The Master Reset

Written by Dr. Craig Longley, D.C.
(Last Updated 5/22/2025)

The amount of material to cover in this one subject has necessitated dividing this topic into 9 manageable sections labeled:

1. Innate Intelligence: God’s Design

2. The Foreman: Your Electrical System / Construction Site

3. Miscommunication

4. The Master Reset

5. Eat to Live

6. Iodine: the Super Mineral

7. Detoxification

8. The Liver

9. Dr. C’s Detox, Restore, and Heal Protocols

I PROMISE, you have NEVER heard this explained or connected to you this way and it will be an epiphany unlike anything you’ve ever learned before. What I am about to tell you is the greatest discovery of my lifetime.

In the end, you will see what I mean by that.

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Innate Intelligence: God’s Design

Background: As a holistic doctor with 13 years of clinical and personal experience in health and wellness, I specialize in addressing a wide range of conditions, including those that persist despite repeated standard treatments or fail to resolve through conventional approaches.

Welcome!!!

Before we begin, I invite you to reflect on what you are. Your consciousness—your soul—resides within a brilliantly designed, self-healing electrical machine crafted not from metal but from the earth’s minerals, the dust of the ground. As scripture states, “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” This breath of life is the “electricity” that animates us, our souls inhabiting an electrical “avatar” formed from earthly elements.

This avatar, your body, was created at conception when your parents’ genetic material united in the miracle of procreation. Their DNA merged to form a single cell, carrying a unique genetic code—a divine program that brings a new soul into our physical realm. Encoded in this DNA are instructions to build, operate, adapt, and regenerate you, wiring an electrical system of nerves like cables and a brain like a processor. A single DNA strand, if uncoiled, stretches over 2 meters, yet fits within a 6-micrometer nucleus—an astonishing feat. This strand holds 3 billion base pairs—nucleotides (adenosine, thymine, guanine, cytosine)—connecting like precise electromagnetic circuits, their bonds governed by the elemental charges of protons and electrons, as reflected in the periodic table.

Counting every atom in one DNA strand, one per second without pause, would take 190.8 years—an astonishing testament to its complexity. This Divine program, encoded in your genetic code, orchestrates the wiring of your body’s electrical system, a masterpiece of God’s Design that powers every function with breathtaking precision.

Each nucleotide, a unique electromagnetic circuit made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms, contributes to the 114 billion atoms forming a complete DNA strand. Every cell in your body contains one such strand. From this Divine code arises your Central Nervous System (CNS), or better named your Central Electrical System (CES), the master hardware directing all bodily functions through nerves just like electrical cables and sensors—an awe-inspiring system crafted by God.

In just nine months from conception, that single cell, guided by your DNA, divided countless times, creating diverse cells to form tissues, organs, and organ systems. By birth, your body comprises approximately 2 trillion cells, all working in symbiotic harmony at the atomic level, sustained by electrical signals through nerves—an astonishing feat of God’s engineering.

We’ve grown accustomed to conception and birth, seeing them as routine, but the precision and complexity encoded in DNA’s divine program to create a human body defy statistical probability—an astonishing feat of God’s design. Despite centuries of research, we haven’t fully decoded the body’s intricacies, yet we’ve gained a comprehensive understanding of its operations, wired through an electrical system of nerves and guided by the brain’s master hardware.

Your body is a self-aware, self-regulating, self-adapting, and self-healing organism, flawless in its divine engineering. You are not in control of these processes. You can’t. beat your heart, digest your food, or control any facet of your body’s autonomy. You can barely even control your thoughts! You are merely inhabiting and moving this electromagnetic machine. Every person’s existence is proof of this astonishing creation. How are you here? How are you still here? The answer lies in the electrical signals pulsing through your nerves, orchestrated by your brain, sustaining life as God intended.

The same electromagnetic forces that allowed Jesus to walk on water (an electromagnetic molecule).

Water that comprises over 60% of our body. Water’s electromagnetic nature is critical, amplifying the divine design’s ability to self-regulate, heal, and thrive.

Water’s polarity and electromagnetic properties are the source of its extraordinary power, acting as a dynamic conductor within our body’s electrical system. Its polar molecules, with positive and negative charges, form a network that dissolves electrolytes—ions like sodium and potassium—transforming water into a medium for electrical signals. This enables nerves to transmit impulses and cells to communicate, sustaining life.

The instructions to run this astonishing creation are fully encoded in each DNA strand, a divine code protected within every cell’s nucleus by a nuclear membrane to prevent damage. This code details how to design, operate, adapt, and heal every cell, molecule, fiber, tissue, and organ, wired together by nerves like cables into interconnected systems. Each component plays a vital, interdependent role, enabling you to survive, thrive, heal, and adapt to Earth’s environment.

Your body operates in two primary states:

1. Catabolism: Using energy to break down molecules and tissues during activity, leading to degeneration.

2. Anabolism: Using energy to build and rebuild molecules and tissues for future use, promoting regeneration.

• Generate: To build or create.

• Regenerate: To rebuild or recreate.

• Degenerate: To break down or fall apart.

• Degeneration: The state where breakdown outpaces rebuilding (a process, not a disease).

When active, your body is catabolic, breaking down tissues. When resting or sleeping, it’s anabolic, rebuilding them. This anabolic state is why you’re alive today. Without sleep, how long could you survive? Without anabolism, entropy would ensure your destruction. Anabolism is essential for survival, health, and function.

Imagine your body as a bustling construction site: catabolism clears and breaks down, while anabolism builds, repairs, and updates—both processes sustaining you.

Every construction site needs a foreman. Your Nervous System and Neuroendocrine System—comprising the brain, cerebellum, brainstem, spinal cord, hypothalamus, pituitary, and pineal glands—serve as this foreman, orchestrating operations, delegating tasks, coordinating workers, ordering supplies, and adjusting conditions for efficiency.

The foreman’s blueprints are your DNA, guiding the construction and operation of your body.

The workers—your cells, tissues, and organs—each have specialized roles, receiving instructions from the foreman and reporting progress to ensure seamless coordination.

Workers need materials: the foods you eat. Macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats) provide energy and building blocks, while micronutrients (vitamins, minerals) serve as specialized tools for specific tasks.

A secure perimeter protects the site—your symbiotic gut and skin flora, skin, and gastrointestinal tract—defending the body’s integrity.

The site also has a management, cleaning, and security team—your immune system. It oversees operations, manages workers, cleans debris, inspects for damage, eliminates threats like infections, and keeps records, constantly improving efficiency.

Your body is an intricately tuned electromagnetic supermachine, operating with remarkable precision.

When all roles at this construction site are fulfilled, your body automatically self-operates, self-regulates, and self-heals. A cut on your arm heals with minimal care, forming new tissue. This regenerative process occurs continuously for every cell, tissue, and organ, if given the chance.

When fully healed or at rest, a body part is in homeostasis, a stable state of “ease” (from Greek home, similar, and stasis, stable). When called to work, it leaves homeostasis temporarily. If it can’t return fully, it enters dis-ease, or disease.

Healthcare excels at detecting dis-ease, measuring symptoms like pain, swelling, abnormal heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, enzyme levels, cholesterol, cell counts, oxygen levels, or nutrient levels. Diagnoses like “pancreatitis” (pancreas inflammation) or “tachycardia” (fast heart rate) often use Latin terms (see examples [insert link]). Some symptoms are named after their discoverers.

These symptoms—effects—signal that parts of the body are under attack, damaged, dysfunctional, or repairing, triggered by the CNS to ensure survival. Labeled as dis-ease, they reflect a loss of homeostasis and the body’s attempt to restore it.

Dis-ease arises when construction site processes falter, causing persistent damage or dysfunction:

1. Lack of energy.

2. Altered or destroyed blueprints.

3. Foreman unable to communicate with workers.

4. Workers unable to work or communicate.

5. Insufficient supplies or tools.

6. Poor-quality supplies or tools.

7. Dirty site.

8. Unfavorable environment.

9. Ongoing environmental damage.

In the body, these translate to:

1. Insufficient energy supply or use.

2. Altered or destroyed DNA.

3. Disrupted nervous or endocrine communication (e.g., from nerve compression or severed vessels).

4. Macronutrient or micronutrient deficiencies.

5. Poor-quality nutrients.

6. Excess metabolic or chemical waste.

7. Altered physiological environment.

8. Chronic infections or environmental damage.

Unaddressed, these issues accumulate, preventing homeostasis and worsening dis-ease. To restore health, all construction site problems must be corrected, allowing the body to heal naturally, as it’s designed to do daily.

(This doesn’t apply to emergencies like heart attacks or fractures, where acute medical care is vital to prevent death or disability.)

For chronic dis-ease, the construction site approach—holistically addressing all issues—is the most logical and effective way to restore health. Denying this is, at best, illogical, and at worst, harmful. This method has succeeded repeatedly for those who apply it, even after other failures.

Operating a construction site requires a specific order—every step must be addressed systematically. Ignoring any issue prevents resolution.

Mainstream medicine’s approach—dividing the body into specialties, suppressing the CNS, ignoring symptoms, or removing parts—fails to resolve dis-ease, as it disregards the body’s unity.

All body parts work as one for survival, yet healthcare often fragments them. The CNS, the body’s electrical system, and its communication with cells are widely studied but misunderstood. Without proper communication between the foreman and workers, healing fails. Nearly everyone has some undiagnosed communication loss, often for decades, with condition severity tied directly to the degree of loss.

Restoring this communication is essential for full healing.

“The Foreman”:

Your Electrical System

To comprehend how degeneration, dis-ease, or dysfunction occurs, you must first understand the body’s core systems and their operations. This article explores the Central Nervous System (CNS), your body’s “electrical system,” and its role in controlling and regulating all bodily functions.

Overview

Every facet of your body is governed by the Central Nervous System (CNS) and Neuroendocrine System, which collaborate to manage processes, functions, and healing through distinct mechanisms:

1. The Nervous System:

   • Components: Includes the Central Nervous System (CNS), Peripheral Nervous System (PNS), and Autonomic Nervous System (ANS).

   • Function: Controls bodily processes, functions, and healing using nerves and neurotransmitters as rapid information highways.

   • Speed and Effect: Operates in milliseconds, enabling instantaneous actions (e.g., snapping your fingers), with brief, targeted effects.

2. The Neuroendocrine System:

   • Components: Centered in the CNS, primarily driven by the hypothalamus, working with the pituitary and pineal glands.

   • Function: Regulates secretory organs and essential life functions, including hunger, thirst, sleep, reproduction, stress, and emotional responses, through hormones.

   • Speed and Effect: Acts over seconds, minutes, hours, days, or months, producing sustained, long-term effects.

Central Nervous System (CNS)

The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain, cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord, serves as the body’s master control system. It governs and regulates all vital functions, overseeing the entire body, including every organ and organ system. Its key roles include:

• Sensory Processing: Analyzes and interprets sensory information from the body’s environment, detected by the CNS and Peripheral Nervous System (PNS), and delivered to the brain.

• Voluntary Movement: Controls and coordinates voluntary motor responses, such as movement, while maintaining balance, coordination, equilibrium, and posture based on environmental sensory input.

• Involuntary Responses: Regulates non-voluntary motor responses triggered by sensory information.

• Cognitive Functions: Facilitates learning, association, differentiation, problem-solving, memory, and other processes related to perceived senses and motor responses.

• Regeneration: Oversees the body’s regenerative processes during sleep, particularly during REM cycles.

The brain and cerebellum:

The brainstem, a critical hub, channels all spinal cord nerves (information highways) into the brain and contains the nuclei, or origins, for ten of the twelve cranial nerves. It regulates essential life functions, including breathing, consciousness, blood pressure, heart rate, and sleep (an anabolic state), while also managing special sensory and motor functions. You can survive without higher brain function if the brainstem remains intact (though in a vegetative state), but brainstem failure is fatal. (Note: The pituitary gland’s proximity to the brainstem is significant and will be relevant later.)

In this image above you can see 11 of the 12 cranial nerves.

1. The cranial nerves (CN1–CN12), originating primarily from the brainstem, are critical components of the Central Nervous System (CNS), facilitating sensory, motor, and autonomic functions. Below is a refined overview of their roles:

   • CN1 - Olfactory Nerve: Governs the sense of smell. Positioned toward the front of the brain, it connects directly to the hypothalamus and limbic system, strongly linking smell to long-term memory, emotions, and vital functions.

   • CN2 - Optic Nerve: Enables vision, transmitting visual information from the eyes to the brain.

   • CN3 - Oculomotor Nerve: Controls multiple eye functions, including:

     • Pupil constriction (parasympathetic response).

     • Focusing on close objects.

     • Eye movement in various directions.

   • CN4 - Trochlear Nerve: Facilitates specific eye movements, particularly downward and inward.

   • CN6 - Abducens Nerve: Directs lateral eye movement.

   Note: Four of the twelve cranial nerves (CN2, CN3, CN4, CN6) are dedicated to vision and eye movement, underscoring their role in environmental perception.

   • CN5 - Trigeminal Nerve: Manages:

     • Sensory input from the head, face, teeth, gums, and jaw.

     • Jaw movement for chewing and speaking.

   • CN7 - Facial Nerve: Oversees:

     • Facial movements for expressions.

     • Gland functions, including tear glands, nasal mucosa, and salivary glands.

     • Taste sensation from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.

   • CN8 - Vestibulocochlear Nerve: Comprises two systems:

     • Vestibular System: Regulates balance and spatial orientation.

     • Cochlear System: Enables hearing.

   • CN9 - Glossopharyngeal Nerve: Handles:

     • Reduction of saliva production.

     • Sensory input from the posterior third of the tongue’s taste buds, throat, and middle ear (detecting fluid buildup).

     • Gag reflex and swallowing sequence.

     • Blood pressure regulation via carotid artery sensors.

   • CN10 - Vagus Nerve: A major nerve with extensive reach, it provides:

     • Sensory, motor, and primarily parasympathetic input to the gastrointestinal tract (from throat to near the colon’s end) and nearly every organ.

     • Regulation of the neuro-immunomodulatory center, supporting immune function and regeneration.

     • Innervation to the epiglottis (preventing lung or stomach misrouting), vocal cords, esophagus, trachea, thymus, thyroid, lungs, heart, cardiac sphincter, stomach, digestive enzymes, pyloric sphincter, small intestine, colon, spleen, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, adrenal glands, pancreas, appendix, bladder, uterus, ovaries, cervix, vagina, penis, scrotum, and testicles.

   • CN11 - Accessory Nerve: Supports:

     • The vagus nerve in swallowing and speech.

     • Muscle control of the upper trapezius and sternocleidomastoid (SCM), which position and move the head, aiding balance by aligning it with the horizon.

   • CN12 - Hypoglossal Nerve: Controls tongue movements essential for:

     • Speaking.

     • Chewing.

     • Swallowing.

     • Breathing.

The entire central nervous system is held buoyant (floating) inside the meninges (a three layer protective glove), and protected and maintained by the Cerebrospinal Fluid seen here in blue and moves about the CNS indicated by the arrows.

The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) serves six critical functions in supporting the Central Nervous System (CNS), ensuring its health, function, and protection:

1. Buoyancy and Shock Absorption: CSF provides a cushioning effect, protecting the brain and spinal cord by acting as an incompressible fluid, similar to hydraulic systems, absorbing shocks and reducing impact.

2. Hormone Transport: It acts as a medium to transport neuroendocrine hormones secreted by the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, pineal gland, and other structures, delivering them to target areas in the brain and spinal cord for regulating vital functions.

3. Neurotransmitter Transport: CSF facilitates the movement of neurotransmitters across the CNS. Neurotransmitters function like binary code in a computer, using chemical “yes” or “no” signals (presence or absence) to trigger actions. Examples include dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, GABA, acetylcholine, and histamine, among others. Imbalances or disruptions in their transport can lead to mental, emotional, cognitive, memory dysfunction, dis-ease, and homeostatic decline or degeneration.

4. Nutrient and Healing Agent Delivery: CSF carries essential nutrients and healing agents specific to the CNS, supporting repair and maintenance.

5. Waste Removal via Glymphatic System: CSF hosts the glymphatic system, the CNS’s specialized waste-clearance mechanism, akin to the body’s lymphatic system. It removes toxins and waste, keeping the CNS “site clean” and preventing buildup that could impair function.

6. Homeostasis Regulation: CSF maintains the CNS’s homeostasis, ensuring the brain, brainstem, and spinal cord remain healthy, regenerated, and in an optimal, precisely balanced environment. Proper CSF flow and turnover are vital for preventing and healing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, dementia, ALS, MS, CTE, and CNS tumors or malignancies.

The CSF’s role is indispensable—its proper flow and function are critical to CNS health, regeneration, and protection against dis-ease, making it a cornerstone of the body’s ability to maintain homeostasis and a clean, efficient “construction site.”

As mentioned before, the CNS contains the origins of the Neuroendocrine System: hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and pineal gland. (Note the proximity to the CSF and the Brainstem)

The hypothalamic pituitary axis is an intricate pathway with a central role in maintaining homeostasis by integrating complex physiological and endocrine inputs, and neuronal and hormonal output. Disorders of the pathway result in a profound disturbance in blood pressure, thirst and electrolyte balance, body temperature, appetite and energy metabolism, reproduction, circadian rhythms and sleep, and the emergency response to stress.

