Tuning the Vagus: Why Humming, Singing, and Gargling Are Workouts for Recovery
Key Takeaways: The vagus nerve carries roughly eighty percent afferent and twenty percent efferent fibers between the brainstem and nearly every visceral organ, and its[…]
The Mortality Benefit of Belonging: Spiritual Practice and Physiology
A consistent finding across decades of epidemiological research is that adults who attend religious services regularly, or who maintain a sustained personal spiritual practice, live[…]
Where the Body Holds the Score: Fascia, Sympathetic Tone, and Somatic Release
The clinical observation that emotional trauma seems to lodge somewhere beyond the cognitive mind has migrated from psychotherapy lore into mainstream physiology. Sustained sympathetic nervous[…]
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[…]
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