Vagus Nerve Hacks: Powerful Techniques to Enhance Health and Well-Being

you know the trouble with us is that we are all too broken into Specialties and Subs Specialties and subpal and one specialty never speaks to another specialty so nobody really puts the whole thing together when actually we are one big complex organism and today I want to show you or try to show you that one thing that brings everything together in our physiology cardiac and General Health is the Vagas nerve and and we've kind of ignored the Vagas nerve for so many years nobody talks about the Vagas nerve and even when they do is just

in a way that that doesn't grasp your attention that hey this is important stuff and I'm going to show you why it's important so hopefully when we're done with this I you should be motivated to realize that the Vegas nerve is very important and a lot of the ancient wisdom revolved around the vagus nerve and keeping it healthy and keeping it functional whether it is whether it is exercising or breathing exercises slow breathing inspiration expiration yoga type postures holding your postures whether it's to do with uh diving in cold water or resting sleeping what's the

bigest nerve doing during all this time and what can you do this is a clue to hack your Vegas nerve today hopefully I'll teach you a few tricks to hack your Vegas nerve and if you hack your Vegas nerve you'll get lot of good benefits and we need to hack the system here if we can hack the internet can you hack the internet for me please so if we can hack the we're going to hack something okay so the Vegas nerve is the 10th cranial nerve it starts all the way at the all the way

in the midbrain and what's its function it's called a vagus because it's everywhere it it's a vagabond so it goes all the way out it gives branches and you don't know this but I'm telling you today it gives branches to your eyes did you know it goes to your eyes it goes to your eyes then it goes down into your fings the throat area it goes to your voice box down here it goes to your facial muscles it goes all the way down towards your esophagus to your heart to your lungs then it goes down

through the uh the diaphragm goes down into your stomach your small intestine your large intestine your pancreas goes everywhere what's it's doing it's collecting information and then it's delivering information telling it what to do it's your software your Vagas nerve is your software this is your Hardware your Hardware doesn't know what to do unless the software right am I right Engineers your vaguest nerve is your software it's telling your Hardway what to do it's telling your intestines what to do it's telling your heart rate what to do it's telling your contractivity your blood vessels to

constrict or Vaso dilate because you can't have the same software at all times how can you have that you can't have one operating system all the time because your environment is changing I walk into that room I come back over here it's a different environment everything changes my body has to react and who's making all these instantaneous changes that are happening in your body nobody thinks about this it's your vagus nerve that is doing a lot of the orchestration of the moment to moment minute to minute second to Second changes in your body is being

done by your vagus nerve because it's sensing and sending out e it's one of the few nerves that actually has both sensory function and motor function so in the heart you all know that if you take a deep breath in and then you take a deep breath out when you breathe out your heart rate slows down and you know about this because on your upper watches it'll tell you what your heart rate variability is what is heart rate variability that means when you breathe in and you breathe out there's supposed to be a change in

your pulse your pulse doesn't stay the same all the time if I'm 80 beats per minute it's not 80 all the time it's 78 80 82 back to 78 80 82 it fluctuates it's called heart rate variability because when you breathe in the lungs the sympathetic fibers go up to the brain and then when you expire your vagus nerve gets stimulated and it slows down your heart rate so your heart rate changes according to your vegus nerve and your sympathetic system that is why if you want to hack I'm going to start straight away by

telling you how to hack yourself so if you want to hack your vagus nerve take care of that right there don't tell someone who's stressed out to take a deep breath in time to take a deep breath out look look at yourselves when you are stressed out you're holding your breath you are like this no take a deep breath in fine but take a deep breath out breathe out slowly long prolonged expiration is what you need so the trick is is you're feeling stressed out breathe in to the count of four five breathe out to

the count of 10 breathe in again to five breathe out to the count of 10 when you're breathing out to the count of 10 you're stimulating your vagus nerve when you stimulate your vagus nerve I'll come to the chemistries of everything else in a minute but basically you want vagal activity you want parasympathetic nervous system you don't want sympathetic there's enough sympathetic out there in this world already all of us are stressed out to the hilt right too much sympath on the go adrenaline all the time our heart rates are there 80 90 80 90

