Juna Bobby MD, EdMFounder, MindBodySpace LLC · RELAX TO SOAR™️ Method Workshops • Mindbodyspace Podcast • NYU SOM M.D. • Harvard Ed.M. • Juilliard Resilience Faculty

Rest and Digest Prep Your Nervous System

27 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Simple breathing and mindfulness exercises activate your parasympathetic nervous system, lowering stress hormones and acid production. This reduces reflux, improves digestion, and helps you sleep better. It's something doctors learn in medical school but rarely tell patients to actually do.

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I wanted to talk about the first one, eliciting the relaxation response through breathing or mindfulness exercises. It really does help this gastroesophageal reflux or the acid levels to go down and it enhances our digestion. It helps our sleep. There are several ways to help lower our stress hormones and lower our stress levels and engage our parasympathetic nervous system, which will help with our relaxation and rest and digest. That's the other, um, part we learned in med school. So, and I think when people learn that and remember that, it really is helpful.