​If Christmas is the greatest story ever told then this is the 2nd greatest story ever told and most have never heard it… 
 
First off, I'm grateful for everyone of you (especially those who bring their family weekly to live life at a higher level than the rest) and I'm also grateful for the 17% of subscribers who open and actually read these emails. Hopefully I can continue to provide value for you. 
 
I tell my family this story every thanksgiving and believe it should be a story we tell over and over because of the lesson it teaches.
 
Thanksgiving is a story of capitalism. 
 
It was a celebration of a bountiful harvest. 
 
This bountiful harvest was the fruit of a hard lesson learned… it followed several years of scarcity, starvation, famine, and almost killed all of the early settlers in America. 
 
A ship from England landed on Plymouth Rock and brought a boat load (roughly 100 people) of Puritans to this new land… the trip took more than 2 months to get across the Atlantic Ocean... 
 
When they arrived, they were very idealistic and decided to all work together to farm and grow food - “for the greater good”. Everyone would work to their best ability and everyone would take equally from the communal harvest pot so no one farmer would/could get more wealthy (have more fruit) than his neighbor. (this was 100's of years before Karl Marx came up with idiodic principle, ‘Each according to their ability, each according to their need’.) The basic principle of communism - do what you can, take what you need. 
 
You would think Karl Marx, and all other socialists (Bernie Sanders, AOC, etc), would look at history and realize this type of philosophy doesn't work. 
 
And the Pilgrims proved it. 
 
Within 18 months there was widespread famine and starvation and over half of the Pilgrims died. Yes, you read that right. More than 50 of the 100 died because of a LACK of food… it wasn't the elements, the flu or covid that killed more than ½ of them… it was not enough food. 
 
And the problem was: People did not want to work hard when they don't benefit any more than the person who is a slacker. The hard working people, or better yet, the people with ideas that could radically advance society, decide not to work full capacity because it makes no sense to toil in the fields, take risk to bring your new idea to fruition, and break your back when your neighbor is just sitting around watching Netflix and shooting arrows into the clouds… when the lazy guy gets the same food ration from the communal harvest as the guy who harvested half the food for the community. 
 
The pilgrim's excuses were no different than the excuses we hear today… “my back hurts, I'm tired, I didn't sleep good, I have a cold, I'm not feeling good, it's too hard, blah de-flippin-blah…” 
 
And it wasn't just the men who had this dis-ease of laziness… it was the women too.. “I'm too tired to cook, my back hurts, I didn't sleep good, I have a cold, I'm not feeling good, it's too much work, blah..de-flippin blah” 
 
So no one did anything… because their incentive for their OWN family was not prioritized. They prioritized their neighbor's needs… not their own… and almost killed everyone. 
 
BUT before they almost exterminated themselves they decided to try something different: each family would get a portion of the land to farm. Some were better at growing things than others… maybe the land was better in a certain area to grow veggies and other land was more beneficial to raise cattle, one guy couldn't keep animals and food alive if his life depended on it but he was really good at woodworking, so he built houses, tables, furniture, wagons, plows, etc… and they all TRADED with one another. 
 
The new rule was: whatever you produced you could eat, consume and use YOURSELF and whatever was left over, you could trade with your neighbor… and suddenly the famine and starvation was over because the pilgrims were incentivized to produce and create and if they had extra, they could help. But they could only HELP if they had a surplus. 
 
 As the pilgrims began to see they could benefit from the fruits of their own labor, they worked harder, they developed technology and tools to become more efficient… and the surpluses became massive (unlike the deficits our current economy runs on) which then gave birth to… THANKSGIVING. A celebration of surplus. 
 
Capitalism gave them the surplus. A surplus to trade and give to their community and a surplus to trade and give to the Native Americans. 
 
So, if you're on the fence wondering if taking care of myself and my own 24 inches is worth it? Just look at history. 
 
The way humans have been created and hardwired is; we will never work as hard for society as we will ourselves. (This is not selfish… this is the way man was created because I cannot take care of YOU unless I TAKE CARE OF MYSELF.) And there will be no incentive that changes that. Which is why socialism (whether it be for New York city run grocery stores, free housing, education, or healthcare) will never work! 
 
Commitment and discipline to working hard, regardless of your ability will always bring fruit. Whether in business, your exercise routine, your diet, your commitment to getting checked weekly, etc.. It is not your neighbors responsibility to put food on your table, pay your bills, or keep you healthy… 
 
It is yours. 
 
Go work for it. 
 
Happy Thanksgiving! 
 
