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Once upon a time, fascia was severely underestimated.

Previously thought of as basically just packing material, protecting our more important structures, it's now known that fascia plays a vital role in movement, immune function, and is our largest bodily organ, with the greatest capacity for sensation.

📸 Dr Jean Claude Guimberteau
✍🏻 The Body Mechanic, Inc.

Polyvagal theoretical Autonomic Nervous System
Dorsal vagus nucleus.

Shut down state under stress
Freeze.
Disassociation survival mechanism
Feelings shutdown = no awareness in their body
Nervous systems are geared to stay there for protectionism.
Come out in the parasympathetic
Gangleia were thought of as a brain
Do you have a racing mind? Sympathetic NERVOUS SYSTEM
Fight or flight
Cortisol
Stephen Porges
What is the vagus affected by?
Nerve entrapment
Viruses
Bacteria
Trauma
Gut micro biome
Social isolation
Vagal tone
Anxiety and stress.
Two way process
Safety and neuroleptics not on a conscious level.
Allows mammals to engage in social behaviors

The body keeps the score

Bessel. A. Van see Kolk

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