274. How Stress, Trauma & Anxiety Secretly Destroy Your Health | Andrew Huberman, Nervous System Healing, Cortisol Detox & Natural Stress Relief with David DeHaas
Can stress, trauma, and unresolved emotions actually make you sick? In this eye-opening episode of The Whole Body Detox Show, David DeHaas dives deep into the science and natural healing strategies behind stress reduction, nervous system regulation, emotional detoxification, and whole-body wellness. Discover how chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels may contribute to anxiety, fatigue, weight gain, inflammation, immune dysfunction, and long-term health problems — and learn practical tech...
Can stress, trauma, and unresolved emotions actually make you sick?
In this eye-opening episode of The Whole Body Detox Show, David DeHaas dives deep into the science and natural healing strategies behind stress reduction, nervous system regulation, emotional detoxification, and whole-body wellness.
Discover how chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels may contribute to anxiety, fatigue, weight gain, inflammation, immune dysfunction, and long-term health problems — and learn practical techniques that may help calm the nervous system naturally.
In this episode, David discusses:
• Andrew Huberman’s physiological sigh breathing technique for anxiety relief
• How cortisol impacts weight gain, fatigue, and chronic stress
• The Japanese “third eye” pressure point for calming the nervous system
• HeartMath coherence and frequency-based healing practices
• Dr. James Pennebaker’s expressive writing research on trauma healing
• Nervous system regulation and vagus nerve activation
• Grounding, earthing, sunlight exposure, and parasympathetic healing
• Emotional detox and unresolved trauma stored in the body
• Natural stress relief tools and holistic healing practices
• Colon hydrotherapy and detoxification approaches used at Living Waters Wellness Center
David also shares insights from more than 20 years of helping people restore their health through detoxification, emotional processing, cleansing protocols, nervous system support, and natural healing therapies.
Plus, hear updates about:
• The Living Waters 10-Day Healing Retreat
• Upcoming BioHack Boise wellness events
• Volunteer opportunities at Living Waters Wellness Center
• Natural approaches to restoring health from the inside out
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Unknown Speaker (0:04): The following information is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is not meant to diagnose, treat, prevent, cure, or prescribe for any medical or psychological conditions. Seek out the opinion of a qualified healthcare professional if you need medical attention. The guests of this show provide their own opinions and may not represent the values or beliefs of Living Waters Wellness Center or Whole Body Detox Show. And welcome everyone to today's Whole Body Detox Show. I'm David DeHaas from Living Waters Wellness Center.
David DeHaas (0:25): Living Waters Wellness Center was formed after we discovered how to heal my body from multiple symptoms, including allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue, back pain, psoriasis, acne, hives, yeast infections, and finally cancer. And I did it all naturally. After twenty years of trying numerous different treatments, medical treatments, cleanses, iridology, muscle therapy, acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy, naturopathy, those experiences led us to discover that recipe that led to become known as the four natural laws of healing. Combining multiple natural healing modalities to fully detox and cleanse the body and allowing the body to take the perfect nutrition to fully restore the body back to its innate health. This became known as a ten day healing retreat.
Unknown Speaker (1:02): We've helped thousands of people just like you get their health restored so they can live their life to the fullest. If you wanna learn how you can get your body back to living your best life, go livingwaterscleanse.com. Click on that link for natural laws of healing and watch the video or call the office at (208) 378-9911. Alright. Got a great show for you today.
Unknown Speaker (1:22): Snap on your mental seat belt. We got a lot to cover. I don't know if I get done with everything in the thirty eight minutes that I'm allotted, but I'm gonna try. And if I do have time, I'm gonna talk about the hantavirus, which yours truly actually got back in 2023 and damn near killed me. I was sick.
David DeHaas (1:41): June. So we'll talk about how I healed from that and why you shouldn't be too scared of it unless you're hanging around a bunch of rat poop or mice poop. Anyway, let's talk about today, I'm gonna talk about stress. And if we get time for the haunta, if not, we'll have the haunta next week. How's that?
