Physiology is the science of how your body works from inside, and Integrative Physiology is the science of how your sleep, breath, and desire work together and what happens to your body when any of them stop working. Integrative Physiology, as a deep science, rests on three foundational findings: 

1. Root Cause of Suffering: Causal Chain - We accumulate emotional load from our life events since childhood which suppresses our regulatory framework and causes suffering in later stages of our life. 
2. Mechanistic Model: Reactivating interconnected regulatory framework (SBD Axis - Sleep, Breath, Desire) restores health. 
3. Distress, Disorder and Disease: are progressive states of suffering and are akin to vapour, liquid and solid states of water.

Your body is governed by three interconnected regulators: Sleep, Breath, and Desire. When they are in coherence, the body restores itself. When they are not - through sustained suppression, chronic stress, or accumulated emotional load - the body drifts, first into distress, then disorder, then disease.

Integrative Physiology is the Science of that drift, and of the pathway back

The vicious cycle of suppression of SBD AXIS

Life events which cause disappointment, lead to a state of hopelessness. We form beliefs to survive hopelessness such as, "I am not loved" or "I must be stronger" or “I must prove myself". These beliefs shape our psychology. And as psychology shapes, it begins to impact physiology.

Disappointment means desire is wounded. To survive, the mind learns to suppress that feeling.

Suppression consumes breath, and this is how our breathing becomes shallow, held, controlled, and erratic. Excessive thoughts follow, leading to hyperactivity. Sleep is disturbed, and once sleep breaks, the body loses its only window for deep repair. 

Distress begins. If unaddressed, it becomes a disorder. If it is still unaddressed, it becomes a Disease. 

This is the pattern we observed consistently across 16 years and every health condition and formalized as integrative physiology.