Full Transcript Summit Introduction and Gut-Nervous System Connection 0:00 Welcome everyone to the Gut Health and Longevity Summit. 0:03 I am so glad you're here, and I want you to pause for just a moment, 0:07 because what you are about to hear over the next few days could genuinely change 0:12 the way you think about stress, your body, and your health from the inside out. 0:18 Most of us have been taught to think about gut health in terms of what we eat, 0:22 but the science is now making something undeniably clear. 0:26 The state of your nervous system is just as powerful 0:30 a force in shaping your gut microbiome as your diet. 0:34 Chronic stress, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation silently dismantle 0:40 the gut ecosystem that controls your immune function, 0:43 your hormones, your mood, and your longevity. 0:47 Our experts are here to translate that science into action, 0:50 and today's conversation is one that I've been especially excited about. 0:54 What nervous system dysregulation is actually doing 0:57 inside your gut, and what you can do to reverse it. 1:01 So my next guest is Nathan Crane. 1:04 He has done something most health educators have not. 1:07 He has healed himself against all odds, spent years building on one of the most 1:13 comprehensive bodies of work on the relationship between the mind, 1:17 the nervous system, and the body's capacity for healing. 1:20 He is not here to tell you to think positive. 1:23 Well, at least I hope not. 1:24 But he is here to show you how science says, what about chronic stress 1:29 is doing to your biology and what that reversal actually looks like? 1:33 Nathan Crane is a health researcher, bestselling author, 1:36 documentary filmmaker, and cancer researcher. 1:39 He is the founder of the panacea community and has spent over a decade studying 1:44 the intersection of consciousness, healing and longevity science. 1:48 He has produced over a dozen documentary films and docu 1:51 series on cancer, plant based healing, mind body medicine, 1:55 and so many other things, and his books including Becoming Cancer Free. 2:00 His work is really integrating evidence based, plant based 2:03 nutrition, nervous system regulation, mind body science, and he has interviewed 2:08 hundreds of leading researchers, oncologists, survivors. 2:12 And his platform brings that science to hundreds. 2:15 Now he's got something even newer in store for us. 2:18 So I'm excited about this 2:19 because this is the next evolution of healing and for him to be sharing. 2:24 So, Nathan, welcome to our summit. 2:27 Nisha, thank you for having me. 2:29 And of course, I'm going to tell everyone to think positively because I'm not 2:34 I don't want people thinking negatively, 2:36 but I think there's more to it. 2:38 But that's not the core solution. 2:41 And in fact, in my work through the awakened process, 2:44 one of the things that I see in clients all the time have tried everything. 2:47 They've changed their diet. 2:49 They have tried all kinds of personal growth and positive thinking. 2:54 They went to therapy for years. 2:55 They've done the exercise and all the functional medicine things, 2:59 a holistic things, even the conventional things. 3:01 And yet they're still coming back with the second diagnosis of third diagnosis 3:05 chronic dysbiosis, cancer, diabetes, you name it. 3:09 And what they're missing is what I call the missing link, 3:11 the missing link to healing, the missing link 3:13 to health, the missing link to cancer. 3:15 I did a whole docu series on 3:16 that called The Missing Link to Cancer, because I discovered this years ago 3:20 that it's way beyond just positive thinking. 3:22 And even though it's important and it's way beyond diet, 3:25 even though that's important and it's way beyond exercise and detox and sauna 3:29 and all these things, even though those are all important, 3:31 I consider that to 20% bucket. 3:33 And what we're talking about here is a nervous system, which I love, that 3:37 you're doing this entire summit, really focusing on this and gut health, 3:41 especially from a nervous system standpoint, is what's actually 3:45 activating our nervous system, what's triggering it, 3:47 what's causing us to be in this 3:49 sympathetic state, what's caused us to be in this fight 3:51 or flight state, and what does that do to our gut health? 3:53 And more importantly, what does that do to our overall health 3:56 and our emotional well-being and our mental well-being? 3:59 And so most people, even functional medicine doctors, many 4:04 who are my colleagues, I love dearly, holistic practitioners and nature paths, 4:08 and then certainly any oncologists 4:11 who have moved into a more functional medicine approach still today. 4:14 Most doctors that I know are still focusing on that 20%. 4:19 Let's change your diet. Let's get you on supplements. 4:21 Let's do some detox. 4:22 All of that. 4:23 And very often they don't see the needle move. 4:26 And these are the people who come to me. 4:28 Just had a client the other day. 4:29 There's been doing everything for years. 4:31 And she comes with her third cancer diagnosis. 4:34 I should've been doing everything right for years. 4:36 And we do six sessions and she gets her blood work, bag says. 4:39 I've never seen my immune system blood work markers looked this good in years. 4:43 Why isn't anything I do? I'm not special. 4:45 It's just we get to the root cause of this stuff, 4:47 which is what's actually activating the nervous system
Chronic Stress, Dysregulation, and the Missing Link 4:51 to stay stuck in that fight or flight or freeze or shut down or fawning. 4:55 And we start to regulate it and we get into a healthy, balanced, 4:59 regulated state, and then the body can do it. 5:02 It knows how to do which is heal itself and thrive 5:06 and regenerate and restore and all the things we wanted to do. 5:10 Yeah. 5:10 You just reminded me of a patient who messaged me 5:12 and she's like, hey, here's the blood work my doctor did. 5:16 And I've never she's 71 years old. 5:19 She's like, I've never seen it so normal in my entire life. 5:22 Whatever you're doing for me, keep doing. 5:25 I'm like, okay, let's keep doing it. 5:28 But all right, so let's start with this question. 5:30 As I mentioned that most people have 5:33 something most people have never been told about. 5:35 We talk about gut health in terms of food, fiber, probiotics, fermented vegetables. 5:40 And yes, all of that is very, very, very helpful. 5:43 But you spent years studying how that nervous system is going to shape the gut, 5:48 what is actually happening in the body when someone is chronically stressed, 5:54 and why should we be thinking about the nervous system and the gut as one system? 5:59 And not to. Good question. 6:01 So first of all, I know exactly what it's like to be chronically stressed 6:05 and anxious and depressed and sick and ill. 6:08 That's how I grew up. 6:10 In fact, my teenage years, I was so sick and I had digestive issues 6:14 and my skin was pale and I was broken out with acne everywhere, 6:17 and I was depressed, and I was anxious and I was chronically stressed. 6:20 And in fact, I was almost dead at 18. 6:23 I was very sick, very ill. 6:24 I had a lot of addictions. 