David DeHaas (1:57): So let's talk about stress. You know, it seems like in this world, it just gets more stressful and more stressful and more stressful. Time's going faster and faster as we age. So this is pretty cool study. The Japanese scientists found a death point on your body.
David DeHaas (2:14): If you press it for thirty seconds to reset cortisol and slow aging. They tested 500 volunteers. Here's the results that shocked even them. And by the way, I'm getting my research today off the old good old Internets. A little group on Instagram is called Time Investors.
David DeHaas (2:31): They always good stuff. So your cortisol is through the roof. And by the way, when you have high cortisol, it's really, really hard to lose weight. In fact, you can really pack on the pounds just by having your cortisol shot through the roof. Constant stress, faster aging, chronic fatigue.
David DeHaas (2:47): So many of you are in chronic fatigue. Pills don't help. Meditation course feels useless. Vacation works for a few days, then everything comes back. For twenty years, Japanese researchers studied three acupuncture points.
David DeHaas (3:02): They were looking for the one that could instantly lower cortisol, and they found it. After just thirty seconds of pressure, cortisol dropped by 40 to 60%. For some people, it returned to normal levels. Heart rate slowed. Blood pressure decreased.
David DeHaas (3:20): Breathing became steady. The effect felt like one full hour of deep meditation, but it took thirty seconds. Where is this point? Between your eyebrows, right above the bridge of your nose. In yoga, it's called the third eye.
David DeHaas (3:41): In Chinese medicine, it's called the yin tang point. Here's how you press it correctly. Sit up straight. Close your eyes. Use your middle finger and press the spot between your eyebrows.
David DeHaas (3:55): Not too hard, but firm enough to feel it. Breathe slowly and deeply. Count to 30. Do it when the stress hits, before an important meeting, after an argument, when you feel shaken inside. It works instantly.
David DeHaas (4:18): So why hasn't your doctor told you about it? Well, because they can't sell it. No pills, no courses, no therapy sessions. But you can do it yourself. It's free.
David DeHaas (4:29): Do it anywhere you want. Strong man controls his state. You don't have to become a hostage to stress. You know the points. Use them.
David DeHaas (4:39): Stress actually doesn't start in your mind. It starts in your nervous system. Your thoughts follow your body. You calm that signal. The mind obeys.
David DeHaas (4:52): Most people try to think their way out of stress, but stress is biological first. Your body is waiting for one message, and that is, are you safe? Pressure on this point activates a parasympathetic response. Heart slows. Breath deepens.
David DeHaas (5:10): Cortisol drops. Survival mode turns off. Your subconscious mind listens to physical signals more than words, not affirmations, not motivation, but regulation. State creates thought, not the other way around. When your nervous system calms, your identity shifts.
David DeHaas (5:34): You respond differently, decide differently, attract differently. Peace becomes your baseline. This is why ancient systems focused on the body first, breath, posture, pressure points. They weren't mystical. They were neurological.
David DeHaas (5:54): Master your nervous system, and you master your reality. Calm is power. Practice this tonight. Let me know what you discover, and give us a review on the Googles if it helped you out a lot. And thanks to our friends over at Time Investors for sharing this important information.
David DeHaas (6:13): One of the things that we know to be true from our twenty years of helping people heal naturally is that we give you a bunch of emotional tools. And what you don't understand is that we're one big bag of cell, 50,000,000,000,000 cells in our body. And what quantum scientists have found is discovered is that in every cell, there's atoms. And these atoms, they've measured it. There's not bone, blood, or tissue.
David DeHaas (6:40): It's space. But what's in the space? Frequency. Ah, frequency. It's kinda like a radio station.
Unknown Speaker (6:50): You know the analog radio dials we used to have in our cars and in our homes? You know, you wouldn't get the dial right in and kinda shut and then, hey. And then you hear the voice and it comes in and out. Frequency. Right?
David DeHaas (7:02): If we change the frequency and lock in to the right tune, literally retune our cells, you can change your immune system. In fact, scientists discovered another process tool that we use at Living Waters called HeartMath Coherence. We talked about it deeply in episode one sixty three with doctor Devin Rosman of HeartMath. When you activate the heart and get it in alignment with the brain, you get those in sync, you can lower stress. They teach us through the army, the navy, military, police force.
