THOT #143 – Sticky Barns and Expensive Urine

[Todd Galley: Family Chiropractor]

“Americans probably have more vitamins in their urine than the rest of the world has in their diet” -Reggie Gold

The impact of this statement is even greater if we understand the context in which he made it… Reggie was talking about our role as chiropractors and discussing why some people feel the need to take supplements. Perhaps they think it is because they are not getting enough nutrition in their diets. But isn’t it also a possibility that their body is not able to assimilate all the nutrients that which they take in naturally and therefore the supplements are also merely ‘passed through’ the system.  If someone isn’t absorbing what they need, a ‘lack’ would eventually show up symptomatically in the body but that doesn’t necessarily mean they need to take in more.

If this is the case, then the taking of nutritional supplements is not really addressing the cause of any particular problem, but rather a poor substitute.  Are we as chiropractors teaching our practice members that it is not what they put into their body, but what the body actually does with that which it takes in?   Perhaps if their body was working as it should and the Innate Intelligence was getting the maximum benefit from the food we were eating, we would not need as many (or maybe not any) supplements. We would have less expensive urine! Somebody needs to make sure that people are getting their minimum daily requirement (and that may be the nutritionist or the food counselor, but that is certainly not our role as chiropractors.)  Maybe nutrition and what people put into their bodies is a personal responsibility.   As chiropractors, it is our job to make sure they are without vertebral subluxations so they can assimilate their maximum daily requirement of each and every nutrient Innate needs and the rest can literally go down the drain.  Anybody else have that job besides the chiropractor?  We think not. Sometimes we think people are taking so many supplements because they have the “throw enough mud against the barn and maybe some of it will stick” theory. Perhaps they need to know that a “stickier barn” is perhaps more important than wasting mud.

Thanks to Joe Strauss and Reggie Gold. 

Peace to all...  

–Todd and Kelly