Posts about Vagal Tone

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The HPA Axis Under Chronic Stress: How Your Body’s Alarm System Becomes the Disease

April is Stress Awareness Month, a useful prompt to think about the biology beneath the feeling. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is the body’s central stress-response[…]