David DeHaas (7:39): Now David teaches to everyone who comes to the ten day healing retreat. And when we do this, we know we can upbreak the immune system fifty five percent. During COVID, they took meditators doing this breath work to change the frequency. And when they did that, they took their blood, and they drew the blood from these about a 100 meditators. They put the COVID virus in it, and it would not attach to the cells.
David DeHaas (8:05): It would not the COVID virus would not attach to the cells because they'd changed their frequency. Change your frequency. Change your life. The messier, the better. The more honest, the better.
David DeHaas (8:16): The more private, the better. Most people were never taught this. They were taught to move on. Be strong. Do not dwell.
David DeHaas (8:23): Keep it together. The things they kept together stayed in the body as chronic tension, unexplained illness, low grade anxiety, and the persistent feeling that something unfinished was still running in the background. The body does not forget what the mind refuses to process. Every unwritten experience stays as an open file in the nervous system using energy, generating background noise, keeping the threat system slightly activated around the clock. Writing closes the file, not by resolving the experience, by completing the brain's processing of it.
David DeHaas (8:57): Pen Baker's most important finding, you do not have to share it for it to work. You do not have to show anyone. You do not have to make it coherent. You do not have to reach a conclusion. You only have to write it honestly for twenty minutes, then close the notebook.
David DeHaas (9:12): The healing happens in the writing, not in the reading, not in the sharing, in the act of converting what was held inside into words. This works even for experiences you believe you have already processed, even for things you think are over because the body keeps its own record. What feels resolved in the mind is not always resolved in the nervous system. The pen defines what the mind has learned to skip past. The practice, set a timer for twenty minutes.
David DeHaas (9:40): Write about something you have been carrying. Not to make it beautiful, not to make it make sense, not to reach a conclusion. Just write what happened, what you felt, what you never said, what you still feel now. Then close the notebook. You may feel worse during the four days.
David DeHaas (9:59): Penn and Baker found this consistently. The writing stirs what was settled. The body activates around the material. Emotions surface that were buried. Stay with it.
David DeHaas (10:10): By day four, something shifts. The activation decreases. The background noise quiets. The body exhales. Something it has been holding longer than you realized.
David DeHaas (10:25): You're not taught to process your own experience. You're taught to manage it, to cope with it, to function despite it. Managing is not healing. The body knows the difference. Writing is not therapy.
David DeHaas (10:38): It is the most direct conversation available between the mind and the body that carries it. Most people will spend their whole lives managing what they carry. The rare ones will pick up a pen and discover that the body was always waiting for permission to put it down. We saw this every single cleanse, And some of the processes that we have you go through is really powerful. Not too long ago, I had a gentleman who had a issue in his throat, Had a cancer there, actually, and he was coughing a lot.
David DeHaas (11:18): Had some back pain. But this emotion had never been channeled and taken care of since he was a child. Throat. What does throat mean? Throat energy, the ability to speak your voice.
David DeHaas (11:33): He'd been told to shut up as a little kid and just do what he was told. It's his biggest regret. Told me he wished he would have spoken back to his dad. And yet here all the stuffed emotion had created a tumor in his neck and a cough that wouldn't stop. How do you unleash that unlocked emotion?
David DeHaas (11:56): We use several tools for him. One of them is is that he needed to start expressing himself. I had him scream loud as he could. Oh, and just get it out. I said, scream, cush, yell, just get it out.
David DeHaas (12:10): I gotta tell you one of the other things you can do, we didn't have any acts here, but sometimes chopping wood, breaking glass, beating on a pillow, anything you can do to get the motions out because that trauma that stays circulating and and and just winding over and over and over like a really bad frequency in the tissues in your in your atoms of your cells. And, eventually, it's gonna express some way that brings a dishyphen ease. It's what Pennebaker discovered here was a way for you to process it using the magic of writing with a pen. I'm gonna be speaking at the biohackboise.com event. Boy biohackboise.com.