»»Untreated, abnormalities of this axis are incompatible with life.

»»»»»»»incompatible with life……

Sensory information comes in and motor output comes out in response.

Examples:

The pituitary and pineal glands, integral to the Neuroendocrine System, secrete hormones that regulate critical bodily functions. These hormones are released into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and transported to their target destinations:

• ADH (Antidiuretic Hormone): Regulates water retention in the kidneys, influencing blood pressure. By retaining more water, it increases blood pressure; by excreting water (as with diuretic drugs), it lowers blood pressure.

• Oxytocin: Supports a range of reproductive and emotional functions, including childbirth, the menstrual cycle, breast development, sexual arousal and orgasm, romantic attachments, trust, parent-child bonding, and love.

• TSH (Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone): Stimulates the thyroid to produce T4, which regulates tissue and cell turnover, energy use or storage, metabolism, and basal metabolic rate (BMR), among other physiological processes.

• ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic Hormone): Triggers the production of stress hormones that drive catabolism during “fight or flight” (Sympathetic Nervous System activation). Short-term stress hormones include epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenaline), while cortisol serves as the long-term stress hormone. ACTH also supports melanin production (skin tanning) and anabolism in bones and muscles (building).

• PRL (Prolactin): Promotes breast development, milk production, and secretion before and after pregnancy.

• GH (Growth Hormone): Controls the rate of anabolism (building) following catabolism, driving growth in children and adults while significantly influencing basal metabolic rate (BMR).

• GnRH (Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone): Facilitates embryonic development, puberty, menopause, sex hormone production (e.g., estrogen, testosterone), and the entire reproductive process.

• Pineal Gland Hormones: Often called the “third eye” or “seat of the soul,” the pineal gland has photoreceptors that detect light, monitor seasonal environmental changes, and regulate sleep/wake cycles and circadian rhythms (24-hour physical, mental, and behavioral patterns). It secretes:

  • Melatonin: A serotonin derivative that supports sleep and REM cycles.

  • DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine): Released in large amounts at birth, death, and during deep meditation or prayer, with potential roles in consciousness and spiritual experiences.

These neuroendocrine hormones, released directly into the CSF, are efficiently transported to their target organs and tissues, ensuring precise regulation of vital bodily processes.

The Central Nervous System (CNS) governs the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which operates involuntarily and automatically. The ANS is divided into two opposing systems, reflecting the body’s two primary states:

1. Parasympathetic Nervous System: The “rest and digest” state, associated with homeostasis and anabolism. It fosters regeneration, repair, and maintenance, enabling the body to build and thrive, akin to a bustling construction site.

2. Sympathetic Nervous System: The “fight or flight” state, linked to active work and catabolism. It mobilizes energy for immediate action, prioritizing survival over maintenance.

These systems work in opposition, ensuring one dominates at a time. For instance, you’re not hungry or “in the mood” during stress or exercise (Sympathetic mode), nor should you need to use the bathroom while running or fighting (impractical in a survival state). The Parasympathetic state supports anabolism and homeostasis, creating the ideal physiological environment for the body to regenerate cells, tissues, and organs, preparing it for future tasks.

Homeostasis meaning a state of “ease” where a body part is fully healed, functional, or at rest. When called to work, it temporarily leaves this state. If it cannot fully return to homeostasis afterward, it enters a state of dis-ease, or disease.

• Vitality: Achieved when degeneration is balanced by regeneration (Degeneration → Regeneration).

• Disease: Occurs when regeneration fails to counter degeneration (Degeneration —x—> Regeneration).

The brainstem also plays a key role in regulating the immune system and its response to dis-ease. It modulates system-wide inflammatory processes by controlling cytokines—signaling molecules critical to immune responses. During events like COVID, excessive cytokine release, known as a “cytokine storm,” triggered widespread inflammation across organs. The brainstem orchestrates these responses to maintain balance.

When cells or tissues are damaged or dysfunctional, this information is relayed to the CNS (the “foreman”), which sends instructions via the immune system to initiate regeneration. This reflexive communication continues between the CNS and the affected cells, tissues, or organs until regeneration is complete, with regular check-ins to ensure ongoing health and function.

Most of this work in neuro-immunomodulatory regulation occurs through the Vagus Nerve. (Did I mention that this nerve was a BIG ONE?)

Neural reflexes support homeostasis by modulating the function of organ systems. Recent advances in neuroscience and immunology have revealed that neural reflexes also regulate the immune system. Activation of the Vagus Nerve modulates leukocyte cytokine production and alleviates experimental shock and autoimmune disease, and recent data have suggested that Vagus Nerve stimulation can improve symptoms in human rheumatoid arthritis.

Simply put, if you expect to have a properly functioning Immune System, you must have proper communication with the Immune System and the Brain, and the CNS needs to be in full working function. (Communication with the foreman)

“Sickness behavior involves functional changes in mood, memory, cognition, and sleep, and it also activates the HPA (Hypothalamic Pituitary Axis) stress response.” In other words, when you are sick, it is your immune system that is telling your brain that you should lie down and take it easy. Whether you respond or not may have as much to do with the strength of the signal as with the strength of your will to keep going; no one knows.

“It’s certainly a two-way interaction, where the immune system signals the brain and the brain signals the immune system and the two, in concert, act as a rapid response system of the body to all sorts of external stimuli,” says Sternberg.

“The immune system can be viewed as a sensory organ,” she adds, “sending signals about pathogens [just as] the eyes send visual signals and the ears send auditory signals. The brain responds and produces hormones and neurochemicals that alter immune function.”

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All nerves, acting as the body’s communication highways between the brain and the rest of the body, along with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and a vital portion of the brain’s blood, oxygen, and nutrient supply, converge at a crucial point: the base of the skull through the Foramen Magnum and between the C1 (Atlas) and C2 (Axis) vertebrae. Known as the upper cervical spine, this “functional unit” serves as the master breaker, orchestrating the body’s neurological and physiological functions.

The Foramen Magnum is Latin for “big hole”— they were really clever when naming this anatomical structure, seen here below:

The two lima bean-shaped structures, positioned at the 9-12 o’clock and 12-3 o’clock regions, are the bony articulations between the skull and C1 (Atlas). These structures are wedged to provide additional anatomical stability and support to the foramen magnum.

C1 encircles the odontoid process of C2 (a peg-like projection), forming a pivot that enables the majority of neck rotation. Both C1 (Atlas) and C2 (Axis) feature large central holes, which taper in size, accommodating the passage of the brainstem and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through the upper cervical spine.

Notice C3-7 do NOT have a big hole:

That’s because C1 and C2 contain the brainstem and the transition to the spinal cord begins at C3.

Now that you have some understanding of what we are dealing with and how the construction site (your avatar) is regulated, operated, controlled, etc. by the “Foreman” aka your Central Nervous System aka Your Electrical System, let’s take a look at how physical trauma to the head and neck can set you on a course for a rapid or slow waterfall of progressive dysfunction/dis-ease in the next section: Miscommunication.

Miscommunication

Have you ever experienced significant head or neck trauma? Perhaps a fall, car accident, fight, sports injury, concussion, or even rough play as a child? What about birth itself? During delivery, the head and neck are often forcefully pulled, sometimes with little care. In some cases, babies get stuck or are positioned incorrectly. With enough force—or even just force applied in a specific direction—the upper cervical vertebrae (C1 and C2) can misalign, shift out of place, and fail to articulate properly. This misalignment encroaches on the critical space housing the brainstem, spinal cord, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and blood vessels.

The first structures to be compressed are the CSF pathways and blood vessels, narrowing the channels through which these vital fluids flow.

Disrupting cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow is like kinking a hose—even a slight obstruction alters the rate, direction, and pressure of the flow. Like Pascal’s Law, which states that force applied to a fluid transfers equally in all directions (like ripples in a pond), a physical blockage or misalignment in the body’s “hose” (the upper cervical spine) disrupts CSF dynamics, with cascading effects on health.

If CSF flow to the brain and down the spinal cord is obstructed or altered in rate, direction, or volume, what happens?

• Increased Intracranial Pressure: A buildup of CSF within the brain can elevate intracranial pressure, potentially leading to conditions like glaucoma (pressure behind the eyes) or Chiari Malformation (pressure behind the cerebellum).

• Impaired CSF Turnover: The body cannot fully maintain CSF’s critical functions, such as buoyancy, nutrient delivery, and waste removal, due to inadequate flow and turnover.

• Disrupted Hormone Transport: Neuroendocrine hormones from the pituitary and pineal glands cannot be properly transported to their target organs, impairing processes like water retention (ADH), reproduction and bonding (oxytocin), metabolism (TSH), stress response (ACTH), growth (GH), and sleep regulation (melatonin).

• Hormonal Pathway Dysfunction: Every neuroendocrine hormone pathway—regulating blood pressure, metabolism, reproduction, stress, growth, sleep, and more—faces potential disruption, given their reliance on CSF transport.

• Impaired Neurotransmitter Transport: Neurotransmitters like dopamine (movement, memory, reward), serotonin (mood, sleep, healing, clotting), GABA (calming nerve activity), glutamate (learning, memory), and others cannot be effectively transported within the CNS, leading to widespread dysfunction.

• Cognitive and Emotional Consequences: Disrupted neurotransmitter transport can cause impaired cognitive function, depression, anxiety, poor tissue and brain healing, reduced motivation, memory deficits, unrefreshing sleep, decreased sexual desire, racing thoughts, chronic stress, and countless other issues—an encyclopedia’s worth of potential symptoms.

• Limited Nutrient and Healing Delivery: The CNS cannot adequately transport specialized “building blocks,” nutrients, and healing agents to damaged areas, hindering repair.

• Accumulation of Waste: Metabolic waste and heavy metals cannot be fully cleared via the glymphatic system, leading to toxic buildup in the CNS.

• Impaired Brain Repair: The brain cannot fully heal from damage or dysfunction, as CSF flow is essential for delivering repair resources and removing debris.

• Neurodegenerative Disease Progression: neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia, ALS, MS, or CTE stem from compromised CSF flow, and its restoration is critical for CNS regeneration.

At what point does CSF flow disruption cause problems? Any loss in rate, direction, or volume triggers issues. The severity and progression of dis-ease directly correlate with the degree and duration of this loss:

• High Percentage Loss + Any Duration: A significant problem, with immediate and severe consequences.

• Low Percentage Loss + Long Duration: A gradually worsening, ever-progressing issue that accumulates over time.

Compressing a nerve impairs its ability to transmit electrical signals effectively, disrupting both sensory input and motor output. This interference alters electromagnetic fields, distorts information flow, and undermines control, leading to pain and symptoms of dysfunction.

When a nerve is compressed, every function it supports—sensory detection, motor control, regulation, regeneration, immunomodulation, and maintenance of homeostasis—is compromised, even in seemingly unrelated or distant parts of the body. You might dismiss it as “just a muscle,” “just IBS,” or “just an irregular heart rate,” but these are interconnected. Any of the major cranial nerves can be affected, and their extensive roles (detailed previously) impact numerous critical processes across the body. Revisit the cranial nerve functions to see the vast scope of their influence.

What about the tissues these nerves travel to?

Compression of the cranial nerves not only causes the previously mentioned symptoms and dysfunctions—disrupted sensory input, motor output, regulation, regeneration, immunomodulation, and homeostasis—but also triggers intense pain, numbness, tingling, and loss of strength or function in the tissues they innervate.

Regarding the parasympathetic nerves in the upper cervical and brainstem region: virtually all major parasympathetic functions are mediated through this area. The brainstem houses the origins of key cranial nerves with significant parasympathetic roles, particularly:

• CN3 (Oculomotor Nerve): Parasympathetic control of pupil constriction and lens focusing.

• CN7 (Facial Nerve): Parasympathetic innervation of tear glands, nasal mucosa, and salivary glands.

• CN9 (Glossopharyngeal Nerve): Parasympathetic regulation of salivary glands and throat functions.

• CN10 (Vagus Nerve): The primary parasympathetic nerve, innervating the gastrointestinal tract, heart, lungs, and numerous other organs, governing “rest and digest” functions.

These nerves, concentrated in the brainstem and exiting through the upper cervical spine, account for the vast majority of parasympathetic activity, making this region a critical hub for the body’s anabolic and homeostatic processes.

If parasympathetic nerves are compressed, they cannot function properly. This impairment prevents the body from effectively entering the parasympathetic “rest-and-digest” state, hindering homeostasis and anabolism.

• Stuck in Sympathetic Overdrive: Unable to shift into parasympathetic mode, the body remains in a constant “fight or flight” state, characterized by catabolism. This is synonymous with dis-ease, or disease.

• Impact of CSF/Upper Cervical/Brainstem Compression: Misalignment in the upper cervical spine, compressing the brainstem, cranial nerves, and CSF pathways, can cause or perpetuate virtually all dis-eases. This isn’t a minor issue like a pinched nerve causing sciatica; it’s a critical disruption at the confluence of the body’s electrical system, threatening survival.

The Central Nervous System (CNS) prioritizes survival above all else, making sacrifices to protect vital functions. Consider temperature regulation as an example, controlled by the hypothalamus, located just above the brainstem:

When exposed to cold, the body fights to maintain its internal temperature. It enters catabolism, burning fuel to generate heat, shivering to produce warmth, and shunting blood from extremities to vital internal organs and the CNS. Consequently, fingers, toes, ears, and nose—less critical for survival—are the first to risk frostbite due to reduced blood supply. The body sacrifices these to preserve the internal organs and nervous system, which are essential for life.

In the hierarchy of tissue and organ importance, nothing ranks higher than the brain, brainstem, and CSF. To ensure their function and survival, the CNS is willing to sacrifice anything—and it does, prioritizing these critical components over less vital tissues when under threat.

Let’s take a look.
Do you think this person has an upper cervical misalignment? (Yes, they do.)

Brainstem and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) compression, often resulting from upper cervical misalignment, prompts the body to adapt by altering the neural tube’s path. A “kink” in this system creates a compensatory shift, as the body strives to maintain function.

The principle is simple: where the head goes, the body follows. The upper cervical spine (C1 and C2) dictates the alignment of the entire spine and, consequently, the whole body. Every cell and tissue adjusts to preserve the integrity of the electrical system’s communication pathways.

To mitigate compression and restore function, the brain directs specific muscles to act:

• Paraspinal Muscles: These muscles shift the spine to open the neural tube, relieving pressure and maintaining electrical communication.

• Upper Trapezius, Suboccipital Triangle Muscles, and Sternocleidomastoid (SCM): These contract to stabilize the upper cervical spine, keep the eyes level with the horizon (essential for navigating the world), and counteract misalignment.

The body continuously responds to, adapts, and compensates for every trauma or misalignment to the upper cervical spine. Like a Rubik’s cube, each trauma is a turn away from alignment. The first trauma shifts one “side,” and subsequent traumas add new layers of misalignment without erasing the previous ones. Over time, these misalignments stack, with some individuals accumulating many “turns” and others only a few.

Each misalignment exerts its own torque on the spine, pulling it out of its current position and requiring increased energy to maintain this new compensatory state. The spine adapts by shifting and curving, holding onto each layer of trauma. This cumulative adaptation manifests as compensatory scoliosis, a structural adaptation to preserve neural communication and protect the body’s survival.

These images are all the same person and a real patient at my office. Do you think she has dis-ease? Pain? Where? A lot of places?

The vast and overwhelming majority of people who have scoliosis have a compensatory scoliosis. If you have upper cervical misalignment- you have a compensatory scoliosis.

(**The congenital form is due to malformed vertebrae causing uneven stacking of the next vertebrae above or below, but this is considered “rare”. )

The paraspinal muscles, spanning both sides of the spine in varying sizes, play a critical role in creating compensatory scoliosis. When these muscles contract asymmetrically due to an upper cervical misalignment, they generate the precise tension needed to reshape the spine, compensating for the misalignment to maintain neural communication and protect the brainstem and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow.

However, these compensatory adaptations come with significant consequences. While the spine alters its shape and position to mitigate the misalignment, the force of gravity remains constant. This mismatch between the spine’s new configuration and gravitational forces creates additional strain on muscles, ligaments, joints, and nerves, leading to a cascade of secondary issues, including pain, dysfunction, and further dis-ease as the body struggles to maintain homeostasis under these unnatural conditions.

The spine is engineered to remain vertically straight, with natural front-to-back curves (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar) that enhance its strength and resilience. This alignment allows the body to effectively manage the direct, ninety-degree compressive force of gravity. The vertebrae, designed as cube-shaped structures, distribute this force across a broad surface area for optimal load-bearing. Additionally, intervertebral discs act as shock absorbers between each vertebra. These discs consist of a gel-like fluid core (nucleus pulposus) encased in multiple layers of connective tissue (annular fibers), arranged in a crisscross pattern akin to a Chinese finger-trap. This hydraulic design ensures the fluid cannot be compressed, providing cushioning and stability under gravitational pressure.

