Hand tremor treatment is there a natural way to handle it? I'm gonna explain. Hey
I'm Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master health
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hit that notification bell so that you don't miss anything. So in a previous
video I had a viewer with hand tremors who said that his hand tremors improved
after he did some breathing exercises that I had recommended for cold hands and
feet so he had both cold hands and feet and he had hand tremors and he wanted to
know was it possible that working on one could improve the other. So the answer is
absolutely yes. And in this video we're gonna take a look at some of the
mechanisms behind that what happens when you're breathing is you're affecting the
frontal lobe so the frontal lobe is the action part of the brain it's the
executive part it's the thinking part abstract thought it it manages it's
where motivation is most of the things that make you human is because we have a
larger and more sophisticated frontal lobe than any other animal on the planet
and something that's really important and we'll get to also in a second is 85%
of what that frontal lobe does is it turns things off it inhibits things so
that's that little blue line here it shows where things if it's a minus sign
it means it inhibits it turns things office with the plus sign it means it
turns things on so let's talk about a stress response let's say that you're
standing in the street and you're not really paying attention and you see a
bus coming at you you glance over and your body wants to get out of the way
you don't even have to think about it the the the action is taken care of for
you because there is a sympathetic or a
fight/flight response that's gonna kick in and save your life so just to
simplify things we'll call the upper brainstem the sympathetic and that's
your your stress response so that stress response before you even
really have a chance to think about it it's going to increase your heart rate
it's going to increase vasoconstriction and the combination of increased heart
rate and vasoconstriction means your blood pressure goes up and the blood
travels faster out to the muscles and the body parts that can perform work and
get you out of the way you also get more cortisol because cortisol increases
blood sugar and blood sugar extra blood sugar is good in an emergency your body
also up regulates LDL low-density lipoproteins the bad cholesterol which
of course isn't bad it's absolutely appropriate for different situations and
if you're in an emergency there's a chance that you're gonna get injured
cholesterol is part of wound healing and clotting mechanisms so your body makes
sure you get plenty of it and you're also going to breathe faster because you
want to get lots of air into your lungs to provide oxygen so all of these things
happen instantaneously in order to save your life while you're doing that the
upper brainstem the sympathetic inhibits the lower brainstem the parasympathetic
and the reason it does that is that you have limited resources in the body you
only have so much blood so the brain has to decide the brain stem actually
decides where does this go where is it best used in this moment so if you got
to get away from a bus then it's best used in your circulatory and your
muscular system if you're at rest if you just had a good meal then the blood is
best used to digest food and to support your immune system and handle
reproduction and healing it's an either/or it's like a seesaw when you
have a stress response the red area and you're sympathetic kicks in and it's
going to turn off that parasympathetic the feed read system so that you can get
that blood so you can get those Reese for the emergency this is what happens
the sympathetic is always going to override your parasympathetic because a
bus comin at you is always more important and digesting your last meal
this is important but if you don't get away from the bus you don't get it
second chance now the brain the frontal lobe has the ability to override this
so first the sympathetic kicks in it turns off the parasympathetic and then
the frontal lobe takes a look the executive function it evaluates and it
says okay getting away from that bus was a good idea but now we're safe let's
calm things down again so now that frontal lobe which is 85% inhibitory
turning things off it starts to inhibit that stress response so now your heart
rate comes down your vasoconstriction releases so that you get
more vasodilation so you get more blood flow into the periphery so all of these
things go down and now that the frontal lobe inhibits the sympathetics then
that's the same thing as stimulating the parasympathetics because if you turn off
something that turns off that's the same thing as turning something on so now
you're kicking in your digestion your immune system reproduction and so forth
so these are two different states whenever you're stressed then your body
is going to favor the sympathetic side and part of what it does there it's also
going to send some take some blood away from the frontal lobe because you don't
need all of that right now the frontal lobe the
parasympathetic is associated with calm being calm having peace being creative
having abstract thought being able to do things and having fine motor skills so
if you're if you are painting or if you're making a watch or a model
airplane you do that best in the parasympathetic
the sympathetic the the stress response it's more about reaction it puts you
back into your animal instincts because you don't have to think you just have to
act just have to get out of there and therefore gross motor skills are
much more useful you just need to make large movements and when you have a
tremor that's when the brain doesn't inhibit certain things the the ability
to have no movement is when things are inhibited when that frontal lobe is
strong enough to turn things off that's when you have no tremor tremor is
associated with stress and with gross motor skills and everyone that has the
tremor can probably attest to the fact that when they're stressed it gets worse
so when you do breathing exercises when you slow your breath down especially the
out-breath then you're going to activate your parasympathetic nervous system
you're going to activate your frontal lobe you're going to bring the blood
flow back into the frontal lobe you're going to develop more inhibition and
more calm peace creative fine motor skills you're going to improve all the
things that have to do with healing so once you start understanding all these
mechanisms you understand how ingenious the body is and that they're very very
few variables really that's so many conditions whether it's cold hands or
tremor or an ulcer or a poor immune system or erectile dysfunction that it
all fits into this model and also high blood pressure cold hands and feet high
cholesterol all of this fits that same model and it's not going to fix
everything but a simplest thing as breathing can start improving all of it
so it's a central mechanism that we're looking for and that's what holistic
health is all about it's understanding the central mechanisms and helping the
body return to normal hope that was helpful thanks for watching if you
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