From the Ground Up Athletic Performance Podcast Nick Moss Functional Neuro Health Episode 48 " taking subconscious threat response/stress into account, Implicit memory/response, Primitive Reflexes"
On this weeks episode I sat down with Nick Moss of Functional Neuro Health. We start our conversation by talking about how we are only aware of a limited amount of information, while the vast majority of information lies below the subconscious level. We start by discussing the performance iceberg, the only things that lie at surface level are behavior and results. Below the surface lie many subconscious mechanisms (Thoughts, emotions, feelings, physiology) that reflect the behaviors and movement choices that we often see in subjects. The nervous system is constantly scanning the environment and labeling different inputs as threat, no threat, nick shares how some of the more primitive structures examine our surroundings for threat.
We discuss the bodies response to stress, stress is neither good nor bad, in fact it's an unavoidable and essential part of life. The problem with stress is more to do with thresholds, too little you find boredom , too much and you find chronic adaptations to stress. Nick discusses how we can utilize the breathe to help build certain buffers and increase our threshold to stress. We then get into how the nervous system is a conglomeration of signals, the system perceives something to be a threat when a signal reaches too high of a threshold. If signals consistently register as high this often manifest in patterns of weakness in the nervous system, this creates a compounding effect that we would often deem to be a symptom or perhaps a perceived injury. Nick discusses the function of noise and how the function of noise can go a long way to show where individuals may be having issues.
Muscle inhibition is a product of one of three or a combination of structural, emotional, physiological. Nick shares that the more threatened someone is based upon their prior history the more likely he would be to take a top down approach. We end the conversation by talking about the role of primitive reflexes and Nick shares that primitive reflexes are the base. If we aren't addressing retained primitive reflexes there's a great chance that the other neurological means we are attempting are not being optimized. Nick discusses some of the more common of primitive reflexes, why reflexes may be retained and some of the manners in which we can work to integrate primitive reflexes. Make sure to check out the links below for access to Nick's socials as well as website