Autopilot: The Autonomic Nervous System

The Autonomic Nervous System automatically controls essential processes whether you’re awake or asleep. It’s the employee of the month. It gets the job done at any time of the day without you even having to ask it. It is our body’s autopilot system, controlling functions we often take for granted, like heart rate, digestion, pupil dilation, and even breathing! Life would be pretty hard on manual.

On This Episode We Discuss:

• “I Sing The Body Electric”


• Hemo and chemo-electric machines


• The nervous systems


• Autonomic nervous system manages many organs and involuntary functions


• Sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves