Is Your Nervous System Making You Sick? How To Reset with Dr. Nancy Waiganjo

How do you build resilience when life keeps delivering things you cannot control? The answer, according to Dr. Nancy Waiganjo, starts not with thinking your way through stress — but with learning to work with your body.

In this episode, Dr. Waiganjo — internal medicine physician with 20 years in practice and creator of the Mind is Medicine app — walks through the neuroscience of stress, why chronic stress affects every organ system, and the simple bodybased practices that can reset the nervous system anywhere, at any time.

Timestamps

00:00 — Opening montage: key quotes

• 01:50 — Introduction

• 02:05 — Dr. Nancy’s background and what shifted her practice

• 03:14 — Origin story: her own unexplained health symptoms

• 05:51 — Patients presenting with symptoms after life events: the correlation

• 09:43 — The nervous system as command center: the biology of stress

• 15:29 — What to do about it: body-based practices explained

• 17:42 — Live breathing exercise: the physiological sigh

• 21:29 — Why talk therapy alone is not enough: the amygdala explained

• 27:15 — Brain structural changes from meditation

• 30:52 — Every organ system affected: Takotsubo, gut, immunity, chronic pain

• 37:17 — Reversal of symptoms and the 42-day neural pathway timeline

• 43:55 — Walk through Dr. Nancy’s day: morning routine, gratitude, real-time regulation

• 48:45 — Sleep, movement, and mindful eating as nervous system regulation

• 57:44 — Social connection and financial health as pillars of wellbeing

• 1:01:59 — Mind is Medicine app

Mind is Medicine app:

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindismedicine&pcampaignid=web_share

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