The truth is that time does not age us as much as our decisions do. Our decision to create a powerful physique will reverse the effects of time. A decision to live on whole and living foods will refresh our cellular matrix. A decision to open our minds to our longevity and our unlimited potential will be the reason we do not simply age because we believe it to be inevitable.

Our skin does not need to age as rapidly as most do. Nor do our organs, our spine, or our minds. The bulk of visible aging is a consequence of believing in aging, and allowing aging. Believing in youth and participating in a daily refreshment of your mind, body, and soul is the most potent method you have of reversing aging.

Ignored, our muscles lose their form and their function. Ignored muscles make us look older than we are. They create sagging where no sagging should be accepted. Sagging and wrinkling are primarily a result of ignoring our muscular system, and they can therefore be so much less than what we normally see.

Poor posture ages us. The greatest indicator of age, greater than wrinkles or grey hair, is our posture. A stooped over young man with colored hair will look older than a similarly appearing man with erect posture, some white hair and some mild wrinkling. We recognize, instinctively, that the stooped person is decaying on the inside, and we know, instinctively, that this is a greater sign of aging.

Ignored inflexibility ages us. The way we move when flexibility would be required is interpreted by those around us as signs that we are aging. The very slight rigidity, the very slight stiffness that you have convinced yourself is no big deal is a sign: it is a sign that your physique is dysfunctional, and it is a sign, to those around you, that you are aging. It is not an “expected” sign of growing old. It is a sign that you do not take proper care of the gift of life you’ve been given.

Change the way you think about your body, and change the way you feel in the body you live in. We were designed to live over a hundred years, in energetic, healthy bodies.

Dr. Bryan Brodeur

The cause of the rigidity, inflexibility, and ultimately the fusion of our skeletal joints are always in the minor misalignments of these joints. The minor misalignments of these joints are referred to in the literature as subluxated joints, or subluxations. Vertebral subluxation, the misalignment of spinal vertebra, is the most damaging of all skeletal misalignments. The misalignments create the fusion, the wear, and the breakdown of our spine, nature’s proudest pillar.

This synchronous tower, left to its own design, is the single greatest source of power for the fragile venous, lymphatic, and arterial systems. This tall, balanced structure is one large, powerful pump, whose force is harnessed by every transportation system in our body. The greatest transport vessels hug the spine and depend on its brute pressures. The gastrointestinal systems depend on its power to create flows within the GI tract, to pump our foods and liquids along the long journey through our digestive system.

But most fantastically, this skeletal structure houses and transports the delicate nervous system, ensuring each strand of our powerful mental pulse travels to its appropriate cell and back again.

All of the stretches in the world cannot restore a micro section of the spine, such as the intervertebral disc, to its exact proper form. For this sort of work you will need a body worker. You will need a body worker who can x-ray the area and, following the alignment issues noted on the x-rays, create a perfect alignment of the misaligned vertebrae. While many chiropractors are able to follow this system, some do not, and some will have no concept of how to follow through on these concepts.

I absolutely recommend that you insist on your next (or possibly first) meeting with your chiropractor, that you and he or she review x-rays of your affected area, that all subluxations and any scoliosis are reviewed, and that a plan for reduction of the misalignments, subluxations, and signs of degeneration be proposed and undertaken. You should be able to have a re-x-ray taken within four to six months, in which your misalignments are corrected, and many of the signs of decay or degenerative arthritis, are reversed by up to ten percent. You do not want to be in the group whose spine is decaying; you want to join the group whose spine is returning to full strength.

Regular monitoring by use of an x-ray, no more than twice within a year, is appropriate and necessary to ensure that your work is moving your body forward. Regular improvement of your spine will place you in the very small minority of people on the planet whose spines are being strengthened with time. The very large majority of us are living with internal dysfunctions that are creating our early demise and the literal destruction of our spine, followed by the decay of our energy and our power.

Dr. Bryan Brodeur