How do chiropractic adjustments boost the immune system?
The thymus gland is located near your “Adam’s apple”. This gland is constantly sending out “attacker” cells that take care of anything foreign that enters your body. Everyone has “germs” in his or her body at any given moment. Two people may even have the same germs in the same amount in their bodies, but one person may get sick and the other may not. Why? Their immune systems are functioning at different levels. In order for your immune system to function optimally, your thymus gland must be working as well as it possibly can. The brain sends messages to the thymus gland, telling it how to work. The messages travel down the spinal cord and then out onto spinal nerves that lead to the thymus gland. These messages transmit information such as when to send out attacker cells, which cells to send out, how many cells to send out, etc. However, if there is interference in the transmission of the brain’s instructions a “subluxation”), the thymus gland will malfunction. Therefore, the foreign