David DeHaas (12:55): Go get your tickets. There's little discount right now, at biohackboise.com. 10 individual speakers such as myself, a bunch of vendors to meet the Marriott Courtyard in Meridian there at Eagle Road in Overland on June. You don't wanna miss it. This is gonna be an absolute amazing event.
David DeHaas (13:14): All the things you wanna learn about biohacking could be right there at one easy place to get it. I'm David DeHaas, Living Waters. We'll be back in a moment. (208) 378-9911. Nothing is more exciting than seeing a client shed their diseases and symptoms caused from accumulated toxins the chemicals in our foods, the clothes we wear and the air we breathe, and by cleansing through colon hydrotherapy and treating the whole body naturally.
Unknown Speaker (13:37): Here's what a few clients had to say about their experience at Living Waters Wellness Center.
Richard (13:40): My name is Richard. I came to Living Waters because I was low on energy and for my memory, and I've accomplished both. Living Waters did it for me. Thank you, Living Waters.
Bialta (13:50): My name is Bialta. I came to Living Waters Wellness because also I have problem with carpal tunnels. And now I move my hands. It doesn't hurt. I don't feel tension.
Bialta (14:01): So thank you.
Unknown Speaker (14:01): I came into Living Waters because I've suffered with allergies and asthma my whole life. I was recently diagnosed with EOE, which is where your food gets stuck in your esophagus from high eosinophils in my blood. Since I've been here, I have more energy. I have no hardly any mucus, and I can think more clearly. I feel better.
Unknown Speaker (14:24): My skin feels better. Thank you, Living Waters.
Unknown Speaker (14:26): I came to Living Waters because I've had a persistent rash on my face for two years. I also have migraines that go along with my menses. I have brain fog, lack of focus and motivation, and I'm on medicine for thyroid and my pituitary gland. Since coming to Living Waters, I no longer have my rash. I do not have any sugar cravings, and I have lots of motivation and focus.
Unknown Speaker (14:48): Thank you, Living Waters.
Unknown Speaker (14:49): To learn more about the ten day healing retreat, go to LivingWaters livingwaterscleanse.com, click on the link, Four Natural Laws of Healing, and watch the video and check out this hundreds of clients who heal from their symptoms under the Success Stories tab or call the office at (208) 378-9911. That's (208) 378-9911. The preceding examples may not be typical of your experience, may not be right for you. Talk to a health care professional to see if cleansing is right for you. And welcome back to the show, David DeHaas, your host of the Whole Body Detox Show from Living Waters Wellness Center where miracles begin by healing from within.
David DeHaas (15:22): Learn more about what we do at livingwaterscleanse.com. Watch the video, the four natural laws of healing. You don't have to be sick. You just need to get your cell well. And we have about a 40 step process that takes five to six hours a day for ten straight days.
David DeHaas (15:37): And it's the most amazing healing retreat you can go on and change your condition quickly and easily. We've been doing this now for over twenty years here at Living Waters. We've been going since 2008. Put the process together back in 2006, and it's pretty cool to see all the changes throughout the years. You can actually see some of those changes in people over the success stories on that tab on the website, livingwaterscleanse.com.
David DeHaas (16:07): Today, we're talking about stress, and we're talking about how to lower stress and because it's so important to change the vibration in your cells so that you can get well. And again, from our friends at Time Investors, this is a great little post about a guy named doctor James Penbaker. He spent thirty years studying why some people recover from trauma and others don't. He found the same pattern in every person who healed. It had nothing to do with therapy or time.
David DeHaas (16:35): Medicine ignored it. His patients didn't. James Pennebaker was a professor of psychology, University of Texas at Austin. Not a therapist, not a self help author. A research scientist who spent three decades measuring what actually happens inside the body when people process what happened to them.
David DeHaas (16:52): What he found changed how science understands healing. He started with one observation. Some people who experienced trauma recovered fully. Others with identical experiences did not. The difference was not the severity, not the support system, not the therapy they received.
