Dr Matt Delgado DC joins James Chester for Episode 812 of the Chiro Hustle Podcast to explore the personal health crisis that transformed the way he thinks about chiropractic, subluxation, and the body's ability to heal.
Shortly after chiropractic school, Matt entered an intense associateship, burned out, and was eventually diagnosed with Graves disease. He describes leaving that environment, simplifying his life, prioritizing sleep and rest, eating whole foods, eliminating alcohol for a year, and returning to foundational lifestyle habits. Matt says his Graves disease subsequently went into remission.
That journey ultimately produced the central metaphor behind his forthcoming book, Stepping Out of the Grave: How to Heal When You're Tired of Trying:
The body is more like a plant than a car.
Matt and James explore what that means for chiropractic. Matt describes pain-focused, structurally focused, and neurologically focused chiropractic; discusses primary and compensatory subluxations; explains how Torque Release Technique influenced his thinking and the development of his Tricord Method; and challenges chiropractors to look upstream at nervous-system function, sleep, stress, movement, toxins, and nutrition.
At the center of the conversation is a distinctly chiropractic question: If the body possesses innate intelligence, should our job be to continually “fix” people—or to address interference, improve function, educate people, and respect the intelligence already within them?
This is a conversation about returning to the roots of health and the roots of chiropractic.
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