Raising Healthy Kids in a Stressed World
Healthcare providers today are seeing an alarming rise in chronic childhood conditions. Prescription medication use in children has more than doubled in a recent 5 year period. Children who are taking prescription medications, by definition, are not healthy children. Increasingly common chronic childhood health conditions include:
• Asthma
• Acid reflux (in kids!?)
• Hyperactivity/inability to focus
• Food allergies
• Recurring infections
There is no question that raising healthy kids today is more challenging than ever before. Children today are growing & developing in a relentless sea of toxins, processed foods & electromagnetic fields (i.e. cell phones, iPads, laptops) that generations before us were never exposed to. Parents do their best to ensure that their kids are eating a balanced nutritious diet, getting enough physical activity & sleep, yet in spite of these efforts many children still struggle.
Could stress be affecting our children’s health?
When a child is subjected to a stress - physical, emotional, chemical or electromagnetic, the brain responds through the nervous system to either defend against or avoid the stress (fight/flight response). In today’s modern world, stress is literally unavoidable. It’s important to understand that during the stress response some body functions increase and some decrease. As an example during a stress response, muscles become tense and blood pressure increases, while digestion and immune function decrease. How our body responds to stress is a perfect response, designed for survival, for the short term. However many of us, including children, are so frequently engaging in the stress response that it becomes a habitual pattern of function in the body.
A chronic stress response produces tension in the body that is often exhibited in a child as irritability, hyperactivity and/or inability to focus. A chronic stress response inhibits the immune system making a child more susceptible to recurring infections or allergies. A chronic stress response impairs normal digestion which can result in stomachaches, constipation or even acid reflux.
What can be done?
While many of these life stresses are unavoidable, the damaging cumulative effect of stress is avoidable and vital to the health of our children. BioEnergetic Chiropractic rebalances a child’s body and releases stress that can contribute to chronic childhood health conditions.
Children in particular can benefit immensely from stress reducing natural healthcare methods, giving them a greater chance to be healthy and to grow and develop optimally.
Dr. Koch’s Bio Energetic Chiropractic Method is a non-forceful hands-on technique that safely, gently releases stress from a child’s nervous system enhancing their health and well-being.
