In addition to chiropractic care, quantum neurology rehabilitation is used in our office in order to help patients improve their posture, while helping them to overcome their symptoms. Improving our posture is more than creating a good outward appearance for other people. Doctors of chiropractic have a strong reputation of helping individuals improve their posture. Confidence increases, self worth improves, and hormonal changes take place. This corresponds to the collection of samples 2 and 3 approximately 11 and 24 min after the second posture, respectively, and collection of sample 3 approximately 10 min after the third posture. Median block duration was 4.58 min (interquartile range (3.46–6.25)) depending on participants’ speed in the face categorization task. Saliva samples were collected before the first posture and block and after block 4 and 6. This short instruction for the sitting posture was repeated on screen at the beginning of each task block. Next, she verbally provided instructions on how to place each body part without demonstrating the posture herself. At this point of the instructions, approximately 15 min after arrival, participants provided a first saliva sample. Individuals’ position in a social hierarchy greatly determines their response to stressful situations as well as their opportunities for social contact and relationships (De Waal, 1986; Sapolsky, 2005). A good example of a typical power posture would be standing with your feet apart while holding your hands on your hips and keeping your chin tilted upward. Clearly, posture has a defined and evidence-based impact on our overall health. Obtaining above-the-norm levels of testosterone is typically found in men who use anabolic steroids i.e. synthetic testosterone (typically in the form of injections). However, men who have very high levels of the primary male hormone are very rare to find naturally. Better posture does more than just enhance your physical appearance; it can have a significant impact on your hormonal health and overall well-being. When we adopt slouched or closed-off positions, such as hunching over a desk or crossing our arms, it can trigger an increase in cortisol, potentially leading to decreased testosterone levels. Now a study suggests that these poses alter hormone levels. Dominant animals show their status with expansive postures, and humans are no exception. Although effects on other outcome variables described as promising by Cuddy, Schultz & Fosse (2018) might be reproducible, the total available evidence in favor of an effect on hormones is thus currently very weak. This decline may either simply reflect the diurnal pattern of these hormones (Faiman & Winter, 1971; Delfs et al., 1994; Brambilla et al., 2009; Liening et al., 2010), and/or a reduction in arousal from the start to the end of the experiment as far as cortisol is concerned. This procedure revealed a decline from the first to the last time point for all three hormones. Testosterone and progesterone responses to arousal of power and affiliation motives have been observed in a similar time window (Schultheiss, Wirth & Stanton, 2004; Seidel et al., 2013). The second post-posture sample reflected the effect of adopting the same posture three times, at approximately 36, 24 and 10 min before sample collection. Additionally, participants were encouraged to adopt a freely adaptable open or closed sitting posture throughout the task. They speculated that larger doses of posture or collection of samples at different time points after the posture could yield different outcomes. Progesterone is known to be released together with cortisol in response to stress in general, but particularly social stress (Wirth, 2011).
