Nerves & Electricity

At the University of Colorado in the school of bio-mechanical research, they took an experimental animal and cut the spinal nerves supplying an organ. Did the organ live or die? Correct-- It died. Then they hooked up the nerve to an electrode and connected it to a monitor and a light bulb. They found a wave pattern on the monitor and the light bulb lit up. What did this prove? Electricity! Not something similar to, but exactly like electricity. An electrical impulse traveling through the nerve generated by the brain. This is not surprising because we’ve been having electrical tests done on nerves for years now. An example would be an EKG or an EEG. So it turns out that the brain is like a huge generator of electricity. However there has to be a way to connect the generator to the body. This is what the nervous system does. Though the point of this experiment was to investigate what happened to these wires or nerves when they had pressure applied to them. So, here’s what they did: they applied 20 mm of pressure to the nerve root. This is about the weight of a dime. They found the electrical energy was reduced by 50%. When they doubled this pressure to 40 mm of mercury of pressure, the light bulb went out. This was an amazing example of what happens to the function of your nervous system when you have a subluxation. The purpose of chiropractic is to correct subluxations and thereby restore your optimal health potential.