How Your Nervous System Influences Your Health | Ep 429

What does your nervous system have to do with your digestion, hormones, immune system, inflammation, sleep, symptoms, and healing? And is “regulating your nervous system” just another wellness buzzword?

Your nervous system is constantly scanning your internal and external world for cues of safety or threat. And when your body keeps perceiving threats (even when you consciously know you’re safe), it can keep you stuck in inflammation, immune activation, digestive dysfunction, and chronic symptoms.

In this episode, Erin explains why nervous system regulation requires both top-down and bottom-up work. Breathwork, meditation, and yoga can be amazing tools, but if you never address the beliefs, patterns, trauma, emotional suppression, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and subconscious threat signals underneath the dysregulation, the work may only go so deep.

In this episode:

• The gas pedal, brake pedal, and “optimal healing mode” nervous system states
• How chronic stress activation can impact thyroid function, fertility, sex hormones, blood sugar, sleep, and the gut barrier
• How subconscious beliefs, early programming, filters, and past experiences shape your nervous system
• Erin’s invitation into her 5 day nervous system reset before the holiday season

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