Sentences with phrase «sympathetic nervous system»

Day after day our headlines tell a story of sympathetic nervous systems gone wild.

This opposes an important sympathetic nervous system activity, which is to draw blood to the central part of the body as a protection against attack.

We see a drop in thyroid hormone levels over the short term on a ketogenic diet, but that's balanced by a more responsive sympathetic nervous system response.

Another way of saying stress response is: sympathetic nervous system dominance.

Babies have an immature sympathetic nervous system that causes the blood to travel to the inside of the body and away from the skin.

Anxiety is present in the fight or flight, sympathetic nervous system state.

Scientists have discovered that when the right nasal passage is dominant, there is more sympathetic nervous system (fight - or - flight) activity.

They activate sympathetic nervous system — which helps control most of the body's internal organs — to expend more energy, so the body burns more calories when the same food is eaten with chili peppers.

The suggestion is that alternate nostril breathing may reduce stress and anxiety, thus improving vigilance performance while preventing an increase in sympathetic nervous system activity.

Insulin secretion is attenuated by sympathetic nervous system activity; eg, via exercise.

Stress activates cortisol secretion, but it also stimulates sympathetic nervous system activity.

Pleasure is essentially a shortcut to shifting our body from sympathetic nervous system activation (fight or flight response) to parasympathetic nervous system activation (relaxation response).

Restricting calories has been found to reduce metabolic rate and oxidative stress, improve insulin sensitivity, and alter neuroendocrine and sympathetic nervous system function in animals.

Results of this investigation are consistent with emerging evidence that regular yoga practice may modulate HRV by increasing parasympathetic activity and decreasing sympathetic nervous system dominance.

The mechanism by which adverse life events may affect ODD is still unclear, and may vary between types of event; potential explanations include (a) negative effects on maturation of cerebral brain structures in the child due to stress, (b) teaching individuals to use antisocial strategies to cope with stressful situations, and (c) causing an overactive sympathetic nervous system [7, 29].

Biofeedback may be included to quiet sympathetic nervous system arousal that can contribute to problems with functioning.

A study published in March 2015 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology cites clinical data showing that even in the absence of an actual increase in blood pressure, excess sodium in the diet could harm the body, including blood vessels (for example, increased arterial stiffness), the heart (enlarged heart muscle), the kidneys (reduced renal function), and the brain (adverse sympathetic nervous system reactions).

When we're pitched into an amygdala hijack, whether intense or low level but ongoing, we're in sympathetic nervous system arousal.

Maternal overreactive sympathetic nervous system responses to repeated infant crying predicts risk for impulsive harsh discipline of infants.

This study examined parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system reactivity via measures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and cardiac pre-ejection period (PEP) in children with ADHD (n = 32) and typically developing controls (n = 34), using a novel emotion task with four conditions: negative induction, negative suppression, positive induction, and positive suppression of affect.

Norepinephrine is a wake - promoting hormone that is part of the fight - or - flight sympathetic nervous system — certainly not something you want occurring when you're trying to fall asleep.

Breathing deeply and slowly has immediate benefits, including quieting down your fired up sympathetic nervous system system.

Conditioned sympathetic nervous system hyperarousal at the breast is commonly inappropriately medicalised

Modern stressors can cause continual sympathetic nervous system activation with very little opportunity for the parasympathetic nervous system to activate.

Neuroblastoma is a childhood tumour of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system.

This technique is called microneurography and is considered the gold - standard method for assessing sympathetic nervous system activity in humans.

Thermogenics, exercising a lot and eating a low number of calories can be the cause of sympathetic nervous system overload, which will make you unstable and it'll put you on the edge.

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.

So if someone is out here, maybe they have excessive sympathetic nervous system overdrive or an adrenal dysfunction --

Artists can be left - or right - brain dominant, but the stereotype of an artist is that he or she is right brain dominant, and thus sympathetic nervous system «dominant.»

As the name implies, it is caused by an uptight sympathetic nervous system.

Reduced low frequency HRV points to a decrease in sympathetic nervous system influence (activation).

Ok, allow me to explain... Your body's sympathetic nervous system consists of 3 sets of glands: the ADRENALS, THYROID, plus PITUITARY glands.

IF the adrenal fatigue is related to SYMPATHETIC nervous system overtraining (e.g. too much weight training, intensity, etc.) then I suspect the answer is YES due the hormonal boost it can give.

Daily meditation at the alpha level reverses the roles of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems allowing the dominant sympathetic nervous system the chance to relax and «lie low» to the normally secondary parasympathetic nervous system.

BP = blood pressure; ABP = ambulatory blood pressure; SBP = systolic blood pressure; DBP = diastolic blood pressure; OT = oxytocin; HPA = hypothalamic - pituitary adrenocortical; SNS = sympathetic nervous system; AUC = area under the curve.

Activation of sympathetic nervous system also resulted in the formation of beige fat cells from white fat cells.

What we know now about calorie restriction is that, in animals, it reduces metabolic rate and oxidative stress, and it alters neuroendocrine and sympathetic nervous system function.

However, both patients and athletes at rest are distinguished from non-athletic controls by their reduced sympathetic nervous system activity which may lead to less