Quick Vagus Nerve Reset to Destress Your Body
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition

Quick Vagus Nerve Reset to Destress Your Body

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 29, 202624 min
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  • Health

In this solo episode, Dr. David Jockers breaks down the vagus nerve, the longest nerve in your body and the main driver of your rest and digest state, and explains why so many people with anxiety, poor sleep, and digestive issues are really stuck in chronic fight or flight. You will learn how the ventral and dorsal branches of the vagus nerve shape your calm, stress, and freeze responses, the common signs of poor vagal tone, and four simple at-home tests you can use to check your own vagal tone, from the pupillary light test...

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If you have a history of trauma, whether it's childhood trauma, PTSD, maybe military combat, abusive relationships, that's all going to factor in. If you have chronic infections, if you have poor blood sugar balance, that's an extreme stress on your body, and that's going to put you in fight or flight and lead to poor

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vagal tone. If you have head trauma, history of head trauma like concussions, that is going to put you into poor vagal tone oftentimes. All of those things wear down your nervous system and create poor vagal tone.

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Welcome back to the podcast. Great episode today on a quick vagus nerve reset to de-stress your body. Your vagus nerve is your largest nerve in your body and it is your parasympathetic branch. It is designed to help calm you, relax you, allow you to digest your food effectively

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