With the spine misaligned due to compensatory scoliosis, it no longer effectively manages the vertical compressive forces of gravity. The altered spinal position causes asymmetrical force distribution: on one side, the vertebrae and connective joints are pulled apart, while on the other, they are compressed.

Picture squeezing a balloon on one side—the opposite side bulges out. Similarly, on the gapped side of the spine, joint capsules and ligaments become overstretched, and the intervertebral disc “balloons” outward, protruding due to the uneven pressure. This disc bulging further destabilizes the spine, exacerbating dysfunction and potentially compressing nearby nerves or tissues.

If the asymmetrical force on the spine persists or intensifies, the incompressible fluid within the intervertebral disc’s nucleus pulposus exerts pressure on the surrounding annular fibers, potentially tearing through them. Should this force breach the outer layers, it results in a disc herniation. Given the close proximity of the spinal cord and spinal nerves, which exit bilaterally at every vertebral level, this herniation can lead to a cascade of complications, including nerve compression, pain, numbness, weakness, or dysfunction in the areas innervated by the affected nerves.

The greater the intensity and duration of asymmetrical and compressive forces on the spine, the more progressive the destruction of tissues and the deeper the state of dis-ease. These ongoing forces, stemming from misalignment and compensatory scoliosis, disrupt the spine’s ability to maintain homeostasis, leading to worsening dysfunction and tissue degeneration over time.

This is diagram is showing you some of the stages of “Degenerative Disc Disease”.

The severity of a disc bulge or herniation determines its impact on nearby structures. A significant bulge can compress the spinal cord or the adjacent spinal nerve exiting on that side, leading to a predictable progression of symptoms: initially pain, followed by numbness and tingling, and eventually loss of motor function along the entire pathway of the affected nerve, impacting all tissues it innervates.

In severe cases, a nerve may face double compression: first by a bulging or herniated disc at the spinal level, and again as it passes through the foramen magnum due to upper cervical misalignment. This dual compression severely disrupts the nerve’s ability to transmit signals, drastically impairing function and homeostasis in the tissues it serves, leading to intensified pain, numbness, tingling, and potential loss of motor control.

Conversely, on the opposite side of the spine—where joints and vertebrae are overly compressed due to misalignment—the tissues experience excessive force. Consider the body’s response to repetitive stress, like manual labor or weightlifting, which forms calluses on the hands as a protective adaptation. Similarly, when spinal joints endure constant compressive stress, the body responds by generating additional bone tissue, forming a bone callus to better withstand the force.

On an X-ray, areas of increased bone density appear whiter, while less dense areas appear darker. Examining the joints (where bones articulate), you may notice extra white areas indicating increased bone density or extra bone growth—a bone callus—reflecting the body’s adaptive response to chronic stress from misalignment.

The Central Nervous System (CNS), acting as the body’s foreman, perceives the scoliotic misalignment as spinal instability. To restore stability and protect the delicate spinal cord—the critical information and control highway—the CNS initiates a compensatory response. It directs the spine to begin fusing by ossifying (turning to bone) the ligaments that connect the vertebrae. Simultaneously, the vertebrae, under excessive compressive force, develop outgrowths (like stalactites and stalagmites) that eventually meet and fuse, forming osteophytes or bone spurs.

Some doctors label bone spurs as problematic, advocating for their surgical removal. However, this overlooks their purpose: bone spurs are the body’s adaptive mechanism to stabilize an unstable spine and safeguard the spinal cord. Removing them does not address the root cause—the upper cervical misalignment or compensatory scoliosis—and thus fails to resolve the underlying instability.

This scenario, complex as it is, doesn’t yet account for the added complications introduced by movement, which further challenges the spine’s compromised structure and function.

Muscles generate movement solely by contracting, functioning like rubber bands that shorten when activated. They do not actively stretch; instead, they are either contracted (shortened) or inhibited (lengthened). Positioned on opposing sides of a joint, muscles produce controlled movement through opposing actions, orchestrated by the Central Nervous System (CNS), the body’s foreman. For a joint to move, one muscle group contracts while a spinal reflex—a non-voluntary, automatic mechanism—inhibits the opposing group, ensuring smooth, coordinated motion.

When an upper cervical misalignment compresses the neural tube and its contents (brainstem, spinal cord, cerebrospinal fluid, and nerves), the body responds by contracting specific muscles to “unkink” the neural tube and restore flow. Simultaneously, it contracts muscles attached to the upper cervical spine—such as the upper trapezius, sternocleidomastoid (SCM), scalene, and paraspinal muscles—to limit range of motion, stabilize the head’s position (keeping eyes level with the horizon), and prevent further misalignment. These muscles remain contracted, staying “on guard” until the misalignment is corrected.

This explains why so many people complain of persistently “tight” or “tense” neck and upper shoulder muscles. Massages may provide temporary relief, but the tension inevitably returns because the root cause—the upper cervical misalignment—remains unaddressed. Without resolving this, the muscles will continue to contract reflexively, and no amount of massage or stretching will yield long-term or complete resolution.

If a muscle contracts what MUST happen according to your built in spinal reflex? The opposing muscle must inhibit (turn off). Let’s look at how this plays out in the human body:

Upper Body Muscle Imbalances

The upper trapezius and levator scapulae contract long-term to stabilize the misaligned upper cervical spine, causing inhibition of their opposing muscles: the lower trapezius, rhomboids, and serratus anterior. These inhibited muscles are critical for pulling the scapula (shoulder blade) backward and downward toward the midline, stabilizing the thoracic spine, rib joints, and shoulder joint. When inhibited, the shoulders shift upward/feather and forward, triggering contraction of the pectoralis muscles to maintain this new position. With the shoulders forward, the head follows, leading to contraction of the SCMs to draw the head forward. This inhibits the deep cervical flexors, which normally keep the ears aligned over the shoulders and maintain cervical spine alignment with the rest of the spine.

This self-perpetuating cycle worsens over time, increasing compressive forces on the spine and accelerating disc bulging, herniation, and joint degeneration. The sustained muscle tension and inhibition also contribute to the persistent “tightness” or “tension” in the neck and shoulders that many experience. Massages or stretching offer only temporary relief, as the CNS continues to enforce these compensatory contractions until the upper cervical misalignment is corrected.

Lower Body Muscle Imbalances

The effects extend to the lower body, as the upper cervical misalignment torques the entire spine, often leading to low back injuries. Extending or standing upright becomes painful with a low back injury, prompting individuals to sit or bend at the hips to relieve pressure. This causes the hip flexors to contract, inhibiting their opposing muscles, the glutes, which stabilize the pelvis and center of gravity, enabling an erect posture. Without glute support, the low back erector muscles take over to hold the body upright—a role they’re not designed for long-term. This, in turn, inhibits the core musculature, which acts like a “corset” to stabilize the lumbar spine, further destabilizing the lower back.

Postural and Functional Consequences

As shown in the diagram, the inhibited muscles—lower trapezius, rhomboids, serratus anterior, deep cervical flexors, glutes, and core—are postural muscles. These stabilize the midline, maintain erect posture, and provide a stable foundation for limb movement, allowing the body to handle gravity’s compressive forces. When these muscles are inhibited, the muscles responsible for limb movement (e.g., pectoralis, hip flexors) must also stabilize joints, performing double duty. Pivoting off an unstable midline, these overworked muscles lead to overuse injuries at joints, muscles, or tendons, including:

• Upper Body: Rotator cuff tears, biceps tendonitis, labral injuries, shoulder impingements.

• Lower Body: Sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction, hip joint issues, hip labrum tears, patellar tendinitis, knee injuries, meniscus tears, ligament tears, tendon tears, muscle tears.

These injuries, along with symptoms like weak muscles, immobility, limited range of motion, poor posture, and degeneration, are often attributed to “aging” or isolated issues. However, they are symptoms, not the cause. The root cause is the upper cervical misalignment, which initiates this domino effect of muscle imbalances, spinal instability, and tissue damage.

Nerve Compression Amplifies Dysfunction

The consequences are magnified if nerves are compressed at the upper cervical spine, along the spine, or within overused, spastic muscles. Compression at multiple points—such as at the foramen magnum and a herniated disc—severely disrupts communication between the CNS (foreman) and affected tissues. This reduces the tissue’s capacity for homeostasis, anabolism, and regeneration, with the degree of dysfunction directly proportional to the extent of nerve compression and communication loss. For example, a compressed vagus nerve (CN10) could impair digestion or heart rate regulation, while spinal nerve compression might cause radiating pain or weakness in the limbs.

Systemic Impact and Dis-ease

The upper cervical spine is the “master breaker” for the body’s electrical system, and its misalignment disrupts CSF flow, nerve function, and parasympathetic activity, locking the body in a sympathetic “fight or flight” state. This perpetuates dis-ease, as the body cannot fully return to a regenerative, homeostatic state. Virtually all dis-eases—musculoskeletal, neurological, or systemic—can be linked to or exacerbated by this mechanism, as the CNS sacrifices less critical tissues (e.g., muscles, joints) to protect the brainstem and spinal cord, its highest priority.

Correcting the upper cervical misalignment is essential to restore balanced muscle function, normalize CSF flow, relieve nerve compression, and enable the body to shift back to a parasympathetic, anabolic state. Without addressing this root cause, symptoms like pain, poor posture, and overuse injuries will persist, and the body’s ability to heal and regenerate will remain compromised.

Problems can arise anywhere on the body’s “construction site”—workers (cells, tissues, organs), supplies and materials (macronutrients), parts and tools (micronutrients), a dirty site (waste buildup), poor management (immune dysfunction), lack of security (gut/skin flora), or vandalizers (pathogens, environmental stressors). These issues contribute to degeneration, dysfunction, and dis-ease. However, no matter how diligently you address these components, if the communication issue—stemming from upper cervical misalignment—remains unresolved, you’ll achieve only a fraction of full health, directly proportional to the duration and severity of the miscommunication.

Visiting a specialist who focuses on a single aspect of the construction site, ignoring the body’s interconnected systems, fails to restore true healing. Without addressing the whole, nothing fully resolves.

But what happens if you properly “unkink” the upper cervical spine, restoring the integrity of the neural tube and freeing the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), brainstem, and spinal cord?

The body re-establishes communication, control, and function, unleashing its innate intelligence—the perfect, DNA-encoded ability to heal and regenerate. The domino effect of dysfunction reverses: degenerated, dysfunctional, or dis-eased tissues begin to heal, regenerate, and function as designed, from head to toe.

This innate intelligence, flawless in its design, governs every aspect of your “avatar,” orchestrating restoration when given the opportunity.

So, how do you achieve this?

The Master Reset

Imagine placing a long-term tourniquet around your forearm and then sustaining an injury to your hand below it. No treatment—therapy, surgery, drug, nutrient, rehabilitation, or chiropractic care—will fully resolve the injury until the tourniquet is removed. This is precisely what’s happening in your body, except the tourniquets are constricting your brainstem, literally squeezing the life out of you. These tourniquets are upper cervical misalignments, disrupting the neural tube, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow, and nerve function at the body’s “master breaker” (the C1 and C2 vertebrae).

For some, the issue is compounded by multiple tourniquets—layered misalignments resulting from successive traumas in different directions, each adding a new “kink” to the neural tube, like stacking misalignments on a Rubik’s cube. These layers create a complex web of dysfunction, amplifying the body’s compensatory responses, such as scoliosis, muscle imbalances, and systemic dis-ease.

Complicating matters further, these tourniquets are secured by a “combination lock.” To remove them, you must first unlock the precise sequence of misalignments, addressing each layer to restore alignment and function.

How Do You Know You Have This Issue?

Beyond the myriad symptoms of dis-ease, specific signs point to upper cervical misalignment:

• Neck Sounds: Moving your head or neck in one or more directions produces a “Rice Krispies” crackling or grinding sound, indicating joint dysfunction or restricted motion.

• Asymmetrical or Reduced Range of Motion: You experience generalized stiffness, pinching sensations, or uneven mobility in the neck, spine, or ribs, reflecting spinal compensation and instability.

• Persistent Dysfunction: Any unresolved injury, dysfunction, or dis-ease—anywhere in the body—that resists treatment, as the compromised brainstem and CSF flow impair healing.

• Scoliosis: A hallmark of compensatory adaptation, where the spine curves to alleviate pressure on the neural tube, with severity tied to the degree of upper cervical misalignment.

The Solution: Unkinking the Upper Cervical Spine

To resolve this, you must “unkink” the upper cervical spine, restoring the integrity of the neural tube and freeing the CSF, brainstem, and spinal cord. This process unlocks the combination lock, removing the tourniquets layer by layer. By realigning C1 (Atlas) and C2 (Axis), you re-establish communication, control, and the body’s innate intelligence—the DNA-encoded blueprint for healing and regeneration. The domino effect of dysfunction—compensatory scoliosis, muscle imbalances, disc herniations, nerve compression, and systemic dis-ease—unravels in reverse, allowing tissues to heal, regenerate, and function as designed.

This is the Master Reset, enabling the body’s construction site to operate as intended: workers (cells, tissues), supplies (nutrients), and the foreman (CNS) functioning in harmony, free from the constraints of miscommunication.

THE Y.E.S. TEST

Diagnosing Upper Cervical Misalignment

To correct an upper cervical misalignment, you must first crack the “combination lock”—determining the precise 3D positional coordinates and angles of each joint in the upper cervical complex (C1 and C2). This precise diagnosis has been the central challenge in chiropractic care since its inception: finding a method that works consistently for everyone, every time. Historically, solutions have fallen short, but advancements are changing the game.

How might you identify a misalignment? The logical starting point is imaging. If you visit a chiropractor for spinal issues, the standard of care typically involves an X-ray to assess the spine’s condition and overall body alignment. Modern technology takes this further with Cone Beam CT (CBCT) scans, which produce detailed 3D images. These can be manipulated on advanced software, allowing practitioners to slice through layers and examine joints with precision, revealing potential misalignments in vivid detail.

But is this approach foolproof? CBCT scans, X-rays, and MRIs provide static snapshots of joint positions. Joints, however, are designed to move. Consider a door that’s unlocked, with hinges attached, but refuses to open. Would you diagnose the issue by taking a static photo? No. You’d try to move the door, discovering rusty hinges. A quick application of WD-40, and it swings freely again.

Similarly, a joint may appear aligned in a static image but fail to move properly—a movement disorder. Imaging like CBCT, X-rays, or MRIs excels at revealing structural conditions, pathologies, and internal anatomy, but it cannot fully capture dynamic misalignments. A “fixed” or “stuck” joint might look normal on a scan yet be functionally impaired. Thus, while imaging is invaluable, it alone cannot deliver a 100% precise diagnosis of upper cervical misalignment, which is fundamentally a disorder of movement and function.

Upper cervical chiropractic, initiated by B.J. Palmer’s Hole-In-One (HIO) technique in the 1930s, revolutionized the field by focusing on precise atlas and axis adjustments to optimize neurological function, setting the stage for future innovations.

In the 1980s, Dr. Michael Kale advanced diagnostics with manual stressing and leg length discrepancy (LLD) analysis, prioritizing functional assessment over X-ray dependency.

Dr. Robert Kessinger refined Kale’s methods, enhancing adjustment specificity for complex subluxations.

Dr. William Blair, developed the Blair Technique, emphasizing individual biomechanical variations in the upper cervical spine and correct understanding of biomechanics.

Inspired by these giants and others, the Y.E.S. Test emerged as a groundbreaking synthesis, the culmination of chiropractic, achieving 100% interexaminer reliability by integrating historical insights with refined diagnostic precision. The Y.E.S. Test decodes the unique misalignment pattern—one of 100 possible configurations—required to unlock Your Electrical System’s potential.

The Y.E.S. Test is the most accurate and precise way to diagnose a misalignment using the body’s own inherent and built in reflexive systems to objectively show us what is true of the integrity of each joint of the upper cervical complex.

If done correctly, this test will produce 100% precise and accurate results, with 100% inter-examiner reliability, including fixed joints, and occipitalization. It can pick up a listing (misalignment combination) change if layered misalignments exist, or a new misalignment is acquired through trauma, as well can tell you if you are in alignment thus knowing when to leave it alone—“if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”.

The Short Leg Illusion: A Symptom of Upper Cervical Misalignment

Recall how upper cervical misalignment prompts the Central Nervous System (CNS) to direct the paraspinal muscles to reshape the spine into a compensatory scoliosis, “unkinking” the neural tube to protect vital communication and functions. This adaptation, a sacrifice to safeguard the brainstem and spinal cord, has far-reaching effects. The paraspinal muscles, running along both sides of the spine, extend all the way to the top of each side of the pelvis. If one side contracts more than the other due to the misalignment, that side of the pelvis shifts upward. Attached to the pelvis are your legs, so when the pelvis tilts, the leg on that side appears “short,” creating the illusion of a leg length discrepancy.

If you’ve visited a competent chiropractor, they’ve likely identified this “short leg.” Some may suggest inserting a heel lift to “correct” the imbalance. Does this solve the issue? No—it exacerbates it by forcing the body to compensate further, adding strain to an already misaligned system. I’ve seen patients who’ve endured this approach, only to face worsening symptoms.

More alarmingly, some medical doctors propose leg-lengthening surgery to address the perceived discrepancy. Does this work? Absolutely not—it’s an invasive and misguided intervention that ignores the true cause. Real patients in my practice have undergone such procedures, only to find no resolution.