David DeHaas (17:11): It was something far simpler and far more accessible. The people who recovered had found a way to put the experience into words, not to perform it, not to share it publicly, and not to seek sympathy, simply to convert what was stored in the body into language. That conversion was a mechanism of healing. Pennebaker ran a series of experiments that stunned the medical community. He asked participants to write about their deepest emotions and most difficult experiences for twenty minutes a day for four consecutive days.
David DeHaas (17:46): Nothing else changed. No therapy, no medication, no lifestyle intervention, just writing. The results after six weeks, measurable improvement in immune function, significant reduction in cortisol levels, lower rates of doctor visits, reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety, faster physical recovery from illness. Not from talking about it, not from understanding it, not from resolving it, from writing it. The mechanism is precise.
David DeHaas (18:14): Trauma and unprocessed emotion are stored in the body as incomplete experiences. The nervous system keeps them active because they were never finished, never named, never sequenced, never given a beginning, middle, and end. Writing forces the brain to do what it could to do at the moment of the experience, organize it. When the brain organizes an experience into language, it moves from the amygdala where the threat lives to the prefrontal cortex where meaning lives. The body stops treating the memory as a current danger.
David DeHaas (18:43): The immune system stops preparing for a threat that is no longer there. Pennabaker called it expressive writing, not journaling for gratitude, not positive affirmations, not structured reflection, raw, unfiltered, uncensored writing about what actually happened, how it actually felt. It's like you wanna put on the brakes, but instead you hit the accelerator. The body is doing the opposite of what it needs. The physiological sigh interrupts that loop at the physiological level before the mind has a chance to amplify it further.
David DeHaas (19:17): The research on when to use it: Before a difficult conversation in the middle of a panic response, before a presentation or a performance, when waking at 3AM with a racing mind. Do it at any moment when the body is activated and the mind is following. Two inhales now, then one long exhale. Repeat twice if needed. You should notice a difference within thirty seconds.
David DeHaas (19:44): Now Huberman also found that the physiological sigh works differently from other breathing techniques because it does not require sustained practice. Boxed breathing, that's four, seven, eight breathing, and other techniques require weeks of consistent practice before they produce reliable results in acute stress. The physiological sigh works the first time you use it because it's not a learned technique. It's a biological mechanism your body already knows. You've been carrying anxiety as if it were a psychological problem that required a psychological solution.
David DeHaas (20:21): Therapy, mindset work, positive thinking, willpower. Some anxiety is psychological, and those tools have their place. But acute anxiety, the kind that arrives suddenly, the kind that ticks over your body, the kind that makes thinking clearly feel impossible, is psychological first, and it has a psychological solution that takes thirty seconds and doesn't cost you a dime. So again, two sharp inhales. One long slow exhale through the mouth.
Unknown Speaker (20:55): Go ahead and try it right now. You can do it when you're driving down the road. Slow and as long as possible until the lungs are completely empty. Repeat twice. That's it.
David DeHaas (21:04): Your nervous system is gonna do the rest. You don't have to believe it'll work. You do not have to be in the right mindset. You don't have to practice this for months. The mechanism operates regardless of your belief in it.
David DeHaas (21:19): Carbon dioxide is released. The vagus nerve is activated. The heart rate slows. The anxiety response diminishes. Biology does not require your permission.
David DeHaas (21:30): You know, just doing that one just now and how you guys are feeling, I'm feeling much better. So what did Hebron wanted people to understand? He says, you're not the mercy of your anxiety. Your nervous system has a built in off switch. It's always been there, but you were never taught that existed or how to use it.
David DeHaas (21:50): Every time anxiety arrives and you white knuckle through it or try to think past it or wait for it to pass on its own, you're choosing not to use the most effective tool your body already has. Two inhales, one exhale, thirty seconds. That switch has always been there. Most people will spend their whole lives managing anxiety, taking the pill or drug they could have interrupted in thirty seconds. The rare birds will use the switch and discover the body was never working against them.
David DeHaas (22:18): It was waiting for them to give it the signal it already knew how to respond to. And, again, from our good buddies over at Time Investors, if you're on the Instagrams, go follow those people, Time Investors. Got good stuff every day. We're gonna be back in a moment. Don't forget, I'm gonna be speaking at biohackboise.com, Me and some friends, June twenty sixth, twenty seventh.
