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Is Chiropractic care
a Requirement for an Ideal Life?

Lifetime Chiropractic Care? Is Lifetime Chiropractic Care a requirement for an Ideal life? Yes…and No! We must re-affirm that the …

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Subluxation and Stress Hormones

Subluxation can increase stress hormone levels, contributing to chronic illness. One main effect of subluxation is a change to the …

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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 …

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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 …

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Blood Fats and Movement

Healthier amounts, types and proportions of fats in our blood can be developed with appropriate levels of movement. A ‘Lipid’ …

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Vibrant Life Key 3: Moving – the way it’s meant to be!

Moving Is Life! Key #3 is about improving quality and quantity of movement – because moving is life! We look …

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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 …

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The ‘General Adaptive Potential’

One of our colleagues Patrick Gentempo coined the term ‘General Adaptive Potential’ (GAP) to explain how the flexibility of our …

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Vibrant Life Key 1: Power & Control – the way it’s meant to be!

Vibrant Life Key #1 is about improving the function of your intelligent control and coordination mechanism – your brain and …

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Vibrant Life Key 4: Thinking & Feeling – the way it’s meant to be!

Key #4 is about mental and emotional health, they way we think, communicate, are inspired and engage with ourselves – …

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James Chestnut Neurology of Subluxation

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 …

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The Life Expectancy Myth

It is a common belief in our society that as our average life expectancy has gone up across our wider …

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Dr Ben’s Super Summary of Chiropractic

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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 …

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Movement & Brain Function

Sufficient movement, and the resultant transmission of nerve feedback that ‘signals’ awareness of this movement to the brain is CRITICAL …

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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 …

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A Definition of Somatoneurophysiology ™

The term somatoneurophysiology, while seemingly a very complex word, comprises three elements and shows the inextricable link between unconscious feedback …

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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 …

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More about Dr Ben…

Usually doctors take all of your personal info, and yet, you learn little about who they are and why the …

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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 …

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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 …

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Negative Health Effects of Chronically High Stress Hormones

In another article here, we describe the release of stress hormones as part of the body’s ‘fear & protection’ reaction. …

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Subluxation: An ‘energetic’ or ‘esoteric’ definition

If you are more engaged by a more esoteric or ‘energetic’ explanation of this world, you will likely appreciate the …

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How Stress Affects the Immune System

Stress levels in our body – particularly if the body or brain is in an overwhelmed state where it cannot …

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Macronutrients & Micronutrients

Nutrition is an area filled with differing opinions and advice. As part of our Vibrant Life Key #2 where we …

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