Other chiropractors may claim the short leg originates from a misaligned pelvis, recommending pelvic adjustments. Does this fix the problem? No. The short leg persists. Why? Because it isn’t from the pelvis—it’s through the pelvis, driven by the upper cervical misalignment. Pelvic adjustments offer temporary relief at best, as the compensatory pattern reasserts itself the moment you stand up. Have you ever left a chiropractic session with your “short leg” corrected, only to find it uneven again at the next visit? Check your leg lengths now—I’d wager they’re uneven.

The short leg is a symptom, not the cause. It stems from the upper cervical spine, cascading through the spine and pelvis, driven by the CNS’s efforts to protect its communication highways.

Stress Testing for Upper Cervical Misalignment

To diagnose and correct upper cervical misalignment, a dynamic approach is essential—one that goes beyond static imaging to assess how joints move. Through stress and motion testing, each joint in the upper cervical spine (skull on C1, C1 on C2, C2 on C3) can be evaluated by applying controlled stress in specific directions: either further into misalignment or back toward proper alignment. The body’s response, reflected in the “short leg” phenomenon, serves as a real-time indicator of joint function, driven by the Central Nervous System (CNS)—the body’s electrical system.

• Stressing a joint further into misalignment exacerbates the compensatory scoliosis, causing the short leg to appear even shorter as the pelvis tilts more dramatically.

• Stressing a joint toward proper alignment reduces the misalignment, improving or balancing the leg lengths as the pelvis begins to level out.

• If a joint is “fixed” or stuck, applying stress produces no change in the short leg—it remains unchanged, indicating a lack of movement and a functional restriction.

Each joint provides a specific stress measurement, forming a unique “combination” that is 100% reflexive, guided by the individual’s CNS. By systematically working through every upper cervical joint using stress and motion testing, a precise diagnosis emerges. This process, driven by binary algorithms, maps the 3D coordinate positions and functional integrity of each joint, yielding a “listing”—the exact combination needed to unlock the lock securing the “tourniquet” around the brainstem. This unlocks the neural tube, restores cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow, and frees the body’s innate intelligence to initiate healing.

Challenges of Upper Cervical Chiropractic Adjustments

Can any chiropractor correct an upper cervical misalignment? Not easily, due to the region’s unique biomechanics. Traditional chiropractic adjustments involve moving a joint along its plane and vector to its end range, then applying a gentle, quick thrust to push slightly past, often producing a “pop” or “crack.” This sound results from joint depressurization, as gas bubbles collapse within the synovial fluid. Unlike the repetitive “clicking” or “grinding” of ligaments and tendons over bones, depressurization occurs only when pressure exists in the joint, requiring at least 20 minutes to rebuild before another audible adjustment is possible.

In the lumbar spine, joint planes and vectors are nearly identical, aligned in parallel to facilitate specific movements like flexion and extension. The thoracic spine follows a similar pattern, with joint planes and vectors adjusted for thoracic-specific movements (e.g., rotation) but still largely parallel. In the cervical spine from C7 to C3, the joint planes and vectors shift to allow distinct cervical movements (e.g., lateral flexion), yet they remain relatively uniform in alignment. This consistency allows chiropractors to adjust these regions, often achieving multiple “pops” across joints without significant complications, though the process is more nuanced than it appears.

However, the upper cervical spine (C3 to the skull) is entirely different. Each joint—from C3 to C2, C2 to C1, and C1 to the skull—has unique planes, vectors, and movements. Notably, the C1 (Atlas) joints beneath the skull operate in converging vectors, like a wedge, unlike the parallel alignments of lower spinal regions. This design serves dual purposes: enabling specialized movements (e.g., head rotation) and acting as a bony locking mechanism to enhance stability, protecting the neural tube and brainstem from gross misalignment.

Picture a car with its front wheels turned inward to a converging point, like a wedge. Could it drive smoothly? Parallel wheels allow free movement, but non-parallel, wedged wheels resist motion, locking the system in place. Similarly, the upper cervical joints’ converging vectors make traditional adjustments risky. Attempting to adjust one joint may move multiple joints due to their interlocking design. Correcting the initial misalignment might create new misalignments on the opposite side, as the opposing joint planes and vectors are disrupted. Efforts to correct these new misalignments can over-adjust, creating yet another set of misalignments, perpetuating a cycle of instability—around and around it goes.

This complexity explains why addressing compensatory scoliosis without first fully correcting the upper cervical spine is futile. If a chiropractor identifies side-to-side or rotational spinal misalignments (scoliosis) and adjusts the spine without resolving the upper cervical misalignment, the scoliosis will inevitably return. Why? The Central Nervous System (CNS) intentionally induces scoliosis to “unkink” the neural tube, maintaining the flow of the body’s electrical system in response to the upper cervical misalignment. Adjusting the spine lower down temporarily frees joints, providing relief, but the CNS will reinstate the compensatory pattern to protect the brainstem and neural communication.

Many chiropractors genuinely aim to help, and freeing joints can feel better temporarily, which is why patients are invited back for frequent visits. However, without addressing the nuanced upper cervical complex, the underlying issue persists. The scoliosis and short leg return, as the CNS prioritizes neural tube integrity over spinal symmetry. Most chiropractors are either unaware of or unable to correct the intricate misalignments of the upper cervical spine, making true resolution elusive.

Complexity of Upper Cervical Misalignments

The upper cervical spine’s anatomical complexity makes each person’s misalignment pattern unique, requiring highly individualized treatment. For example, the C2 on C3 joint can exhibit 12 distinct misalignment combinations, while the skull on C1 joint can have 10 different combinations. The upper cervical complex—encompassing the skull on C1 (C0-C1) and C2 on C3—can pair any misalignment from one level with any from the other, creating a vast array of possible configurations. This individuality underscores the need for precise, patient-specific diagnostics and corrections, as no two cases are identical.

Compounding this challenge, traditional chiropractic training often holds that forward (anterior) misalignments are rare or impossible due to the Anterior Longitudinal Ligament (ALL), a thick band running along the front of the spine. The reasoning is that the ALL prevents forward displacement of vertebrae. However, clinical evidence reveals this is simply untrue. The ALL lies in front of the vertebral bodies, not the joints, and does not fully constrain joint movement. In my practice, approximately 50% of patients present with anterior misalignments, sometimes with a forward misalignment at one level (e.g., C1) and a posterior misalignment at the level below (e.g., C2).

Standard chiropractic techniques, based on this outdated belief, typically involve contacting the backside of the spine, applying force with a forward vector. If a patient already has a forward misalignment, this approach pushes the joint further forward, worsening the misalignment rather than correcting it. This misalignment aggravates the “tourniquet” around the brainstem, perpetuating compensatory scoliosis, short leg illusions, and systemic dis-ease, as the Central Nervous System (CNS) continues its protective adaptations.

Verifying Upper Cervical Adjustments: Challenges and Pitfalls

Once an upper cervical adjustment is performed, confirming proper alignment is a critical yet complex task. How do chiropractors verify that the joints are correctly aligned? Do they rely on re-imaging, such as X-rays or Cone Beam CT scans, to check the outcome? Or do they base their assessment on subjective symptom relief, which can be misleading? If a joint is already in alignment and an adjustment is performed, does it improve or worsen the situation? These uncertainties highlight the precision required in upper cervical care.

Another concern arises with re-imaging: repeated exposure to radiation from X-rays or CT scans poses health risks, especially for patients requiring multiple follow-ups to monitor alignment. This reliance on imaging, coupled with the inability of static images to fully capture dynamic joint function, complicates post-adjustment verification.

These challenges explain why a significant portion of the population tries chiropractic care but ultimately abandons it. Many patients experience worsening symptoms after adjustments, particularly if misaligned or properly aligned joints are incorrectly manipulated, creating new misalignments in the upper cervical complex’s delicate, wedge-like joint structure. Others grow frustrated with treatment plans that seem endless, offering long periods of symptom relief but no permanent resolution, as compensatory patterns like scoliosis or short leg illusions inevitably return. This cycle stems from the Central Nervous System’s (CNS) persistent efforts to protect the neural tube, driven by unresolved upper cervical misalignments—the root cause that standard adjustments fail to address.

Precise Correction of the Upper Cervical Spine

Correcting upper cervical misalignments demands a meticulous, joint-specific approach tailored to each joint’s exact position and degree of misalignment. The process follows a strict sequence, prioritized by neurological significance, to ensure optimal restoration of the neural tube’s integrity without causing further harm. Adjustments begin with C2 minor misalignments, progress to C2 major misalignments, then address C1 minor misalignments, and conclude with C1 major misalignments. This order—from least to most neurologically significant—respects the Central Nervous System’s (CNS) hierarchy, systematically “unkinking” the tourniquet around the brainstem.

Unlike traditional chiropractic techniques, these adjustments avoid bending, twisting, cracking, or popping, which risk removing the spine from its midline neutral position. Such movements could exacerbate misalignments or cause injury, especially given the upper cervical spine’s unique, wedge-like joint vectors. By maintaining a neutral spine and applying precise, controlled forces, the correction restores alignment, normalizes cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow, and reactivates the body’s innate intelligence, enabling healing without unintended consequences.

Unlocking Layers of Upper Cervical Misalignment

Currently, both upper cervical specific and traditional chiropractic techniques rely on imaging—X-rays, Cone Beam CT scans, or MRIs—as the cornerstone of diagnosis for joint misalignments. Yet, joints fundamentally move, and further, like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube by studying a single snapshot, static images provide only a partial view of the upper cervical spine’s dynamic complexity. How do you diagnose a movement disorder on an image? How do you diagnose a layered movement disorder on an image? What are the chances these methods pinpoint the exact “combination” to unlock the first layer of misalignment? Can they accurately detect subsequent changes in alignment—a new layer? How do they objectively determine when an adjustment is unnecessary? The odds are slim, as imaging captures static positions, not the functional movement disorders at the heart of misalignment.

While focusing on the upper cervical spine yields significant improvements in patients’ lives, reliance on incomplete information from static images often leads to incomplete resolutions. Some cases linger unresolved, as the diagnosis fails to fully “unlock” the tourniquet constricting the brainstem, leaving the neural tube and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow partially compromised.

Stress and motion testing offers a superior alternative, eliminating the need for imaging to assess alignment. When the upper cervical spine is properly aligned:

1. The feet are perfectly even, assuming no anatomical leg length discrepancies from childhood growth plate fractures or surgical alterations.

2. Re-testing stress and motion at specific joint planes and angles produces no leg length changes—the legs remain even, indicating no misalignment. This stability persists as long as the upper cervical spine stays aligned.

This method, driven by the CNS’s reflexive responses, provides objective, real-time feedback, bypassing the risks of radiation exposure and the limitations of static imaging.

Misalignments don’t always stop at one event. Life’s traumas—falls, accidents, or even minor jolts—can add new misalignments atop existing ones, much like turning additional sides of a Rubik’s cube further from solved. Each new trauma creates a layer of misalignment, with the spine below compensating from an already compromised position, deepening the compensatory scoliosis. When C1 and C2 are misaligned, the upper cervical spine’s built-in joint stability weakens, meaning even minor forces can trigger further misalignments.

• Major traumas may cause significant misalignments, drastically reducing CNS communication and disrupting vital functions.

• Minor traumas might induce subtler misalignments, chipping away at communication incrementally.

Each layer contributes uniquely to the total loss of neural communication, tightening the “vice grip” on the CNS. Every new misalignment and its accompanying scoliosis adds energy to the system, activating muscles to contract and maintain the compensatory pattern, amplifying disruptions in the body’s electrical system.

Alarmingly, the chiropractic profession largely overlooks the concept of layered misalignments. Most practitioners are neither taught nor aware of this phenomenon, limiting their ability to fully address the complexity of upper cervical issues. Without recognizing and systematically unlocking each layer, the tourniquet remains, and the body’s innate intelligence cannot fully restore homeostasis, perpetuating dis-ease.

Unwinding Layers of Upper Cervical Misalignment

Upper cervical misalignment is not simply a matter of one or even multiple bones out of place, easily adjusted back into alignment. It’s a complex web of layer upon layer of misalignment and torque, deliberately orchestrated by the Central Nervous System (CNS) to compensate for each acquired upper cervical misalignment. Each layer corresponds to a specific trauma, adding unique tension and torque to the spine at precise moments in time, manifesting as compensatory scoliosis to “unkink” the neural tube and protect the brainstem’s communication pathways.

Attempting to adjust the spine below the upper cervical region without first correcting C1 and C2 is futile. The lower spine’s misalignments are intentional, directed by the CNS to maintain neural flow in response to upper cervical dysfunction. Without addressing the root cause, no adjustment below will hold, as the CNS will reinstate the compensatory pattern to safeguard its electrical system.

As a chiropractor with 13 years of experience, tirelessly exploring every avenue—countless continuing education courses, personal experiments, and clinical observations—I’ve concluded that the only way to resolve this issue is to start at the top, correcting upper cervical misalignments first. The most recent trauma creates the topmost layer of misalignment, disrupting specific CNS communication pathways. Once this layer is precisely corrected, its associated loss of communication is immediately restored, and the corresponding torque driving the compensatory scoliosis below is released. However, the torques from earlier layers—each tied to prior upper cervical misalignments—remain, holding the spine in their respective compensatory patterns.

These deeper layers resurface in reverse chronological order, like solving a Rubik’s cube backward, dispensing Pez candies, or unloading a gun magazine. As each layer is addressed, misalignments re-emerge at C1 and C2, with the spine unwinding systematically. The speed of this unwinding depends on several factors:

• Movement: Greater physical activity accelerates the process by challenging the spine’s compensatory patterns.

• Scoliosis Torque: Higher degrees of torque intensify the unwinding dynamics.

• Arthritic Degeneration: Joint degeneration slows progress by limiting mobility.

• Surgical Interventions: Procedures that restrict spinal motion further impede unwinding.

Despite these variables, everyone can cross the finish line, removing all layers to achieve a 100% open Central Nervous System. By methodically correcting each upper cervical misalignment in the precise order of their neurological significance, the tourniquet around the brainstem is fully released, restoring CSF flow and unleashing the body’s innate intelligence to heal and regenerate, free from the vice grip of layered dysfunction.

Finite Layers and Regeneration in Upper Cervical Correction

Each person’s upper cervical spine is a unique puzzle, like a Rubik’s cube twisted by life’s traumas, with layers of misalignment stacked upon one another. How many layers do you have? How many are possible? In my experience as a chiropractor, most individuals carry single-digit layers—a handful of misalignments accumulated over time. A few outliers, marked by extensive trauma, may have significantly more. The number depends on your unique life experiences and the specific traumas that disrupted your upper cervical alignment. Not every trauma results in a misalignment, but those that do add a distinct layer, each contributing to the compensatory scoliosis and neural communication loss orchestrated by the Central Nervous System (CNS).

Importantly, the number of layers is finite. You cannot have an infinite stack of misalignments, as the upper cervical spine’s anatomical design—its wedge-like, converging joint vectors—provides built-in stability to limit gross disruptions. Once all layers are cleared, the spine remains stable unless a significant head or neck injury occurs. Everyday activities—sleep, work, sports, weightlifting, or physical exertion—do not cause new misalignments. While these may injure tissues, an aligned upper cervical spine enables the body’s innate regenerative capacities to heal without further neural compromise.

Clearing layers is critical, as specific health conditions are tied to particular layers of misalignment. A condition won’t fully resolve until the responsible layer resurfaces and is corrected, unwinding the Rubik’s cube in reverse order. Each cleared layer restores specific CNS communication, releasing the associated torque on the spine below. However, even if all layers are cleared rapidly, the body’s work isn’t done. Regeneration—the anabolic rebuilding of tissues, guided by your DNA-encoded innate intelligence—must follow to repair the damage accumulated under the tourniquet’s grip. This process, while methodical, ensures a fully open CNS, restoring homeostasis and unlocking the body’s perfect design.

Retracing Cycles and Tissue Reactivation

Clearing upper cervical misalignments is like solving a Rubik’s cube in reverse, unwinding each layer to restore the Central Nervous System’s (CNS) communication. But the journey doesn’t end there—it resets a remarkable inner clock called retracing cycles, a 63-day (9-week) healing rhythm encoded in your DNA. This precision operation, universal to everyone, orchestrates tissue regeneration with predictable, measurable cycles. You’ve been undergoing these 9-week cycles your entire life, unaware of their silent work.

Every 9 weeks, your body dedicates a 3-week window to actively and intentionally inflame specific tissues to facilitate healing. This inflammation produces symptoms—pain, discomfort, or other sensations—tailored to the tissue involved and the extent of repair needed. Society often mislabels these symptoms as the disease itself, prompting us to suppress them with treatments or medications. In reality, these are frequently signs of your body responding to dis-ease, striving to heal itself, much like a fever combats an infection. Treating the fever misses the mark; the infection is the true target. Similarly, healing symptoms are not the enemy—they’re part of the body’s innate intelligence at work.