6:25 And at 18 I moved to San Diego and started my life over. 6:29 And I started researching what does it mean to be healthy 6:32 and how can I heal myself, and how can I heal my body? 6:36 And how can I live with more peace and contentment? 6:38 And so I was, you know, over 20 years ago now, I've been on this personal growth 6:42 and spiritual growth and health research path, not only healing myself 6:47 and improving my life, but then going out and being able to reach and help millions 6:50 around the world. 6:51 And some of the things I've learned throughout that journey are exactly 6:55 what you said is, when you are in this chronic stress state, which is 7:02 most people don't even realize that they're in chronic stress. 7:06 They think are everything's okay, I'm fine. 7:08 But when we really start asking, you know, what is your morning look like? 7:12 What is your what thoughts are you having when you wake up? 7:15 Do you get triggered often and easily? 7:18 You know, someone cuts you off in traffic to you. 7:20 Do you get pissed off and yell at them? 7:22 You get a bill. Does it scare you? 7:23 Are you constantly worrying about debts or finances? 7:27 Do you worry constantly about your health or the food you're putting in your body? 7:31 It creates worry if you if you just look at your shoulders 7:34 now, are they can you drop them a little bit? 7:38 Is your body in that? 7:40 Look at your hands, your body like, can you relax your shoulders 7:43 and your body and your head and neck now and just notice like, oh wow. 7:46 Yeah, I was a little tense. 7:48 Very often our nervous system is in this protective mode, 7:52 and we don't even realize it because when we're in this chronic stress 7:57 and anxious state, it's actually due to some underlying reasons 8:00 which will definitely get into like what's keeping us in that state. 8:03 And when we're in that state, we have what I like to say is like a low grade, 8:07 sympathetic fire that's burning constantly. 8:10 It's like you could imagine this little fire inside your body 8:13 that's constantly burning. 8:15 And that burning is damaging DNA. 8:18 Damaging mitochondria is causing chronic inflammation. 8:21 It's releasing excess cortisol, 8:23 and it's literally down regulating your immune system. 8:27 And we need our immune system to be able to find invaders, 8:31 pathogens, viruses, bacteria, cancer cells, and clean them up 8:37 and transform them and transmute them and get rid of them and repair them. 8:42 Right. 8:42 We need the immune system for all that produce NK cells and natural 8:46 killer cells, and T cells and B cells to go out and clean all this up. 8:49 Well, if you have autoimmune disease, 8:50 you have cancer, you have some chronic health condition. 8:54 Your immune system's not functioning at the level that it could be or should be. 8:59 And so first of all, this is not to blame you or say you're wrong or 9:04 any of what you're doing is bad or any of that. 9:07 It's just, first of all, to normalize it, to recognize like, 9:10 this is so normal in our modern day. 9:13 It's also protective. 9:15 These things are protective patterns 9:16 that your nervous system has learned to keep you feeling safe now. 9:20 And we'll unpack that in a bit. 9:22 Hopefully. 9:23 But because that's where the root is actually, 9:25 that's where the healing is, is unpacking that last statement. 9:27 But at the same time, these protective patterns are nervous 9:31 system learned many years ago in our life 9:33 are no longer serving us, and they keep us in that vigilant state, 9:37 kind of constantly on guard, feeling unsafe 9:41 even when we are safe. 9:44 Right when you're out at midnight or 9:47 you're out on the street, it's dark at night, you're by yourself. 9:51 Maybe you end up in an alley or a dark street or something, like you want 9:54 kind of your spidey senses turned on. 9:56 You want to be a little bit like, you know, able to run or fight 9:59 or do something in case you do end up in a dangerous situation. 10:03 Now, you don't want that on during the day when you're at work. 10:07 You don't want that on when you're sitting having a conversation with a loved one. 10:11 You don't want that on in your day to day when you're even when you're driving. 10:15 In fact, because what that means is you're in this chronic sympathetic state. 10:20 And when sympathetic nervous system is turned on, 10:24 on guard, vigilant, or shut down, it's either or. 10:29 And then most of us move between the two. 10:32 Vigilance on guard gets to a point overwhelm shutdown. 10:35 Right. 10:36 How many people watching right now are listening can relate to that. 10:39 It's like, yeah, I'm on edge. I'm on guard. 10:41 I'm you know, 10:41 you get your with a spouse or partner or somebody or a boss or situation 10:45 and it's like you're feeling that ten city that tension. 10:48 And sometimes it gets overwhelming and then there's withdrawal 10:51 and then shut down. 10:53 And most people actually oscillate between the two. 10:56 What that means is it's a nervous system. 10:58 It's trying to protect you, 11:00 but it's learned to be unsafe even when it should be safe. 11:03 And when that happens constantly, this low grade fires inside your body, 11:08 constantly burning, tearing your body apart from the inside out, 11:12 destroying your gut microbiota, actually creating dysfunction 11:16 in the gut just like you're talking about which gut is. 11:19 Roughly 70% of our immune system is in our intestines and in our gut. 11:23 And so when that's happening, and then there's 11:25 chronic inflammation in the gut and how it's when sympathetic 11:29 is turned on, that means parasympathetic is actually turned off. 11:32 And when it's like this that means immune systems turned off. 11:35 And so Bruce Lipton, colleague of mine, who's been in a number of my films 11:40 and projects we've done together, he talks about this so clearly 11:44 that it's like we have this system that's really designed to keep us safe. 11:50 And, you know, he gives an ancient 11:53 analogy of being chased by like a saber toothed tiger 11:57 and that you want all you want your immune system shut off. 12:00 You want all your blood, all your energy, everything to go to your limbs 12:03 so you can run or fight or flight. 12:05 Now, in our modern day, that might be an aggressive dog. 12:07 It might be an aggressive person. 12:09 It might be saving somebody from burning car. 12:11 You want you want your immune system shut off 12:13 for those few minutes to save your life or save somebody else's life. 12:17 But that should be a very rare circumstance, very rare once in a while. 12:23 The problem is, most people actually 12:24 living in that state constantly and constantly tearing down the body, 12:28 allowing this perfect environment for disease to show up. 12:33 And I'll pause in a moment and see what other questions you have. 12:36 But basically, I guess your other question was around like, 12:40 these are not two systems, it's all one system. 12:42 And so in the work that I've done over the last 12:45 20 years, working with many, many clients of all kinds of chronic elements, 12:50 I look at everything through a very holistic lens. 12:52 And holistic to me means mind, body, spirit, 12:55 environment, relationships, work, 12:58 finances, purpose in life, internal environment, external environment 13:02 that includes food includes what you put on your body 13:05 and in your body, where you put in your mind how you show up in the world. 