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This decreases blood flow by 80-90%

2 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube talk from Living Light Metabolic Coach introducing a proprietary practice called "autonomic pairing" (aligning the nervous system state with the task at hand). The speaker uses digestion as the running example and claims that being in a fight-or-flight state redirects 80% of blood flow away from the digestive system and 90% away from the liver and kidneys, moving blood to limbs instead. The clip frames this as a common mismatch (people eating stressed) and presents autonomic pairing as the corrective methodology.

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We have a methodology that we talk about in our practice called autonomic pairing. Has anyone heard this term? Probably not, because I invented it. So you'll all know about this now. So autonomic pairing is actually pairing our nervous system with the activity that we are trying to accomplish. So if I'm trying to digest my food, where should blood be going? To my digestive organs. Right. Guess what? Most people do they eat in a state of rest and digest, or do they eat in a state of fight or flight? Fight or flight. So they're not even sending blood to the organ that's actually doing the task. When we're in fight or flight, there's an 80% decrease of blood flow to our digestive system. When we're in fight or flight, there's a 90% decrease of blood flow to our liver and kidneys. 80 to 90% of the blood flow goes away from the trunk, and it goes to the arms and legs. So we can run away from that thing that doesn't even exist.