Darryl Thompson - Chiropractor

Darryl said it was an honour to come to the Club.  He has a passion for getting out to the community to inform and to change lives.  He thinks people enjoy different lifestyles and suffer from different issues but health is the most important - when it goes our world crashes.  Canada is fortunate, he says.  We are cutting down on smoking and drinking, spending on diet and exercise, have the best doctors and hospitals, are spending billions on research into cancer and heart disease, have access to drugs.  With all this we should be healthier than we are.  Cancer, diabetes, and heart disease rates are on the rise.  We rank 72 so what are we doing wrong?

Partly it's baby boomers entering a critical time.  Doctors are overloaded with tests slow and appointment and wait times long.  There are too many patients.  The number one killer is adverse reactions to drugs - both prescription and non-prescription.  Seniors are often taking too many pills - an average of 11.2 a day and an average 35 year old is taking 5-6.  Drugs are introduced to massive profits.  An arthritis drug, Viox, made 12.5 billion in profits before it was taken off the market for causing thousands of deaths.  The company paid out 6 billion and still made money.  Drug companies don't want you to get healthy.

He says he sees suffering all day every day and that chiropractors can help but that doctors don't know enough about it and that the PR should be better.  He says 80% of his patients are people who have come to him as a last resort - medical rejects.  He doesn't put things in or take things out and he thinks he can help these patients.  The brain controls everything and all messages to the rest of the body go through the spinal cord which is housed in the spine.  When the spine goes out of alignement it can wear down faster or put pressure on part of the cord resulting in pain.

The spine is curved and loosing the curve puts measurable pressure on the cord and any amount of pressure can cause damage.  The body has remarkable powers of healing but when it needs help - only maybe 10% of the time - he says taking the pressure off is better than drugs.  He admits that it seems simple, to simple to be true, but, he asks, do drugs address pressure?  He says there is always more to learn and there's a ways to go but the simplest thing to do when the lights go out is to go to the fuse box.