13:08 So very holistic. 13:10 We look at we are a mind, we have a mind and we have different aspects of our mind. 13:14 We have conscious mind, subconscious mind, we have wakeful state, sleeping state. 13:19 We have deep meditative state, contemplative state of mind. 13:23 We also have an intellect and an ego identification. 13:26 There's many, many layers to us. 13:28 We have a physical body, we have an energy body. 13:30 And all of this is all very scientifically validated. 13:34 And then we have an external environment and our internal environment. 13:37 We have more viral cells and bacterial cells 13:41 on our body and in our body than we do human DNA. 13:44 In fact, we have more viral and bacterial DNA 13:48 than we have human DNA in our own body. 13:50 So there's this beautiful, co-creative, collaborative ecosystem within us 13:56 and on our skin and our eyes and our hair and everywhere that keeps us alive. 14:01 And so to keep us thriving, we have to keep that community healthy. 14:04 And to do that, that community also needs to feel safe and to feel safe. 14:09 We have to feel safe inside and to feel safe inside. 14:12 Our nervous system has to be regulated and to feel safe. 14:15 And to do that, we have to get to the root of 14:17 what's this regulating it, which we could talk about in a minute. 14:21 But let me pause there and see if you have any other. All right. 14:23 So let me summarize this for the viewers because that was a lot to unpack. 14:27 All right. 14:28 So let's just like summarize it like systematically. 14:31 So you mentioned the sympathetic nervous system which we all know. 14:36 You know we have this autonomic actually is the autonomic nervous system 14:40 that sits above that. 14:41 Either is a sympathetic which is where most people are stuck in this like 14:45 always activated on state, which then in that case, when we are in 14:50 sympathetic we're not in parasympathetic, which is your rest and digest state. 14:54 That's also the state where you digest your food and you repair your body. 15:00 So if we are not in the digest your food, 15:03 repair your body, we are in that sympathetic state. 15:07 Now another thing, 15:08 like when people are thinking about like my nerves are fried and like, 15:12 you know, I'm just I've got anxiety, I'm so rattled and all this stuff 15:16 people don't realize, like, your nerves don't just live in your brain 15:20 and there's actually 500 million 15:23 neurons lining the GI tract, right? 15:26 So when you get that gut feeling about something really 15:31 taking a moment and creating this self-awareness 15:35 in your body can help you attune to that gut feeling even better, 15:39 which I know you're awake in process, allows you to do that. 15:43 So let's get into the next question. 15:44 So the next question is let's talk about terminology a little bit. 15:48 So nervous system dysregulation is a term that I'm hearing more and more. 15:53 And I don't think most people have any idea if it applies to them. 15:58 So what does a dysregulation actually look like in the body. 16:03 And how do we know it's happening. 16:06 Oh that's a great question. 16:08 So I would say the the first most easy way to understand 16:13 that in your own life is in a normal day to day situation. 16:17 I'm at home, I'm having a conversation. 16:20 I'm just doing my day to day. 16:22 If I feel unsafe in some way or reactive or triggered, 16:27 that means my nervous system is actually dysregulated 16:31 and people go, oh, whoa, whoa. 16:32 Hang on a second. 16:33 That's like normal being human, right? 16:34 It is normal being a human. 16:36 But there's also something available 16:39 to all of us way beyond that, that we are. 16:43 Nature is actually to be at peace and content and not triggered, 16:48 even when we're in a very triggering or challenging situation. 16:52 I'll give you an example. 16:54 Okay. I was going to give you an example. 16:56 Something that happened. 16:57 Go ahead. Your example. 16:58 But I'm going to give you one which I think many people can kind of resonate 17:02 with is that maybe you receive an email or a text 17:07 from somebody that was not something you were expecting,
How Nervous System Dysregulation Shows Up in the Body 17:12 and now your body is like like you said, like the shoulders go up. 17:15 It's like what just happened here and it can like totally derail your day. 17:20 In fact, for me, in the past, like, 17:22 if you would have asked me in my 20s, yeah, it would derail my day. 17:25 It would be real, like three days without learning the tools about manage this. 17:30 So I think that's a very common example that I see, you know, like that somebody 17:35 like has a conversation with somebody, somebody gets a text, something like that. 17:39 And it just it sets them off. 17:42 So what's your example? 17:43 That's a great that's a great one. 17:45 And so yeah let me give. 17:46 So there's also there's a spectrum here. 17:49 So you get a text or a bad comment 17:53 from somebody on a post on social media or something. 17:56 On one end of the spectrum, let's go to the most extreme spectrum. 17:59 That thing triggers you in that moment and that stays with you 18:03 for hours, days, weeks, or even months. 18:07 Right? 18:07 Your mind goes back to that and it like makes you feel a certain way again. 18:11 Or how could that person in the next day 18:12 you're having conversations person poses thing or send me a set? 18:15 Can you believe that? And now you're triggered again. 18:17 And maybe that continues for days or weeks, right? 18:19 That's kind of an extreme example of where in fact a lot of people are. 18:23 And again, there's no judgment here. 18:24 I used to be there for sure, 100% with a lot of things. 18:28 You know, another end of that spectrum is 18:30 let's just maybe go to the middle ground would be like, that happens. 18:34 Maybe you've done some deeper emotional healing. 18:37 Maybe you have some emotional and nervous system regulation tools. 18:41 Maybe you do some a little bit of breathwork, or maybe you have some deeper 18:45 kind of spiritual knowledge around life and you realize, oh, you know what? 18:48 It's really not that big of a deal. It triggered you. 18:51 It kind of sets you off for a little bit, but you get your nervous system 18:54 calm down and recalibrated without suppressing 18:59 a lot of us on a personal growth path or spiritual path, or people watching this 19:03 have a really strong part of themselves that's really good 19:07 at focusing on the positive and doing and achieving and being better. 19:11 But the consequence I in my own life, and I see with a lot of clients 19:16 I work with who have that strong part, suppress the feelings that have come up, 19:22 which actually underneath contributes to that low grade fire that's burning 19:26 underneath the nervous system. 19:27 So that very often happens in the middle part. 19:30 But some people have a good balance of let's move more to like three quarters 19:35 over here, maybe to this side where triggers have some nervous system. 19:40 You're able to let it go quickly and you don't suppress those feelings. 19:44 They come up, you acknowledge them, you recognize, okay, I'm feeling that way. 19:49 Okay. Let me have some compassion for that. 19:51 Some understanding, some curiosity. 