Biology Beyond the Obvious is a 9-part blog series reframing overlooked systems—fascia, mitochondria, gut, skin, water, senses—through the nervous system lens.
Your somatic practice works in session and falls flat at home. State-locked learning explains the gap — and understanding it changes how you install practices that actually stick.
Most midlife women think they can’t relax because they’re too stressed. The truth is biochemical: relaxation costs ATP, and most midlife women are running on metabolic fumes. Their tension is, more accurately, a fuel problem.
Valerian and CBD are supposed to calm the nervous system. If these calming supplements made you feel worse, that response is precise information about the terrain they ran into.
