01/27/2026
If you were able to listen to KNUJ Radio this morning, Dr Steve talked about the innate intelligence of the body.
Innate intelligence is a concept that is truly what chiropractic is all about. It is a somewhat abstract concept, and a little hard to explain, but once you fully understand it you will see how valuable and important it is to have chiropractic as part of your health care regimen.
Innate intelligence is sometimes referred to as "the wisdom of the body". When God created us, he placed in us a wisdom, an intelligence, that just knows how to run the body. Dr Steve gave the example that if you cut yourself, immediately the body goes to work repairing that cut. The blood clots so it quits bleeding, and the body begins to repair the cut by laying down new skin cells. The question is, how does the body know to lay down skin cells? Why not bone cells, or nerve cells? And after a few days, if the cut wasn't too bad, it's gone! You can't even see the remnants of the cut. That repair happened because of the innate intelligence! You didn't have to tell the body to heal the cut. It just happened, automatically!
Another example, you go for a walk and your heart beats faster to pump more blood to your muscles so you can do the walking. You don't have to tell your heart to beat faster, it happens all by itself. Why? Innate intelligence!
So what does this have to do with chiropractic? Well, the innate intelligence of the body utilizes the nerve system to control every function of the body. And it all works with electrical impulses. It starts with the brain, your brain is actually an electrical generator. It makes electricity. The brain sends these electrical "messages" down through the spinal cord, and then out to every cell and tissue in the body.
So about 125 years ago, in 1895 to be exact, it was discovered that when the body gets structurally out of alignment, it causes interference in the nerve system. These misalignments interfere with the electrical impulses and therefore interfere with the body's ability to function normally and heal itself.
What a chiropractic adjustment does is improve your structural alignment, and in doing so removes the interference in the nerve system allowing for better function and better healing! How's that for cool!
And you thought chiropractic was for temporarily patching up backaches! The real job of chiropractic is to restore nerve system communication so that the innate intelligence can do it's thing as effectively and efficiently as possible. And that's it! And everybody can benefit from having a nerve system that is functioning at it's best. And I mean everybody!
Want to learn more? Give our office a call! We love to sit down with people and explain what we can do to help. Our phone number is 507-354-4529.