all the time never goes down there's no heart rate variability going on you're constantly making adrenaline all the time when are you healing if you're getting the Ying where's your yang I know I'm stressed out right now see just need your password you see what I mean just need your password should be good to go yeah yeah yeah there you go but you see when this is done I'm going to tell him not to take a deep breath in I'm going to say take a deep breath out very different breathe out nice and slow and

immediately so what happens your body think about this your body is all stressed out all the adrenaline's running inside you but now you're breathing slowly out the brain gets confused wait wait wait wait how can you be breathing in a parasympathetic mode when actually you're supposed to be in a sympathetic mode in a sympathetic mode you're supposed to be breathing fast right so let's say you see a lion you're supposed to see the lion your heart rate goes fast right you're stressed out but here you're in a lion situation but you're breathing only 10 times

per minute that doesn't make sense so automatically your brain shuts off your sympathetic machine did you get it you see you just hacked your nerve you hacked your 10th nerve because because in that situation you turned off the chemistry you cannot have the ying and the Yang at the same time so the trick I'm teaching you here on hacking that nerve just on the breathing because we started talking about the breathing I'm a little off my slides right now but that's fine because when you're breathing out like that it's in congruous with what's going on

doesn't make sense you're supposed to be breathing fast you're stressed out but you're not you're breathing slow so I'm telling you that in any stressful situation you can change your Chemistry in your body you can turn off that bad stress Chemistry by doing prolonged slow expiration so you breathe into the count of five then breathe out to the count of 10 and when you're doing this don't breathe into your chest you're doing abdominal breathing so your diaphragms are moving down and the diaphragms then move back up again so when you're breathing in your belly button

must come forward and meet your hand outside so you'll become pregnant when you breathe in and when you breathe out the stomach goes in look the chest doesn't move that's the breathing I want you to do because now you can hack yourself you're going to hack your vagus nerve your vagus nerve is very important it's the ying and the Yang the Vagas nerve is what's going to repair you the V nerve is going to put you back where you belong you need to you need the sympathetic for stressful situations when the lion comes don't just

sit there you better do something you need that sympathetic but as soon as the Lion's gone then you need to be relaxed look to to take for example the Sable when I went to do my Safari the Sable would run crazy because the the the Lion's chasing it but after the lion stopped and gave up then what does the Sable do what does he do starts eating grass he's relaxed he he's not burnt out of shape for the rest of the day which is only a human trait that we continue to carry what just happened

on for the rest of the day he's now parasympathetic if you look at his heart rate it shot up to probably 200 beats per minute and within a couple of minutes his heart rate is back down back down so let's hack this situation in another situation I'm going to give you I'm exercising so how does that the J exercise I do very fast speed exercises and then I completely lie down and rest why I said wait wait a second this guy was on the machine just now and now he's lying down on the ground right

why because it's in congruous to my sympathetic I'm turning off my sympathetic system real fast and I'm bringing in my parasympathetic system system real fast got it so I'm training my nervous system to say okay bring on the Ying fine no problem but bring on the Yang as well quickly bring on my parasympathetic system very quickly and when I teach this to my patients and they actually do it they feel great because it's like recovering much faster from that acute state of sympathetic you you now bringing in that parasympathetic and bring it on real fast

and real hard so what I do well like I don't like to see people doing exercis they jump onto that treadmill and they're doing it for for good 45 minutes non-stop all the time and then when they finished then also they kind of just slow down for a little bit no wait a second you don't do that if the lion was chasing you you run real fast and then you slow down stop completely the Lion's gone now now you just sit and you just relax and that's what you should be that's how I like to

exercise too I like to excise fast and then nothing just lie down nothing happening and breathe real slow and the slow breathing doesn't mean slow in it's slow out because you what are you doing to your Vegas nerve you're hacking it right so you all need to learn how to hack it because your vagus nerve is very important it's the rest and relaxation nerve it restores and repairs it's anti-inflammatory because everything else is inflammatory anything you do is inflammatory eating eating is very inflammatory I just happen to see someone eating in the audience so right

