The Role of the Downstate for Sleep, Restoration and Longevity with Dr. Sara Mednick
Dr. Kara Fitzgerald | New Frontiers in Functional Medicine, Longevity, Epigenetics
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Your New Book, Power of the Down State
Sara Cevallos is a sleep scientist by trade. Her new book, power of the down state, looks at how we restore during sleep. She says that if we don't focus on restoration, this leads us to grow old faster and have chronic diseases. The more rhythmic you are with your own internal rhythm, the more you are able to resonate with that, she says. And so i re defined the sympathetic nervous system as rev because what it does is it makes us rev, right? We're reving when we hit the paris etic system that rests and digests.
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