Hello and welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Evan Brand. Hey, if you're new to the show,

I've been around for over a decade now. I think we're 13, 14 years into this podcast. So man, if you've been around since the beginning, holy smokes, got my first gray hair since I started this show, had three kids since I started the show, moved cross-country multiple times since I started this show. it's crazy when you look back, right? All these different chapters in life. Today we're chat with my

buddy Dr. Jay. This is all about stress relief. What do you do to naturally manage stress? How do you navigate this crazy world without being the frazzled person who speeds around everybody and honks and cuts people off and flicks them off? And then you end up at same red light with that dummy and then you look at them like dude your nervous system you're jacked up

you're jacked up man so i hope that you follow me on my instagram it has been an incredible year on

instagram in terms of functional medicine and all of these strategies i'm teaching you all have reached

millions literally literally millions of people some of these strategies I'm teaching you all have reached millions, literally, literally

millions of people. Some of these videos I've done have four, five, three, two, one. I'm just

looking at him here. Millions. We've probably gathered, I don't know, 50 something million views

across the platforms this year in regards to these videos I'm doing on just skin and gut health

and all of that. So I know social media can suck, but I try to make it better. And I try

to put things out there that I would want to personally see and learn. So that's just MR,

like Mr. Evan Brand on Instagram. We're up to 158,000 people on there. So thanks, join the party. Let's get it up to 200 because more people are sick than ever before. And we got to get this info out. So without further ado, let's get into the show. Just a couple things. Order roots.com is doing a Black Friday sale. So if you've already missed that, then I'm sorry, but that's the best sale of the

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I think you'll have a blast and we'll get you better. All right, let's get into the show. And we are live. Is that the J.E. in the house with Evan Brand. Today we're going to be talking about all things, your nervous system, how to regulate your nervous system to calm yourself down so you can deal with stress. It's going to be applied to adults and kids. And we'll dive into all the functional medicine principles and root causes that could throw your nervous function out of balance. Evan, how are doing, my man? Hey, man, I'm doing great. You know, I ignored my nervous system for a long time just because, I don't know, I think it's kind of a male thing. You're just like, I'm in charge. I'm going to be the boss, I'm going to power through. I mean, it's kind of this American attitude, right? You're just like, you know what, if I just work a little harder, grind a little more, lift a little heavier, everything's going to be fine. And it wasn't until I talked with Margaret Christensen years ago. She's an OBGYN who had her own practice. And she ended up with mold. She had me on her mold summit.

And I was talking to her.

And she's like, Evan, if you don't address your nervous system, you're never going to heal. And I was like, ah, okay, whatever, I'll just take some more adaptogens. But she was right. And so once I started working on my nervous system, doing guided meditations, doing float tanks, doing massage.

Ketamine was an absolute game changer.

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