Your nervous system is vital for your body—whether in fight or flight mode during an emergency, allowing your body to relax on vacation, or operating your body’s daily functions. But a dysregulated nervous system can leave you feeling stressed, anxious, and fatigued. Read on to understand how to recognize the signs of a dysregulated nervous system and how to naturally restore regulation. What Is the Nervous System and What Does It Do? The nervous system is your body’s communication network made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves carrying messages from the brain throughout your body. Messages sent through the nervous system regulate virtually everything we do, including movement, thoughts, feelings, and our response to stressful situations—and things we do without even thinking about it, like breathing, digesting food, healing wounds, and keeping our hearts beating. The nervous system is divided into two parts: the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral ...
Bring the taste of summer holidays to your kitchen with this delicious, flavour-packed, Spanish-inspired vegetable rice recipe. This dish combines rice with vegetables , tinned tomatoes , olives , saffron and fresh herbs , creating a vibrantly coloured savoury burst of Mediterranean flavour . Enjoy this Spanish-inspired rice as a filling main course for lunch or dinner. Ingredients: 1 onion , peeled and finely chopped 1 red pepper , washed, deseeded and finely chopped 150g mushrooms, washed and sliced 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed 2 tsp olive or vegetable oil 200g long grain white rice 250ml reduced salt chicken stock 400g tinned chopped tomatoes ¼ tsp saffron 10 pitted black olives 1 tbsp chopped parsley or basil Allergens: vegetable stock ingredients will vary, may contain celery . Method: Wash the pepper and mushrooms; deseed and finely chop the pepper and slice the mushrooms. Peel the onion and garlic, then finely chop the onion and crush the garlic. Place a...