Episode 6 – Understanding The Cell Danger Response

Shownotes The cell danger response (CDR) is the body’s universal and ancient response to threat. It offers a framework from which we can begin to  understand what may be happening in those experiencing burnout and fatigue conditions like CFS/ME. Knowing where you are in the CDR can help you to make decisions about what to focus on and where to prioritise your resources in your fatigue recovery journey.  Useful links: Website: https://annamarsh.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna_marsh_nutrition/ Fatigue Recovery Quiz: https://app.annamarsh.co.uk/quiz Understanding The Cell Danger Response Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the chronic fatigue and burnout recovery podcast. I am your host of functional medicine and nutritional therapist Anna Marsh, and today, we will talk about the cell danger response. The cell danger response is a fantastic framework for understanding or putting your chronic fatigue symptoms into context.  So I came across the cell danger response through the work of Dr. Neil Nathan, who I absolutely love. He wrote the book toxic, which prompted me to test my urine and mycotoxins, and eventually discovered that that was a big factor in the symptoms I was experiencing. But all of that aside, the original creator of the model was Dr. Robert Navio.  I’m not the expert that Dr. Neil Nathan or Dr. Robert Navio is in this area. But this podcast is not about bringing you all the very detailed science. And it’s about helping you understand these frameworks. So you have some context for what could be happening in your body and how to approach the different recovery phases.  As I said already, I love this framework. The purpose of today is to teach it to you, and hopefully, some pennies will drop, some things will fall into place, and you’ll have a little bit more context to support you on your journey. I think one of the hardest things about experiencing a syndrome like chronic fatigue syndrome, when there are many hard things about experiencing a syndrome like chronic fatigue syndrome, is that there’s this lack of understanding because you’re not getting the support from your regular doctor, there are some incredible doctors out there.  But for the most part, many people have these very traumatic stories of not being fully supported and fully understanding what’s going on. Today’s purpose is to give you a little bit more understanding and guide you on your journey. So the cell danger response is an ancient cellular intelligence. It is the body’s or the cells’ universal response to threat. It’s how the cells respond to danger in the body, as the name suggests.  Talking about danger or a threat could be a trigger, like a chemical or toxin exposure, a physical threat, or a biological threat. It’s anything that exceeds the cell’s capacity to maintain homeostasis, which is essentially how the cells and body regulate itself, and ul...