A therapist improved emotionally but still felt numb in her body, discovering trauma lives in the nervous system's protective states, not just the mind. She used a ketogenic diet and heat training to increase blood oxygen capacity, which helped her feel more present.
And so I left therapy because up here I felt better, but my body didn't change. How I felt in my body didn't change. And so that kind of separated things where I realized that I need to go after what's going on in my body. And that's what led me to discovering trauma. This whole idea of trauma and how we can go through experiences that are overwhelming, where our nervous system cannot process these experiences and how these walls of trauma can while they protect us from the overwhelm, they put us into a fight or flight or a freeze state. And that's what can cause the emotional numbness, inability to react. One of the things I found with the low carb ketogenic diet and training in heat and humidity, my blood plasma volume increased. I was able to carry more oxygen. So when I went to altitude, I didn't really notice too much of a detriment. For a lowlander person.
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