Top 5 Ways to Regulate Your Nervous System for Better Sleep & Stress Relief | Podcast #478

You know, I t- I ignored my nervous system for a long time just because, I don't know, I think it's kind of a, a male thing.

You're just like, "I'm in charge.

I'm gonna be the boss.

I'm gonna power through." I mean, it's kind of this American attitude, right? You're just like, "You know what? If I just work a little harder, grind a little more, lift a little heavier, everything's gonna be fine." And it wasn't until I talked with Margaret Christiansen years ago.

She's an-

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OBGYN who had her own practice, and she ended up with mold.

She had me on her Mold Summit, and I was talking to her and she's like, "Evan, if you don't address your nervous system, you're never gonna heal." And I was like-

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... "Ah, okay, whatever.

I'll just take some more adaptogens." But she was right.

And so once I started working on my nervous system, doing guided meditations, doing float tanks, doing massage, um, ketamine was an absolute game changer.

We could dive into that if you want to.

I could share my-

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... experience with that.

I started to see, okay, I'm part of the problem because I'm stuck in fight or flight based on these toxins and infections.

And so one of the mechanisms of nervous system dysregulation, I would describe it as i- in a general sense, toxins.

So that could be heavy metals, pesticides, mold, infections, and even gut bacteria can aggravate your, not only your immune system, but your nervous system.

And so it's, it's very common for people to feel anxious and worried and stressed even though on the outside looking in their life looks fine, they feel stressed and overwhelmed, and that could be an internal battle.

So I just wanna call that out.

If you're sitting here listening and you're like, "Hey, I feel stressed even though nothing's, nothing's happening, nothing bad is happening," well, it- it's probably something inside of you.

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When it comes to root cause things, I always tend to be more focused and dialed in on root cause of why there's stress, why there's anxiety.