Hours this week
Thursday: CLOSED for Thanksgiving
Friday: Open 9-Noon (Elkhorn) + 2-6pm (JC)
Saturday: 9-Noon (Elkhorn) 
   
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Is 99.9% Good Enough?
 
If 99.9% is good enough, then...
 
❌ 3,764,000,000 emails would be sent to the wrong email address today
❌ 230,000,000 text messages would be sent to the wrong person today
❌ 5,000,000 Instagram clicks would go to a wrong page
❌ 10,000,000 TikTok clicks would show the wrong video
❌ 3,680 newborn babies would be given to the wrong parents today
❌ 3,713,000 pieces of mail would go to the wrong address in the USA today
❌ 50,500 cell phones sold today would be defective
❌ 21,700,000 credit card transactions would be mistakes today
❌ 16 pacemakers installed today would malfunction
❌ 8,912 bottles of wine produced per day would be bad
❌ 24 planes traveling to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) would be defective
❌ 11,300,000 wrong prescription medications would be taken today
❌ $4,383,562 would be spent on faulty sporting equipment today
❌ 864,000,000,000,000 biochemical reactions in your body would be wrong today.
 
When you are subluxated, your body never functions at 100%. 👈🏼 [click]
 
It doesn't even get close to 99.9%.
 
Is 99.9% good enough for you, your family, and friends? Hopefully not.
 
Be sure to tell others about vertebral subluxations, chiropractic, and refer them to our office if they are local, so they can have a better chance of functioning as close to 100% as possible.
 
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​Regular chiropractic does so much more than make you less sore: 
 
✅Improved Immune Function - studies prove regular chiropractic care boosts the body's innate immune system and cell mediated immune response. So you can kick the sick quicker. 
✅Better Sleep - regular chiropractic care improves sleep by helping reduce stress on the central nervous system to allow for more relaxation and deeper sleep. 
✅Improved Digestion - regular chiropractic care keeps stress off the vital nerves that supply your digestive system. When the central nervous system is in a heightened state of stress, we call this sympathetic dominance, also known as “fight or flight” or the chronic stress response. When the sympathetic nervous system is chronically activated it down regulates all parasympathetic (rest and digest) functions. 
✅Enhanced Athletic Performance - when your nervous system is under too much stress (like ‘over’ training) the body can hardwire this fight or flight response. When the CNS is in a heightened state of stress it costs your body energy. This energy is now wasted (dysponesis) and gets shifted from ‘growth, healing, and repair' into adrenal fatigue mode and muscle breakdown. Regular chiropractic care keeps the body at “ease” so you can perform at your peak potential and all your energy is being utilized for performance rather than protection. 
✅More Energy - see above.
✅Better Oxygen output - click here to learn more.
✅Asthma Management - The lungs depend heavily on proper nerve supply/tone. Lung issues can arise from misalignment (subluxation) in the upper neck (caused by birth trauma, c-section, forceps or vacuum delivery, birth augmentation/Pitocin/epidural, etc). These misalignments almost always occur in the upper neck affecting the vagus nerve or in the upper thoracic (back) spine. Proper nerve flow can help alleviate many asthma/breathing problems and sometimes completely resolve asthma (or as the medical system calls it… “spontaneous remission”) 
✅Better Balance - proprioception. It's the body's 6th sense. Every spinal joint sends feedback information into the brain communicating with the brain to tell it where it is in time and space at every moment, every second of your life. As your spine degenerates (due to subluxation in the spine left undetected and uncorrected every 14 days, the spines degeneration process accelerates) proprioception is lost and nociception is increased. As arthritis and degeneration increases in the spine these proprioceptors get destroyed and so does your balance AND the ability for your brain to recharge. This then sets the stage for Alzheimer's, dementia, and cognitive decline. 
 ✅Better Pregnancy and Fertility - It is more difficult to get pregnant when you internal regulating system (autonomic nervous system) is ‘stuck’ in fight or flight (subluxation) and sometimes the system ‘aborts’ the fetus because the body is not healthy enough to deliver the baby safely. Regular chiropractic keeps your internal regulating system at ‘ease’ as well as makes for a safer delivery for both mom and baby. 
✅Reduced Allergies - An overreacting immune system is what causes allergies (an allergy is an inappropriate response to an external stimulus). A subluxated spine can cause your body to misinterpret its environment and cause the body to respond inappropriately - causing an allergy. 
✅Better Healing - the more regular you have been under chiropractic, the quicker and more effective your body heals from injury, sickness, viruses, colds, and even surgery. 
 
Finish this year right.  
Sincerely, 
     -DC 
 
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