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The Key To Creating Happiness and Health!
The key to any shift toward health (homeostasis) and happiness is personal change. By realising that some (or many) or …
3 Golden Rules of Personal Change
The Wellness Practice™ (a program developed by our colleague Dr James Chestnut) has defined the 3 Golden Rules of Personal …
Some Effects of Subluxation Immobilisation on Joints, Ligaments, Bone, and Muscle
Chiropractic subluxation leads to immobilisation of spinal joints. These joints are richly concentrated with the nerve receptors that ‘instruct’ the …
The Physiological ‘Rationale’ for Regular Chiropractic Care
Regular Chiropractic care is a healthcare choice MANY people add into their lives and then maintain for long periods of …
Dr Ben’s Definition of Stress
At Dr Ben Phillips.com I focus on the impact of stress as a profound and inescapable factor in determining health …
Is Healthcare Only Necessary when You Have Symptoms?
Why is it invalid to judge the merit of healthcare purely on symptoms alone? I argue that symptoms are a …
Why Subluxations can remain Undetected and Silently Cause Harm
What is Pain? Chiropractic Subluxations only RARELY result in pain or other symptoms. Pain is actually an emotional experience. It …
Acidity In Our Internal Chemistry
Levels of internal acidity are normally kept within very tight confines because this impacts cellular function to such a great …
All Non-Homeostatic Cell Function (Sickness) Must Result from Stressors…
What is sickness? What is disease? How do stressors lead to sickness? Every health profession agrees that ideal health or …
The Difference Between Wellness Nutrition and Allopathic Nutrition
There are as many experts as there are ideas about nutrition – what and how you need to eat. Our …
Dr Ben’s Definition of Healthcare
Once we understand my definitions of Health and Sickness, it follows that healthcare can be defined as ANY approach or …
Movement and Skeletal Health
It is clear common-sense that movement is valuable and necessary to promote optimal health – including skeletal health. The stresses …
Dr Ben’s Definition of ‘Health’
One of the most critical terms to contemplate and define is the word ‘Health’. The Wellness & Prevention paradigm proposes …
Dr Ben’s Definition of ‘Sickness’
If you understand and accept my definition of Health based on the balanced function of all the body’s cells, then …
Vibrant Life ‘Keys’
– the way you’re meant to be!
Vibrant Life Keys are the framework for us to recognise the requirements we all need to achieve for an ULTIMATE …
How Much are Genetics Responsible for Our Health and Wellbeing?
A primary concept we want to myth-bust through Health & Wellness coaching is the impact of genetics on both our health, …
Daily Spinal Hygiene: Critical to Spinal Health
Spinal hygiene – behaviours to keep motion and health of our spine in peak condition – is vital, yet regularly …
5 Critical Concepts Arising from the Wellness & Prevention Paradigm
These 5 ideas emerge from our Wellness and Prevention Paradigm. They each explore different aspects of the age-old idea of …
Importance of Spinal Motion for Brain Function and Health
Correct spinal motion is vital: Correct motion of spinal joints AND their associated tissues, in addition to proper posture are …
Subluxation and Stress Hormones
Subluxation can increase stress hormone levels, contributing to chronic illness. One main effect of subluxation is a change to the …
Chiropractic Adjustments, Exercise, Positive Body Thoughts, Somatoneurophysiology™ and Health
A consistent argument discussed on this site is that chiropractic adjustments (when required) are an essential component of living a …
There are ONLY 2 Forms of Stress – Toxicity or Deficiency
While there are many different potentially stressful stimuli occuring in the external environment outside of us, or in our internal …
Why is it important to commit to ongoing care, even when symptoms have resolved?
Remember that the best way to define “health,” is not by using symptoms as a marker – in fact this …
Toxic Food Additives & Food Choices to Avoid
Working toward reducing toxicity in our lives definitely means (in part) cleaning up our nutrition – the food, additives and …
Another ‘take’ on Subluxation Dysregulation
Subluxation dysregulation is a state of that drives ‘mis-perception’ of your body and environment by your brain. Your cells and …
