Episode 215: Breathing, Heart Rate, and HRV: An Interview with Dr. Scotty Butcher, The Strength Jedi
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How to Improve Your Parasympathetic Response to Stress
The idea is that if you're trying to enhance your parasympathetic or your vagal drive, are going to the vagus nerve gym. And so this is where we try and do these prolonged exhalations. You see this a lot in practice where people are doing things that involve a prolonged exhalation with the idea of basically saying that's training the vagu nerve. But I always get caught up when people start saying, it's all about theParasympathetic system. No, Tommy, we have a we have a sympathetic system for a reason. Like your heart rate needs to go up in periods of stress in periods of you stress or distress. It needs to
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