nervous system
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If it’s uncomfortable or unsustainable to live with continuously, ask your body why — and how it can help you make decisions that are the kindest possible to your nervous system.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Platts said while most people associate radiation with cancer risk, it also can impact the central nervous system and blood circulation.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
But the enteric nervous system, which governs gut motility through a dense network of neurons that neuroscientists sometimes call the “second brain,” is not built to sustain that kind of chronic, pharmacological override.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026
But the brain’s task is merely to keep us alive by reading “body-to-brain signals” such as hunger and thirst: The nervous system evolved to “mind the body.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
As Colbert and Chamberlin observed, “there is a nervous system, of wires and printers’ types, which connect all together, and . . . places Chicago in close rapport with all parts of the world.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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