Hot Water (fka Mind Your Manners) What Your Spine Is Trying to Tell You — Alignment, Sleep & the Brain with Dr. Ben Shamoiel
Mar 3, 2026
Dr. Ben Shamoiel, a chiropractor who specializes in drug-free spinal alignment and functional neurology, discusses how the spine shapes the nervous system, sleep, hormones, and overall health. Short segments explore tech-related posture damage, the atlas vertebra’s brainstem role, spinal links to digestion and fertility, and practical tips for sleep, menopause, and recovery.
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Most Health Problems Start In The Brain
- Ben views nearly all health issues as rooted in neurological stress from physical, chemical, or emotional causes.
- He says subluxations and brain rewiring from stressors short-circuit normal nerve function.
Check Spine Before Relying On Normal Labs
- Check spinal alignment because each vertebral segment maps to specific organs and glands.
- Ben notes neck segments correlate to the thyroid and parathyroid and structural stress often precedes abnormal lab results by years.
Fix Text Neck To Reduce Nervous System Tension
- Reduce forward-head posture from phones and tablets to relieve spinal cord tension and improve sleep, mood, and hormone function.
- Ben likens a straightened or reversed neck to 'squishing' the soft spinal cord and increasing systemic tension.