What does healing look like? When an upper cervical misalignment is fully cleared, restoring a specific percentage of CNS communication, the brain immediately recognizes the need to heal and regenerate the affected tissues. This shifts your health trajectory from progressive degeneration to progressive regeneration, resetting your 9-week healing cycle to day zero. The tissues tied to the restored communication must first “wake up” and “come online,” a process that takes 21 days (3 weeks). This isn’t healing yet—it’s reactivation, requiring energy and often producing symptoms.

Think of a limb “falling asleep” after prolonged compression, tingling as nerves reactivate upon movement. Now imagine this process in the brainstem, the hub of your body’s electrical system. Depending on the duration and severity of the prior misalignment, the wake-up phase can range from mild to intense, manifesting as fatigue, tingling, or other sensations specific to the tissues involved. The greater the communication restored, the more pronounced the symptoms may be, as the body expends energy to bring systems back online. This is the first step in unwinding the Rubik’s cube of dis-ease, setting the stage for true regeneration in the cycles to follow.

Navigating Retracing Cycles for Healing

Clearing upper cervical misalignments unwinds the Rubik’s cube of layered dysfunction, restoring Central Nervous System (CNS) communication and resetting retracing cycles—the body’s 9-week healing rhythm. Assuming you avoid new traumas, the cycle unfolds predictably. The middle 3 weeks post-awakening bring stability, as the body adapts to restored communication, free from the tourniquet’s grip, setting the stage for regeneration.

The final 3 weeks of the 9-week cycle mark a critical phase. For 70% of people, this period is symptomatic, as the body retraces old injuries, diseases, degenerations, dysfunctions, and illnesses, intentionally inflaming tissues to heal them. This process consumes energy, causing fatigue, and produces symptoms varying in intensity based on the tissues involved. Many experience anxiety, fearing their conditions have returned, but this is temporary, lasting only 21 days. These symptoms are not the disease but the body’s healing response, akin to a fever fighting infection. For the other 30%, symptoms emerge during the first 3 weeks of the next 9-week cycle, not the last, following a different rhythm.

Each 9-week cycle alternates: 6 weeks of stability (blue), where the body rebuilds quietly, followed by 3 weeks of symptomatic healing (red). After the initial cycle’s “wake-up” phase, subsequent cycles skip the intense reactivation symptoms, focusing on progressive healing. Over time, symptoms lessen in type and intensity, as the body makes permanent strides toward recovery. The healing timeline is conservative: expect roughly 1 month of healing for every year since the first misalignment, often assumed to be from birth for caution.

Every 4th cycle (cycles 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, etc.) is distinct, featuring 4 weeks of symptomatic healing instead of 3, with heightened intensity. These cycles drive major tissue remodeling, function restoration, and regeneration, tackling deeper damage. Intervening cycles revert to the standard 3-week symptomatic period. The pattern for the 70% group, as shown in the diagram, is 6 weeks blue, 3 weeks red (or 4 weeks red every 4th cycle). The 30% group, as depicted, experiences symptoms in the first 3 weeks of each cycle, maintaining the same alternating rhythm.

You’re either a “last 3 weeks” or “first 3 weeks” person—never both. To identify your pattern, three criteria must align: 1) confirmed upper cervical alignment via stress/motion testing, 2) presence of symptoms, and 3) adherence to the 9-week schedule. Once established, this allows precise mapping of your healing journey, predicting when symptomatic periods will occur and when stability should prevail, empowering you to plan years ahead with confidence. This cyclical process, guided by your DNA’s innate intelligence, ensures every layer of dis-ease is addressed, unwinding the Rubik’s cube to a fully open CNS.

Clearing Layers for Predictable Healing

Each upper cervical misalignment layer, like a twist on a Rubik’s cube, disrupts specific Central Nervous System (CNS) communication pathways. Clearing a layer restores only what that layer took, enabling your body to heal the corresponding tissues. If the layer tied to a particular condition is slow to surface, frustration may arise, but persistence pays off. Every layer will emerge for those who diligently pursue correction to the end, systematically unwinding the cube to its solved state.

Each cleared layer fuels progressive regeneration, adding to your body’s healing capacity without restarting the 9-week retracing cycle clock, which remains anchored to the date of your first adjustment—assuming no new trauma introduces a new upper cervical layer that shifts your healing trajectory. Upon clearing a layer, a 3-week (21-day) symptomatic period follows as the restored tissues “come online,” reactivating like a limb tingling after being “asleep.” This period, driven by the CNS, can occur at any point in your cycle, depending on when the layer is cleared. It might overlap with your retracing cycle’s symptomatic phase, extend into the 3 weeks prior, or prolong symptoms. While this timing may feel unfair, it’s temporary—so don’t panic. These wake-up symptoms, varying in intensity based on the communication restored, are a sign of progress, not regression.

Once all layers are cleared, your upper cervical spine remains aligned, locking you into a predictable healing groove. Your retracing cycles—6 weeks of stability followed by 3 weeks of symptomatic healing (or 4 weeks every 4th cycle for major regeneration)—unfold like clockwork. Without new traumas, each day brings an inch of restored function, and each 9-week cycle delivers a mile of healing. Some face a short journey, with few miles to cover; others have many miles ahead, especially if misalignments date back to birth. The path is simple: keep moving forward, one step at a time, ensuring your body has its essential building blocks (nutrients) and a clean system (free of toxins). Do this, and voilà—your body’s innate intelligence takes over.

This process works for every human body, as it’s rooted in your DNA’s perfect design. The proof is in the pudding: clear the layers, stay aligned, and watch your construction site thrive, restoring a fully open CNS and vibrant health.

Universal Healing Through Upper Cervical Correction

Across countless patients, each with unique compressions, misalignments, layers, symptoms, and degrees of dysfunction or dis-ease, the process remains the same: system-wide healing, regeneration, and resolution. This elegantly simple solution untangles the most complex, compounding, and elusive health problems, restoring the body’s construction site to its full potential.

It’s almost as if this was divinely designed. Human arrogance, believing we can outsmart the blueprint encoded in our DNA, has muddled the path. Yet, the body’s innate intelligence—a self-regulating, self-adapting, self-healing supermachine—proves us wrong daily. Defying the universe’s law of entropy and the inevitability of death, it persists, staying alive through sheer resilience. This supermachine is equipped to handle your needs, from minor injuries to chronic dis-ease, if only given the opportunity.

By precisely correcting the upper cervical spine, we remove the tourniquet constricting the brainstem, unlocking the CNS and allowing the body’s perfect design to take over. The proof lies in the results, patient after patient, as the Rubik’s cube of dis-ease is solved, revealing the vibrant health written in our DNA.

CNS and Immune System in Healing

The Central Nervous System (CNS) is the master foreman of your body’s construction site, directing every function, including the intricate process of healing. Before this correction, your inability to heal stemmed from disrupted communication between the CNS and the rest of the body, choking off the neural pathways essential for repair. Once these pathways are reopened, the possibilities are limitless.

At the heart of this transformation is the immune system, a key player on the construction site. With the CNS fully online, the immune system takes charge of the who, what, when, where, and how of defense, repair, rebuilding, and regeneration. It identifies damaged tissues, clears debris, and coordinates the rebuilding process, guided by the body’s innate intelligence. This dynamic partnership between the CNS and immune system ensures that every layer of dysfunction—unwound through precise upper cervical corrections—triggers a cascade of healing, restoring your body to its DNA-encoded perfection.

Inflammation as a Vital Healing Mechanism

On your body’s construction site, trillions of cells work in concert to regenerate and rebuild, coordinated through a process both familiar and misunderstood: inflammation. Far from an enemy, inflammation is the immune system’s vital tool, orchestrated by the Central Nervous System (CNS) to manage the “boots on the ground”—white blood cells (WBCs), materials, supplies, parts, and tools. Like solving a Rubik’s cube layer by layer, restoring CNS communication through upper cervical correction enables this process to unfold as designed.

The immune system’s WBCs constantly patrol, identifying potential issues—pathogens, damaged cells, or toxins. Upon detection, they signal the CNS foreman, which triggers inflammation via cytokines, chemical flares that summon worker cells, nutrients, and tools to the site. These signals direct specific actions—defense, protection, repair, or regeneration—based on the need and location, as seen in conditions like COVID’s “cytokine storms.” Yet, most people view inflammation as harmful, associating it with pain, swelling, redness, or fever, which they’ve been taught are signs of disease. While these can indicate dis-ease, they also reveal the body’s awareness of the problem and its active response. Pain signals a warning to avoid further harm, its type hints at the issue, and its intensity reflects severity. Symptoms, unique to each tissue or organ, blend signs of dysfunction or damage with the healing process itself.

Consider a fever during an infection: it’s uncomfortable, but your innate intelligence raises body temperature to weaken pathogens, giving the immune system an edge. Similarly, swelling, redness, and pain at an injury site signal repair, not just damage. Inflammation isn’t the villain—it’s a defense mechanism vital to health, as science confirms:

“Inflammation is the immune system's response to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, toxic compounds, or irradiation [1], and acts by removing injurious stimuli and initiating the healing process [2]. Inflammation is therefore a defense mechanism that is vital to health [3]. Usually, during acute inflammatory responses, cellular and molecular events and interactions efficiently minimize impending injury or infection. This mitigation process contributes to restoration of tissue homeostasis and resolution of the acute inflammation.”

“Inflammation is the immune system’s response to harmful stimuli… acting by removing injurious stimuli and initiating the healing process” [1-3]. Acute inflammation efficiently resolves threats, restoring tissue homeostasis. Chronic inflammation, however, arises when healing stalls due to persistent issues like infections, repetitive traumas, toxin accumulation, or, critically, disrupted CNS communication from upper cervical misalignments.

The real problem isn’t inflammation but the barriers to healing—missing CNS communication, inadequate nutrients, or uncleared waste—that sustain chronic inflammation, pain, and symptoms. Many accept chronic pain as their “new normal,” integrating it into their identity, unaware that their body’s supermachine is stifled. Restoring 100% CNS communication through precise upper cervical correction removes the tourniquet around the brainstem, enabling accurate damage reports to reach the foreman and precise repair instructions to flow back. Normalized cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow further supports this by ensuring proper transport of neuroendocrine hormones and neurotransmitters, clearing metabolic waste and toxins from the CNS, and even healing brain damage. Dr. Scott Rosa, a noted expert, observed that neurodegenerative lesions near the brain’s ventricles, visible on MRI, begin to disappear within days to months after Atlas Orthogonal upper cervical correction (an incomplete correction), a testament to the brain’s regenerative capacity.

Our healthcare system, despite knowing inflammation’s necessity, often focuses on suppressing it or silencing pain and symptoms, mistakenly treating the body’s response as the culprit. This approach assumes the body has lost its ability to self-regulate, ignoring the DNA-encoded innate intelligence that drives self-healing. Suppressing inflammation may mask discomfort but fails to address the root causes—disrupted communication, nutrient deficiencies, or toxin overload—leaving dis-ease unresolved. True healing occurs when inflammation achieves its purpose: repair and regeneration. In chronic states, symptoms remain static, rooted in fixed locations with constant intensity. During healing, symptoms shift, fluctuate, and diminish as WBCs adjust inflammation to match the repair progress, guided by a fully restored CNS.

By correcting upper cervical misalignments, we unleash the body’s construction site, empowering the CNS and immune system to solve the Rubik’s cube of dis-ease, layer by layer, restoring vibrant health as written in your DNA.

Sensory Signs of Upper Cervical Healing

True healing begins the moment the neural canal is fully restored through precise upper cervical (UC) correction, like solving a Rubik’s cube to unleash the Central Nervous System’s (CNS) full potential. This restoration triggers a cascade of sensory experiences, unique to each patient, as the body’s construction site springs to life. These sensations, often immediate and profound, signal the reactivation of critical systems stifled by the tourniquet of misalignment.

• Restored CSF Flow: Patients describe a “cool water,” “icy-hot,” or “fluid” sensation coursing up and down the spine and into the head, as if CSF is reclaiming pathways previously blocked, flowing freely to nourish and cleanse the CNS.

• Parasympathetic Nervous System Awakening: The “rest and digest” system comes online, producing goosebumps, chills, or localized temperature shifts—cold fingers and feet contrasting with warmth in the midline (head, face, chest, abdomen, pelvis). Many report an overwhelming sense of relaxation or tiredness, as the body shifts from fight-or-flight to calm.

• Peripheral (Somatic) Nervous System Reactivation: Like a limb “waking up” after falling asleep, reactivated nerves spark “tingling” sensations in affected areas, signaling restored communication to muscles and tissues.

• Improved Blood Flow: Enhanced circulation manifests as an expanding, traveling “heat” sensation, warming areas previously starved of oxygen and nutrients.

These sensations, unique to each person’s condition, often emerge immediately on the treatment table, during the appointment, or within days to a week. From subtle tingles to vivid waves of warmth, they reflect the CNS reconnecting with the body, layer by layer, as the Rubik’s cube of dis-ease unravels. This sensory symphony heralds the body’s innate intelligence taking charge, initiating repair, regeneration, and the path to vibrant health.

Restoring Central Nervous System (CNS) communication through precise upper cervical (UC) correction is like solving a Rubik’s cube, aligning the neural canal to unleash the body’s innate intelligence. Across all patients, one universal experience emerges immediately upon sitting up after this correction: a fleeting sensation of disorientation, described as feeling “woozy,” “light-headed,” or “dizzy.” This occurs as the brain processes a surge of new sensory information, recalibrating in real time to formulate reciprocal motor responses. These responses align the body with reality’s constants—vision, vestibular senses, gravity, and mechanoreceptor activity—reshaping how you perceive and interact with your environment. Lasting only about 30 seconds, this transient sensation fades as the body stabilizes, enabling safe balance and ambulation.

This re-established connection sparks system-wide healing, as the construction site comes alive. Any cell, tissue, organ, or organ system previously hindered—unable to achieve homeostasis, dysfunctional, degenerative, or dis-eased due to disrupted CNS communication—begins its healing journey. For most patients, this process starts within seconds to minutes, as the foreman (CNS) resumes full control, directing the immune system and other workers to repair and regenerate, layer by layer, toward vibrant health written in your DNA.

Retracing and Fluctuating Healing Symptoms

Healing after precise upper cervical (UC) correction is like unwinding a Rubik’s cube, restoring Central Nervous System (CNS) communication to unleash the body’s innate intelligence. While this process begins immediately, it doesn’t complete overnight, just as dis-ease developed gradually. The journey starts with inflammation, the immune system’s vital tool on the construction site, igniting repair but bringing pain and symptoms. Unlike chronic inflammation from unresolved dis-ease, healing inflammation is dynamic, producing symptoms that signal progress.

Before correction, disrupted CNS communication hindered tissue repair, leaving your body in a chronic, constant state of inflammation. This resulted in persistent pain and symptoms, stuck in place with unwavering intensity. With UC correction, restored communication enables true healing, marked by fluctuating inflammation. These healing symptoms—pain, discomfort, or other sensations—vary in intensity, rising and falling as the body makes steady repair progress. For most, fluctuations occur hourly, shifting across the body as tissues respond. For others, improvements in a specific area may take up to 48 hours to become noticeable. In rare cases, symptoms may persist beyond 48 hours without changing intensity, but this is uncommon. To distinguish healing from injury, a simple check confirms alignment: if the feet are even and no movement occurs during UC stress tests, any symptom (barring new trauma) is healing-related and temporary, as verified by its eventual resolution.

Named retracing, these fluctuating pains and symptoms reflect the body’s unique journey through layers of dis-ease. For some, retracing is mild, a smooth process; for others, it’s a bumpier ride, shaped by the severity and specifics of their condition. Each experience is as individual as the Rubik’s cube of their misalignments, but all lead to the same destination: regeneration and vibrant health, guided by the CNS and immune system working in harmony.

Retracing earns its name from the unique journey each person’s body undertakes after neural tube compression from upper cervical (UC) misalignment. Like a Rubik’s cube twisted by life’s challenges, every catabolic breakdown, ergonomic strain, trauma, degeneration, dis-ease, and infectious process weaves a distinct, winding road through an individual’s daily existence. When UC correction fully clears this compression, the body embarks on a remarkable reversal, retracing each of these processes at lightning speed, unwinding the exact path it took to reach its dis-eased state, all the way back to the beginning.

With the neural canal restored, the Central Nervous System (CNS) regains control, guiding the construction site to heal systematically. Documented in thousands of real-life patients, one universal truth emerges: the body heals and retraces in 9-week cycles, operating like clockwork. Each cycle—whether marked by fluctuating symptoms or stable regeneration—addresses layers of dis-ease, propelled by the body’s innate intelligence. This predictable rhythm, unique to each person yet consistent across all, transforms the winding road of dis-ease into a straight path to vibrant health, solving the Rubik’s cube of dysfunction with precision.

Retracing as Functional Healing

Retracing symptoms, sparked by upper cervical (UC) correction, are like fleeting twists on a Rubik’s cube, temporary markers of the body’s unwinding of dis-ease. These symptoms vanish predictably within the 9-week healing cycles, leaving patients feeling and functioning better with each passing day—an inch of progress daily, a mile every 9 weeks. How many miles lie ahead? Each person’s journey is unique, but the destination is the same: vibrant health, guided by the Central Nervous System (CNS).