David DeHaas (22:40): Get your tickets. Biohackboise.com. If you're interested in cleansing and getting on our ten day healing retreat, time's running out. Our June is sold out. July is getting filled up, and it's a beautiful retreat.
David DeHaas (22:53): Five to six hours a day, ten straight days, even the weekend. To get your health miracle, call us at (208) 378-9911. (208) 378-9911 or livingwaterscleanse.com. Nothing is more exciting than seeing a client shed their diseases and symptoms caused from accumulated toxins from the chemicals in our foods, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe, and by cleansing through colon hydrotherapy and treating the whole body naturally. Here's what a few clients had to say about their experience at Living Waters Wellness Center.
Richard (23:25): My name is Richard. I came to Living Waters because I was low on energy and for my memory, and I've accomplished both. Living Waters did it for me. Thank you, Living Waters.
Bialta (23:34): My name is Beata. I came to Living Water Wellness because also I have problem with carpal tunnels. And now I move my hands. It doesn't hurt. I don't feel tension.
Unknown Speaker (23:45): So thank you.
Unknown Speaker (23:46): I came into Living Waters because I've suffered with allergies and asthma my whole life. I was recently diagnosed with EoE, which is where your food gets stuck in your esophagus from high eosinophils in my blood. Since I've been here, I more energy. I have no hardly any mucus, and I can think more clearly. I feel better.
Unknown Speaker (24:08): My skin feels better. Thank you, Living Waters.
Unknown Speaker (24:10): I came to Living Waters because I've had a persistent rash on my face for two years. I also have migraines that go along with my menses. I have brain fog, lack of focus, and motivation, and I'm on medicine for thyroid and my pituitary gland. Since coming to Living Waters, I no longer have my rash. I do not have any sugar cravings, and I have lots of motivation and focus.
Unknown Speaker (24:33): Thank you, Living Waters.
Unknown Speaker (24:33): To learn more about the ten day healing retreat, go to livingwaterscleanse.com. Click on the link for natural laws of healing and watch the video and check out this hundreds of clients who heal from their symptoms under the success stories tab or call the office at (208) 378-9911. That's (208) 378-9911. The preceding examples may not be typical of your experience. It may not be right for you.
Unknown Speaker (24:53): Talk to a healthcare professional to see if cleansing is right for you. Alright. We're talking about stress today. And speaking of stress, I got a little stress down here living in waters. I'm looking for a colon hydrotherapist.
David DeHaas (25:03): If you're the one who likes to help people get better and watch miracles and you can juggle a few things all at the same time and, wanna work for a fun boss like myself and my wife, then give us a call. (208) 378-9911. Some part time openings about four to five hours a day. We got a shift in the morning from 08:30 to twelve, 01:00, and then from, 12:30 to about five. And, and then we also got a Saturday opening.
David DeHaas (25:27): So, anyway, if you're looking for a little something extra, this could be a fun place to be. We're talking a lot about stress today, and the next set I wanna talk about is another technique. And this is brought to you by and discovered by Andrew Huberman. Don't know if you guys have watched him or not. He's a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine.
David DeHaas (25:48): And he spent decades studying how the nervous system regulates itself. So the human body has a built in mechanism for resetting the nervous system in real time. We've already given you a couple of those today. And, it's not an app. It's not a meditation practice that requires a month of training.
David DeHaas (26:04): It's a biological reflex your body already knows how to do, but you were never taught to do it deliberately. It's called the physiological sigh. Now you probably already do it involuntarily, every five minutes during the day, or frequently during sleep. A double inhale through the nose followed by a long, slow exhale through the mouth. Your body uses it automatically to reset carbon dioxide levels and prevent the lungs from collapsing.
David DeHaas (26:31): But Humerman's research found, confirmed, it can be deployed deliberately to reset the nervous system in moments of acute anxiety or stress. The mechanism is precise. When you are anxious, carbon dioxide builds up in the bloodstream. The brain interprets elevated carbon dioxide as a threat signal. The threat signal amplifies the anxiety, and the amplified anxiety produces more carbon dioxide.
