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part of the flight or fight
response.
The parasympathetic
system
is calming, enhances
digestion and is generally trying to restore
balance.
What goes wrong that
can affect people’s
health?
The biggest
problem is functions
get stuck in one division of the ANS at the
expense of the other.
For example, someone
may be operating primarily from their sympathetic system and
they are not being balanced by the parasympathetic system. The
opposite could also be
true. When this happens it throws off a
myriad of functions
within the body and
sets the stage for illness at some point in
the future. Most treatments focus on effects
of this imbalance, but
that is only treating
symptoms of some7