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#62: Understanding Your Nervous System with Sarah Baldwin

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The Threat Detector

Every millisecond of your entire life, a threat detector is looking out into the world. It's doing it right now wherever you are in the world listening to this episode. And inside your own database is every lived experience you've ever had. The not so good experiences, like being bullied in school or a medical procedure that did not go well can be seen as dangerous. In a millisecond, our sympathetic nervous system calls in something called an "operational team" for protection.

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