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Dr. Tim Jackson explores the role of parasympathetic tone in optimizing health and longevity, drawing on his expertise in functional medicine and physical therapy to discuss holistic wellness approaches.

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Improving your parasympathetic tone is essential for a healthy body. It directly impacts your autonomic nervous system, responsible for most of your bodily functions. Dr. Tim Jackson talks about how to improve your parasympathetic tone, why it’s important to reduce stress, and heart rate variability.

Build Your Parasympathetic Tone

Use a Far-Infrared Sauna
Deep Breathing
Vagus Nerve Stimulation

About Dr. Tim Jackson

Dr. Tim Jackson received his undergraduate degree in Health science and chemistry from Wake Forest University in 2003. He completed his Doctorate in Physical Therapy (DPT) from the Medical University of SC in 2009.

Realizing that manual therapy and orthopedic care helped only some of his patients, he began studying functional and environmental medicine, as well as digestive health, in an effort to help others achieve wellness.

Dr. Tim has an education in nutritional biochemistry, digestive health and its systemic effects, functional endocrinology, epigenetics, mold and Lyme disease, and auto-immune/neuro-immune disorders.

He completed the Spine portion of the Active Release Technique methodology, a system that addresses musculoskeletal trigger points and helps to expedite the healing process. Dr. Jackson trained with Dr. Kendal Stewart, M.D. to learn the far-reaching implications of methylation deficits and their role in Neuro-immune syndromes.

Dr. Jackson features on The BulletProof Executive Podcast, Ben Greenfield’s Podcast, RobbWolf.com, The Huffington Post, as well as countless health and wellness summits.

He is on the advisory board for Your 2nd Half, a Program that helps collegiate and professional athletes transition from athletics into other careers, and The Medical Advisory Board for GreenSmoothieGirl.com, a site with several million visitors per year.

Dr. Jackson’s clinical expertise spans everything from brain rehabilitation, functional endocrinology, Lyme Disease and stealth pathogens, integrative gastroenterology, mold toxicity, epigenetics, and mitochondrial dysfunction.

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