Remarkably, patients often maintain UC alignment even after moderate traumas—car accidents, falls, or direct impacts—as early as 2-3 months post-correction, once stability is achieved. When aligned, the body heals from these traumas astonishingly fast, with patients frequently noting that injuries felt less severe than expected and recovery was surprisingly swift. This resilience underscores the power of a fully open neural canal, enabling the construction site to respond efficiently.

True healing isn’t gauged by how you feel or the presence of symptoms, but by functional improvement. Symptoms during retracing—whether pain, discomfort, or fatigue—are healing markers, not signs of dis-ease, provided function improves. Interfering with these physiological processes, except in specific cases, slows the body’s innate intelligence, which knows precisely what to do. Each retracing cycle reduces symptoms’ intensity, with noticeable declines after the first few cycles. By the 4th cycle, which may bring a slight uptick in symptoms due to major tissue remodeling, most patients find retracing so mild it barely registers. Beyond this point, symptoms often become negligible, no longer interfering with daily life, yet the 9-week cycles continue silently, rebuilding, restoring, and regenerating until every healable issue is resolved.

The healing timeline is estimated at one month of retracing per year of UC misalignment, often dating back to birth for conservatism. This doesn’t mean feeling good takes that long—most experience significant symptomatic relief early on, with improved function and vitality emerging quickly. But the body’s work extends beyond initial relief, pushing past what patients thought possible, layer by layer, until the Rubik’s cube is fully solved, restoring every system to its DNA-encoded potential.

Watch this video (click) for a visual representation of the explanation of Retracing.

Optimizing Healing on the Construction Site

With upper cervical (UC) correction, the Central Nervous System (CNS) regains full control, like solving a Rubik’s cube to unleash the body’s innate intelligence. Yet, the rate of repair, rebuilding, and regeneration on the construction site hinges on addressing key factors that fuel or hinder healing. These essentials determine how swiftly and thoroughly your body can restore vibrant health:

• Adequate Hydration: Water is the foundation for cellular processes, ensuring nutrients and waste flow efficiently.

• Quality Materials and Supplies: Macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats) provide the raw building blocks for tissue repair and energy.

• Quality Parts and Tools: Micronutrients (vitamins, minerals) act as specialized components for precise regenerative tasks.

• Control of Chronic Infections or Flora Imbalances: Pathogenic overgrowth or gut/skin flora disruptions can divert immune resources, stalling healing.

• Clean Site: Clearing metabolic waste, toxins, and heavy metals prevents a cluttered environment that obstructs repair.

• Movement and Good Stress: Physical activity and healthy stress (e.g., exercise) stimulate systems, promoting circulation and tissue adaptation.

Each of these factors, often intertwined, can impede healing if neglected, slowing operations or halting progress at the construction site. Chronic infections, poor nutrition, or toxin buildup, for instance, may combine to undermine even a fully restored CNS. By optimizing these elements—hydrating well, nourishing with quality nutrients, balancing flora, detoxifying, and staying active—you empower the CNS to orchestrate healing without barriers. With 100% CNS control restored and the construction site fully equipped, the Rubik’s cube of dis-ease is solved, leaving nothing to stand in the way of complete regeneration.

Quality Nutrition for Healing

Unlocking the Central Nervous System (CNS) through upper cervical (UC) correction is like solving a Rubik’s cube, restoring communication to power the body’s construction site. But to rebuild, repair, and regenerate, the site needs quality materials and supplies—the foods you eat. Forget complicated diet plans or fleeting fads; nutrition is straightforward, logical, and profoundly impactful when aligned with your body’s needs. Mainstream healthcare and diet trends often leave people confused, chasing contradictory advice on what to eat for health. The average person’s health reflects this confusion, revealing a lack of clarity. The secret? It’s not about how you look but how you function.

You can’t create matter from nothing—eating is essential, and calorie-restrictive diets sabotage healing by starving the construction site. Instead, focus on providing exactly what the body needs with high-quality macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats). Eating for function, not entertainment or vanity, ensures your body builds with the best materials, naturally shaping you as intended while fostering vibrant health. The key is simplicity: what you eat depends on your state of dis-ease and healing goals. Your starting point—whether recovering from chronic conditions or optimizing wellness—dictates the type, quality, and approach to nutrition.

This isn’t about “curing disease”—that’s not the goal. We restore communication, control, and function through UC correction, then equip the body with premium materials and supplies. Given this opportunity, the body’s innate intelligence—a self-adapting, self-regulating, self-organizing, self-healing supermachine—takes over, unwinding dis-ease and healing itself. Voilà! Once healed, you’ll learn to use this supermachine in ways previously unimagined, unlocking capabilities hidden by years of misalignment and poor nutrition. With the right fuel, the Rubik’s cube of health is solved, paving the way for a thriving, fully functional body.

EAT TO LIVE : WHAT YOU WERE DESIGNED TO EAT

KISS Nutrition for Healing

To fuel the body’s construction site after upper cervical (UC) correction, nutrition must be simple, aligning with the human body’s omnivorous design—a blueprint for optimal function. Your anatomy is built to thrive on fruits, roots, herbs, tree nuts, and animals, foods provided by Earth’s design, perfectly suited for assimilation without complex processing beyond cooking for immediate consumption. Unless you believe the Creator erred in crafting your body or this planet, everything needed for healing and vitality exists in these whole foods, rich with symbiotic nutrients—vitamins, minerals, and compounds meant to work together. Each food, once alive, carries its own DNA, a blueprint your body recognizes as nourishment, leveraging it alongside these nutrients to drive regeneration and homeostasis.

Navigating grocery stores can be a minefield, as shelves brim with non-nutritious, refined, chemical-laden foodsengineered for addiction, not health. These profit-driven products—genetically modified, stripped of nutrients, packed with toxic preservatives, and spiked with artificial flavors—deliver a dopamine surge from excessive carbohydrates, hooking you on taste while sabotaging function. Human arrogance and greed have birthed these “food-like substances,” prioritizing shelf life and profit over your well-being. They’re designed to taste good, not to nourish, leaving your construction site with subpar materials that hinder healing.

You can cling to preferences, but reality doesn’t bend to opinion. Putting gasoline in a diesel truck—no matter how much you like it—won’t make it run. Your body’s design demands quality materials and supplies, not processed impostors. By choosing whole, natural foods, you provide the raw materials your innate intelligence needs to rebuild, repair, and thrive, equipping the construction site to restore vibrant health as intended.

Specific Foods for Optimal Healing

To fuel the body’s construction site after upper cervical (UC) correction, nutrition must follow the KISS principle—simple, natural, and aligned with your omnivorous design. The foods you choose are the materials and supplies—macronutrients like proteins, fats, and carbohydrates—that empower your innate intelligence to rebuild, repair, and regenerate. Forget mainstream diet fads or processed “food-like substances”; focus on organic, whole foods as nature intended, tailored to your state of health or dis-ease, particularly for conditions like gastrointestinal (GI) issues.

General Nutrition: Building with Quality

• Organic Free-Range 100% Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished Meats/Fish: Protein is the cornerstone macronutrient, essential for rebuilding, repairing, operating, and regenerating all cells and tissues. Most people underconsume protein, but it should constitute at least 1/3 of daily food intake, with higher amounts (up to replacing carbohydrates) for dis-ease states. Protein provides 4.4 calories/gram, matching carbohydrates, but is far more critical for healing. Non-meat protein sources often lack sufficient amino acid volume and balance, leading to macronutrient imbalances. Choose:

  • Grass-Fed Protein with Fat (superfoods rich in nutrients): Beef, buffalo, bison, lamb, sheep, elk, salmon, trout, chicken, turkey, duck, dove, quail.

  • 100% Grass-Fed Raw Unpasteurized Dairy (the super food of super foods, packed with thousands of probiotic strains and dense nutrients): Milk, cheese, yogurt, cream.

  • Virtually 100% Lean Protein: Chicken, turkey, venison, Naked Nutrition grass-fed protein powder, beef/chicken bone broth, egg whites, eggs.

  • Animals must be grass-fed, grass-finished, free of corn, grain, chemicals, vaccines, or drugs—unrefined, as nature designed. Commercial farming’s interventions (e.g., grain feeding) degrade meat and dairy quality, contributing to dis-ease.

• Organic Unrefined Virgin Fats: Fats, providing 1/3 of daily calories, are vital for homeostatic functions and critical processes like hormone production. Low-fat diets harm long-term health but may be temporarily useful for specific dis-ease states (e.g., GI bleeding, bile flow issues). Choose:

  • Grass-fed butter, cheese, cream, yogurt, ghee; coconut oil, coconut; olive oil, olives; avocado oil, avocados; almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts, pistachios, walnuts, pine nuts; grapeseed oil; pureed fruit seeds; dark chocolate; cashew, almond, pistachio butter.

• Organic Carbohydrates: Limit to 1/3 or less of daily intake, as they primarily serve as energy. For weight loss, autophagy, or managing GI dis-ease, Type 2 diabetes, or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), reduce carbohydrates in a 1:1 ratio with increased protein. Choose:

  • Rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, any fruit, citrus fruits, honey, maple syrup, pears, papaya, dates, carrots, onions, garlic, squash, zucchini, pumpkin, beets, turnips.

  • Non-Hybridized, Chemical-Free Flours and Grains: Avoid hybridized grains bred for excess sugar and gluten content, or those sprayed with chemicals like glyphosate and atrazine, which cause allergic reactions, bloating, cramping, and weight gain—often misattributed to gluten. Celiac and gluten-intolerant individuals can safely consume non-hybridized, organic grains and flours (free of chemical sprays), such as einkorn, spelt, or heirloom varieties, without digestive issues. Choose rice flour, tapioca, cassava flour, almond flour, coconut flour, and noodles or products made from these, or make sure that your flour comes from Europe where they have laws against the use of chemicals and hybridization on their wheat and produce.

• Seasonings/Flavors: Enhance with peppers, ginger, coconut aminos, Celtic sea salt (minimum 1 tsp daily per person), Redmond’s salt, black/red pepper, Ceylon cinnamon, nutmeg, raw cocoa, turmeric, cayenne, thyme, basil, oregano, parsley, tarragon, coriander, curcumin, rosemary.

Nutrition for GI Dis-ease: Gentle and Targeted

For GI dis-ease (e.g., flares, SIBO, or Type 2 diabetes complications), adjust to minimize irritation while maximizing protein:

• Organic Carbohydrates: Use sparingly or not at all during flares to avoid aggravating the GI tract. Choose:

  • White rice, skinless potatoes, bananas, melons, honey, maple syrup, pears, papaya, dates, onions, garlic, skinless squash, skinless zucchini, pumpkin, apple sauce, rice flour, tapioca, cassava flour, almond flour, coconut flour, products made from these.

  • Avoid citrus fruits (acidic), peppers (caustic), and insoluble fiber (crunchy fruits/vegetables) to prevent irritation.

  • Opt for fully cooked, mashed, soft, juiced, or sauced forms to ease digestion.

• Organic Free-Range No Fat/Lean Protein: Prioritize these, especially during flares, to meet high protein demands without taxing the GI tract:

  • Chicken breast, turkey breast, venison, Naked Nutrition grass-fed protein powder, beef/chicken broth, bone broth, egg whites.

• Grass-Fed Protein with Fat and Dairy: Avoid during symptomatic flares due to digestive strain. When not in a flare, introduce small amounts (e.g., beef, venison, buffalo, bison, lamb, sheep, elk, salmon, trout, chicken, turkey, duck, dove, quail, raw unpasteurized milk, cheese, yogurt, cream, eggs), increasing as tolerated based on post-meal comfort.

• Organic Unrefined Virgin Fats: Avoid during flares. When not in a flare, introduce small amounts (e.g., grass-fed butter, ghee, coconut oil, coconut, olive oil, olives, avocado oil, avocados, grapeseed oil, pureed fruit seeds, dark chocolate, tree nut butter), increasing as tolerated.

• Seasonings/Flavors: Use the general list.

Why Quality Matters

The adage “you are what you eat” extends to the animals and plants you consume and their upbringing. Mass commercial farming—using grain, corn, chemicals, vaccines, drugs, and hybridized crops sprayed with glyphosate and atrazine—degrades food quality, introducing toxins and imbalances that fuel dis-ease. These chemicals, not gluten, are often the true triggers for allergic reactions, bloating, cramping, and weight gain, even in celiac and gluten-intolerant individuals. Grass-fed, grass-finished animals, raw unpasteurized dairy, and non-hybridized, chemical-free grains and flours, untouched by human intervention, deliver superfood-level nutrients. The rich fats in grass-fed meat and dairy, and the purity of heirloom grains, surpass most foods in nutritional density, providing the construction site with premium materials to empower your self-healing supermachine.

Avoiding Poor-Quality Foods for Healing

To optimize healing on the body’s construction site after upper cervical (UC) correction, you must avoid poor-quality materials and supplies—foods that undermine your innate intelligence’s ability to rebuild, repair, and regenerate. The corporate food industry knowingly fills nearly every product with substances that cause dis-ease, degeneration, and oxidative stress, prioritizing profit over health. These foods, laden with artificial flavors and sweeteners, are designed to addict you to intense tastes, encouraging eating for pleasure rather than function. By intentionally choosing whole, natural foods, you can sidestep these traps and fuel your construction site with premium materials, unlocking vibrant health.

Foods to Avoid: Poor-Quality Materials and Supplies

Steer clear of the following, as they disrupt your body’s healing processes:

• Fast Food, Restaurant Food, and Corporate Food: These are often processed, chemical-laden, and nutrient-poor. Make your own food to control quality.

• American or Chemically Laden, Hybridized, GMO Flours, Grains, and Derivatives: Avoid flour, grains, bread, gluten, pastries, bagels, pastas, rye, barley, wheat, or anything made from these, especially if hybridized for excess sugar/gluten or sprayed with chemicals like glyphosate or atrazine. These chemicals, not gluten, trigger allergic reactions, bloating, cramping, and weight gain, even in celiac and gluten-intolerant individuals.

• Soy and Soy Products: No soy, tofu, soy lecithin, soy milk, soy sauce, or edamame, as they disrupt hormonal balance and digestion.

• Corn and Corn Products: No corn, corn fiber, corn meal, corn flour, corn chips, or corn-based alcohol, due to their GMO prevalence and inflammatory effects.

• Legumes, Beans, and Peas: Avoid these, including peanuts (technically legumes, not nuts/seeds), as they can cause digestive issues and nutrient imbalances.

• Refined or Vegetable Oils: No canola oil, Crisco, soybean oil, trans fats, or seed oils (except fruit seed oils), as they promote inflammation and oxidative stress.

• Refined or Processed Sugars: No refined sugar, sodas, candy, or energy drinks, which spike blood sugar and disrupt metabolism.

• Artificial Sweeteners: Avoid xylitol, erythritol, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose/Splenda, stevia, neotame, saccharin, or “diet” products, except for monk fruit extract grown in Asia, due to their toxic effects.

• Artificial Additives: No artificial flavors, preservatives, or colors, which add no nutritional value and contribute to dis-ease.

• Refined, Nutritionless Foods: No “fast foods” or “packaged foods,” which lack essential nutrients and are engineered for shelf life, not health.

• Leafy Greens and Grasses: Avoid lettuce, kale, spinach, or any leafy vegetable or green plant, as they may exacerbate digestive issues in some.

• Shellfish: No shellfish of any kind, due to potential allergens and toxins.

• GMO Foods or Derivatives: Avoid GMOs or anything that consumed GMOs, as they introduce unnatural compounds.

• Chemically Laden Foods: No foods exposed to glyphosate, atrazine, pesticides, or other chemicals, which are toxic and inflammatory.

The Corporate Food Trap

The corporate food industry deliberately incorporates these harmful substances into nearly every product, fully aware of their detrimental effects. Without artificial flavors and sweeteners, you’d recognize these foods as unpalatable, but their addictive design keeps you hooked on taste, not health. This profit-driven system thrives on your addiction, masking the truth with intense flavors while compromising your body’s construction site. Avoiding these requires intention, but the reward is profound: a healthier, more vibrant you, free from the dis-ease fueled by poor-quality materials.

Shop Smart: Whole Foods and Label Reading

Whole foods—organic, unrefined, and chemical-free—are the cornerstone of healing nutrition, as outlined previously:

• Proteins: Prioritize organic, 100% grass-fed, grass-finished meats (beef, buffalo, bison, lamb, elk, salmon, etc.), raw unpasteurized dairy (milk, cheese, yogurt, cream—the super food of super foods), and lean options (chicken breast, turkey, venison, bone broth).

• Fats: Choose organic unrefined virgin fats (grass-fed butter, ghee, coconut oil, olive oil, avocados, nuts).

• Carbohydrates: Limit to 1/3 or less of intake, selecting organic options (rice, potatoes, fruits, honey) and non-hybridized, chemical-free grains and flours (e.g., einkorn, spelt, heirloom varieties, rice flour, tapioca, cassava, almond, coconut), safe for celiac and gluten-intolerant individuals.