after the eating you need anti-inflammatory I told you eating is dangerous you want to restore all that muscle that you tore all that running around all that chemistry running around your platelets became sticky they need to become unstuck platelets become sticky you get stressed out of course you're going to get heart attack because your platelets are going to get all sticky in parasympathetic the platelets start flowing around again they're no longer sticky and these Studies have all been done that acute stress causes degranulation of your platelets your platelets become sticky so what makes them become

unsticky what makes the platelets not degranulate your Paris of thetic system see that's why it's so important to do this and then the it is the relaxation relax ation all that tone has to change you can't stay in that tone it has to relax that's your parasympathetic digestion you need to D when you are digesting it's parasympathetic so if you stressed out can you digest your food you can look when you're stressed out how is your paretic going to send signals out that okay let's get the juices going here okay all the juices have gone

inside they're squeezed all the glands are working good now now let's get that bowel moving a little bit here okay let's close the pus for a while let the stomach fill up and who's doing all that who's doing all that who's sending out all that instructions it's the parasympathetic nervous system so you cannot be stressed and eat at the same time the ying and the Yang there you can't do that that's why don't eat when you're stressed out you come to a lecture you're going to get stressed out don't eat don't eat in the car

eat in a restful State because then your parasynthetic system is going to be helping you helping you digest food helping you to break it all down sending all the right signals doing all the right things you cannot have the parasympathetic and sympathetic working system working at the same time stop it you think you can do it and oh I'm multitasker you're not a multitasker okay your body is not your train to do that it's a human trait your body is not made to do that you cannot have two things on at the same time you

either AC or DC I mean you can't be both at the same time you'll get a short circuit right you'll get a short circuit reproduce after all at the end of the day what does nature want you to do wants you to reproduce just remember that what's the goal of life to reproduce yeah nature wants to reproduce so what does the vas nerve Do It prepares you for that well in order to do that you have to be a good specimen you got to be a strong specimen you got to be an attractive specimen right

you got to be a healthy specimen so just think about it the Vegas nerve kicks in it's preparing you to reproduce it's going to make the best specimen out of you because after all it wants only the best to be going on to the next generation and you need to understand this so when people you look at them they're really stressed out and they do they having a real hard time conceiving let's say I'm just giving you an example part of the problem is stress and the moment they they distress now all of a sudden

you know the the test comes back positive it's fantastic right sperm comes go down with stress of course they do absolutely they go down you all know that the Cycles your ovulation Cycles also change because of stress sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic all the time no parasympathetic so you're out of sink too much ying and no Yang the two-way inflammatory inflammation pathway it's not inflammation it's information sorry that's a tyo it's information highway to the brain and it's instructing the biochemistry in your body in every moment of your day you got to look after your vagus nerve

it is the most important nerve in the body and then it's a survival strategy because you cannot be in one mode all the time I already told you homeostasis depends on the Vagas term what do I mean by homeostasis this is a term that I want you to all become famili homeostasis is keeping you within a certain range you cannot be only in one there's a there's a little range you got the a wide Lane so you can go to this side then a little bit to this side you go that's called that's called resilience

as well right that I can tolerate some stress but then I come back to the midline I tolerate some stress I come back to that ability to do that is your vagal tone if you have good vagal tone you're going to have good resilience that means that if you missed a meal and 5 hours have gone by yeah you're going to be okay nothing bad's going to happen to you whereas the one who doesn't have resilience he's going to be really out of shape because he didn't have a meal or you're in a high temperature

or you're in a cold temperature or or you don't have the right kinds of foods for example or you're in a in a very stressful situation for many many hours you'll be able to tolerate that better if you have greater vagal tone and it controls the inflammatory pathway what does that mean you cut yourself of course there's going to be inflamation because everything has to be repaired now all those dead cells have to be gone the bacteria have to get out over there you're going to create some water in there it's going to swell up

in but then it's going to start healing now the Vegas nerve orchestrates a lot of that see that's so we know certain people heal faster than others how come how come it's because of all these Pathways hesis another term I want you to become familiar with hesis what do I mean I'm always talking about hesis hesis means stress you need to stress yourself out why because after that you'll get parasympathetic and that's going to make you stronger so homus is a stress that doesn't kill you what kind of stress am I talking about when I

