Calming the Overactive Sympathetic Nervous System with Dr Wayne Todd
Our sympathetic nervous system, our fight or flight response, keeps us alive in emergencies. But what happens when we experience chronic stress, resulting in an overactive sympathetic nervous system that will ultimately affect our heath? How do we help our patients who are stuck in sympathetic nervous system dominance?
Dr Wayne Todd, creator of the SD protocol, joins Dr Damian Kristof for an in-depth conversation about extending our understanding of the complexities of sympathetic dominance, and practical ways to identify this in our patients. They discuss the different ways sympathetic dominance shows up in the body, how sympathetic dominance is linked to a variety of conditions including Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and thyroid disease, as well as techniques and tools we can use to help calm an overactive sympathetic nervous system down so we can rest, digest, and restore.
COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
[00:09] Welcoming Dr Wayne Todd
[01:06] Defining sympathetic dominance (SD)
[02:46] The development of Wayne’s SD Protocol
[04:51] Balancing sympathetic and parasympathetic activity
[07:55] Clinical symptoms of sympathetic dominance
[13:50] Polycystic ovaries and connection to sympathetic dominance
[19:46] How practitioners from different modalities can help patients with sympathetic dominance
[21:59] Where does the sympathetic drive originate from?
[25:10] Using red lenses and foam rollers to calm the nervous system in the evenings
[31:24] Wayne’s top recommendations for herbs and supplements to combat SD
[33:21] Compliance rates and significant change
[36:12] Additional resources for practitioners
[37:30] Thanking Wayne and closing remarks
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This is interesting, I have Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, Many people with this condition or a related condition, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, have an overactive sympathetic nervous system. We tend to have many of the problems mentioned in this podcasts, digestive symptoms, headaches, poor sleep quality etc. It is hardly surprising that our flight and fight system is switched on, and we are on high alert, as we are very physically unstable. I fall over very easily, and I am not physically strong. We suffer limb dislocations/subluxations frequently. We have problems with proprioception, and can be bad at sport. I felt very isolated as a child as there were many activities that I could not join in. Doctors are not very aware of this condition, and consequently, we are frequently misdiagnosed, or told we have Hypochondria. This explains why so many of us have seemingly unrelated symptoms. I was particularly interested to find out more about red glasses. Are there any specialists in the UK that run this program?
Excellent Podcast!
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