The vagus nerve passes right down from the brain into our vital organs, lungs, throat, kidneys, stomach.
It's called vagus .
When you stimulate the vagus nerve, you're activating something called the relaxation response.
Through the vagus nerve, the microbiome can communicate with our brain.
Although the vagus nerve as it evolved loosely matched to these three systems, they're anatomically blurred in their distinctions in the brain and they intertwine with each other and any
to stimulate the vagus nerve and activate the parasympathetic nervous system that are useful in depression and epilepsy and possibly some other diseases this is a device that is informed by
And what we know is that the vagus nerve is part of what manages either the flight or fright, which we know about, or what's known as rest and digest, which
It sends a signal through the vagus nerve up into the chest, through the neck, up to the brain.
And what empathy does is stimulate the vagus nerve, the parasympathetic nervous system, which will calm you
that's wrapping tightly around the vagus nerve.
But it's still connected by the vagus nerve.
Again, it involves the vagus nerve.
cranial nerve, called the vagus nerve, because the vagus nerve is going to take and respond and traffic between sympathetic and parasympathetic actually pretty well.
nerves connects to the brain primarily through the vagus nerve.
The reality is when you measure the communications that are happening through the vagus nerve, through this connection here, the heart is communicating way more
And when we engage in a wonder practice, what that starts to do is help our vagus nerve, which is the longest
And when you did that, you're stimulating your vagus nerve.
So today, we've got a host of individual systems that can stimulate the vagus nerve, that can stimulate the cochlea, that can stimulate the spine, that can solve sort
This is a lot of work that was done on the sciatic, the cervical vagus , and then we've done a lot of work on the splanchnic nerve
potentiometers are, in fact, the vagus nerve and it's a very complex system, but we know a fair amount about it, so much so we can actually measure it.
main communicator, the gut, along the vagus nerve.
And with that awareness, coming into three deep breaths, stimulates the vagus nerve, which
So immediately, when we start consciously breathing and we belly breathe, we're able to stimulate our vagus nerve that takes us out of the fight and flight
The gut microbiome is also communicating with your immune system, hormones, and in some work I find really fascinating, through the vagus nerve, which
That's actually your vagus nerves firing because you are hardwired to connect to someone.
Everything is is going through to these little little tiny neuron endings and they're being fed into this vagus nerve through this incredible