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you know i was in practice as a chiropractor  for 30 years i probably personally worked on  

close to 40,000 different people in that period  of time i’ve given a lot of adjustments and i  

wish i would have known back then what i know now  especially when people had chronic misalignment  

problems especially in the neck and specifically  in the first cervical vertebra called the atlas  

people would come in all the time and you have  to keep readjusting them over and over and over  

so in this video i’m going to talk about an  interesting situation that’s quite common  

with a lot of people it involves the atlas what is  the atlas the atlas is the first cervical vertebra  

it’s a vertebra like a ring and it sits right  underneath the skull the entire skull sits on  

this one cervical vertebra and over ninety percent  of all your motion in your neck occurs from c1 so  

if you can’t move your neck too well to the right  or left chances are it’s going to be the first  

cervical vertebra that’s going to be involved now  what’s unique about this first vertebra is that  

you have the brain stem extending through this  vertebra as well as in the second one called the  

axis so in other words part of your brain actually  extends out of your skull into the first and  

second vertebra and if that vertebra is misaligned  you can have all sorts of issues that are related  

to the brain stem your breathing can be affected  you can get headaches migraine headaches tinnitus  

that’s ringing in the ears jaw pain you can get  neck pain back pain actually lower back pain from  

your neck why because it’s all connected you can  have a lot of lack of motion in your neck or even  

in your shoulders you can become dizzy you can  feel nauseated which i’m going to talk about why  

and your breathing can be affected as well now  when i was going through school learning about  

how to become a chiropractor what happened is a  lot of people practice side of you and they don’t  

know what the heck they’re doing and so you get  over adjusted and you get adjusted the wrong place  

and i will tell you firsthand if you get adjusted  the wrong way you’re going to have issues for  

example someone adjusts my neck and i ended up  with a severe sinus problem it was an infection  

but my nose was stuffy so over the years i’ve  become very aware of what can happen if this  

first vertebra even the second one becomes  misaligned many times you won’t be able to  

sleep that well you also have digestive issues as  well now you can actually have a whiplash injury  

you can have some trauma to your head i mean  even being born is traumatic someone taking  

forceps on your head and twisting or pulling your  head that’s enough to misalign the first cervical  

vertebra so if you’ve never had an adjustment by  a very good chiropractor and you have a problem  

with your neck or anything related to that first  cervical vertebra having the right adjustment by a  

very good chiropractor is extremely therapeutic  however if someone has a chronic problem with  

c1 and they have to continually get adjusted over  and over and over there’s something else going on  

and it involves a nerve called the vagus nerve  which comes out of the brain stem so if the first  

cervical vertebra is misaligned that can affect  the vagus nerve that goes into the digestive  

system but the vagus nerve is bidirectional  in other words nerves go from your gut back up  

up into the brain so any problem with the gut can  cause the first cervical vertebra to get tight  

and even misalign so you can adjust if  you feel better than the next time you eat  

it’s right back to the same problem now the vagus  nerve is part of the autonomic nervous system  

called the parasympathetic nervous system that’s  responsible for rest and digestion so i have found  

that the solution to this chronic misalignment  of the atlas is to change your food so you’re no  

longer bloating so you no longer have constipation  when your gut is working your neck is really nice  

and loose so anyway if you’re new to my channel  and you wanted to know what diet would be really  

good for your gut i put a link down below but  in general this video is for those of you who  

have a lot of tightness in the upper part of  the neck it’s really coming from your gut so  

if you’re enjoying my content which i hope you are  and you’re applying this knowledge to your health  

and you have a success i’d really appreciate you  sharing your success story so click the link down  

below to my website where you can upload your  success story so you can help inspire others