Should You Keep Your Chiropractic Visits When You Are Sick?
The simple answer to this question is yes. I wouldn’t say that chiropractic adjustments boost your immune system; I’d say they help restore it to normal.
How does adjusting the spine help the immune system?
Chiropractic adjustments increase interleukin-2 (an immune system intermediary so potent drug companies are trying to patent it as a drug for boosting the immune system) for more than 2 hrs after adjustments.
Enhances respiratory “burst” of white blood cells. The “burst” is needed for white blood cells to destroy viruses and bacteria.
A study was conducted to see the effects of chiropractic adjustments in the upper neck of HIV positive individuals. Over the six-month period of the study, the group that did not receive chiropractic care experienced as 7.96% decrease in DC4 cell count, while the adjusted group experienced a 48% increase in CD4 cells counts over the same period. The CD4 cells help kill the virus
