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Strategies for Health, Longevity, Wellness, and Function (Murphy, Oct 31-Nov 1, 2026 Hayward Campus)
Overview
In this 12-hour continuing education course, Dr. Dan Murphy teaches the biochemical, physiological, and neurological mechanisms that influence inflammation, pain, tissue degeneration, and musculoskeletal health. The course emphasizes cellular energy production, oxidative stress, mitochondrial function, nutrition, and systemic inflammation, while integrating pain management theory and chiropractic relevance throughout. Participants gain an evidence-informed understanding of how lifestyle, nutritional, and physiological factors interact with chiropractic care to support neuromusculoskeletal function, wellness, and healthy aging.
12 CE hours
Schedule
Saturday, October 31, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm PST.
Sunday, November 1, 2026 8:00am - 12:00pm PST.
Bring your own lunch and snacks.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain how cellular energy production, oxidative stress, and inflammation contribute to pain, fibrosis, and musculoskeletal dysfunction.
- Describe key biochemical and neurological mechanisms involved in pain perception and non-pharmacologic pain modulation relevant to chiropractic care.
- Identify nutritional, metabolic, and lifestyle factors that influence systemic inflammation, tissue health, and neuromusculoskeletal function.
- Discuss the role of chiropractic care within broader physiological and wellness-based approaches to pain management and healthy aging.
8:00 am – 9:00 am:
Category – Basic Science
This session explores how cellular energy, oxidative stress, and protein metabolism contribute to inflammation, fibrosis, and musculoskeletal health, and how these processes relate to chiropractic subluxation and adjustment.
- Steps of cellular energy production: cytoplasm, Krebs cycle, and electron transport chain
- Relationships between energy production, oxidative stress, inflammation,and fibrosis
- Integration of biochemical processes with chiropractic subluxation and adjustment outcomes
- Effects of glyphosate, glutathione, and amino acid analogue substitution on protein synthesis
- Impact of analogue substitution on glutathione, collagen, oxidative stress, inflammation, and musculoskeletal health
Category – Pain Management Theory
Discuss inflammation from the perspectives of evolutionary biology and anthropology, including the ‘Theory of Everything’ of innate health—its causes, measurement, and management.”
- Relate inflammation and tissue fibrosis to chiropractic interventions, including adjusting, exercise, and soft tissue work.
- Identify systemic contributors to chronic inflammation that affect local musculoskeletal conditions.
- Explain the biochemical basis of pain and innate mechanisms that modulate pain perception.
- Describe neurophysiological pain control, including the Gate Theory, suprasegmental inhibition, and chiropractic spinal adjusting as a non-addictive pain management strategy.
Category – Basic Science
Learn about biochemistry of essential fatty acids
- Review essential fatty acid imbalances and musculoskeletal pain
- Integrate both diet and supplements in fatty acid balancing
Category – Pain Management Theory
Learn about excitotoxins and how they influence the perception of pain
- Integrate the relationship between glutamate, aspartate, aspartame, calcium, magnesium and manganese
- Learn about the physiology of magnesium as protective against neurodegenerative diseases and chronic pain
Category – Basic Science
Glycosylation: learn what it is and what it does to the aging process.
- Integrate intervertebral disc glycosylation, disc degeneration, discogenic nociceptive chemistry, and chiropractic care
- Learn the key causes and factors in causing and preventing glycosylation
Category – Wellness
Reviewing the musculoskeletal and immunological importance of vitamin D
- Review the biochemistry of vitamin D, integrating sun exposure, supplements latitudes, skin pigmentation, liver health, and kidney health
- Integrate vitamin D and its synergy with vitamin K and magnesium.
Category – Basic Science
Learn about the importance of mitochondria as the cellular powerhouse, the epicenter of aging, and the primary producer of reactive oxygen species
- Learn about the mitochondria and sports/physical stamina performance
- Learn about enhancing mitochondria with exercise and fasting
- Learn factors that impair mitochondrial function
- Learn about the nutrients that promote mitochondrial efficiency rejuvenation
Category – Public Health
Learn about leaky gut and systemic inflammation
- Integrate the relationship between leaky gut and the microbiome, lectins, glyphosate, antibiotics, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Review the connection between the microbiome and the chiropractic adjustment
8:00 am – 9:00 am:
Category – Basic Science
Learn about melatonin and cell physiology
- Review the biochemistry of pineal gland melatonin production
- Review the biochemistry mitochondria melatonin production
- Review the relationship between diet, B vitamins, serotonin, pain suppression, dopamine, and melatonin
- Integrate chiropractic adjustment, blood flow, cellular fermentation, cellular respiration, melatonin, and the cytokine storm
Category – Wellness
- Introduce the concept of survival v. longevity proteins, vitamins and minerals as related to micronutrient competition.
