Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Stressed, Bloated, or Burnt Out? This Could Be Why 🔌

2 May 2025 · 0 min

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Mona Sharma explores how your nervous system drives stress, bloating, and burnout through the polyvagal theory. She explains why your body stays stuck in fight-or-flight mode and how to shift back to rest-and-digest.

Questions this video answers

About 80% of the time.

About 20% of the time.

What about the emotional body?
Our emotions really heavily impact the function of this nerve. This concept of the polyvagal theory talks about how you feel and certain feelings triggering whether you're in a more vagally activated state or in a more sympathetic state or in a freeze state.
What percentage of time should we be in our parasympathetic?
It's around 80% of the time. We should be sitting in a parasympathetic rest, digest, recover state. Only about 20% of the time should be sympathetic.
I think that our ancestors for sure, but the way that society is set up and all the stressors that we have and the inflammation that we are exposed to, whether that's mental, emotional, physical, environmental, there's so many stressors or assaults that happen to our body.