The Mind and Fitness Podcast 431 - Revisiting "Threat Physiology" with Dr Hanscom
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What We Cover in This Combined Episode:
The Biology of Perceived Danger: Why anxiety is the physiological sensation of threat—not a psychological character flaw.
The Inflammatory Loop: How sustained neurochemical stress alters immune function, tissue sensitivity, and pain thresholds.
Structural vs. Systemic: Why traditional spinal surgeries and interventions so often fail chronic pain patients without addressing nervous system state.
The DOC Process in Practice: Practical, everyday strategies—from expressive writing to dynamic somatic shifting—to down-regulate the nervous system.
- Breaking the Pain-Threat Cycle: Concrete action steps to retrain safety signals, calm an overactive alarm system, and reclaim your life.
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