19:52 Why am I feeling that way? 19:53 Why am I feeling this in my gut? 19:55 Or this fear or this anger? 19:57 You bring some some compassion, some curiosity to it, 20:00 and then your tools allow you to let it go quickly or your practices. 20:04 And then let's go all the way down over here where 20:08 those things don't trigger you at all. 20:10 Someone can leave you a bad comment, and you feel absolutely at peace 20:15 and you actually just send them love. 20:17 Someone says something to that would normally trigger 20:18 you and it doesn't trigger you anymore. 20:20 And it's not a suppression. 20:21 It's not like, oh, I'm good. 20:23 It doesn't bother me. 20:24 It literally does not trigger you at all because you've healed the underlying 20:28 emotional wounds from earlier in your life that caused you to be triggered 20:32 in the first place. 20:34 So it's a spectrum, and wherever 20:36 you're at in the spectrum of different things is totally fine. 20:39 Obviously, we want to move further along that spectrum to where we have more 20:45 and more and more peace and contentment, understanding and curiosity 20:48 and compassion in our life in every situation that happens, 20:52 so that whatever challenges arise, 20:55 they trigger us significantly less. 20:58 They last significantly less time in our bodies 21:01 because this all happens semantically as well. 21:03 Which is why think about when you're afraid your body tenses, right? 21:07 We get these. 21:08 You might breathe faster, or when you're excited, same thing. 21:11 Breath might might increase, but maybe you're actually more open, right? 21:15 So the body changes semantically based on the emotions that we're feeling. 21:20 And these emotions get stored in the body. 21:22 And this is the work that I do, is we do a lot of somatic work. 21:25 There's about 12 modalities that I incorporate into the awaken process. 21:29 So we're working semantically in the body. 21:31 We've heard the issues are in the tissues. 21:33 The body keeps the score. It's so true. 21:35 It's in the mind, it's in the body and it's in the nervous system. 21:38 And the body it gives us, gives us so many answers and wisdom to 21:41 what's actually going on and where the real healing work is. 21:44 But when we heal these deeper emotional wounds, that and subconscious 21:49 beliefs that were entrained in us since we were kids, 21:53 then that's when the triggers go away. 21:55 The things that used to trigger me years ago, they don't anymore. 21:58 I mean, 90% of them are gone. 22:00 You know, I still have some things here and there, 22:02 some stuff I'm working on, stuff I'm healing and letting go. 22:04 But 90% of what used to make me upset, angry, mad, 22:08 trigger, judgmental, afraid just isn't there anymore. 22:12 And my nervous system is in a state of of constant regulation. 22:17 And when it's in, 22:18 you know, 22:18 majority of the time, I'm not perfect by any means, but majority of the time 22:22 and the practices, I do really help with that. 22:24 So when you're in a more regulated state, more often, we're not talking 22:28 about being perfect here, say more regulated state more often, 22:31 meaning majority of the time you have more contentment, 22:35 more peace, more happiness, more you're just okay with life. 22:39 Life becomes more joyful, by the way, which we all want more happiness. 22:43 You think more clearly. You can make better decisions. 22:45 The things that would freak you out before don't freak you out so much. 22:49 And what does that mean physically? 22:51 It means your digestion is working better. 22:53 It means your inflammation gets turned down. 22:56 It means your blood markers are going to be improved. 22:58 It means your immune systems turned up. 23:01 It means that your body is able to fight the 23:04 the invaders that are happening to it, and that just everything 23:08 physically, biologically works so much better for your benefit. 23:13 Here's the other thing I've learned in working with so many clients 23:16 and doing this work for so long is all of our systems and our bodies, 23:20 and everything about us wants to move towards healing. 23:25 We often think the body is working against me. 23:27 I have a lot of clients over the years 23:29 who would think, why is my body attacking me? 23:32 Auto immune disease, for example. 23:33 Why is my body against me? 23:35 Why does my body work for me? 23:37 And the truth is, it wants to move towards healing. 23:41 I mean, just you have an accidental cut, you don't have to do anything 23:45 and your body is going to heal that cut, right? 23:47 I mean, for most people, some people it may not because 23:50 your body is really in a bad in a very challenged state. 23:54 But most people, your body's 23:55 going to heal that cut easily on its own without you doing anything. 23:59 You put a Band-Aid on it. 24:00 You're not healing it with a Band-Aid. 24:02 You put some disinfected on it. 24:03 That's not healing it. 24:05 Your body's doing the healing. 24:07 We just have to help our bodies get into a state and heal 24:11 the underlying root causes of what's keeping it out of that healing state. 24:16 And then it does the rest all on its own, perfectly designed 24:20 to heal itself and take care of itself. 24:23 Okay. All right. 24:24 So to summarize that there's a lot more to it. 24:28 I think that if we are thinking about 24:33 nervous system dysregulation, it is more than anxiety. 24:37 It's, you know, it's a host of different symptoms, whether they are GHG related 24:42 symptoms like bloating, food sensitivity, skin issues, immune suppression, 24:47 which you already mentioned, poor sleep, fatigue, all of this. 24:53 But there's one area that we need to talk a little bit about before 24:57 we get into some of the processes of the awakening process, 25:02 because we need to understand more about the vagus nerve, 25:07 and the vagus nerve keeps appearing in research. It's 25:10 been described almost like a superhighway between the brain and the gut. 25:14 So tell me, what is the vagus nerve actually doing 25:20 when we are thinking about this state of, you know, feeling unsafe 25:26 feeling, you know, suppressed feeling like the world is against 25:30 us, like what is actually going on here with a vagus nerve. 25:34 Tell me more about that. Yeah. 25:35 Good question. 25:36 So the vagus nerve is a massive 25:39 nerve network that runs from the brainstem all the way down 25:43 the spine, all the way through every major organ and system in the body. 25:46 And in fact, it's actually sending more information to the brain than vice versa. 25:53 Similar to you talked about, we have more neurons in the gut than we do 25:57 our own brain, which is why the guts been called the second brain. 26:00 And same with the heart. 26:01 In fact, the heart's been called the third brain, or vice versa. 26:04 Some people call the heart to second brain and the gut the the third brain. 26:08 Just like the heart people. 26:09 Most people don't realize this. 26:10 The heart actually sends more information, including hormone production, 26:15 energetic information to the brain than the brain does to the heart. 26:19 Just like the gut, the gut sending 26:21 tremendous amount of information to the brain and vice versa. 