Inflammation and Chronic Pain... How we can Recover

Valuable and Beneficial Healing Resource.. INFLAMMATION AND THREAT to our nervous system and immune system and how to RECOVER.

Written and Researched by Dr David Hanscom... (Full paper attached)

Any mental or physical threat, perceived or real, is going to be met with a defensive response from your body. Much of this is mediated through the vagus nerve, at the core of the autonomic nervous system. The response is the well-known flight, fight, freeze, or faint reaction (Porges).We are all familiar with the physical manifestations of increased heart rate, sweating, muscle tension, elevated blood pressure, etc. But what you may not know is that the immune system also gets fired up and mobilizes against many types of invasive cells such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. The result is inflammation where the “warrior cells” exit the blood stream through widened openings in the vessels to destroy the invaders (antigens). Cytokines are small proteins that are the “switches” activating and deactivating this response. 9 |
Plan A – Lowering Inflammation Lengthens Life © 2021 Vertus Press, Inc. Although threats come in many forms, they always activate pro-inflammatory (Pro-I) cytokines. Besides obvious physical threats, mental threats are even more inflammatory and harder to manage because we can’t physically escape them.
They create a sustained inflammatory response that forms the basis for chronic mental and physical disease. Examples of mental threats are memories, negative thoughts, suppressions, repressions, insecurities (social, financial, health, etc.), cognitive distortions, loss of life perspective and purpose, and social isolation (Coughlin).
Discovery and acknowledgement of all our threats – whether real, imagined, anticipated, or repressed – is the first step towards addressing them.
The second is choosing an adaptive rather than a maladaptive escape to safety, whether the threat be physical or spiritual. We are better at physically escaping to safety than we are at dealing with spiritual crises (Fredheim). If you don’t feel safe and peaceful, you are carrying elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines...Read more on the link Below






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