David DeHaas (26:59): The loop tightens. The physiological sigh releases the excess carbon dioxide in one extended exhale. Two sharp inhales through the nose. The first inhale fills the lungs. The second inhale, the double inhale, pops open the small air sacs in the lungs that collapsed under stress.
David DeHaas (27:22): Then one slow, long exhale through the mouth as long as possible until the lungs are completely empty. That extended exhale directly activates the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve signals the heart to slow. The heart signals the brain that the threat is over. Huberman's research confirmed this is the fastest known method for shifting the nervous system from threat to safety.
David DeHaas (27:50): Faster than box breathing, faster than cold exposure, faster than any meditation technique ever studied. Not because it is more powerful in the long term, because it directly addresses this physiological cause of the anxiety rather than trying to think past it. This is why telling yourself to calm down never works. The anxious brain is not producing anxiety because of a thought. It is producing anxiety because of a physiological state.
David DeHaas (28:21): Elevated carbon dioxide activated sympathetic nervous system accelerated heart rate. You cannot think your way out of a physiological state, but you can breathe your way out of it in thirty seconds. Most people in moments of anxiety breathe faster and more shallowly. This is the automatic response, and it makes everything worse. Faster breathing increases carbon dioxide imbalance, increases sympathetic activation, and increases the anxiety response.
David DeHaas (28:58): Alright. Don't forget. Biohackboise.com. I'm speaking on the twenty sixth and twenty seventh at the event on Overland Road and Eagle Road in Meridian at the Marriott Courtyard. Go get tickets at biohackboise.com.
David DeHaas (29:10): They're looking for vendors. There's gonna be about 10 speakers. We'll be talking about all the latest stuff. And yours truly, of course, will be talking about all the secrets of cleansing. And, we're gonna talk about one more tool to help you with stress before we go today, and this is about salt.
David DeHaas (29:29): Stand barefoot on salt for ten minutes. An hour later, you felt like you returned from a two week vacation. Here's what's going on. This may sound ridiculous to you, but you put salt on the floor, stand still, no supplements, no tools, just feet, put ten minutes. The first few minutes, you may not enjoy it, but the crystal's pressed into the heels.
David DeHaas (29:47): The body will tense a little bit. The mind will keep saying, this is pointless. What are we doing here? Then something's gonna shift. Your breathing may get slower.
David DeHaas (29:57): Shoulders may drop. The jaw becomes unclenched. Not sleepiness, but you become calm. Physiotherapists explain why this happens. Your feet contains hundreds of nerve endings connecting directly to the nervous system.
David DeHaas (30:11): They constantly send signals to the brain. The salt creates a natural micromassage. That stimulation sends one powerful message upward. You're safe, and safety changes everything. When the brain sets a safety, the body shifts from fight to flight to rest and repair.
David DeHaas (30:30): This is the parasympathetic state, the body's healing mode. In that state, heart rate slows, breathing deepens, muscle tension releases, the mental noise quiets. Stress doesn't disappear. It lets go. About an hour later, the effects are noticeable.
David DeHaas (30:48): Clearer head, lighter joints, steadier heartbeat, reduced anxiety. That's not stimulation. That's a reset. By morning, most people report less facial puffiness, reduced back stiffness, calmer wake up, better mood clarity, small input, but a large nervous system response. Use coarse sea salt, not fine table salt.
David DeHaas (31:10): I like to use Himalayan salt. Spread one to two centimeters on a taller basin, stand barefoot, weight evenly distributed, stay for ten minutes, then rinse your feet with warm water. That's it. It's not therapy. It's sensory grounding, something the body doesn't need motivation.
David DeHaas (31:26): It just needs to feel safe again. You don't calm the mind by thinking. You calm it by speaking to the body first. Another little tool that we share with you on the ten day healing retreat is grounding. Take the shoes and socks off.
David DeHaas (31:40): Go out and stand in the dirt or the grass. If you got a chair and the sun's shining, Take your top off so you can bare your belly. Bare your back, however much you can bear. Let the sun soak in. Take your glasses off.
