Your Nervous System

Your nervous system, which includes your brain, spinal cord and nerves, is the most vital system in your body. Its role is to coordinate and regulate all the other systems in your body while helping you adapt to your environment.

Just a few of the functions it performs, without any conscious effort from you, include:

• Producing stomach acid after a meal

• Communicating with the immune system

• Increasing your pulse when climbing stairs

• Reducing your blood pressure when seated

• Learning to crawl, walk or ride a bicycle

• Producing pain when touching a hot stove

• Perspiring to cool your body when it is hot

Your nervous system controls every cell, tissue, organ and system in your body. Your DNA may determine your height or the colour of your eyes, but your nervous system controls and regulates how your body functions.

If your nervous system becomes impaired, interfered with or compromised, nerve messages travelling to and from your brain may become distorted. As a result, parts of your body may not function as intended. Stroke patients and those confined to wheelchairs are tragic and severe examples of this neurological fact.

That is why the most important parts of your nervous system are protected by bone. Your brain is protected by your skull, while your spinal cord is protected by the moving bones of your spinal column.

However, even with this protection, interference can still occur, especially along the spinal column. One of the most common and often overlooked causes is stress.

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