Maladaptive Stress Response and Why Learning to Reset Your Nervous System is Critical to Healing and Detoxing with Alex Howard

Alex Howard shares with us his extensive knowledge on the best ways calm our nervous system, reduce our stress, and change our mental patterns in order to heal our body. On today’s podcast, you will learn: Symptoms that result from the body’s attempts to adapt to stress (maladaptive stress response) Stress is one of the biggest challenges in recovering from fatigue or illness Resetting the nervous system is one of the first steps in recovery (and successful detox) How to identify stressors to get the body out of sympathetic nervous system overdrive Why physical health issues do not always have physical solutions (many get better with mindset, psychological, and stress reduction techniques) Alex Howard's Bio: Alex Howard is Founder and CEO of The Optimum Health Clinic (OHC), one of the world’s leading integrative medicine clinics, which he set up in 2004 after his own seven year battle with chronic fatigue syndrome. OHCs team of 20 full time practitioners have supported over ten thousand patients with fatigue in 40+ countries. Alex and the team have published research in a number of leading journals, including British Medical Journal Open, Medical Hypotheses and Psychology and Health. A randomised controlled on the OHC approach to fatigue is currently underway in the UK with NHS patients. Along with founding and leading the OHC practitioner teams for the past 16 years, Alex Howard is also an experienced psychology practitioner, having led the Therapeutic Coaching practitioner programme since 2005, training the next generation of psychology practitioners. Alex has a daily vlog and podcast which includes interviews, filmed sessions with his patients, and inspirational recovery stories. You can find out more at www.alexhoward.tv Join Alex's Reset Program, a 3 part video series that helps you reset your nervous system and increase your energy! Click here! Are toxic metals causing your fatigue and health issues? Find out by taking Wendy’s Heavy Metals Quiz at heavymetalsquiz.com/