Jeff Langmaid explains that bones aren't just passive structures responding to exercise and hormones. Recent research shows they're part of a two-way communication network with your brain, involving neurotransmitters and inflammatory signals. This complexity means the body works in ways we're only beginning to understand.
Historically, many people in healthcare have thought of bone health in pretty simple terms: mechanical loading, hormones, and nutrition. But this research really expands that idea to a pretty significant amount. It shows that bone is actually part of that dynamic communication network involving brain signaling, inflammatory responses, neurotransmitters, and hormones. All of this is happening in an incredibly complex, nonlinear, interconnected system where basically everything affects everything else. And this is, I'm going to say, the beauty of the human body, of our life experience, of the dynamics and of the chiropractic adjustment and how far-reaching it is, but also makes research really, really complex. So instead of thinking that bone responds to force, just direct mechanical loading, we should be thinking of bone responds to a full body communication network.
