13/10/2026
I don't get annoyed at much, but a whole industry has formed around a subject none of the practitioners understand.
I have never heard one nervous system coach talk about calories and real resistance training.
There is a new crazy selling you the s**t that makes no difference.
Your nervous system coach has never once talked about calories in vs calories out.
She/ maybe he, drenched in white private, posting from bali sell you a cold plunge, a breathing protocol and a nine-week regulation course, and not once in any of it does the thing your nervous system actually runs on come up.
Every neuron you own holds a voltage, all day and all night, and holding it costs energy. Three sodium out, two potassium in, one unit of ATP, over and over, in eighty-six billion cells, while you sleep. Your brain is two per cent of you and takes a fifth of everything you burn, and most of that goes on putting ions back where they were. Doing nothing is the expensive part.
(Yes! I listen to some new lectures) đ
That energy has a unit. Kilojoule or calorie, same thing. It comes in through your mouth or it comes out of your own tissue. There is no third source, and there is no breathwork for an empty tank.
So the regulation works, and it does work, for about as long as the session. Then the system goes back to being underfed and under-slept and never asked to move, which is to say it goes back to being dysregulated, and you book the next session.
I have watched people do a year of breathwork on half the food they need and call the shaking a release.
Ask her how a neuron works. Then ask her why calories were never on the slide.
Regulation is the tiles on the roof. Nobody is selling you the house built on unshakable foundations.
