Dr. Bob

c degenerative disease (symptom) is at the end of a cascade of events. So here you are today with a syndrome of some type that may need constant symptomatic alteration with medication. No matter what “thing” a person has, it started with a cause, which in a nutshell is stress. These stresses are physical, nutritional or biochemical and emotional. When your body encounters a stress, this is actually a good thing. Body systems are in place to react and if things are working correctly, your body gets stronger. For example, exercise stresses the body and you get stronger. When children encounter a “bug” for the first time, the symptoms say sick but the body’s ability to fight “bugs” is getting stronger if they are allowed to fight it naturally. So, we have a cause (stress) that causes the body to adapt. This adaptation causes a depletion of bodily resources and if ongoing, leads to imbalance in body function. Until we reach this point, all of this goes on without us knowing it because the symptoms we experience are an effect not the problem. If the symptoms last long enough, we are labeled with a syndrome or disease. The medical paradigm is to suppress or change the symptoms / numbers. This usually suppresses the body’s ability to get stronger which most often prolongs the suffering. The way Dr. Bob approaches health is to look for the things that are stressing the body (remember the 3 types of stress), remove and or change those which will allow the body to get stronger while it is encountering stress. This will not suppress the symptoms, but allow the body to go through the natural process of change. Let’s look at physical stress
I use chiropractic adjustments to help remove physical stress on the body. Chiropractic is a healing art that improves the health and function of the spine. This in turn helps clear up the communication between your brain, the body and the environment so that it can accurately perceive what is going on and respond appropriately. How about nutritional or biochemical

This could be what you are eating or not eating. Most often it is a combination of dietary modification and supporting the systems that have depleted resources with whole food supplements and herbal products. There are seven areas to be assessed and supported.
1. Blood sugar balance
3. Mineral balance
4. Immune / inflammatory
5. Digestive function
6. Circulatory issues
7. Cellular vitality

While this list is hierarchal, they are all interrelated. For example, with chronically dysregulated blood sugar, the hormones that help control blood sugar become unbalanced causing the whole hormonal axis to unbalance as well as causing mineral imbalances. You can’t have health hormones without stable blood sugar.