26:25 And the vagus nerve is doing the same thing. 26:27 And so what's it doing? 26:28 Vagus nerve is connecting to all the major organ 26:31 and organ systems in the body and spread all throughout. 26:35 To look up a picture of the vagus nerve is actually quite fascinating. 26:38 It's like a root. 26:39 It's like almost like if you look at a tree that's got this root 26:43 system that goes down under the earth very much like a tree. 26:46 In fact, it's bringing up information, nutrients, vital 26:50 information from the soil, 26:52 the microbes, all of that into the tree to give information to that tree. 26:56 Did you know there's like, the cottonwood? 26:58 I believe it's a, the cottonwoods, the the 27:02 the aspen that are like one giant. 27:06 You go to an aspen forest, they could go on for miles and miles. 27:08 It's like one giant network of trees all connected. 27:13 And this is true in forests, for example, 27:16 there can be an invasion, like an infestation of 27:21 a beetle that's eating the trees, miles and miles and miles away. 27:24 And it'll send that information through the mycelium network, 27:27 through the root system, through the trees, 27:29 all the way throughout the entire forest, so that plants and trees, 27:33 you know, miles and miles away, can start producing some molecules 27:38 that help defend against those invaders. 27:42 Fascinating nature. 27:43 You know, things that are the intelligence is in nature. 27:46 We have incredible intelligence like that in our own body. 27:49 And so the vagus nerve is taking all this information up, 27:52 and then it's giving information back to the brain. 27:54 And that's directing what's happening to our nervous system, 27:57 which is, you know, we talk about autonomic nervous system, right? 28:00 We have a lot more 28:01 in terms of the nervous system, but we don't need to go into all of that 28:04 in this. 28:05 We're just talking about two branches of the autonomic nervous system, 28:08 which is just one branch of kind of the big picture of the nervous system. 28:11 When the signals that we send to the vagus nerve 28:17 tell the rest of the organs whether they're safe 28:20 and what they should be doing, should you be producing antibodies, 28:24 should you be producing anti-inflammatories, should you be 28:28 producing T cells, B cells, immune cells? 28:32 Or should you be sucking, you know, holding that energy? 28:35 Should you be producing cortisol and more fight or flight hormones? 28:39 Should you be producing dopamine and serotonin. 28:42 All this vagus nerve is responsible for, you know, this information, telling 28:47 all these organs and organ systems what to produce and what to do. 28:50 And so there are things that like you can like tools that like 28:54 stimulate the vagus nerve that are meant to kind of 28:58 calm the vagus nerve down and move out of that fight or flight. 29:02 Honestly, I'm kind of like 5050 on the tools 29:06 because life happens and you're just gonna walk around all day long 29:09 and just, like, use a tool all the time and just think it's going to cure you. 29:12 It doesn't because you're not addressing the underlying 29:15 root cause, which is causing the vagus nerve to feel, 29:18 you know, this kind of deregulatory pattern. 29:21 So how do we actually impact the vagus nerve? 29:24 So it keeps us in that parasympathetic that rest rejuvenation,
The Vagus Nerve and Gut-Brain Communication 29:28 healing digestive state, which is what we want, which is really 29:31 we're talking about vagus nerve. 29:32 It's like we want it to support us being in that parasympathetic state. 29:38 And that is where, you know, a lot of the tools, a lot of the modalities 29:42 that we use in the awakening process, that's what they all do. 29:44 In fact, they all stimulate the vagus nerve 29:47 so that our organs can work better and we can be in that more 29:50 anti-inflammatory pro, you know, immune regulatory 29:55 and nervous system regulation mode. 29:59 That's really what the vagus nerve does. Okay. 30:01 So now you mentioned this a number of times. 30:04 You work with this process called awaken process, a specific 30:08 somatic practice for nervous system regulation. 30:11 And now that we've defined that. 30:12 So without making this a commercial, can you explain what it is 30:17 and what is the physiologic mechanism that makes it different from saying 30:22 simply telling somebody, hey, calm down, breathe some more. 30:26 Tell me a little bit more about this awaken process. 30:30 So what I discovered over my own 30:32 healing journey was that there was a number of different modalities. 30:36 I kind of naturally, organically just grace. 30:40 It was like Grace introduced me to so many different modalities 30:44 that were responsible for healing many of my own childhood wounds 30:47 and traumas and subconscious beliefs and patterns and addictions in my life. 30:51 And I look back over my life and I thought, what were the most 30:55 powerful healing things that happened? 30:58 And how was I able to transform these addictions and let them go? 31:02 Because at the root of every addiction is actually emotional trauma. 31:05 People focus on the addiction. 31:07 And, you know, this could be food addiction, sugar addiction, could be drug 31:11 addiction, could be 31:11 alcohol addiction, could be addiction to drama, to fighting, to arguing. 31:15 It could be addiction to scrolling, addiction to late night TV, any addiction 31:21 underneath that is an emotional pattern and a wounding process. 31:25 And when we get to the root of that, we heal the emotional pattern. 31:28 I have a client, she had a 30 year. 31:30 We did, and we never once talked about her. We'd addiction. 31:33 We just healed the underlying emotional wounds and all of a sudden 31:36 now she has control and she's able to stop smoking weed. 31:39 And this is true for any kind of addiction, but not only addictions. 31:42 It's also true for the chronic elements that show up in our body 31:46 the nervous system dysregulation. 31:49 So discovering that what's at the root of all this, what's these childhood wounds? 31:53 It's either like if you look at the Aces study that was done by CDC and Kaiser 31:58 Permanente in the 90s, they discovered a group of 32:02 emotional wounds that happened to pretty much all of us, 32:05 which could be grouped into abuse or neglect. 32:08 Things like verbal, emotional, physical, 32:13 could be family members that were in jail or family members that just neglected. 32:17 You could be any kind of addiction in the household. 32:19 Drug addiction, alcohol addiction, separation, divorce. 32:22 Somebody's going to jail. 32:24 There's a lot of different categories 32:26 of what constitutes an adverse childhood experience. 32:30 Well, we've all had these. 32:32 And what they discovered was people who've had more of those three, 32:36 4 or 5 or more actually had up to a 20 year shortened lifespan, 32:41 a significant increase in every major chronic disease on the planet, 32:45 from cancer to autoimmune to diabetes to you name it, as well as, you know, chronic 32:49 stress and anxiety and all these patterns happening in adult life. 32:52 Well, how is that all these things happen to me as a child. 