A short spoken segment by Wendie Trubow, MD, describing how chronic stress and low heart rate variability negatively affect health—raising inflammation, autoimmune risk, obesity, cognitive problems, sleep, libido, and energy—by keeping people in sympathetic ("go") mode rather than parasympathetic (rest/restore) states. She emphasizes that humans are meant to rest more and only occasionally be in active 'go' mode.
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You don't see the impact of it in your daily life, but what you see the impact in is all the things that you're struggling with. Inflammation, autoimmune disease, obesity, poor brain function, poor sleep, poor sex drive, poor energy. Those are the ways that the poor heart rate variability or the lack of variability or the stress takes its impact. So that's one. So you could be listening and go, well, I don't have any of that, but unless you're in your best health ever, you have that. A B parasympathetic is when you rest, you regulate, you restore, you detox. And if you are not detoxing, you're then holding on to everything. So this has direct impact on how you feel in your daily life because you're not detoxing if you're in, in sympathetic action all the time of go, go, go, go, go. And then I think the third thing I would pull from that is go, go is not who we're meant to be. We are meant to actually be more rest and then occasional go, as opposed to always go and then rest two weeks a year. The balance is off. Yeah, that sounds like a good explanation tip.