Dr. Christopher Shade

In your autonomic nervous system, you've got the sympathetic fight or flight side and the parasympathetic rest, digest, repair, regenerate, detoxify side.

That's where we heal.

But everything is stimulating us towards the sympathetic side.

And sympathetic is just a survival thing.

So we're not letting our bodies come back and regulate healing.

And then sympathetic is for, oh, I got to go.

I got to do something.

I got to be on it.

I got to remember something.

I got to run away from that.

I got to fight that.

But we're always kind of like that.

Both the chemistry and, you know, like the electromagnetic chemistry around us, like all this wireless is all putting us on that side.

And then as a society, we're putting ourselves on that side, scrolling our phone, checking all the time.

Who's trying to get in touch with me?

Who's trying to do this?

And it's like...

You know, it's like, you know, we need that digital detox and we need to create a space we live in that's got a harmonious atmosphere so that our body can regulate.

It's like, you know, I find I'm taking all these supplements, doing all these things, I go to my sauna and my cold bath and stuff.

And then I go up into the mountains for a retreat, you know, and we're like, oh, I'm going to the, you know, the Buddhist retreat.