talk about this one is fasting when you fast that's a hesis on your body that's a stress on your body is my favorite homus of all is fasting and I've talked about that on lots of lots of that's my favorite hesis everyone must fast everyone must do time restricted feeding because we're supposed to do time restricted feeding and then depending on your goals whether you do uh 3-day water fast 5day water fast depends on your goals do you want to reverse your diabetes do you want to get rid of your blood pressure do you want

to get rid of your inflammatory bowel disease or are you just doing this to be healthy well then that's fine then you can do 18 six or you can do omad if you want to do that so it just depends on your goal you want to come off your insulin it all depends but I love homeis because after the stress what happens next makes you stronger and better and that process is orchestrated by the Vegas nerve the Vegas nerve the Vegas is going to get you there so and another form of hesis is like heat

like infrared infrared sauna you sweat like crazy you're getting there and it's really sweating like crazy that's that's a form of stress and then what happens after after that why come you feel so good afterwards cuz your Vagas nerve just kicked in cuz while you were inside there you all sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic you sweating like crazy your temperature went up your heart rate went up right you your vasor dilated like crazy and then when you got out and hopefully you got on and took a cold shower that's even better now the cold shower kicks in

and that really stimulates your Vegas and then all of a sudden your heart rate which was up comes down real fast you start feeling so exhilarated so much better and of course there's lots of reasons why infr makes you feel good part of it being the photon energy particles and your electron chains and all all fine all that's fine and dandy bottom line is it's a form of hesis cold immersion also a form of hesis and it stimulates your Vagas nerve big time anytime you're stimulating your vagus nerve you're going to get the repair process

more resilience so every day turn on the shower take a shower it's fine nothing wrong with that but then make it cold or ordinary temperature for at least a minute 2 minutes if you can go a little bit longer do it for a little bit longer and then if you want to make it warm again you can I don't mind as long as you went from hot to cold or hot to cold and then out it's fine with me but you when you get these temperature variations what's being affect Ed in your body it's the

vag nerve it's the vag nerve at that point it's all about the vag nerve so you're stimulating the Vagas nerve so in a in a natural way resilience depends on your veal tone I already said that that it's very important that you have resilience in your body so this is a Vegas n look how big it is it's massive it's the largest nerve in the body comes out of the brain and there are two branches one on the right side alongside your cored okay goes along your cored on both sides comes out gives all the

branches I told you about so why did I mention the eyes cuz if you rub on your eyes your heart rate will go down you're stimulating the Vagas nerve so guess what if you're sitting somewhere don't do this while you're driving but if you're sitting somewhere you can put your hands on your eyeballs and just give it a gentle massage not a rub just a gentle massage you just stimulated your Vegas nerve and then looking to the left looking to the right using your eyeballs to move them from side to side keep that position for

5 seconds look to the right keep it there for 5 seconds those eyeball movements stimulates your Vegas nerve see the hacks I'm teaching you I'm teaching you hacks on how to hack your Vegas nerve the next one the next one I told you the Vegas NES goes along the kaded how can I hack it well take an ice pack those little plastic things you put in your freezer the blue ones right take it out or take it to work hey take it to work put it along your neck there Just Breath it 5 minutes five

minutes it will stimulate that cor that uh Vegas you'll do it so you do it on the left then do it on the right and I'll say what did you bring the ice pack for it's not for food no it's for my neck it's for my Vegas nerve that's why I brought the pack put it back inside take it home put it back in the freezer great idea now there are stimulators for this as well so you can do that too you can pay couple of thousand dollar and or maybe less buy a stimulator put

it a along here and you stimulate gives a little weak electric current some people feel it some people don't feel it now would I advise all of you to do it no who is it approved for right now it's approved for now watch this it's approved by the FDA for migraine and seizures and bad headaches and they do it only for 5 minutes in the morning 5 minutes in in the evening they stimulate the the the Vagas nerve and migraines get better headaches get better stress levels go down this are amazing stuff this is this

is available today it's available today but that stimulator as I said I have no data for it to show that your blood pressure will come down with that I have no data for that who wants to do that data study who's going to fund it you see a lot of what I'm saying makes a lot of sense and we know from animal but who's going to do this randomized double blind control study nobody's going to do it so are you all going to wait for that I'm saying no don't wait for that just start working

