Dr. Andy Galpin
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Now, this is a V-A-G-U-S, not a V-A-G-A-S like the city.
So the vagus nerve and several others are what are known as parasympathetic drivers.
And so the autonomic nervous system is split up into two large branches.
The first one is the parasympathetic.
This is rest and digest.
This is relaxed, sleepy, depressed,
chilled, all those things over there, right?
The other side of the equation, and it is more complicated than this, but this is all we need to know for right now.
Is this sympathetic?
This is fight or flight.
This is freeze.
This is action, anxiety, aware, aroused, and all kinds of things like that.
We want both of these.
They are critically important for everyday life.
We need these for high performance.
We need these for health.
We need these
to just be alive.
And so we want to be able to fluctuate back and forth between these two states appropriately.
They are not on-off switch.