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The vagus nerve is like the body’s communication superhighway. It’s the longest cranial nerve, running from your brainstem all the way down to your abdomen, and it connects many of your vital organs, including your heart, lungs, stomach, and intestines. Think of it as the nerve that helps your brain and body talk to each other.Why Is It Important?
- Stress Regulation:
The vagus nerve is a key player in calming your body after stress. It’s part of the parasympathetic nervous system, which is like your body’s “rest and digest” mode. When activated, the vagus nerve helps slow your heart rate, lower blood pressure, and make you feel calm and safe. - Gut-Brain Connection:
Ever felt “butterflies” in your stomach when you’re nervous? That’s your vagus nerve in action. It connects your gut and brain, allowing them to communicate. This connection also explains why gut health affects your mood and why stress can upset your stomach. - Heart and Breath Control:
The vagus nerve helps keep your heart rate steady and regulates your breathing. It works behind the scenes to make sure your body can adapt to different situations—like staying calm during a stressful moment or recovering after exercise. - Emotional Regulation:
It plays a big role in your ability to manage emotions and connect with others. By calming your body, it helps you feel more grounded and open to positive social interactions. - Immune Function:
The vagus nerve helps control inflammation in the body. When it’s working well, it sends signals to reduce unnecessary inflammation, which can protect you from chronic illnesses.
Cortisol & the Vagus Nerve
The vagus nerve influences cortisol levels. It plays a key role in regulating the stress response by impacting the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, which governs cortisol production.
Here’s how it works:
- Stress Response Regulation:
The vagus nerve is a crucial part of the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes relaxation and counteracts the "fight or flight" response. When activated, the vagus nerve helps calm the HPA axis, reducing excessive cortisol release. - Inflammation Control:
The vagus nerve also reduces inflammation through the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. High inflammation levels can trigger stress responses and elevate cortisol production, so the vagus nerve indirectly helps modulate cortisol by lowering inflammation. - Improving Resilience:
A well-toned vagus nerve enhances the body's ability to return to a state of calm after stress, preventing prolonged cortisol elevation and promoting overall hormonal balance.
Natural techniques like deep breathing, meditation, cold exposure, and essential oils such as lavender and bergamot can potentially support healthy cortisol levels.
Why Should You Care?
When the vagus nerve is healthy and active, it can:
- Help you manage stress better.
- Improve your digestion and gut health.
- Support emotional balance and reduce anxiety.
- Strengthen your immune system.
By doing simple exercises like deep breathing, humming, or gentle movement, you can stimulate the vagus nerve and keep it functioning at its best. It’s a small effort for big benefits in your overall health and well-being!
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- How the vagus nerve impacts stress, digestion, and overall health.
- Simple, natural techniques to tone your vagus nerve for calm and balance.
- Simple, easy exercises to keep your Vagus Nerve in tip-top shape!
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These are very stressful times we are living in. How have you handled the last six months? Have you listened to the media to give you the “latest update”? Have you holed up in fear at home, afraid to visit friends and family? Have you masked up everywhere you go because the media says it’s the right thing to do? Have you made jokes on social media about getting fat because you’re eating your way through the stress? Do you find yourself sinking into depression? Have you buried yourself in your work (from home) and neglected your self care?
I ask these questions, because this is the impression I get when I look at what’s going on around me. I’ve seen people get seriously vicious with verbal attacks against anyone who doesn’t happen to have the same viewpoint as them. And the interesting thing is – it’s the people who are the most fearful who are the most vicious. It’s a natural response. It’s a difficult thing to do, to have compassion for someone who is attacking you – but if you look beyond the surface and see that they are acting out of fear, it becomes easier. (It doesn’t excuse their bad behavior, but at least you can not take it personally.)
Here's what I decided to do, because this is what I believe in, and it’s what is right for me. You get to make your own choices in EVERY-THING-YOU-DO and live the life of your own creation. You don’t have to follow like sheep.
- First, I decided to get outside and walk every day. Most days it’s 3 miles, weather permitting. I have come to thoroughly enjoy and look forward to each day. It clears my mind, settles my soul, and renews my spirit. (not to mention what it’s done for my fitness!) Win-Win!!!
- I diffuse Young Living essential oils every day, because they work, and I trust them because of their Seed to Seal promise of purity – www.seedtoseal.com (You CAN improve your mood!)
- I eat good, wholesome food – mostly organic fruits and vegetables – because I want a healthy immune system.
- I take immune-enhancing supplements.
- I choose not to wear a mask everywhere I go, because I am not sick, and I am not afraid of getting sick. (I know doctors who know how to treat this thing). Please don’t worry about me – if you have a mask on, assuming they work, you are protected. I’ll take care of myself.
- I choose NOT to watch the news or follow (or even believe) what is being put out there by the media. You get to choose what you believe; and when you are making your choice, listen to people that do NOT have an investment in what they are telling you. All some people can talk about are vaccines as a solution, and they are HIGHLY invested in convincing you it is the answer. (They stand to make billions of $$$)
- Above all, love your neighbor (and your neighbor is all of mankind).
I wish you health, happiness and much love!
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