When recovery isn’t just physical: trauma, stress, genetics and nutrition in practice
In performance and rehabilitation settings, outcomes often vary more than expected. Two people can follow the same programme, yet one recovers efficiently while the other experiences prolonged inflammation, disrupted sleep or persistent pain sensitivity.
This keynote explores how stress physiology and nutrigenomic variation influence resilience, tissue repair and recovery capacity. It will outline how chronic sympathetic activation can affect inflammatory signalling, cortisol regulation and oxidative load, and how common gene variants may shape individual responses to stress reactivity, pain perception and recovery timelines. In some cases, performance blocks and slower recovery can also sit alongside long-standing nervous system patterns and unresolved emotional processing formed through earlier experiences and ongoing stress exposure.
Designed for physiotherapists, sports clinicians and multidisciplinary teams, the session translates nutrigenetic insight into practical awareness, including how more personalised nutritional strategy, and nervous system awareness can support recovery within existing rehabilitation and performance frameworks.
- How chronic stress patterns embed within the nervous system and influence inflammation, mood, recovery time and pain sensitivity
- What nutrigenomics is, and what common gene variants (e.g. COMT, ADRB2, SOD2, IL6 and ACTN3) can indicate about stress responsivity, oxidative load and tissue healing and repair
- Why two clients with identical training plans respond differently: genetic variability, cortisol load and nervous system state
- Practical ways physiotherapists, performance clinicians and sports practitioners can integrate nutrigenetic awareness and nervous system regulation into rehabilitation and resilience planning
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