Long-Term Chiropractic Care Study

Immune Competency

This test represents the body's capacity to develop an immune response: the condition of being immune; security against a particular disease; non-susceptibility to effects of foreign microorganisms or toxic antigens.

The results of this test were almost parallel to the Oxidative Response Index results. Normal control group people have a 200% increase in their immune competency over a Sick control group. All of the subjects in the Chiropractic group showed a 200% improvement in their immune competency over and above that of the Normal control group.

No Decrease in Immune Competency with Age

Experts agree that there is a steady decline in immune competency with age. This decline has been proposed as the primary reason for the degenerative diseases associated with aging.

Not one of the Chiropractic subjects had any decrease of their immune response with age.

Dr. Pero's Comments

"The seriously ill group. . .have a very suppressed response to oxidative stress. . .and suffer genetic damage. . .the Normal individuals have approximately a two-fold better ability to resist (oxidative stresses). The long-term Chiropractic care (group) had a significant increase over the Normal individuals. . .What Chiropractic could have done is optimize whatever genetic abilities you have so that you now can fully express that (resistance to genetic damage) and normal individuals or diseased individuals cannot."

"No one that I know of has shown where a non-chemical interference with the immune system could cause an increase in immune competence (like Chiropractic did). . . We have never seen a group that we can clinically distinguish as having this kind of improvement in immune response."

"On all 96 (subjects in the Chiropractic maintenance group) we saw no deviation with the immune competence by our assay procedures with age."

"You know how hard (medical researchers) (are) looking for a way of positively influencing these processes. I can't tell you the tremendous effort that is being made and no one's got anything, including me, except this one thing."

Long Term Chiropractic Care for You & Your Family

Keeping your family's immune system working well is a major concern parents have for their children. Boosting the immune system before they get sick is always superior to boosting it after they get sick. This research shows how consistent Chiropractic care boosts the immune system. Increasing the function of your immune system is one of the important reasons to have consistent, long-term Chiropractic care for you and your family.

Between 1986 and 1988, Dr. Ronald Pero, an internationally respected cancer researcher, was the principal investigator in the Chiropractic Research Project, Wallenberg Laboratories, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden. They studied health and immune indicators of 96 people who had received long term maintenance chiropractic care (minimum of five years on a once weekly to once monthly basis). Three groups were compared: 1) Sick control group 2) Normal (or well) control group 3) Long-term Chiropractic patient group.

Subjects for the study ranged from 21 to 87 years of age. Their life-styles included little or no smoking, exercise, "good" diet, little or no alcohol, and high intensity, long term Chiropractic care. The results were as follows:

Glutathione Transferase Test

The test (GTTSBO) was done in order to determine whether or not the patients being tested were genetically normal with regard to disease susceptibility. This was important, because if they were not normal for this parameter, they could not be compared to previous norms. All subjects were normal in this area.

Oxidative Stress Response Index

This test was done to determine the body's ability to resist disease by repairing the genetic material called DNA. In other words, this test measures the body's ability to repair damaged DNA.

People in the Normal control group have a 200% increase in their ability to resist disease versus a Sick control group. All of the Chiropractic patients tested revealed a 200% improvement in their ability to resist disease over and above that of the Normal control group.