Sympathetic nervous system

The sympathetic nervous system maintains our flight or fight response.  The nerves here have adrenergic nerve endings and use noradrenaline as their neurotransmitter.  When this nervous system is stimulated it can:

• Increase the heart rate – so that we get more oxygen going to the muscle cells ready for flight

• Dilate the pupils – so we can see better in perhaps low light when we flee

• Constrict blood vessels to the gut and inhibit the stomach, the pancreas and intestine as well as urination – so we have no need to poo or wee during flight

• Relax the bronchi in the lungs, so lung capacity expands to take in more oxygen for our cells

• It also promotes ejaculation – but here I think we have a strange by product of a far age flee mechanism, if we are going to die then we might as well pro-create before we die.

Observations

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• Acute Effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide in Healthy Subjects
• Clinical Results and Physiological Effects of Immobilizing Lung Chamber Therapy in Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• Dr J C Barker - How death prayers and fear can result in death
• Dr Nadine Burke Harris - How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
• Effect of short-term practice of breathing exercises on autonomic functions in normal human volunteers
• Effect of yogic bellows on cardiovascular autonomic reactivity
• Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing Raynaud's disease with Autogenic training, Biofeedback and Visualisation
• Green, Drs Elmer and Alyce – Healing the Migraine of Lillian Petroni
• Vitamin D deficiency and Hyperthyroidism
• Watson, Lyall - Cold fronts and warm fronts