Episode 215: Breathing, Heart Rate, and HRV: An Interview with Dr. Scotty Butcher, The Strength Jedi
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The Effects of Beta Blockers on Sympathetic Outflow
People on beta blockers feel like just absolute crap. You massive parasympathetic increases on beta blockers because that's happened to me a couple of times where clients haven't told me. The actually the change in sympathetic outflow is that at a chronically high level, but you can't ever reach maximumWhere people have taken some research that I remember reading on PTSD. Women with PTSD had this high level of sympathetic activation, but they couldn't actually push into where they needed to be. So anyway, that was a long way. It's all related to RSA and whether you have a healthy autonomic nervous system and a responsive or resilient nervous system.
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