- Learn what nutrients are related and most deficient in modern America.
- Learn the nutrients that are sufficient in youth but not as we age, and therefore should be supplemented.
Category – Ethics and Law
Review the Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions, including:
- Medical Negligence
- Standard of Care for Health Care Professionals
- Duty to Refer to a Specialist
- Abandonment of Patient
- Medical Malpractice
- Informed Consent
Category – Ethics and Law
Review the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Chiropractic Examiners, including:
- The Practice of Chiropractic
- Use of Lasers
- Advertisements
- Chiropractic Specialties
- Illegal Practice
- Conduct on Premises
- Unprofessional Conduct
- Patients Records and Billings
Park by Student Entrance on Clawiter Road side of building, then look for signage directing you to the check-in area.
See Campus Map for details.
 | DAN MURPHY, DC, DABCO Dr. Dan Murphy graduated magna cum laude from Western States Chiropractic College in 1978, and has more than 36 years of practice experience. He received his Diplomate in Chiropractic Orthopedics in 1986. Since 1982, Dr. Murphy has served as part-time undergraduate faculty at Life Chiropractic College West, where he is currently teaching classes to seniors in the Management of Spinal Disorders. |
Life Chiropractic College West has received programmatic accreditation through the Council on Chiropractic Education and institutional/regional accreditation through WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC).
See below for a list of credits that may be available for this seminar.
*The following State and Province boards do not require an application when a program is sponsored by a college accredited by the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE): CO, CT, DE, DC, ID, IL, IA, MD, MA, MI, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OR, RI, SC, UT, VT, VA, WA, WY, BC, NB, ON, QC. Life Chiropractic College West cannot guarantee that these licensing board(s) will accept any session of this offering. Life West urges licensees to familiarize themselves with the laws governing continuing education in the jurisdictions where they hold licensure.
Available Credit Hours
- 12.00 AK Chiropractic BoardAlaska Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 CO Chiropractic BoardColorado Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 CT Chiropractic BoardConnecticut Board of Chiropractic Examiner
- 12.00 DC Chiropractic BoardDistrict of Columbia Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 DE Chiropractic BoardDelaware Board of Chiropractic
- 0.00 FL Chiropractic BoardFlorida Board of Chiropractic Medicine
- 12.00 GA Chiropractic BoardGeorgia Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 IA Chiropractic BoardIowa Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 ID Chiropractic BoardIdaho Board of Chiropractic Physicians
- 12.00 IN Chiropractic BoardIndiana Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 KS Chiropractic AssocKansas Chiropractic Association
- 12.00 MA Chiropractic BoardMassachusetts Board of Registration of Chiropractors
- 12.00 MD Chiropractic BoardMaryland Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 ME Chiropractic BoardMaine Board of Chiropractic Licensure
- 12.00 MI Chiropractic BoardMichigan Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 MN Chiropractic BoardMinnesota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MO Chiropractic BoardMissouri Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MS Chiropractic BoardMississippi Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 MT Chiropractic BoardMontana Board of Chiropractors
- 12.00 NC Chiropractic BoardNorth Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 ND Chiropractic BoardNorth Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NE Chiropractic BoardNebraska Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 NH Chiropractic BoardNew Hampshire Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NJ Chiropractic BoardNew Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 NS Chiropractic CollegeNova Scotia College of Chiropractors
- 12.00 NV Chiropractic BoardNevada Chiropractic Physicians' Board
- 12.00 NY Chiropractic BoardNew York State Board for Chiropractic
- 12.00 OH Chiropractic BoardOhio Chiropractic Board
- 12.00 OR Chiropractic BoardOregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 PACEFCLB Providers of Approved Continuing Education
- 12.00 PR Chiropractic BoardPuerto Rico Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 RI Chiropractic BoardRhode Island Board of Examiners in Chiropractic
- 12.00 SC Chiropractic BoardSouth Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 SD Chiropractic BoardSouth Dakota Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 UT Chiropractic BoardUtah Chiropractic Physicians Licensing Board
- 12.00 VA Board of MedicineVirginia Board of Medicine
- 12.00 VI Chiropractic BoardU.S. Virgin Islands Board of Chiropractic Examiners
- 12.00 VT Chiropractic BoardVermont Board of Chiropractic
- 12.00 WA Chiropractic CommWashington Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission
- 12.00 WI Chiropractic BoardWisconsin Chiropractic Examining Board
- 12.00 WY Chiropractic BoardWyoming Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Price
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