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Dr Emily - How to Stress Less

The Imperfects

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The Dorsal Vagal Nervous System and the Effects on the Body

Even after the threat had passed, the body was still experiencing a heightened state of stress. The function of what's called dorsal vagal nervous system functioning is to stop you from feeling pain. So we get a release of hormones that are painkillers. If the body detects that this danger is actually not going away, it will move down into a different part of the parasympathetic nervous system which is shut down. And I want to come back to what happened in a minute.

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