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Science of ice baths, brown fat and metabolism | Susanna Soeberg, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Activation of the Sympathetic Nervous System

We still need to activate this part of our system to keep ourselves healthy but we don't need it to be activated all the day which is what happens today in modern society. So as soon as you have that activation and you also activate your diving response you have the activation of your vagus nerve, parasympatic activation of your autonomic nervous system. It's a life or death kind of scenario and your body is changing your physiology to help you get out of this situation. Exactly yeah so that is exactly why we have still the sympathetic nervous system.

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