Dr. Caroline Williams speaks on digestion and trauma

You know, the EON activates the parasympathetic side of the nervous system. We call that the rest-digest side. The parasympathetic side needs to be active when we're eating for digestion to occur properly. It also needs to be active when we're sleeping, the dominant, the dominant side of the nervous system at that time so that we heal. So one of the things I always talk about is you cannot really effectively heal unless you're in the parasympathetic. And so there's a lot a lot of people walking around today that have experienced different kinds of trauma throughout their life and stress, and they get locked into what we call sympathetic dominance. And so when you're locked in sympathetic dominance, it interferes with digestion. People, they— especially when there's been, you know, chronic stress. So digestion does not work properly. And I can go into like very minute details as far as that is concerned. But it leads to a whole array of issues with incomplete digestion of proteins is one of the biggest things. You know, your stomach acid levels are not acidic enough to even protect your system from pathogens. So pathogens can get down further into the digestive tract where normally they wouldn't. If you're not digesting your foods properly, then that definitely can lead to, instead of food helping you, it becomes a burden for you. It now is a burden and it puts stress on your other organs, particularly like the liver and the kidneys and the rest of the GI tract. That's— it's not an uncommon thing that people are dealing with today because of the amount of stress that people are under today.