Chiropractic & Immunity

In 1975 Ronald Pero, PhD, chief of cancer prevention research at New York’s Preventative Medicine Institute,discovered that various DNA-repairing enzymes could be significantly altered following exposure to carcinogenic chemicals.  He found strong evidence that an individual’s  susceptibility  to cancer could be determined by these enzymes.  Lack of those enzymes, Pero said ‘definitely limits not only your lifespan, but also your ability to resist serious disease consequences. ‘

Pero was fascinated by the relationship cancer-inducing agents had on the endocrine system. Since the nervous system regulates hormone balance, he hypothesized that thenervous system had to also have a strong influence on one’ssusceptibility to cancer.

To support this argument he found a substantial amount of literature linking various kinds ofspinal injuries and cancer. Pero found that theses injuries led to a very high rate of lymphomas and lymphatic leukemias. This understanding led Pero to consider Chiropractic care as a means of reducing the risk of immune breakdown and disease.

Pero’s team measured 107 individuals who had received long-term Chiropractic care. The chiropractic patients were shown to have a 200% greater immune competence than people who had not received chiropractic care, and a 400% greater immune competence than people with cancer or serious diseases. Interestingly, Pero foundno declinewith the various age groups of the study demonstrating that the DNA repairing enzymeswere just as present in long-term chiropractic senior groups as they were in the younger groups.

Pero concluded, ‘Chiropractic may optimize whatever genetic abilities you have so that you can fully resist serious disease… I have never seen a group other than this show a 200% increase over normal patients.’