For GI dis-ease, adjust by avoiding fats, dairy, citrus, peppers, and insoluble fiber during flares, favoring lean proteins and soft, cooked carbohydrates. When shopping, read food labels meticulously—know exactly what you’re putting into your body. If you must buy packaged foods, scrutinize ingredients to avoid the harmful substances listed above. By choosing whole, natural foods, you provide the construction site with the premium materials needed for your self-healing supermachine to thrive.

Iodine: The Super Mineral

Introduction

To fuel the body’s construction site after upper cervical (UC) correction, the materials and supplies must include iodine, a critical nutrient often misunderstood and underutilized due to historical missteps. For this protocol, iodinerefers to the elemental form I2 in its oxidation state, and iodide denotes iodine salts (iodine bound to other atoms), such as ammonium iodide (NH4I). We exclusively recommend Iosol Formula II, which contains iodine (I2) and ammonium iodide, avoiding potassium iodide (KI), Lugol’s, Iodoral, or other forms to prevent drug interactions and electrolyte imbalances.

Iodine’s Vital Role

For over 200 years, doctors have harnessed iodine’s potent antibacterial, antiparasitic, antifungal, anti-candida, antiviral, and anticancer properties to treat various illnesses. Known for over a century as essential for thyroid hormone production (T3 and T4), iodine is also critical for the breasts, ovaries, prostate, and all glands, with every cell, tissue, organ, and system in the body relying on it for optimal function. Your body’s homeostatic negative-feedback loops, encoded in your DNA, precisely regulate iodine levels in blood, tissues, and hormones, ensuring balance without conscious effort.

A Historical Misstep: The Wolff-Chaikoff Effect

In 1948, the Wolff-Chaikoff (W-C) study from UC Berkeley’s Medical School erroneously claimed that high doses of iodide (≥0.2 mg/L) suppressed thyroid function, leading to hypothyroidism and goiter in rats. Conducted with radioactive iodine (I-131)-labeled potassium iodide (KI) injected into Long-Evans rats, the study misrepresented findings and was uncritically adopted by U.S. physicians. The W-C effect led to a moratorium on inorganic, non-radioactive iodine in medical practice, except for toxic organic iodine drugs and radioiodine-131, halting research on iodine’s nutritional necessity, which the body requires at 100-400 times the current Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of 150 micrograms (mcg)—an amount set to prevent only goiter and cretinism, not to support full health.

The study’s flaws are stark: it used radioactive I-131, discovered by the same institution, in doses claimed to be “safe” but questionable given the thyroid’s ability to concentrate iodine, likely causing damage. Extrapolated to humans, the W-C effect triggered a devastating removal of iodine from food and medical use starting in the 1970s, including dairy, flour, baked goods, and bread, leaving only iodized salt with inadequate microgram amounts—insufficient for even the nasal mucosal defense system, let alone the body’s broader needs.

The Consequences: A Public Health Crisis

This “war” on iodine, arguably more destructive than both world wars combined, has fueled a surge in breast, prostate, and other glandular cancers (adenocarcinomas) in the U.S. since the 1970s, conditions rare prior to iodine’s removal. In contrast, the average Japanese citizen consumes over 13 mg of iodine daily through seaweed, kelp, and shellfish, boasting the world’s lowest glandular cancer rates. Japanese immigrants adopting a Western diet in the U.S. develop cancer rates matching the general population, proving it’s not genetics but iodine deficiency. Non-iodized salt labels warn: “This product does not contain iodine, a necessary essential nutrient,” highlighting the crisis.

Functions of Iodine

Iodine’s primary role is in the thyroid gland, where it fuels the production of T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine/tetraiodothyronine). These hormones, directly and via other hormonal systems, regulate:

• Metabolic rate, heart rate, and body temperature.

• Brain development, muscle contraction, and skin/bone maintenance.

• Every cell and organ, ensuring systemic vitality.

Beyond the thyroid, iodine is essential for the function, protection, and accumulation in:

• Ovaries: Regulates estrogen/progesterone function.

• Prostate: Supports health and seminal fluid production.

• Mammary Glands: Enables breast milk production and maintains breast tissue health.

• Endometrium and Uterus: Sustains endometrial function, healthy pregnancy, and hormone production.

• Testicles: Drives testosterone production and sperm health.

• Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF): Bolsters CNS immune function and protection.

• Central Nervous System (CNS): Supports myelin sheath integrity, neurotransmitter balance (dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine), CNS immune function, cognitive ability, memory, and neuroplasticity (nerve growth).

• Pituitary Gland: Regulates the neuroendocrine system.

• Eyes: Maintains macula and retina health.

• Salivary Glands: Protects oral mucosa, teeth, and gums, preventing infections.

• Liver and GI Tract: Enhances function and shields against viral, fungal, parasitic, and bacterial infections.

• Sweat Glands/Skin: Supports skin cell health, UV protection, melanocyte function, and defense against pathogens.

• Immune System: Boosts white/red blood cell production, T-cell function, and P53 apoptosis, preventing damaged DNA replication (e.g., cancer, viruses).

• Reproduction: Essential for embryonic/fetal development during pregnancy.

• Antiseptic Properties: The planet’s strongest antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, antiparasitic, and antitumoral agent.

The Research Gap

While iodine’s thyroid role is well-documented, comprehensive studies on its optimal dosage for the entire body are lacking, largely due to the “powers that be” prioritizing patentable treatments over affordable, unpatentable nutrients like iodine. However, numerous studies link iodine deficiency to cancers (e.g., breast, prostate) and other illnesses, highlighting its critical role. The Iosol Formula II protocol (15 mg daily, 100 times the RDA of 150 mcg) leverages iodine’s anticancer properties.

Iodine’s Role in Cellular Health and Deficiency Risks

Iodine, an essential super mineral, is vital for the body’s construction site, driving cellular integrity and healing after upper cervical (UC) correction. For this protocol, iodine refers to the elemental form I2 in its oxidation state, and iodide denotes iodine salts, such as ammonium iodide (NH4I). We exclusively recommend Iosol Formula II (iodine I2 and ammonium iodide), avoiding potassium iodide (KI), Lugol’s, Iodoral, or other forms to prevent drug interactions and electrolyte imbalances.

Iodine and the P53/P21/P16 Pathways

Iodine is required to activate the P53/P21/P16 pathways, crucial for maintaining genome and DNA integrity. P53 activation responds to DNA damage by:

• Triggering cell growth arrest to allow DNA repair.

• Directing cellular senescence (permanent cell-cycle arrest, key in aging and antitumor responses) or apoptosis(programmed cell death) to eliminate damaged cells.

These pathways are integral to managing:

• Cancer: Preventing tumor formation.

• Neurodegenerative Diseases: Protecting neural integrity.

• Adaptive “Autoimmune” Conditions: Modulating immune responses.

• Metabolic Disorders: Regulating cellular metabolism.

• COPD/Lung Disease: Supporting lung tissue repair.

• Viral Infections: Clearing infected cells.

• Radiation and Oxidative Damage: Mitigating cellular stress.

• Tissue Regeneration: Promoting healthy cell turnover.

Effects of Iodine Deficiency

Iodine deficiency directly correlates with a wide range of health issues, reflecting its systemic importance:

• Glandular Cancers: Increased rates (e.g., breast, prostate, thyroid).

• Adaptive “Autoimmune” Disorders: Higher prevalence.

• Metabolic Issues: Obesity, lowered metabolism.

• Reproductive Health: Infertility, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, abnormal menstrual cycles, ovarian cysts, polycystic ovarian syndrome, prostatitis, benign prostate hyperplasia, fibrocystic breast disease, breastfeeding problems, mastitis, endometriosis, endometrial cysts, uterine fibroids/cysts, testicular atrophy.

• Neurological and Cognitive Issues: Mental brain fog, depression, low IQ, mental retardation, delayed motor development, brain damage, neurodegenerative diseases, neurotransmitter imbalances, motor dysfunctions, neuroendocrine dysfunction.

• Developmental Disorders: Maldevelopment of fetal brains, birth of cretins, stunted growth.

• Musculoskeletal and Physical Health: Muscular disorders, paralysis, physical weakness, chronic fatigue, thinning/hair loss.

• Cardiovascular Health: Heart palpitations, heart disease, enlarged heart, heart failure.

• Sensory and Oral Health: Macular degeneration, retinopathies, teeth/gum disease, oral infections, mucosal degeneration.

• Liver and GI Health: Impaired liver function, hepatitis, liver infections, GI dysfunction, dysbiosis, GI disease, biofilms.

• Skin and Immune Health: Chronic skin diseases, folliculitis, chronic infections, decreased immune/T-cell function, inadequate P53/P21/P16 apoptosis.

• Other Conditions: Goiter, hypothyroidism/hyperthyroidism, Hashimoto’s/Grave’s disease, mood disorders, speech/hearing defects, high perinatal/infant mortality, hormone imbalances, chronic viral infections, heavy metal/halogen toxicity.

Caution: Hot Nodules

A rare condition, a hot nodule on the thyroid, acts independently, unregulated by the body’s normal checks and balances. Introducing iodine to someone with a hot nodule can cause significant side effects if not done slowly and appropriately. Medical imaging is the only reliable way to diagnose a hot nodule, necessitating caution and gradual iodine supplementation under professional guidance.

Commercially Available Forms of Iodine

Iodine, a critical super mineral, fuels the body’s construction site post-upper cervical (UC) correction, supporting healing and regeneration. For this protocol, iodine refers to the elemental form I2 in its oxidation state, and iodidedenotes iodine salts, such as ammonium iodide (NH4I). We exclusively recommend Iosol Formula II (iodine I2 and ammonium iodide), avoiding other forms to prevent drug interactions and electrolyte imbalances.

Available Forms and Their Composition

Iodine is available in various commercial forms, each with distinct compositions:

• Sodium Iodide (NaI) - Iodized Salt: A common iodide salt, delivering minimal iodine.

• Lugol’s - Potassium Iodide (KI): A liquid solution of potassium iodide.

• Iodoral (Pill) - Potassium Iodide (KI): A tablet form of potassium iodide.

• Nascent Iodine - Elemental (I-): Contains one iodine atom, less stable for supplementation.

• Iosol Formula II - Iodine + Ammonium Iodide (I2 + NH4I): Combines molecular iodine (I2, two iodine atoms) and ammonium iodide, yielding one free iodine atom post-ingestion for enhanced efficacy.

Absorption and Challenges

Iodine/iodide absorption occurs primarily in the small intestine, not the stomach, requiring efficient digestion for uptake. Common forms face challenges:

• Sodium and Potassium Iodide: These bind strongly to iodine, making digestion and assimilation difficult, which can lead to toxic reactions at high doses. Products like kelp, sea dulse, or sodium/potassium iodide often contain undetectably low iodine levels in lab tests, rendering them ineffective. Potassium iodide poses additional risks, including side effects and drug interactions, particularly affecting cardiac performance due to potassium’s critical role (see drugs.com for interaction lists).

• Low Potency: Many commercial products (e.g., iodized salt, kelp-based supplements) provide insufficient iodine, failing to meet the body’s needs beyond preventing goiter.

Iosol Formula II: The Superior Choice

Iosol Formula II stands out, with 43% ammonium iodide and 57% free iodine (I2). Upon entering the stomach, hydrochloric acid cleaves the ammonium, leaving 100% free iodine. This form:

• Raises metabolism and restores electrical balance in the body.

• Produces ammonium, the base of amino acids, which is safely excreted via urine without toxicity or side effects.

• Avoids the risks of potassium iodide, offering no known adverse reactions to date.

The ammonium iodide in Iosol Formula II, unlike potassium iodide, ensures safe, effective delivery of iodine, making it the cornerstone of this protocol for supporting the body’s construction site in reversing dis-ease and fostering regeneration.

Iodine as a Detoxifying Agent

Iodine, an essential super mineral, acts as a potent detoxifying agent within the body’s construction site, amplifying healing post-upper cervical (UC) correction. For this protocol, iodine refers to the elemental form I2 in its oxidation state, and iodide denotes iodine salts, such as ammonium iodide (NH4I). We exclusively recommend Iosol Formula II (iodine I2 and ammonium iodide), avoiding potassium iodide (KI), Lugol’s, Iodoral, or other forms to prevent drug interactions and electrolyte imbalances.

Iodine’s Detoxification Power

Iodine drives detoxification of heavy metals, toxic halogens, pathogens, biofilms, viruses, and DNA-damaged cellsat a dose-dependent rate. With Iosol Formula II, increasing doses “tip the scales” multiple times, triggering varied detox processes based on iodine’s molecular weight in the blood. The timing and nature of detox vary by individual, influenced by:

• Amount and types of toxins in cells/tissues.

• State of dis-ease.

• Body’s nutritional use of iodine (not for detox).

This detox is critical, as the 1970s saw not only iodine’s removal from food (e.g., dairy, flour) but also a rise in toxic halogens in consumer products, foods, and cleaners, flooding the body with harmful substitutes.

Toxic Halogens: A Modern Crisis

Since the 1970s, exposure to toxic halogens has surged:

• Fluorine: Found in water supplies, toothpastes, and dental fluoride treatments, it offers no nutritional value, causes fluorosis (tooth damage), and calcifies the pineal gland.

• Bromine: Added to baking products, brominated vegetable oils (BVO), pesticides, medicines, upholstery, automobile interiors, and household products, increasing exposure.

• Chlorine: Present in city/tap water, cleaning products, and swimming pools, introducing toxic perchlorates.

These halogens—carcinogens, neurotoxins, and hormone disruptors—bind to iodine receptor sites, especially bromine due to its similar molecular weight, blocking the body’s limited iodine uptake and exacerbating deficiency.

Iodine’s Displacement Action

Supplementing with Iosol Formula II displaces these toxic substances, forcing their elimination through every available exit: eyes, nose, throat, GI tract, urine, sweat glands/skin, and mucous membranes. The liver, kidneys, lymphatic system, and lungs play pivotal roles in processing and excreting toxins. Iodine, unlike other halogens, is non-toxic and essential, delivering immense benefits when reintroduced.

Toxins Displaced by Iodine

Iodine supplementation targets an incomplete but critical list of toxins:

• Toxic halogens (fluorine, bromine, chlorine).

• Heavy metals (arsenic, lead, mercury).

• Radioactive iodine (I-131).

• Poisons, pathogenic die-off toxins, and viral/cancer cell apoptosis byproducts.

Herxheimer Reactions: Normal Detox Signs

As toxins are displaced, Herxheimer reactions—temporary detox symptoms—occur. These are normal, expected, and vary by individual, not all occurring simultaneously or universally:

• Itchy skin/mild rash

• Acne

• Headache

• Brain fog

• Lethargy

• Insomnia

• Red, itchy eyes

• Runny nose

• Burning/sore throat

• Metallic taste in mouth

• Dry mouth/increased salivation

• GI bloating/ache/cramps/burning

• Acid reflux

• Nausea

• Constipation/loose stools/diarrhea

• Increased urination

• Chills/heat waves

• Body aches

• Increased dream intensity

• Minor anxiety/depression

• Cherry angiomas (temporary)

• Slightly elevated heart rate

• Joint/muscle pain

• Sinus congestion/pressure

• Sweating (night sweats or excessive perspiration)

• Mild fever (below 100°F)

• Tingling sensations

• Dizziness/lightheadedness

• Temporary worsening of pre-existing symptoms

These symptoms reflect toxins exiting the bloodstream and are not cause for concern.

Severe Detox: Signs and Management

Detoxing too rapidly can overwhelm the body, producing severe symptoms:

• Excessive diarrhea (>1 day)

• Hyperventilation

• Racing heart rate (>140 bpm)

• Extreme lethargy (bedridden)

• Fever (>100°F)

• Tremors

• Delusions

• Confusion

• Pain under right ribcage (liver stress)

• Large rash/skin reactions/hives

• Severe anxiety/depression

• Dark thoughts/dreams

• Panic attacks

• Heart palpitations

• Severe nausea/vomiting

• Intense muscle cramps

• Chest tightness

• Profuse, uncontrollable sweating

• Fainting or near-fainting

• Severe abdominal pain

If severe detox occurs, pause Iosol Formula II intake, increase antioxidants (e.g., vitamin C, glutathione precursors), Celtic/Makai/Redmond’s salt (1 tsp daily), and distilled water intake, and wait for recovery. Once stabilized, resume iodine at the previous dose, increasing gradually.

Detox Dynamics and Organ Support

Detox symptoms are not caused by iodine, an essential nutrient you cannot be allergic to, but by the rate of toxin displacement and chelation. Symptoms subside at higher doses once toxins are cleared, proving iodine’s safety. Mitigation involves slow, steady dose increases, pausing as needed. Toxins, from environmental exposures, medicines, or foods, may linger in glands, organs, or tissues. The liver and kidneys primarily handle removal, with most toxins excreted via urine, supported by the lymphatic system and lungs. Adequate function of these waste-removal organs is crucial, with detox rates varying by toxin type, distribution, and ongoing chemical exposure.

By using Iosol Formula II, you empower the construction site to purge harmful substances, restoring balance and enabling your self-healing supermachine to thrive.

