autonomic
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The autonomic nervous system helps regulate many automatic functions in the body, including digestion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
The authors suggested that high dose Wegovy may increase the risk of reduced blood supply to the optic nerve through mechanisms involving blood pressure drops, fluid loss, and instability in the autonomic nervous system.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
Given the dynamic, subconscious and autonomic nature of interpersonal synchrony, we should all probably give ourselves a break if, unlike Will Rogers, we cannot claim to like everyone we meet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
When you see green trees, smell pine and hear gentle rustling leaves or the sound of birdsong, your autonomic nervous system - a network of nerves controlling unconscious processes - responds instantly.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
It is the most compulsively collective, genetically programmed, species-specific, and autonomic of all the things we do, and we are infallible at it.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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