S2E07: Your Mind on Good & Bad Sleep, with Dr. Lauren Whitehurst
Minds Matter
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The Parasympathetic Nerve and the Sympathetic System
The sympathetic system is more fight or flight so that calming versus excitability. There's a story about the vagus nerve which we also talked about which is that nerve that really innervates all of these organs and that is key to the parasympathetic system. It's an explanation for voodoo deaths because when you are able to calm down your body doesn't know how to deal with it and comes back into hot and can cause you to die.
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