You’re exhausted, the kind of tired that sleep doesn’t fix. Your stomach has been a mess for months. You snap at your kids over small things, then feel guilty about it. You lie awake at 2 AM with your mind racing, only to drag yourself through the next day, fueled by coffee and sheer willpower.
You’ve been to the conventional doctor. Multiple times. Blood work came back “normal.” Your thyroid is “fine.” Maybe they suggested anxiety medication or told you this is just what parenthood looks like.
Maybe you tried medications, or maybe you didn’t. Then ended up in the functional medicine world, now having 3X the amount of blood drawn and a deep dive into everything under the sun – thyroid, adrenals, gut health, inflammation, microbiome, cellular health, immune markers, MTHFR, and somehow you even found yourself talking about parasites and starting to worry about what’s going to happen during a full moon.
But you’re desperate to get your energy back and feel better, so you not only ran all the labs but you left that office ready to go Paleo-Keto-Carnivore Combo Diet, never eat bread again, avoid dairy like the plague, and you purchased thousands of dollars’ worth of supplements.
You start heading to yoga and pilates class, invest blue-light blocking glasses and black out shades for your bed room, slide on your Oura Ring to track your sleep, and spend as much time as you can in your shiny (literally, red light shine) infrared sauna… from which you are required to now pop out of there and right into a frigid cold ice bath to “reset” your nervous system and promote recovery.
You do all that and more, and still maybe feel 30-40% better. Some days more, some days less.
Something has to give. Something foundational has to be missing.
The Foundational Missing Piece
Here’s what almost no healthcare provider will tell you: There’s a critical neurological evaluation that could explain why you feel this way, and chances are, you’ve never been offered it.
This is a test and cutting-edge technology that goes way beyond what blood tests and other labs can show, and instead looks even deeper into core nervous system function.
Since the nervous system is the “master control” system of the body, controlling everything from gut health, to the immune system and inflammation, to hormone and endocrine function – nothing could be more important than knowing how your nervous system is functioning.
According to recent studies, 76.4% of adults report chronic health conditions, and parental stress levels have reached unprecedented highs at 33%. Yet, conventional medicine, and often even functional or integrative medicine, continues to miss the single most important system that determines whether you’re thriving or just surviving: your nervous system.
While doctors run blood tests and check for obvious pathology, they completely overlook the neurological dysfunction that’s keeping you stuck in survival mode. But there’s advanced technology that can measure exactly what’s happening in your nervous system, show you why you feel the way you do, and point toward real solutions that don’t involve another prescription medication or expensive supplement protocol.
The health test you’ve never heard of could be the answer you’ve been searching for.
What Are INSiGHT Scans and Why Haven’t You Heard of Them?
Neurological INSiGHT Scans are advanced neurological assessments that measure the function of your central and autonomic nervous system, the “air traffic control” system that coordinates every cell, organ, and tissue in your body. While traditional medicine looks for disease and pathology through blood work, MRIs, and physical exams, INSiGHT Scans do something completely different: they measure how well your nervous system is actually functioning.
Think about it this way. Your doctor can tell you if your thyroid hormone levels fall within a “normal” range, but they can’t tell you if your nervous system is stuck in chronic stress mode, preventing your body from properly regulating those hormones in the first place. They can see that you have digestive issues, but they can’t measure the neurological dysfunction that’s disrupting the communication between your brain and your gut – something known as vagus nerve dysfunction and dysautonomia.
The reason you’ve never been offered these scans is simple: conventional medicine doesn’t focus on nervous system function, and neither do most functional medicine providers.
As Dr. Bruce Lipton explains, “The function of the nervous system is to perceive the environment and coordinate the function of all other cells.” Yet most healthcare providers completely overlook this master control system, instead chasing the signs with medications that never address why your body stopped functioning properly in the first place.
INSiGHT Scans consist of three (3) different technologies that work together to give a complete picture of your nervous system health:
- NeuroThermal Scans that reveal how subluxation and regional dysautonomia affect your digestion, immune function, hormones, and sleep, as well as other core autonomic functions within the body that may leave you feeling constantly exhausted and dysregulated
- NeuroSpinal EMG Scans that measure neuromuscular tension, tightness in your neck and shoulders, and constant fatigue or exhaustion you feel in your physical body
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Scans that assess whether or not your nervous system is fully stuck in fight-or-flight sympathetic mode, or shut down and operating in the final stages of dysautonomia, where both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems have reached full “burnout” mode
These scans are safe, non-invasive, and can be completed in under 10-15 minutes!