32:55 They're gone. Their paths. I let them go. 32:57 Well, no, 32:57 you didn't let them go because they're stored 32:59 in your nervous system semantically, in your body, in your tissues 33:03 and in your subconscious mind. 33:05 So what I discovered helped me to not only heal physically, 33:09 but mentally, emotionally, and then all the addictions that I had 33:12 was healing his underlying wounds in traumas, 33:15 and then everything else just healed on its own. 33:18 It's like it's a symptom, just like chronic inflammation. 33:20 It's a symptom. Just like cancer is a symptom. 33:23 Diabetes, autoimmune is a symptom. That's not the problem. 33:26 It's a symptom of a deeper underlying root cause. 33:29 And so I looked at all these modalities that helped me heal these things and 33:34 started 33:34 working with them together in like a very synergistic way. 33:38 And so it's a combination of ancient practices, which include 33:42 various gentle breathwork practices and meditative guided practices, 33:46 but also with neuroscience and modern psychology, including parts 33:50 work and integrative somatic parts work, as well as some psychological practices. 33:54 And I realized that when I was working with clients, by integrating 33:58 these 12 modalities together, we were getting results that they'd been. 34:02 We're getting results in three, 34:03 four, five sessions that they were trying to get for 20 years. 34:06 And so while it took me, you know, almost two decades to heal 34:10 so many things in my own life, I mean, there were chunks of time 34:14 where things were healing all along the way. 34:17 Now, with this kind of process, we're seeing just incredible results 34:21 in such a short time. 34:22 It's not because I'm special or I have like this unique thing or 34:25 whatever, it's that it's by integrating, which is why integrative medicine 34:29 is so powerful. 34:30 It's integrating kind of the best of all these different modalities in a way 34:33 that's gentle, safe, and works with each person's individual nervous system. 34:38 Look, whatever you're dealing with, if you realize that at the root 34:42 of that chronic element, chronic stress, anxiety, 34:46 chronic fear, or any chronic health condition, in fact, underneath that, 34:51 there's this root system of emotional wounds that are still 34:55 there, buried in your subconscious and buried in your body. 34:58 And I guarantee you 34:59 they are there because they're there in every single client I've ever worked with. 35:03 When we get to and we get to a state of where we can bring curiosity 35:08 and compassion, and we can regulate the nervous system and make it feel safe, 35:11 and then we can help those wounds be healed. 35:15 The whole nervous system starts to restructure itself. 35:19 And it's not something that, like I do for you 35:22 or you even have to do your whole system knows how to do it. 35:26 Once we go there, that's a beautiful thing. 35:28 Like, I'm just a coach, I'm the guide. 35:30 Your system has all the wisdom inside of it and it's leading the process. 35:35 I'm just using the modalities and coaching and guiding and the miracles 35:39 that, like the things that I see are just unbelievable. 35:42 I had this one client the other day and she's like very type 35:46 A go getter, high performer, Cheever, successful businesswoman. 35:51 And she's got her third cancer diagnosis. 35:53 And she watched one of my webinars and she goes, you know, I, 35:57 I finally believe that this is this has got to be the missing link, 36:00 this emotional wound stuff, this nervous system. But I don't meditate. 36:03 I don't believe in any of this stuff. 36:05 I never, you know, I never take time to rest or take care of myself. 36:08 And, you know, I don't know. 36:10 But something inside of her said, yes, let's do this awaken process thing. 36:14 And after six sessions, she said, I have 36:18 significantly more peace that I've ever had in my life. 36:21 I have almost no stress anymore. 36:24 I've never been able to take time for myself 36:26 and now I have that time and more. 36:28 Joy, said her. 36:29 She got her 36:30 blood results back recently and said they're better than they've ever been. 36:34 And she's just like, this was so out of the box for me. 36:36 But I realized I had to try something different.
What the Awaken Process Is and Why It Works 36:39 And one of the things that helped that was we understood what happened to her. 36:44 It's seven years old, that it's seven years old. 36:47 Her system believed that it had to perform. 36:50 It had to achieve it, had to do these things for love and recognition. 36:56 And that drove she she told me when the session she goes, I now realize 36:59 why I've made every decision in my life, and it's all from being seven years old. 37:04 And me. And those decisions have led to 37:07 her cancer diagnosis and distress in her life, 37:10 and the stress in her relationship and the stress in her nervous system. 37:14 And now, with the awareness and the tools she has the ability 37:17 to regulate her own nervous system. 37:19 And that's one example of hundreds of how it shows up in our lives and our body. 37:23 And I can relate to her so much because I've had the same thing 37:26 like this drive, like I have to perform and achieve and what's really under that? 37:30 Well, actually, my nervous system seeking safety and it's looking for love. 37:34 And then when we heal that underneath, it's like, I can still run a business 37:38 and serve and and create things, but I don't have this drive 37:42 that I have to do it or else I'm not feeling accomplished. 37:46 I can also go relax on the beach. 37:48 I can take time off, I can enjoy life without it. 37:51 And my system is is just as happy with or with it. 37:55 And let me just pause there because I know that's a lot. 37:57 Yeah. So let's review that a little bit. 37:59 I always like to do a review. 38:01 So blog. Right. 38:02 So you know you mentioned adverse childhood experiences right. 38:07 So these studies have really they've linked to that early trauma 38:11 that you mentioned in this case the seven year at seven years old. 38:15 Right. 38:15 And that trauma itself is linked to lifelong gut dysfunction, 38:20 elevated IBS rates immune dysregulation. 38:24 And then that somatic memory that you mentioned. 38:27 Right. 38:28 And this is how the autonomic nervous system 38:31 is really coating that threat, that response that you're talking about 38:35 long after whatever happened at age seven is there. 38:39 And when that immune system is suppressed and that gut is imbalanced, that's 38:43 where like my work comes in, I'm like, yeah, I see this in my patients. 38:48 And I'm like, God, when I when I sit down and do like intakes 38:52 with them, we go back to like, okay, you're five years old. 38:55 What was going on, your and your teens, what was going on? 38:57 And they're like, why are you asking me? 39:00 No doctors ever asked me this before because I'm like, 39:02 it is all connected, right? 39:04 So now you mentioned this word a few times and I feel like the audience is going, 39:10 all right. 39:11 Tell me, how can I feel safe 39:14 if right now I am sitting and listening 39:16 to this and and I just don't 39:20 I don't know what I feel, but I definitely don't feel safe. 39:23 Is there a like. 39:25 I know it's a 12 step process, but is there a part in the process 39:30 that you think that you can walk us through 39:34 that could have a shift 39:37 for this person just by starting it? 39:41 Yeah, we could do five minutes right now and help somebody 39:44 start to feel a little bit regulated in their nervous system, which you do it. 39:48 I think we all need it. Yeah. 39:50 Which would be, you know, we'll use maybe 2 or 3 of the modalities. 