Sentences with phrase «meaning sympathetic nervous system»

And equally important, when we create a sense of stress around numbers — the scale, our food amount, our calorie counting — we literally go into stress chemistry, meaning sympathetic nervous system dominance — which translates into increased cortisol and insulin levels, which in turn will tend to signal the body to store weight, store fat, and not build muscle — just the opposite effect of what we are looking for by obsessing about numbers.

Not exact matches

In research published in December 2013, the investigators found that high levels of IKK - ε and TBK1 meant that certain receptors in the fat cells of obese mice were unable to respond to neurotransmitters called catecholamines, which are generated by the sympathetic nervous system and promote «fat - burning.»

Other risk factors for diabetes included AHI during rapid eye movement sleep and measures of the physiologic consequences of OSA, including oxygen desaturation, sleep deprivation and activation of the sympathetic nervous system, as indicated by a higher mean heart rate during sleep.

You know, they're helping that rest and digest side of the nervous system, which is great because a lot of people are in the sympathetics and they're chest breathing, meaning they're breathing through their neck muscles and their check — their chest, and it's really simple.

Though this might sound a bit trite (after all, metabolism is always a buzz word that is frequently misused), Jeff delves a little deeper to explain that «fast metabolism» basically means «overactive sympathetic nervous system»... which means the adrenal, thyroid and pituitary glands (which control metabolism and energy production) are more active.

It means dog is under the threshold which things become uncomfortable and the sympathetic nervous system kicks in with fight, flight, freeze.

What this simply means is everything that the sympathetic nervous system does is increased many times.

Fluid losses not compensated for by food intake can stimulate thirst mechanisms or other compensatory means, such as the sympathetic nervous system, angiotensin II, and renal sodium excretion.

Various sympathetic nervous system responses compensate for losses for a time until fluid volume is restored by one of the above means.