David DeHaas (31:54): Let that sun hit your eyes. Put that feet in the grass and just sit there. Five minutes, ten minutes. The, electrons coming up out of the ground is going in your body, and it's giving your body a great reset. It's actually amazing.
David DeHaas (32:12): Do you remember as a kid when you used to get on the grass and roll down the hills and then just lay there in the sun? Do you remember that? Maybe you should do it again at 55 or sixty five or seventy five. Just go lay in the grass. Get as much of your body exposed to the earth.
David DeHaas (32:29): Standing or sitting in a chair is easy. If you can gaze into the sun a little bit, get some d three d three into your skin, and don't put on sunscreen. You don't wanna block the sun. You want the raw sun. And if you're not eating seed oils, like I've told you many times, it's not a wise idea, you're not gonna burn.
David DeHaas (32:51): You're gonna reset your body by deep tissue cleansing and detoxifying it with little waters. And I don't use sunscreen anymore. The only time I use sunscreen, if I'm floating a river or I'm in water someplace. That's the only time. Think about it.
David DeHaas (33:07): Our ancestors lived throughout the years with no sunscreen. They didn't have it back then. It's only been around for a short time. But you're gonna notice, like, today before I came down and taped this off, one of the things I did is I went and I laid in the sun for about forty minutes. Oh my gosh.
Unknown Speaker (33:25): That's restoring. Are you guys doing it? Are you guys going out and sunbathing? It's the best thing you can do. Don't put any oils on.
David DeHaas (33:32): Don't no sun no sunscreen. Just do it. And I have got a wish. I've got a dream. I need somebody to help me.
David DeHaas (33:39): My little side gig is Idahoans for safe technology. I need some buddies to help me. I need some buddies to go out and help put up banners for a day, take them back down. I need someone to help manage our email and our, Mailchimp account. I need some people to help make contact with, city the county commissioners and the city mayors, congress.
David DeHaas (34:04): I just need some help. David and Hank have been doing amazing job over these years, but we're we've been stretched thin. We've been to six years. So I need someone to help do some of these basic things. I got some great ideas.
David DeHaas (34:15): We we're in a crisis right now. There's, like, six more bad bills coming, and I need someone to help organize and and communicate. So if you're one of those people that wanna volunteer to help prevent us getting radiated by our electromagnetic frequency from the cell towers, reach out to me at (208) 378-9911. Also looking for a part time colon hydrotherapist about four to five hours a day. Reach out to us.
David DeHaas (34:39): (208) 378-9911. And we also have volunteers at Living Waters. So if you wanna volunteer a few hours at Living Waters, especially on our ten day healing retreat, reach out to us for that as well. We have a need for someone simply to help get people from one room to the next and just kind of, oversee where everyone's supposed to be at and keep track of them so they keep on their task so they get through all the, therapies they do each day. So reach out to us about that.
David DeHaas (35:14): (208) 378-9911. And one other request. I'm a throw it out there. Living Waters has a is a nonprofit foundation, and I'm looking for someone to volunteer and help us with some electrical work. We need to upgrade our panel and add actually another panel.
David DeHaas (35:34): I'm looking for that to happen as well. So reach out to us about that as well. And if you're just sitting around and you got some brain fog and sore joints, not feeling well, gut issues, gas, bloating, you have little signs of yeast candida on your toes? Well, that's an internal condition. All things can be solved through colon hydrotherapy.
David DeHaas (35:57): So reach out to us about that. Go over the website, livingwaterscleanse.com. Click on the link, the four natural laws of healing, and learn about how to detoxify the body properly and stay away from the middle aisles in the store, get only organic food to change your condition, and stay away from the toxic toxic chemicals in these processed foods. If you wanna live your best life, we got a $5,000,000,000,000 sick care bill, and I believe we can change it by detoxifying the body. My friends, it's been fun to be with you this week.
David DeHaas (36:35): David DeHaas, Living Waters Wellness Center. (208) 378-9911. Until next week, have a blessed week, my friends.

















