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Alcohol and the ANS Dysfunction

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Years to everyone! It's that time of year for cheer and fun. We go though this every year. ; ) With the Holidays we tend to have lots to do and so much stress is added to our system. Also the wonderful food and spirit and ,over doing it. How can we help it? It's so good. For some of us, there are just certain things that can aggravate our system. One thing is Alcohol. Alcohol does allot to the ANS (Autonomic Nervous) system. I am not saying you can not drink but ,what I am saying is you will have to figure out with Dysautonomia if Alcohol does something to your system, which in most of us, it does. First off Fibromyalgia is piece of  Dysautonomia. Not everyone with Dysautonomia has Fibromyalgia. But, with the ANS system Alcohol plays a major roll when too much is consumed or, maybe just a little. It depends on your Dysautonomia and how it affects your system. Alcohol affects the nervous system by stamping down the signals between