39:53 We'll keep it simple short, 39:55 but at least to start to feel what that feels like inside yourself. 39:58 And so if you're driving maybe pause this and come back to it. 40:02 But if you're watching or listening, just find yourself sitting in your chair 40:09 and feel the whole weight of your body 40:11 start to relax in your chair. 40:15 If your feet are on the floor, feel 40:17 your feet really pressing into the floor 40:20 as if the earth is coming up beneath you to just support your whole body. 40:25 Really relax your whole body into your chair 40:29 or do something called orienting. 40:31 So just look around your room for a moment. 40:34 This is one way that helps. 40:35 One simple way helps your nervous system feel safe in your space. 40:39 Look at a plant or anything that's got maybe a neutral tone, 40:43 something that makes you feel good or calm. 40:47 Just looking at this beautiful kind of ancient. 40:52 It's like an old seashell kind of thing. 40:54 Look at find something in your own space. 40:58 It just makes you feel calm and relaxed. 41:02 Even you can rub your hands 41:04 on your legs, kind of feel your that feels good. 41:08 Noticing where your body is in space is another simple 41:12 nervous system technique that helps you feel safe where you are. 41:18 And once you've done that, 41:19 you can generally close your eyes. 41:22 And let's take a deep breath in through the nose 41:25 and let it out through the mouth with a sigh. 41:30 Filling your shoulders. 41:31 Relax. 41:34 Filling your head and neck. 41:35 Relax. 41:37 Feel your whole body relax. 41:41 Really lean into your chair, feeling 41:45 your whole body supported by your chair. 41:50 We're gonna take another deep breath in through the nose. 41:53 This time. 41:53 Hold for a couple seconds at the top and long, slow 41:58 exhale through the mouth. 42:04 You can even make a side sound 42:08 deep, long, slow. 42:09 Excel. 42:10 Start to tell your nervous system to calm down and to relax. 42:16 The inhale brings energy and nutrients to the body. 42:20 The exhale releases toxins 42:23 and relaxes the body. 42:27 We'll take one more 42:28 deep, slow breath in through the nose, 42:31 feeling the belly, the chest, the throat filling all the way up. 42:35 Long. Slow. 42:36 Exhale out to the mouth. 42:49 Yeah, we'll do a very simple 42:51 breathing practice called neon, which is coherent breathing. 42:56 We'll just do a few rounds again 42:58 just relaxing the nervous system. 43:02 I'll count for you. 43:03 Breathe into the nose for a count of four. 43:06 Breathe out to the nose slowly 43:09 for a count of six. 43:12 And let's take a transition. 43:14 Breath in and let it go in. 43:16 Breathing in to 34023456. 43:24 In 23402345 43:30 6 in 2 3402345 43:37 6 in 2 3402345 43:44 6 in 2 3402345 43:51 6 in 2 three four. 43:55 Out 23456 43:59 into 34023456 and relax. 44:10 Observing inwardly. 44:13 Just notice the breath 44:16 gently moving in and out to the nose on its own. 44:27 Now I want you to bring a gentle attention 44:30 inside your body. 44:34 And just observe 44:36 any sensations in your body. 44:41 Without judgment. 44:45 Just notice any sensations. 44:58 There could be. 44:59 Warmth. 45:01 Or tightness. 45:04 Or numbness. 45:09 It could be restriction 45:12 or expansion. 45:16 It could be discomfort or comfort. 45:19 Just notice what's going on inside your own body. 45:41 And we don't have time now, 45:43 but we would look deeper into these different sensations. 45:48 And within each one, there's a tremendous amount of wisdom 45:52 for your own body that would guide us to 45:55 what your body and mind needs to heal. 45:58 But right now, we're just going to observe 46:01 with curiosity 46:06 any sensation. 46:10 In your body. 46:19 Sometimes there's some 46:20 butterflies in the stomach or there's some tightness in the throat. 46:25 Just notice what's going on inside your body. 46:32 You might notice a lot, or you might notice a little or nothing at all. 46:36 And that's all. 46:37 Okay. 46:46 Then let's take a deep breath in 46:48 and let it go. 46:56 And you could ask internally 47:00 or notice 47:02 a recent experience. 47:07 An emotional experience that triggered you, 47:09 something that you 47:13 don't want to do anymore or you would want to 47:16 heal. 47:22 Could bring up just 10% of that memory. 47:24 We're not going to go into the whole story. 47:30 Some recent emotional experience 47:34 challenge or something. 47:38 Maybe bothers you or you want to change. 47:46 And see if you can bring that 47:49 memory up gently. 47:58 Maybe it's a pattern. 47:59 Maybe it's people pleasing. It's 48:03 stressful reactivity. 48:06 It's fear of being judged or judging others. 48:13 This constant stress or some anxiety, 48:16 whatever that pattern is, just see if you can bring that up gently. 48:21 See if you can have some curiosity 48:23 towards it, 48:29 and notice what is happening in your body 48:33 when you're in that emotional experience, 48:39 what's happening 48:40 in your body or around your body? 48:43 Sometimes it's just a sense of something. 48:48 And so she's just a wall around my heart. 48:52 Or there's there's a sense of 48:55 there's a restriction or there's tightness or 49:00 there's some pain that flares out. 49:02 Just observe what's going on inside your own experience. 49:19 And now we're going to let that go, 49:21 and we're going to take a deep breath in. 49:26 And long slow deep exhale. 49:33 And see if you can just 49:36 expand your awareness a little bit outside 49:40 your body. 49:45 Almost as if you're 49:46 taking a slight step back 49:50 and notice that you are the awareness 49:54 that is aware 49:56 of what's happening in you and around you. 50:03 See, if you can notice that there's 50:05 a higher awareness that holds 50:08 all of these patterns. 50:14 Seeing how thoughts come and go. 50:21 Emotions come and go. 50:26 Sensations come and go, all like waves
A Guided Nervous System Regulation Practice 50:31 on the ocean. 50:36 And see if you can sense 50:37 that you are the ocean underneath. 50:41 Calm, still, 50:44 infinite. 50:47 Able to just observe these sensations 50:50 and thoughts and emotions as they rise and fall 50:56 in. This is rest 50:57 in that awareness for a moment, 51:30 and let's take a deep breath in 51:34 and let it go. 51:38 The gentle smile on your face. 51:42 You can gently open your eyes. 51:54 How do you feel now? 51:59 I feel very relaxed, like I could go to sleep. 52:02 I wonder how the audience is feeling. 52:04 I hope all of you guys are feeling also very good. But 52:09 like this newfound sense of safety. 52:13 If that's not a word that has kind of 52:17 entered your everyday life, maybe that's one you want to consider. 52:22 So last question here, because I really don't 52:24 want to take away from this experience. 52:27 But if someone's listening right now and they're eating well, 52:32 they're taking their probiotics. 52:35 They're like you said, doing all the right things, but they are stressed. 52:40 They're not sleeping, they're 52:43 health system symptoms persist. 