by Jen Doriott | Aug 2, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
Any damage to brain cells cannot be repaired completely. Well, that’s a bummer. Your brain and spinal cord is the most vital organ in your body. It is connected to every other cell in the body via the spine, and it’s how your body stays alive. Without it you die. If...
by Jen Doriott | Jul 26, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
Your body produces 25 million new cells each second. Every 13 seconds, you produce more cells than there are people in the United States! Amazing! This is how we attain and maintain health – old, sick cells die off and are replaced by new, healthy cells. The primary...
by Jen Doriott | Jul 19, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
Half of your genes describe the complex design of your brain and nerve system. The other half describes the organization of the other 98% of your body. That fact should tell you something about the importance and vital nature of your nerve system (spine). Half of your...
by Jen Doriott | Jul 12, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
The human body consists of over 600 muscles. These muscles constitute about 40% of our total body weight. While this sounds amazing, the human body has a smaller number of muscles in it than a caterpillar! Muscles allow you to stand, walk, run, pick up your kids,...
by Jen Doriott | Jul 5, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
Over 90% of diseases are caused by stress. That’s virtually every disease for those bad at math. Stress comes in many forms. Some are felt like slips and falls, others aren’t as noticeable or go completely unnoticed like poor nutrition, workload and busy family...
by Jen Doriott | Jun 28, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
The human brain is soft like butter and weighs about 3lbs. To top it off, that 3lb blob of butter is running every single function in your body right now. It’s taking the last meal you ate and transforming it into living blood and tissue. It does this by sending...
by Jen Doriott | Jun 21, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
The human skeleton renews once every three months. That means you have a completely new skeleton every three months. Old, sick cells die and make way for new, healthy cells. That’s how the body gets healthy and stays healthy. You can’t fix the old, sick cells. They...
by Jen Doriott | Jun 14, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles – from here to Pluto and back. Think of all of the information that is stored in that DNA; information that is being expressed or waiting to be expressed. A lot of people would...
by Jen Doriott | Jun 7, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50% of your hand strength. Think about that! 50% of your hand strength is lost by simply losing one finger, and the smallest one at that! It goes to show that every part of you depends on every other part of you in...
by Jen Doriott | May 31, 2021 | Dr. Jen's Blog
The first organ to form in the human body is the nerve system: the brain and spinal cord. Most people think it’s the heart, or the lungs, or maybe some other organ. Nope, the first organ to form is your nerve system. Why would that be? Your nerve system is the...