with your Vagas n now don't go and buy a stimulator just get an ice pack do that all right we now know that if a patient is having SVT and you want to increase the parasympathetic tone with SVT supervent techic cardia we tell them do gentle cored massage and that slows the heart rate down so we know these hat already in cardiology I am saying do that for Cardiology fine but also use it in your day-to-day life for Stress Management blood pressure management all around Better Health I'll show you more data on that so here's

another hack right there another one is humming if you just sit for 10 minutes and go that vibration stimulates the Vagas nerve and if you measure people's heart rate when they're doing that it goes down measure their blood pressures it goes down humming does another one laughter so the Laughing Club start a laughing Club the more you laugh and beig good belly laughs you're stimulating your vagus nerve pulse rate goes down blood pressure goes down so who doesn't have early hypertension everyone today is having hypertension well then go on and start laughing start laughing start

humming start singing even goggling so I told you that goes to the uh uh glossop in your muscles so take some saline or even plain water and just but goggle but goggle loud like you really mean it not just you goggle hard so it should be a couple of tears come out from your eyes now you're really stimulating your vagus nerve and that is going to definitely give you a lot of benefit so right there so there's another hack I just taught you now the biggest hack is the breathing that I already mentioned right in

the beginning where you breathe in but you breathe out long prong expiration that because you have very large amount of representation in your lungs your lungs they have a huge representation of the vagus nerve so hack it that's a big nerve because you know there are small nerves that can be hacked as well there's one that you'll read about because now I know you're going to go home and start looking up vus nerve blah blah blah blah blah but there's one called the tragus nerve which is here right here on your ear right here right

in the front you this little piece sticking out here that one and if you press on it hard enough and massage it and sometimes you can put your finger on the inside and massage it too in that way it does trigger your Vagas nerve but I think I'll be looking funny if I'm doing that and someone's walking by but there are there are instruments you can buy that actually stimulate this but what I'm trying to tell you is that yes those those things do work they are easier cheaper free ways to stimulate your vas nerve

starting today start hacking it today so then it comes down here and then it comes into all the gut area here okay so in the gut it breaks down into by the stomach into two branches one goes to the front one goes to the bottom and out and it goes down to your colon so why am I so interested in what's going on in the gut down here well you all know I'm very interested in the gut why am I interested in the gut because there's another huge representation that my vagus nerve in my gut

will affect my brain and can affect my heart as well and my Vagas nerve over here is going to affect my leaky gut and my microbiome as well and I already told you all that I believe that all inflammation starts in the gut all inflammation starts in the gut so anything to do with the gut including the vagus nerve is of interest to me if I can hack your vagus nerve and make your gut work better you will have less metabolic endotoxemia that means your Lecky gut will be less therefore things that should stay in

the sewer will stay in the sewer and not get into your bloodstream if you have a leaky gut as a result of dysfunction of vus nerve or your vagus nerve is is not working properly for multiple reasons which I I'll show you in a minute you're going to get more leaky gut if you get leaky gut you get lipopolysaccharides and and Inter lucans and and other inflammatory molecules getting out from your gut into your bloodstream and then going to your whole body and causing inflammation chronic inflammation most diseases today are chronic inflammation look you guys

are not dying of dentry or or leprosy and all those bad things right so it's very important I said this chronic inflamm where does it come from where does most inflammation come from comes from your gut now sometimes we all do bad things you know we put things on our bodies and whatnot on our body comes from your gut that's the biggest threat you have you have 100 you have what 100 trillion bacteria in your gut and not only that but you got the wrong bugs in your gut fine you got 100 trillion fine but

you got the wrong ones there why because you killed off the good ones right so when the bad ones are in your gut what are they doing to your vag nerve they stimulating it they're making it dysfunctional so when they produce when those bacteria produce bad substances neurotransmitters they'll go up the vagus nerve and they can travel all the way into the brain now that should scare you do you want your bacterial products to travel up all the way to the brain so there's a strong correlation between what's going on in the gut and some

