Your Body Has Been in Fight or Flight for Years. Here's How to Get Out.
About this episode
Dr. Terri and Jim LaValle discuss the impact of the autonomic nervous system on various health issues and how to address chronic sympathetic activation.
Your Nervous System Is the Vital Sign Nobody Is Checking Blood pressure. Heart rate. Respiratory rate. These are the numbers medicine has built its entire screening system around. But what if the thing driving all of those numbers, the autonomic nervous system, is never actually assessed? Dr. Terri sits down with returning guest Jim LaValle — internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, board-certified clinical nutritionist, and founder of the Metabolic Code platform — for a conversation that connects dots most clinicians never connect. The nervous system as a root driver of cardiovascular disease, thyroid dysfunction, gut permeability, autoimmune disease, blood sugar dysregulation, and sleep failure. If you're doing all the right things and still not getting results, this episode may be the missing piece. They cover heart rate variability, what your wearable data is actually telling you, why 60% of people who die of a heart attack have no arterial disease present, and the specific supplements, adaptogens, theanine, holy basil, phospholipids, aged garlic extract, that can begin to calm a chronically activated sympathetic nervous system while you work on the root cause. This is…
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