
BodCast Episode 92: Discovering the Mysteries of the Brain & the Secrets of the Heart w/ Dr. James Doty
Original Strength Bodcast
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The Sympathetic Nervous System
When we were on the savannah in africa, a and weren't engaged with survival, let's say, and was in a safe space. The per sympathetic nervous system dominated, and the sympathetic nervous system was used for an immediate response to threat. And once that threat was gone, then your various physiologic events that occur when you're stressed and anxious,. such as high blood pressure, increase heart rate, diversion of blood from gastrontesinal tract or dilating pupils. Ah, those are only meant to occur very transiently, so they occur int come back down to base line. But i think that's one of the most important lessons each of us can learns per sympathetic system
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