Which system promotes Rest and Digest?

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Which system promotes Rest and Digest?

Promoting Rest and Digest is the job of the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for energy conservation and routine maintenance. It slows the heart rate, stimulates digestion and glandular activity, and supports elimination and restorative processes that occur when the body is at rest. In contrast, the sympathetic nervous system drives the opposite state—preparing the body for stress with actions like increasing heart rate and bronchodilation. Ventilation isn’t a system, but the act of breathing; hypoxia is a lack of oxygen, not a regulatory system; and the sympathetic system is the other branch that counteracts rest-and-digest.

Promoting Rest and Digest is the job of the parasympathetic nervous system, the part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for energy conservation and routine maintenance. It slows the heart rate, stimulates digestion and glandular activity, and supports elimination and restorative processes that occur when the body is at rest. In contrast, the sympathetic nervous system drives the opposite state—preparing the body for stress with actions like increasing heart rate and bronchodilation. Ventilation isn’t a system, but the act of breathing; hypoxia is a lack of oxygen, not a regulatory system; and the sympathetic system is the other branch that counteracts rest-and-digest.

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