Nervous System 101

Why Connection Matters

Beavers

3/25/20261 min read

Is it just me, or does the nervous system seem to be getting a lot of attention these days?

Before that, the focus was on the effects of stress on the body and everything was about de-stressing.

The stressful effects of modern society on our bodies have become very apparent as a wide range of disease/disorders affect the populations, particularly chronic conditions involving the immune system.

Essentially, they have found that stressful lifestyles/environments activate the survival mechanisms within our nervous system in ways that can become unhealthy for us.

Thoughts fused with feelings create emotions, which are neurochemicals and hormones meant to set us in motion to facilitate the chemical interactions and metabolize the energy created.

This process creates metabolic byproducts that, if not moved out of the muscles/myofascial tissue through the lymph system, will create density and blocks within the fluidity.

The lymph system and the immune system are essentially so interconnected I consider them the same, as the purpose of the immune system is to protect and the first action it uses is to cleanse through the lymphatic fluid.

The lymphatic system also transports immune cells, and when the blood filters white blood cells, that is where it goes.

Fluidity within the lymphatic system is necessary for optimum function of the immune system, so, to have the nervous system continuously create metabolic byproducts faster than they can be discharged will build up and put the immune system as risk.

If you consider that a nervous system stuck in a stress feedback loop creating a build up of hormones/neurochemicals/byproduct it sounds only natural for the body to try to clear those products out through heat and it would be unpredictable where those byproducts might accumulate.