve brain plasticity, which is the whole point of physical therapy, to carve new neurological pathways into the brain to stimulate healing of tissue. Without chiropractic care, you are limiting and delaying healing, metabolism, and immune organs to only 9 grams per tissue, where you could, with chiropractic, increase the rate to 300 grams per tissue when you add a specially-trained chiropractor to your regime. Because cervical motion is loaded with mechanoreceptors.
In the KISS study, they found out when these children were born; they got this condition, and he found out three reasons why: 1. Birth. He found when there is an intrauterine constraint, and when there is extraction aid being used during birth, and or prolonged birth (that’s about 90% of US births) the symptoms he found were across the board: torticollis, scoliosis, motor problems, sleeping disorders, neck sensitivity, face swelled up, fever of unknown origin (babies with random fevers), eating and drinking problems, latching on issues during breastfeeding, and loss of appetite. All directly in research. 2. Undiagnosed due to no symptoms. He also discovered that many had no symptoms. In other words, they had KISS Syndrome with no symptoms like pain. He also pointed out, medical doctors and oversee this, and they don’t look for this stuff or are trained for it. 3. The size or amount of subluxation had no bearing. The last thing he found, even if it was a small misalignment, it didn’t matter.
The extent of the problems had no bearing on how much or little the misalignment was. In other words, based on the research, there is no small subluxation. Is that so alarming? Is there such thing as a small dental cavity? These results from the literature tell us that every human being born should get his or her infant, kiddo, mom, dad, even the elderly checked by a Doctor of Chiropractic.
So, in dentistry, most people wouldn’t blink an eye when we talk about lifetime dentistry for your oral health. But how much more important, is your brain to body health? Let me tell you quickly, why we all need lifetime chiropractic care, not just for your back and neck problems, but to ensure your spinal neural organ is working properly, so your brain works correctly, so your body works correctly. Many have heard the following verbal expression, “once you go to a chiropractor, you got to keep going!” I would argue, once you go, you GET to keep going.
Again who says, “once you go to a dentist, you got to keep going. Or, once you start brushing your teeth, you got to keep brushing twice a day for the rest of your life? I can go on and on about this…with proper nutrition, diet, and exercise. Which by the way, your proper spinal motion, per Nobel prize winner, Dr. Roger Sperry said, your spinal motion is the power generator to the brain and body. This concept in nutrition about nutrition utilization and tissue absorption or the ability for your body to use the nutrition it’s getting and process that nutrition and specifically orchestrate that tissue to feed tissues like building muscle or repair cartilage or heal a vascular wound or aid in your metabolism, your gut health, which we know your gut has been called the second brain, or improve structural distortions and avoid heart disease, improve lung capacity, even improve telomeres on your DNA, those little things they say for anti-aging, all of it must come from the power generator of the body which is your spinal neural organ.
It doesn’t matter what pharmacology or nutritional product you take, without managing or optimizing your power generator, your spinal neural organ, your spinal motion, your as catabolic as a tiger shark immobilized and turned upside down in the water, your living your life like a zombie, in a coma-like hypnotic state. Tonic immobility, inducing a coma-like state, science calls it.
Truth is, immobilize the backbone of any of the overall 30,000 documented species of aquatic life, you shut down the mechanoreceptors which is situated along the Lateral line system of the fish, inducing a coma in 55 seconds to a Tiger shark, and if you immobilized a human spine, in 1 week, science tells us, you would induce a coma to a human. You need your power generator working and there is simply one profession only that is trained to promote health in this way. And remember, the power generator does the have energy, the power generator creates energy. You see, gaining health is an investment and investments always go up in value. So in life, we have only two options to choose from.
The truth is simple. Once you start eating and moving better, you can continue to engage in those productive activities that will express your healthy genes and get the maximum benefit of that or not. Remember, loss of spinal motion, and your DNA suffers. At the very least, you can maintain what you have got. Lifestyle chiropractic care is like wine. It gets better with age! It gets better the longer you go because of the adaptive physiological response like hormesis I discussed earlier in the training, which is how bodybuilders build muscle, vascular and neurological connections that improve their bodies to a better than state. There is a legendary study showing those under chiropractic care as a primary provider versus those under a medical provider as a primary provider to illustrate this point.
A primary provider can be a Medical Doctor, Doctor of Chiropractic, or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine who is a practitioner of the healing arts, who examines patients, analyzes the results of laboratory tests, diagnoses and treats the patient’s medical condition, and advises the patient about methods of preventive health care. Spine-health.com says that “chiropractors diagnose and treat back and neck pain and are considered by definition primary care physicians as they are often the first doctor a patient will visit…”
In a huge study conducted by an insurance company, they did a study for over seven years and with over seventy thousand humans. One group used chiropractic care as a primary provider. Again, this means these patients went to the chiropractor for everything from back and neck pain to neuro-spinal problems like colic, ear infections, immune system issues, and on and on. The other group went to a medical doctor as their primary provider. The group going to chiropractors as their primary care provider had 60% fewer hospital admissions, 58% fewer hospital days, 62% fewer surgeries, 85% less pharmaceutical cost. In other words, there was an 85% less payout for drugs and the type of doctor prescribing them. Think about that. In life, we have all these goals to achieve. But when we get sick and suffer, we have only one goal. Think about that.
Dynamic people making a conscious choice to seek chiropractic care as their primary provider understand that they don’t have to keep going. They enjoy going, because like aging-with-wine, each time they go they get better, stronger, you GET to keep going.
Dynamic people GET to experience 85% fewer drugs, 62% fewer surgeries, 58% fewer hospital days, and 60% fewer hospital admissions. With these kinds of stats, is it any wonder why surgeons, hospitals, and some Medical Doctors might be reluctant to refer their patients to chiropractic care. Think about that. The big idea in chiropractic was first written by Bj Palmer. To “Increase Expression of Life.” He wrote. Over 100 years later and validated by the best of science who both have nothing to do with chiropractic and at the same time, everything to do with chiropractic.
This is the big idea in chiropractic:
1. The spine is a neural-spinal organ needing a checkup by a Doctor of Chiropractic over a lifetime. People need to adapt proper spinal hygienic practices due to their sedentary lifestyle. Just like lifetime maintenance for our teeth by a Doctor of Dentistry with lifetime oral hygiene which was required for modern humans due to our newer sugar-laced diet, where we went from 1 pound of sugar to over 150 pounds of sugar annually. Where we went from moving or walking, which promotes spinal motion, 8-10 miles a day, to little to no walking at all, as a modern civilization. Can you see the mismatch in our genes, our inner Aborigine requires that movement generate the power.
2. Everybody needs chiropractic care from birth to adult for the health promotion and restoration ethic of human life. Again, the same concept is valid for dentistry and other providers.
3. The BEST part is that you GET to experience chiropractic over a lifetime similar to that tingling addictive feeling you receive after brushing your teeth and experience a clean feeling and looking mouth. Remember, lifestyle chiropractic care is like wine, it gets better with age. You GET to stay and build better/stronger health correction not only in returning the body to homeostasis or balance, but engaging the body in hormesis, better than balanced function, for health promotion and restoration.
4. You would NEVER ask your medical doctor about the cavities on your teeth or to show you how to conduct oral hygienic principles for your teeth properly. Just as you would NEVER ask your medical doctor, a doctor who is specialized with pharmacology drugs (not nutrition) questions about proper nutrition or about subluxation of the spine or how to properly conduct spinal hygienic exercises for your neuro-spinal organ health. Do you get the BIG IDEA! Lighten up, move better and live fuller!