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The Mold-Cancer Link, Resetting Your Nervous System, Dry Fasting, Nanonutrients & More With Ian Clark.

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Negative Spiral of Sympathetic Stress

There's a position that I was shown about eight years ago that I use all the time and it is where you tell your brain to down regulate the sympathetic stress nervous system. People get locked into sympathetic stress when they're maxed out in their life we've got everything pulling on us now like never before in any other age. The longer you stay locked in sympathetic stress the deeper you go down that negative spiral so what you do if you're sitting in a chair this is the position  whereyour knees are bent, bottom of your legs are relaxed horizontalYour thighs are vertical when your thighs go vertical gravitational forces push the excess blood in the expanded arteries back into your gut and back up into

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