Hello, welcome to Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show. Today I am going to be talking to you about kids health and wellness, how we should be looking at it from a different approach and perspective. Welcome to the Cloverleaf Chiropractic Show, a podcast advocating wellness, life and healing from within. With 38 years in practice, 50,000 patients and over 1 million chiropractic adjustments, here's your host, Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr. Hello, my name is Dr. Daniel Abeckjerr. I'm a doctor of Chiropractic. And what we're going to be doing today is teach you how to make our kids healthier and prevent diseases and how to make their immune system stronger. And I hope this information is valuable to you. Health for wellness and prevention in kids starts with education. And we need to start the kids at a young age on how to take care of their health, and how to prevent illness and diseases. That, you know, we don't want our kids to have some of the same illnesses that we have, and we want them to grow up healthy and strong. And basically, as parents, we have to be good role models and we have to teach him what help is by setting a good example. You know, how can you tell a kid to eat their greens, if we don't need our greens? We have to tell them to exercise, but if we don't exercise, how are they going to do it? So we have to set a really good example in the home, and I know I did that with my kids when I was young. So in my office, we educate our kids on wellness in prevention. And chiropractic is all about wellness and prevention, and it starts at a young age. So one of the things that we see in our offices, we see a lot of kids that come in with really bad posture. So of course, we always tell our kid, stand up straight in, be careful with your posture and things like that. So one of the things that we see all the time is kids come in with the Text Neck Syndrome, which is something that happens when you use the phone a lot, and I'll talk about that a little bit more later. But we also see a lot of kids come in with scoliosis, which is curvature of the spine, or we see them coming with kyphosis which is when the neck is really back going forward. So if these kids start out with these things at a young age, later on, it's only going to get worse. So if we see young kid that comes in at a four or five years old and they have a scoliosis, it's so much easier to fix it when you're really young. Because whatever happens when a scoliosis is that it gets worse. And at about age 12-13 years old is when it starts to be really severe, and it can affect your health. So the main thing is that posture is important, because one of the things that we tell our patients is that posture affects your function. So what does that mean? It means that if your posture is bad, you're going to have misalignments in your spine, and that can affect the nerves. And that can affect how your body works or functions. So if you have something going on in your upper part of the neck, and your posture is bad, that can cause things like headaches, it can affect the glands in your neck, the tonsils, and all kinds of things. If you have problems in the lower part of the neck, you can have a problem with asthma and breathing; difficulty breathing, all kinds of things. In the middle of the back, in the mid back pain, if you have problems in those areas that can affect the digestion in the lower back, it can affect the nerves that go to the bladder or the legs or the reproductive organs. So as you get older, you can have more and more problems. So it's important to fix a scoliosis as soon as possible, and the younger they are, the better it is. So one of the things that we see a lot in the office is children or kids that have a weak immune system. And what I hear today a lot is that the germs, the bacteria, the virus are the problem. But what we don't teach and what people are not