Season 3, Episode 5: The Switch That Decides Whether You Heal

Epigenetics - The Medicine Nobody Told You About · Nov 3, 2026 · 22m

In this episode, I talk about the guard and the gardener, two parts of your nervous system that cannot both be running at the same time. When your sympathetic guard is active, your parasympathetic gardener cannot do the repair work your body needs. Chronic stress keeps the guard switched on, which suppresses the regulatory T cells, the peacekeepers of your immune system. I talk about the vagus nerve, the wanderer that carries eighty percent of its signals upward from the body to the brain, and how this nerve is the key to the inflammatory reflex, the body's biological brake for calming an…