52:46 What are the three most important things 52:50 they should start doing this week? 52:53 To begin regulating their nervous system 52:56 and healing their body from the inside out. 53:00 And let's be concrete. 53:02 Like if person sitting down making this list 53:04 and they're like, all right. 53:05 These are going to be my three that I'm going to do 53:07 because this is the missing link for me. 53:11 What would that be? 53:14 First would be the awakening process. 53:16 And if you don't do the awaken process then do Sky breath Sudarshan Kriya, 53:20 which is a breathing and meditation practice which I do every day. 53:24 Highly, highly recommend and ideally some form of gentle 53:28 breathing practice, daily meditative practice and self-reflection. 53:33 Self compassionate healing practice. 53:36 So these are the things that are time tested for thousands of years 53:41 and backed by modern science, that people who meditate daily, 53:47 live longer, have a more regulated nervous system, are significantly 53:51 healthier, have a better digestive system, 53:53 have reduction of cancer in every chronic disease on the planet? 53:56 Think better, clearer with less stress. 53:58 All really good things, right? 54:00 With a simple 20 minute 54:01 daily meditation practice, the science has shown this concretely. 54:06 So if you do nothing else, just start meditating daily. 54:09 Secondly, what really supports that as well is a gentle breathing practice. 54:14 It could be something like what we just did, some deep breathing 54:18 and then some coherent breathing could be something like Sudarshan Kriya 54:22 or what's called sky breath, like the sky sky breath. 54:26 And that gives you a daily practice. 54:27 But learning to breathe properly and to open the channels 54:31 and to open the lungs into what it does, is it breath is actually the one of the 54:36 fastest ways we can absolutely regulate our own nervous system. 54:41 A lot of people are breathing very shallow, not doing belly breathing. 54:44 So learning how to breathe properly can change your whole life 54:47 and your whole nervous system. 54:49 When we're stressed, we breathe shallow, right? 54:51 Just taking a few deep breaths. 54:53 Notice what happened for you, the viewer and also for you. 54:57 Manisha. Right. 54:58 We take a few deep breaths. We do a coherent breathing. 55:00 He said, oh, I feel like I go to sleep. 55:02 Yeah, because our whole system calms down so quick. 55:06 And then 55:07 three is getting to the root of these emotional patterns. 55:11 So I just we didn't have time. 55:12 Obviously, I just start to touch on semantically 55:16 starting to notice there's some sensations in the body. 55:20 There's actually we go much deeper in the awaken process, 55:24 but we start connecting and realize the emotional experiences we have in 55:28 our life are tied in semantically, and it's for different people. 55:32 Sometimes it's physical. 55:33 You feel it 55:33 physically, other times it's a sense, other times it's a color and object. 55:37 I would go much deeper and we would see what that is for you, 55:39 and then we get to the underlying root cause of that emotional wounds. 55:43 So we can do all these regulation practices and meditation and, and sky 55:47 breath and breathing. 55:49 We can use tools. 55:50 We can do yoga, gentle exercise, walking, qigong. 55:55 There's so many beautiful things we can do and they all will help. 55:58 But honestly, and in my own experience and the clients I work with 56:02 until I healed and continue to heal those underlying emotional wounds 56:07 that are from one years old, two years old, five years old, seven year 56:11 old, even believe it or not, ancestral wounds that are epigenetic 56:15 and we release that from the system and all of a sudden 56:17 the whole system gets regulated till we get to those deeper layers. 56:22 A lot of these practices are very supportive and really help, but 56:28 we very often continue to keep repeating the same patterns and behaviors. 56:33 And so I would make that a top priority. 56:34 Whatever you do is get to these root emotional wounds,
Three Daily Steps to Start Healing 56:38 have a daily breathing practice daily meditation practice, and then just 56:43 bring more 56:43 self-love and self-compassion to yourself and to these different parts of yourself. 56:47 None of them are bad. 56:49 None of them are wrong. 56:50 Understand that all of these emotional wounds, 56:54 or the behaviors that we have, or the addictions or the traumas 56:58 or the emotional outbursts or the way we react, they are protective strategies 57:03 that your system learn to keep you safe when you are much younger. 57:07 But now they may be causing more harm than good. 57:11 And so we're not here to get rid of them. 57:12 We're here to understand them with curiosity and compassion. 57:16 And when we do that and help them shift into a higher role, 57:20 now, you have you have these collaborators within yourself, within your own mind, 57:26 that actually support your health and well-being and healing instead of, 57:30 you know, what's considered a burdening your system. 57:33 Does that make sense? 57:35 All right. 57:36 Well now. 57:37 So okay, this has been eye opening the idea that what's happening in 57:43 our nervous system is as powerful 57:46 a force on our gut than anything. 57:49 You know, we put on our plate. 57:51 It's really reframes it for people because as you mentioned missing link. 57:55 Right. 57:55 And that is the message I want everyone to carry with them today. 58:00 So where can people find you, learn 58:04 more about you, see what you're up to. 58:08 Can you send us in that direction? 58:10 Absolutely, yeah. 58:12 Thank you. 58:12 And for people interested in learning more about the awaken process, 58:16 just go to the awakening process.com. 58:20 You can also just go to nathancrane.com and everything's there as well. 58:25 And then connect with me on social Instagram. 58:27 Wherever you're at on social connect with me there. 58:29 Send me a message, say hi, tell me that you 58:31 saw me on Doctor Monisha's summit, and I'd love to just hear from you 58:36 and talk to you and hear any questions you have from this conversation as well. 58:40 And if I can serve you in any way, I would love to. 58:43 So thank you so much. 58:45 Yeah, thanks for having me and thanks for opening this conversation. 58:47 I think it's so important more now than ever. 58:50 So thank you for what you're doing to bring this kind of information 58:55 out to people and realize, like, 58:57 this is like I tell people, this is the whole iceberg under the water. 59:00 You know, this is it. 59:01 The part most people are focused on is that little tip above the water. 59:04 It's like, this is where we should be focusing. 59:06 So I love that you're doing that. 59:08 Yeah. Perfect. 59:09 All right. 59:09 So audience, this is your key takeaway. 59:12 Your gut is listening to your nervous system every moment of the day. 59:17 That bacteria that protects your health when you are safe, 59:20 connected and regulated. 59:22 That is not a metaphor. It is biology. 59:25 So stay tuned for another episode. 59:29 Coming up next. 59:30 Don't go anywhere and I will see you in the next one.
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