Iodine Detoxification and Personal Responsibility

Iodine, an essential super mineral, fuels the body’s construction site post-upper cervical (UC) correction, acting as a powerful detoxifier. For this protocol, iodine refers to the elemental form I2 in its oxidation state, and iodide denotes iodine salts, such as ammonium iodide (NH4I). We exclusively recommend Iosol Formula II (iodine I2 and ammonium iodide), avoiding potassium iodide (KI), Lugol’s, Iodoral, or other forms to prevent drug interactions and electrolyte imbalances.

Managing Iodine Detoxification

Supplementing with Iosol Formula II displaces toxic chemicals—heavy metals, halogens, and pathogens—into the bloodstream for expulsion. However, if excessive toxins are released simultaneously, they can overwhelm the body’s removal capacity, triggering toxic symptoms like Herxheimer reactions or severe detox effects (e.g., rash, nausea, racing heart rate). To minimize these:

• Pace Iodine Intake: Introduce iodine slowly and patiently, gradually increasing the dose to avoid overwhelming the system.

• Reduce Toxin Exposure: Stop or minimize new chemical toxins entering the body to ease the detox burden.

Common Toxin Sources

Toxic substances, particularly halogens and heavy metals, accumulate from everyday sources:

• Bromides: Found in baked goods/flour (potassium bromate), some colas/energy drinks/sports drinks (brominated vegetable oil), fire-retardant materials (upholstery, automobile interiors), certain antidepressants, and some inhalers.

• Fluoride: Present in fluoridated drinking water, certain foods (fish, tea leaves), and dental products (toothpaste, fluoride treatments).

• Arsenic and Lead: Accumulate through bioaccumulation in foods.

• Mercury: Commonly from dental amalgams.

Iodine as a Protective Shield

Once fully detoxed, maintaining a high iodine level in the blood via Iosol Formula II acts as a protective shield, preventing toxins from occupying receptor sites in cells and tissues. This barrier fortifies the body against re-accumulation of harmful substances, enhancing resilience and long-term health.

Personal Responsibility for Health

Your health hinges on awareness and personal responsibility for your choices, particularly in nutrition and lifestyle. To live your best life, research is essential to make informed decisions. Use this information as a starting point for broader, encompassing exploration to develop your own health wisdom. As Smokey Bear said, “Only you can prevent forest fires”—only you can safeguard your well-being.

Take ownership of your health by investigating:

• Foundational research and data beyond the facts presented here.

• Your personal environmental and lifestyle circumstances.

• Other illnesses, medications, supplements, and factors that may cause adverse reactions.

Understanding these elements helps mitigate risks and optimize the benefits of iodine supplementation and holistic health practices, ensuring your construction site thrives.

The Liver’s Role in Detoxification

The liver, gallbladder, and kidneys are the cornerstone organs of the body’s construction site, orchestrating waste removal and detoxification to maintain vibrant health post-upper cervical (UC) correction. Without an effective detox system, toxins can overwhelm the body, leading to dis-ease. Controlled by the vagus nerve in the brainstem and supported by essential nutrients, these organs are vital for every cell and tissue’s function, far beyond mere waste elimination.

Liver Dysfunction: A Cascade of Dis-ease

Liver function is critical for systemic homeostasis, but it can be compromised by:

• Obstructive intrahepatic cholesterol biliary stones, formed from chronic toxin overload.

• Inadequate vagus nerve control, caused by brainstem compression, disrupting liver regulation.

• Fatty liver disease, impairing metabolic processes.

• Decreased serum magnesium, hindering enzymatic functions.

These factors reduce liver efficiency, akin to a clogged oil filter in an engine, leading to poor performance and systemic dysfunction. Disrupted liver function causes a ripple effect, impacting every cell, tissue, organ, and system, manifesting as dis-ease. Virtually all health issues—whether in part or in full—trace back to:

• CNS control deficiencies.

• Neuroendocrine dysfunction.

• Nutrient deficiencies.

• Toxicity and oxidative stress.

• Hormone imbalances.

• Infectious toxicity.

Each of these can be linked to liver dysfunction, underscoring its pivotal role in the body’s construction site. By optimizing liver, gallbladder, and kidney function through UC correction and proper nutrition, you clear the path for detoxification, restoring balance and empowering your self-healing supermachine.

Normal Liver Functions

The liver is the master engine of the body’s construction site, performing a vast array of functions essential for health and vitality post-upper cervical (UC) correction. Its role in metabolism, detoxification, and hormone regulation ensures the seamless operation of trillions of cells, driving billions of chemical reactions daily. Muy importante!

Key Liver Functions

• Metabolize, Manufacture, Process, Build, and Break Down:

  • Carbohydrates, fats/lipids, amino acids, and proteins, converting them into usable forms for energy and repair.

  • Vitamins, nutrients, enzymes, and cholesterol, supporting cellular processes.

  • Excess hormones and structural components/transporters, enabling billions of simultaneous reactions across trillions of cells.

  • Glycogen, converting glucose for storage and release as needed for blood sugar stability.

  • Albumin and globulin, critical proteins for blood volume, immune function, and nutrient transport.

• Recycle Iron:

  • Reprocesses iron for red blood cells, hemoglobin, and oxygen-carrying capacity, ensuring efficient oxygen delivery.

• Store Nutrients:

  • Holds extra sugar (glycogen), fat, and fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) for later use, acting as a nutritional reserve.

• Create Bile:

  • Produces bile for fat digestion, toxin/waste transport for excretion, neutralizing stomach acid in the small intestine, and cleaning the intestines to prevent pathogen buildup.

• Make Carrier Proteins to Transport:

  • Triglycerides (energy source).

  • Cholesterol and oxidized cholesterol (antioxidant, cellular membrane repair, hormone production).

  • Structural components for tissue and cellular repair.

  • Thyroid hormones and other fat-soluble hormones.

  • Cortisol (stress hormone), aldosterone, progesterone, testosterone, estrogen, androgens, and all steroid-based hormones.

  • Fatty acids to the liver for processing.

  • Unconjugated bilirubin, a byproduct of red blood cell breakdown.

  • Copper, essential for iron metabolism and transport.

  • Free hemoglobin and free heme from erythrocytes.

  • Iron ions in the ferric form (Fe3+).

  • IGF binding protein, carrying insulin-like growth factor 1 for growth and repair.

  • Major urinary proteins, like urea, for nitrogen waste excretion.

  • Vitamins A, D, E, K for storage and utilization.

  • Calcium for bone and cellular health.

  • All drugs for metabolism and clearance.

• Synthesize Hormones Responsible for:

  • Mitochondrial oxidation of fatty acids, hepatic gluconeogenesis, and ketogenesis during fasting.

  • Regulating serum/tissue iron levels for oxygen transport.

  • Childhood growth and anabolic/healing/regenerative effects in adults.

  • Platelet production by bone marrow for clotting.

• Detoxify and Eliminate:

  • Removes nitrogenous waste from amino acids, producing urea for kidney excretion.

  • Detoxifies blood of alcohol, toxins, chemicals, drugs, and pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and parasites, cleansing the intestines.

  • Facilitates fat-soluble waste/toxin removal through bile into the colon.

  • Clears excess or used hormones from circulation.

  • Breaks down old, worn-out cells for recycling.

  • Neutralizes ammonia, converting it into less toxic forms.

  • Processes xenobiotics (foreign compounds) for safe excretion.

• Additional Functions:

  • Regulates blood clotting by producing clotting factors (e.g., fibrinogen, prothrombin).

  • Maintains immune function by synthesizing complement proteins to fight infections.

  • Supports pH balance by regulating acid-base homeostasis.

  • Produces angiotensinogen, a precursor for blood pressure regulation.

  • Converts vitamin D to its active form for calcium absorption and bone health.

By performing these functions, the liver ensures the body’s construction site operates at peak efficiency, supporting every cell and system in maintaining homeostasis and fostering regeneration.

Signs and Symptoms of Liver/Gallbladder Dysfunction

The liver and gallbladder are critical to the body’s construction site post-upper cervical (UC) correction, managing detoxification, metabolism, and nutrient processing. When clogged, stagnant, or dysfunctional, they trigger a wide array of symptoms signaling dis-ease. You don’t need all symptoms to indicate a liver/gallbladder issue, but the more present, the higher the likelihood. The following lists detail the primary symptoms, how they compound into secondary complications, and the resulting downstream consequences that can impact the entire body. This list is extensive but not exhaustive.

• Primary Symptoms of Liver/Gallbladder Dysfunction:

  • Skin and Appearance:

    • General skin dis-ease

    • Dry, scaly skin on feet, ankles, or legs

    • Greasy head, face, hair, or shoulders

    • Chronic rashes

    • Chronic or cystic acne

    • Itchy skin

    • Jaundice (yellowing skin or eyes)

    • Chronic red skin, especially on face or chest

  • Nails and Eyes:

    • Ridged nails

    • Missing, faded, or small lunulas (white crescents at fingernail/toenail bases)

    • Chronic red eyes (not perfectly white)

  • Musculoskeletal:

    • Muscle cramping

    • Decreased muscle endurance

    • Chronic or slow-healing injuries

    • Joint dis-ease, swelling, or chronic arthritis

    • Uric acid buildup causing gout

    • Stunted growth in children

  • Gastrointestinal (GI):

    • Leaky gut leading to malnutrition

    • Food allergies

    • Dysbiosis (gut microbiome imbalance)

    • Low appetite

    • Rapid stomach fullness

    • Bloating after eating

    • Chronic swollen abdomen

    • Excess abdominal fat

    • GI tract cramping

    • GI dis-ease or ulcers

    • Appendicitis

    • Diverticulitis

    • Abnormal stools (clay, grey, yellow, red, black, floating, or greasy leaving toilet marks)

    • Chronic constipation or diarrhea

    • Non-type 4 stools (Bristol Stool Chart)

    • Pancreatitis

    • Gallbladder disease

    • Hepatitis

    • Cirrhosis

    • Fatty liver disease

    • Pain on right side or under sternum/rib cage

    • Dark urine

    • Pale stools

  • Oral Health:

    • Halitosis (bad breath)

    • Tooth or gum dis-ease

    • Chronic cavities

    • Teeth discoloration

    • Mouth ulcers, inflammation, or sensitivity

    • Chronic gingivitis with bleeding or red gums

    • Oral thrush or white tongue

  • Metabolic and Cardiovascular:

    • Electrolyte imbalances (e.g., calcium)

    • High liver enzymes

    • High blood cholesterol

    • High blood estrogen or aldosterone

    • High blood sugar

    • Chronic fatigue

    • Anemia or low iron

    • Low oxygen saturation

    • Platelet disorders

    • High white blood cell count

    • Thyroid dysfunction

    • Weight issues (overweight and unable to lose, or underweight and unable to gain)

    • Heart dis-ease

    • Cardiac arrhythmias or tachycardia

    • High blood pressure

    • Atherosclerosis

    • Vasculitis

    • Varicose or spider veins

    • Hemorrhoids

    • Swelling in legs/ankles (edema)

    • Easy bruising or bleeding

  • Neurological and Psychological:

    • Neurodegenerative dis-ease

    • Brain fog

    • Anxiety or depression

    • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

    • Sleep disturbances

  • Other Systemic:

    • Chronic allergies

    • Chronic infections or abscesses

    • Unexplained weight loss

    • Loss of libido

    • Hormone imbalances

• Compounding Effects: How Symptoms Worsen:

  • Toxin accumulation due to impaired detoxification leading to furthering:

    • Gallbladder disease

    • Hepatitis

    • Cirrhosis

    • High liver enzymes

    • Jaundice

    • Dark urine

    • Pale stools

  • Impaired nutrient metabolism leading to furthering:

    • Electrolyte imbalances

    • High cholesterol

    • High blood sugar

    • Anemia or low iron

    • Low oxygen saturation

    • Weight issues

    • Heart dis-ease

    • High blood pressure

    • Atherosclerosis

  • Hormone dysregulation leading to furthering:

    • High estrogen or aldosterone

    • Thyroid dysfunction

    • Hormone imbalances

    • Loss of libido

  • Oxidative stress and cellular damage leading to furthering:

    • Chronic fatigue

    • Slow-healing injuries

    • Neurodegenerative dis-ease

    • Brain fog

    • Cancer

  • Chronic inflammation leading to furthering:

    • Skin issues (rashes, acne, red skin)

    • Joint problems (arthritis, swelling)

    • GI symptoms (cramping, bloating, dis-ease)

    • Chronic allergies

  • Immune suppression and microbiome imbalance leading to furthering:

    • Chronic infections or abscesses

    • Dysbiosis

    • Oral thrush

    • High white blood cell count

    • GI issues (ulcers, appendicitis)

• Downstream Consequences: Systemic Impact:

  • Systemic dis-ease from widespread cellular and organ dysfunction

  • Organ failure due to toxin accumulation and poor detox capacity (e.g., liver or kidney failure)

  • Chronic infections from weakened immunity and microbiome imbalances

  • Autoimmune disorders triggered by chronic inflammation (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, lupus)

  • Metabolic syndrome driven by nutrient and hormone dysregulation (e.g., obesity, diabetes)

  • Cardiovascular collapse from escalating heart dis-ease, arrhythmias, and vascular issues

  • Neurological decline from worsening brain fog, anxiety, depression, and neurodegenerative dis-ease

  • Cancer progression fueled by oxidative stress and cellular damage in toxin-laden tissues

• The Compounding Cycle:

  • Chronic fatigue and brain fog from nutrient deficiencies worsen anxiety or depression, hindering healthy choices and fueling metabolic syndrome.

  • GI dis-ease and dysbiosis disrupt nutrient absorption, causing anemia and weight issues, which escalate into cardiovascular collapse.

  • Chronic rashes or acne spark inflammation, contributing to autoimmune disorders.

  • Gallbladder disease or cirrhosis impairs detoxification, risking organ failure.

  • Unaddressed symptoms create a feedback loop, leading to systemic dis-ease and potentially life-threatening conditions like organ failure or cancer progression.

  • UC correction, nutrient optimization, and detoxification can break this cycle, restoring the construction site’s vitality.

Your liver, a remarkable organ, possesses unique regenerative capabilities and serves as a cornerstone of bodily health, much like iodine’s critical role in thyroid function. Capable of regrowing even after up to 90% surgical removal, the liver efficiently detoxifies the body, processing waste and preventing systemic backups that can impair every cell and tissue. When overwhelmed, it struggles to eliminate toxins, akin to an unflushed toilet, a problem exacerbated by modern lifestyles. Through a specialized protocol, you can enhance the liver’s natural functions, promoting complete healing and optimizing overall health. This method, an advanced adaptation of the Andreas Moritz Flush, cleanses the liver by targeting cholesterol-bound intrahepatic biliary stones and incorporates scheduled fasting, while also flushing the kidneys with safe, precise techniques. By replacing apple juice and malic acid with potent herbs—ten times more effective and suitable for type 2 diabetics and cancer patients sensitive to sugar—the protocol uses superior organic ingredients. Additionally, it offers a “mini cleanse” option, providing a gentler alternative to the comprehensive approach, ensuring accessibility and efficacy for diverse needs.

CONCLUSION:

This transformative journey through the body’s innate intelligence—spanning Innate Intelligence, The Foreman, Miscommunication, The Master Reset, Eat to Live, Iodine, Detoxification, The Liver, and Dr. C’s Protocols—we unveiled a profound truth: you were not created to languish in disease or perish from it, but to be fruitful, multiply, and thrive, as God designed. Your body, a divinely crafted supermachine, is encoded with the power to self-heal and regenerate, equipped with everything needed from Earth’s bounty to sustain vibrant health. Yet, it’s no wonder you find yourself where you are, entangled in a web of dis-ease. This is not the result of a single fault but a cascade of consequences: disrupted electrical input from upper cervical misalignments, nutrient deficiencies from poor-quality foods, toxicity from modern chemicals, clogged waste removal systems, and stagnation from insufficient movement. Like a Rubik’s cube twisted by your life’s traumas, your health has been wound into complexity by medical arrogance and ignorance, mistaking symptoms for disease and their absence for health. True health lies in function, not fleeting relief. But fear not, for the solution is elegantly simple—one turn, one step at a time, back to the beginning, as God intended.

By correcting misalignments with the Master Reset, nourishing with whole foods and therapeutic levels of all essential vitamins and minerals, detoxifying through protocols like iodine and the liver cleanse, and embracing movement, you unravel this cube, restoring communication, balance, and vitality.

As declared in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Symptoms are not your enemy; they signal your body’s fight to heal. Health is not the absence of struggle but the presence of function, guided by your DNA’s perfect blueprint.

Embrace this journey with unwavering faith, for we are not given a spirit of fear, but of faith, hope, and love. Step boldly into God’s promise, knowing each turn of the cube brings you closer to the vibrant, thriving life you were meant to live—your birthright, written in the divine design of your very being.

It is my professional recommendation that this protocol, while entirely safe if performed correctly, be directed specifically at each person based upon their present state of condition and not be taken as a broad brush generalized protocol. For those interested in performing these protocols please become a paid subscriber, submit your driver’s license and a selfie that matches, and send an email to us requesting an intake form for professional paid consultation on health history and what to do specific to you.

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By completing these processes, without attempting to stop or thwart the body’s functions, rather turning them on and assisting them, the body is quite capable of fully healing itself, regardless of condition.

Proof is in the pudding.

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