More importantly, they provide objective measurements of what you’ve been feeling but couldn’t prove, that something is genuinely off with your health, even when all your “regular” tests come back normal.
Why Your Nervous System is the Key to Everything
Your nervous system consists of two main branches that work together to keep you healthy: the Sympathetic Nervous System (your “gas pedal”) and the Parasympathetic Nervous System (your “brake pedal”). The sympathetic system activates when you need to respond to stress; it increases your heart rate, diverts blood away from digestion, and puts you in “fight or flight” mode. The parasympathetic system, controlled largely by the vagus nerve, does the opposite; it activates “rest, digest, and regulate” functions that allow your body to heal, recover, and recharge.
Here’s the problem: Modern parenting has created the “Perfect Storm” for your nervous system to get stuck with the gas pedal pressed down and the brake pedal barely functioning. Think about everything your nervous system has been through: the stress of pregnancy and childbirth, sleepless nights with newborns, the constant vigilance of keeping small humans alive, managing a household, possibly working full-time, navigating financial pressures, and trying to maintain relationships. Your nervous system wasn’t designed to operate in this state of chronic activation without proper recovery time.
When your nervous system gets stuck in this imbalanced state, it’s called dysautonomia. This isn’t a disease you catch; it’s a functional problem where the “gas pedal” sympathetic system becomes overactive and the “brake pedal” parasympathetic system becomes underactive. The result? You feel wound up and worn out at the same time. You’re exhausted but can’t sleep. You’re anxious but can’t focus. Your digestion is a mess because your body thinks it’s running from danger and shuts down non-essential functions including proper digestion.
This imbalance affects absolutely everything:
- Sleep: Your nervous system can’t downshift into the relaxed state needed for deep, restorative sleep
- Immune Function: Chronic stress suppresses your immune system, making you more susceptible to every bug your kids bring home
- Emotional Regulation: Without proper parasympathetic function, you have a shorter fuse and less capacity to handle daily stressors
- Energy Levels: Your body burns through resources in survival mode, leaving you depleted
- Hormones: Your endocrine system controls hormone production, and dysautonomia disrupts everything from thyroid function to cortisol levels
The underlying cause of this nervous system dysfunction is something called subluxation – neurological interference and dysregulation that disrupts communication between your brain and body.
When subluxation occurs, it creates tension, reduces your nervous system’s ability to adapt, and keeps you stuck in that chronic stress state. This is why you can eat all the right foods, take all the supplements, and still feel terrible, because the master control system coordinating everything is offline and out of balance.
How the “Perfect Storm” Affects You as a Parent
The concept of the “Perfect Storm” typically refers to children, but parents experience their own version, a cascade of stressors that overwhelm their nervous system over time. For many parents, this storm began long before their children arrived. Maybe you experienced fertility challenges, a high-stress pregnancy, or a traumatic birth experience. Perhaps you had complications, interventions, or spent time in the NICU, all while your own nervous system was trying to recover from the physical trauma of pregnancy and childbirth.
Then the real work began. Those early months and years of parenting involve chronic sleep deprivation, constant hypervigilance, and the physical demands of caring for infants and toddlers. Your nervous system never got the chance to fully recover because the demands kept coming. Add in the pressures of work, finances, relationships, managing a household, and possibly caring for aging parents, and your nervous system has been operating in survival mode for years.
Here’s what makes this particularly challenging: your nervous system affects your entire family’s well-being. Research shows that a parent’s nervous system state has a direct influence on their child’s nervous system development and regulation. When you’re stuck in chronic stress mode, it’s nearly impossible to be the calm, patient, regulated parent you want to be. It’s not a character flaw or a parenting failure; it’s a neurological problem that needs a neurological solution.
The good news? Your nervous system has an incredible capacity to heal and rebalance when given the right support. But first, you need to know exactly what’s going on, and that’s where INSiGHT Scans come in.
What the Three Scans Reveal About Your Health
Each of the three INSiGHT Scans measures a different aspect of your nervous system function, and together they provide a complete picture of why you’re struggling.
