“Role of stress in health and disease: the West gets closer toan Eastern perspective”

Blanca Rubí

Sympathetic nervous system

Parasympathetic nervous system(vagal)

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM

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• Chronic stress triggers autonomic nervous

system imbalance, characterized by

sympathetic activation and parasympathetic

deficiency.

• Environmental contaminants damage the

autonomic nervous system.

Ageing is related with a decrease in parasympathetic nervous system activity and also with the appearance of metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders.

Integrative Body-Mind Training

Conclusions

• Scientific evidences show that autonomic nervous system imbalance plays a

role in ageing, metabolic abnormalities and cancer metastasis among others.

• Oriental techniques have been shown to balance the autonomic nervous

system and thus are likely to exhert a profound effect in health maintainance.

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parasympathetic

Western approaches begin to recognize that balance is a key factor in

disease prevention and treatment.

As a final remark…Laugh more stress less!!!