Fluctuating Signals create noise and confuse the body
Your body is constantly reading itself. Picking up signals, subtle and obvious from every part of your body. There are two primary abilities. Interoception and proprioception.
Interoception is the ability to feel your heartbeat, hunger, or the fullness of your lungs. Proprioception is your body’s sense of where it is in space.
Together, these senses drive your ability to function.
Your ability to know how much more your arm can stretch or how much pressure is being applied on your feet. Or whether your heart is beating fast or slow.
One key need is stable signals.
The ability of your body to reliably read signals that are consistent.
Now imagine a patient with fluctuating blood pressure or wildly swinging blood sugar. When signals swing unpredictably, the calibration of these senses begins to falter.
Blood pressure or blood sugar are not just numbers. Every signal is telling your body how things are.
Each signal then drives a response.
Your heart beating slower or faster or your body produces more or less hormones. Your breath rate changing or your muscles tensing to prevent you from falling.
When signals fluctuate, your brain receives a distorted map of what is happening.
The confusion, especially if it persists, create unreliable signals. Your body and brain get confused what to do.
In Nassim Taleb's words, now we have both signal and noise.
You might describe this condition as feeling anxious, or disconnected. The body tries to predict its state but keeps being surprised by erratic signals.
Over time, this erodes trust in the body’s own cues.
So what can you do?
Remember that your body craves balance. Within set limits. If you are seeing wildly fluctuating signals, understand the underlying cause.
Why is it fluctuating?
Once you understand the root cause you are more likely to stabilise the signal. That will remove the noise.
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