Our nervous system is one of the most important systems in our body, and we can tell that by just how much of it is going to be protected and encased in bone of our spine and our pelvis. For a video on that, you should definitely check out doctor [inaudible 00:00:15] from last week. She did a great job describing some of the function and how that's working with and for you. But let's think about your nerves, like your information superhighway between your body and your brain. So it's going to be responsible for receiving the information like touch, and smell, and sound through the nerves and most of them through your spinal cord, up and into your brain. And then your brain then responsible for sending that communication back out into the rest of your organs and your muscles to tell them what to do based on that information.
And so each one of these segments of your spine is going to be responsible for relaying different nerves to different areas of your body. And when they're all working well together, your body can function as a whole. And this is not just with our muscles, but it can be with our glands and our body too, and our organs. And so you can feel this function through the stress response in the body. And so if you say you get cut off in your vehicle and you feel your heart rate increase and you feel your hands get a little bit clammy, that's your nervous system helping your organs and your tissues respond to the stress. And so your nervous system is helping your body adapt and work with your environment each and every moment of the day.
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-Dr. Daniel