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Your body can’t heal if it thinks it’s under threat

  • Writer: Lara Flood
    Lara Flood
  • Apr 26
  • 1 min read

Your nervous system has two main modes: Sympathetic (fight or flight) and Parasympathetic (rest and digest)



You’re meant to move between the two.


That adaptability = a healthy, resilient system.



But with:


- chronic emotional or work stress


- training overload


- poor sleep


- constant stimulation



…many people get stuck in low grade fight or flight.



When that happens, your body struggles to:


- recover


- regulate hormones


- manage pain


- repair tissue



If you can’t downshift naturally, you can help your body by stimulating your vagus nerve. This nerve drives the parasympathetic nervous system and helps shift your body back into a calm, restorative state.



 
 
 

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