NeuroThermal Scans measure the regional effects of subluxation throughout your neurospinal system. This scan reveals how stuck stress and tension in specific areas affects your autonomic functions. For parents, this scan often shows patterns that explain:
- Why you have chronic digestive issues despite trying every diet
- Why you catch every illness your kids bring home
- Why you have hormone imbalances that conventional medicine can’t explain, and functional medicine struggles to as well
- Why you can’t fall asleep even when you’re exhausted
Many parents are shocked to see objective evidence of what they’ve been feeling, validation that something really is wrong, even when their doctor said everything was “fine” – for both themselves and their own scans, and when looking at their children’s INSiGHT Scans.
NeuroSpinal EMG Scans measure the muscle tension and neuromuscular patterns in your body, revealing whether you’re stuck in what we call “Raging Bull” mode (high sympathetic tone with excessive tension), “Drunken Bull” mode (poor focus, concentration, and emotional dysregulation), or both. Often times busy, overstressed parents progress past those two stages and go into “Exhausted Bull” mode – full shut down and burnout.
This scan uses three key scores:
- Total Energy Score: Measures overall nervous system activation, normal is around 100, parents stuck in chronic stress mode often score higher
- Pattern Score: Indicates your nervous system’s ability to regulate and coordinate, low scores correlate with emotional dysregulation, brain fog, and fatigue
- Symmetry Score: Shows balance between right and left sides, asymmetry indicates your nervous system is working overtime to compensate
For the parent who feels constantly on edge, can’t relax even during downtime, and struggles with tension headaches or neck and shoulder pain, the EMG scan typically shows that “Raging Bull” pattern, your nervous system is firing at 400% when it should be at 100%. Your body is literally exhausting itself in an attempt to keep up with the stress signals.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Scans measure your nervous system’s adaptability and resilience. This might be the most important scan for parents because it shows whether you have any “reserve capacity” left. The scan measures how well your nervous system can shift between sympathetic and parasympathetic states, essentially, how well you can handle one more stressor when it inevitably comes.
Most parents’ HRV scans show two concerning patterns: the white dot is shifted to the lower left, indicating they’re stuck in sympathetic dominance with low adaptability. The heart rate and stress response build throughout the entire three-minute test rather than calming down. This is your nervous system showing you in real-time that it cannot regulate or recover; it only knows how to ramp up.
This is why you feel like you’re one tantrum away from a breakdown. Your nervous system has no buffer left, no capacity to absorb the next challenge. And this isn’t something you can willpower your way through or fix with more self-care activities. Your nervous system needs actual neurological support to shift out of this stuck state.
Understanding What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You
If you’re reading this and recognizing yourself in these descriptions, you’re not alone. So many parents are operating in this same state of chronic nervous system dysfunction, being told by conventional medicine that it’s just stress, just anxiety, just part of being a parent. But you deserve better than band-aid solutions and medications that mask the symptoms without addressing the real problem.
The reason INSiGHT Scans are so valuable is that they provide objective measurements of what’s actually happening in your nervous system. You’re not crazy. You’re not weak. You’re not failing at self-care. Your nervous system is genuinely stuck in a dysregulated state, and now there’s technology that can prove it and track your progress as you heal.
Neurologically-Focused Chiropractic Care addresses the root cause of nervous system dysfunction by releasing subluxations, reducing sympathetic dominance, and activating vagus nerve function. Through precise, gentle adjustments tailored to your specific scan findings, this approach helps restore balance to your Autonomic Nervous System, allowing your body to finally shift out of survival mode and into healing mode!
Get ready for better sleep, more energy, vastly improved digestion, less pain and tension, more focus and concentration, and a majorly improved ability to handle stress and all that life throws your way each and every day!
Your Path Forward Starts With Understanding
The transformation parents experience when their nervous system starts functioning properly again is remarkable. Better sleep comes first for many, followed by improved digestion, more emotional resilience, clearer thinking, and sustained energy that doesn’t require caffeine to maintain. But perhaps most importantly, parents report feeling like themselves again, present with their children, patient during challenging moments, and able to actually enjoy their families rather than just surviving each day.
Your children need you to be healthy. Your family needs you to be regulated and resilient. But most of all, you deserve to feel good in your own body again. Taking care of your nervous system isn’t selfish; it’s the most important thing you can do for everyone who depends on you.If you’re ready to finally understand what’s really going on with your health and discover drug-free solutions that address the root cause, visit the PX Docs Directory to find a qualified practitioner near you. Schedule an initial consultation that includes INSiGHT Scans, and discover what conventional medicine has been missing all along. Your nervous system has an incredible capacity to heal; it just needs the right support to get there.
