The Vagus Nerve: The Answer To Reducing Stress and Chronic Disease | Stefan Chmelik
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Show Notes:
This conversation will discuss stress in a way you have never heard before, and will make you think about it in a completely different context.
We've all heard of the fight or flight response, which is an automatic physiological reaction to an event that we perceive to be stressful or frightening. When this happens, our adrenal glands release the hormone adrenaline to help us either fight or flight, and it's long been thought this is the only way we deal with stressful situations.
However, in today's conversation with Stefan Chmelik, we learn that the musculoskeletal system plays a huge part in the response too. He discusses how our body produces a protein hormone called osteocalcin, which is actually perhaps the most important fight or flight mediating hormone.
In this fascinating conversation, you will also learn:
The true meaning of the mind-body connection
Why some people get better whilst others don't
What it means to be ‘anti-fragile’ and how to achieve this
And much more…
We all know stress is a problem in our modern-day environments - but have we been looking at stress wrong? It seems to be something we can’t escape, but I hope the episode helps you better manage it.
Timecodes:
00:00 Cold Open
01:15 Guest Intro
03:11 Why do some people get better and some don’t?
11:12 The continuity between chronic illness, fatigue, autoimmune conditions, allergies, and oversensitivity
16:11 The critical importance of greenspaces and communing with nature
21:55 How city life is adversely affecting our health and stress
25:15 Meditation: It’s affect on stress and anxiety reduction
38:25 Human touch, breathwork, and meditation as tools to help the nervous system
45:27 Understanding the mind body connection and what it means
54:00 The Vagus Nerve: Nutrient deficiencies, brain fog, confusion, IBS, IBD
59:39 How to become more “antifragile”
1:09:43 Sensate – calming music and vibrations, clearing the mind, relaxing the nervous system, the many benefits of Sensate
01:18:31 What does Live Well Be Well mean to you?
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