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The Best Place on Earth HAYWARD CALIFORNIA PROBABLY DOESN'T COME TO MIND TO ANYONE WHEN THEY THINK OF THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH.
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- By Nolan Halverson -
ucked on the corner of Industrial Boulevard and Depot Road is where Life West Chiropractic College has its roots. When you walk through the doors at Life West, something magical happens. You get transported to a place of love and positivity. The halls are not only full of warm welcomes and smiling faces, even on stressful midterm or final weeks, they are full of incredible stories, new health knowledge and Lasting Purpose which is what makes Life West the best place on earth. My favorite question to ask people I meet in the Life West hallways is “Why do you want to be chiropractor”. First, imagine if you asked that question to most other professions. You would probably get a blank stare or an answer that reflects income or prestige. However, in the hallways of Life West you get stories of various ailments that no other doctor could help but through chiropractic adjustments they got their life back. You also hear the stories from students whose parent(s) is/are chiropractor(s) and have been adjusted since birth and never had a shot or pill put in their body and how they went to baseball games for “sick days” because they never got sick growing up. From someone who grew up in the traditional medical paradigm, with no adjustments and lots of shots and drugs, I grew up accustomed to getting sick a few times a year it was hard to believe the stories of “chiro kids” who never got sick until I heard it for the umpteenth time in the hallways
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of Life West. They seemed to have a different health knowledge than the ordinary person. Before all these hallway talks, I didn’t know that people didn’t vaccinate their kids or didn’t take drugs to reduce fevers. As crazy as that sounded at the beginning, it’s hard to argue reducing a fever with drugs when you learn that the body creates the fever to kill off bad virus or bacteria or that the unvaccinated never suffered from or transmitted the disease they weren’t “protected” from. It’s not that one view of health is superior to another, but a person should have choices on what is best for them and their families and through the Life West hallways I was exposed to different ways of viewing and maintaining health that I never came across in my first 20 years of life. In those first 20 years of life, I grew up in northern
