Month: December 2022

Sympathetic Nerve Hormones: From Deficient, to Ideal to High

Last week we learned about the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and that it has two major nerves. They are the sympathetic which is the stress response (fight or flight) and the parasympathetic, which calms the system. Each time we breathe we activate one and then the other. The inhale activates the sympathetic nerve, and the …

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The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS): Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Simplified

If you look up the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) in Trauma Glossary 3 (section 2), you will see it has two major nerves. They are the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nerve. We can think of them as the gas and the brakes, because that’s their common analogy anyway. The sympathetic nerve is the “gas” and …

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