Aaron Hartman, MD explains how chronic stress keeps your body in survival mode, disrupting sleep and gut health so healing can't happen. Nervous-system regulation comes first, before diet changes. Simple steps to start now.
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Your body can't heal if you're in survival mode. If you're in fight or flight, you can't regulate yourself. This is common sense but commonly overlooked. If your cortisol is up, your adrenaline is up, you're going to have poor quality sleep and you're going to get leaky gut. If you're depressed and you don't get quality sleep, you actually won't even want to eat and you'll make bad food choices. Have you ever been stressed and looked for carbs, looked for sugar, look for processed foods? It's really interesting how your state of mind affects the food you eat which can have a massive impact on healing. So getting on the right path can actually not only change your desires but change your actions. So so regulating your nervous system becomes the primary thing you need to do if you want your body to self heal and self repair. And there's some basic easy steps you can start today.