of the neurod degenerative diseases which is a whole new topic we can talk about such as Parkinson Parkinson's and and also with other movement disorders so Parkinson's is huge a lot of Parkinson's going on everyone knows somebody who's got Parkinson's dementia inflammatory conditions in the brain how did they get there well these things can get in through the blood and they can cross the bloodb brain barrier but they can also get direct entry into the brain through your vegus nerve did you know that that you can actually get direct entry into your brain through Vegas

n and there are studies now showing that particles that were found originally in the the intestine ended up in the brain via the vagus nerve so I say that the vagus nerve here is very important plus you got to remember when you have the wrong bacteria or you have inflammation in your gut or let's say you have food sensitivities like you you're allergic to wheat wheat germ glutenin oh it's horrible wheat germ glutenin is the number one thing that I'm finding in my patients who have either got autoimmune diseases or coronary artery disease or HP

tension metabolic syndrome the one thing I'm finding is wheat germ a glutenin allergy so it's really a sensitivity it's not gluten only people think of celiac disease no so what happens with we gluten is it causes inflammation here in the gut so the first thing that's going to get affected by that or one of the first things that's going to be affected by the inflammation in the gut is the nervous system in your gut it's called the enteric nervous system right that's the nervous system of your gut after the brain the second largest neural network

is in your gut now if it is supplying your intestines and your intestines are all messed up what's happened to that vagus nerve anic nervous system it's messed up so it's sending wrong signals to the brain from the gut and those signals remember it's a two-way channel so they they're going up and down up and on and in between there's your lungs there's your heart there's your heart rate no wonder you get all sorts of baso motor and Vaso vagal symptoms when you have gut problems I'll give you an example a patient came to see

me the other day and she had what is known as pots so she had a very high heart rate all the time and when she stood up her blood pressure would just drop all the time why because you got autonomic dysfunction because look you you when you stand up your autonomic nervous system is supposed to fix everything right it's supposed to fix everything by ways of constricting you well she had inappropriate sinus techic cardia all the time she also had parts so in talking to her I started concentrating on a gut and she said excuse

me I thought you were a cardiologist I said I am but it turns out that she had classic symptoms of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and I treated it I gave her some of my herbal preparations no antibiotics I just give her the herbal preparations and she came back a month later she's saying oh my God I finished this and I of course put on some catin and some cumin later on and and some other special um essential oils and she got better and she says I'm no longer fainting my heart rate has come down I

feel like like I did before it's so good I fixed her heart rhythm through her gut and I'm saying this all the time I'm saying this all the time that aymas blood pressure anomalies especially orthostasis autonomic dysfunction autonomic dysfunction because this is autonomic nervous system starts in the gut you fix the gut you hack your vagus fix your gut hack your vagus and your autonomic nervous system will reset itself back to where it should be so you're no longer running sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic all the time so the gut is really really important your enteric nervous

system so who when the enteric nervous system goes wrong the nerves of your gut what symptoms are you likely to get constipation because it's just not working or diarrhea where it's working too hard it's dysfunctional you want to fix that you need to fix your gut the antic nervous system will get better when the anic nervous system gets better your balls come back to normal and your diarrhea goes away constipation goes away you got to fix the anic nervous system the nervous system in your gut is the vegus nerve coming down and spreading it and

these nerve this Vegas nerve it is such a vagabond every literally every millimeter or so in the gut has one of its endings so you going ask yourself what's it doing there it's feeling everything out and it's sending back signals to the brain and we just underestimate this whole thing we definitely underestimate this whole thing hack your vagus nerve those anic nervous system will get better your gut will get better too you're having any type of GI symptoms start hacking your Vegas nerve today and tell me if your gut symptoms didn't get better now of

course some gut symptoms are not only due to entic nervous system they are due to bacterial overgrowth like that girl I was telling about right she had she had sio and others have food sensitivity issues where they need to stay away from certain foods so we do do the blood test to see which foods are you sensitive to we do that if they're having real bad bowel problems then I check their stools to see which bacteria are missing or which ones are in excess or what can I do to rebalance them and then we give

them fermented foods we give them high doses of fish oil so wait a second what does fish oil got to do with all this well fish oil is omega-3 and guess which what's all these neurons made up of Omega-3 so wait a second if you if you're not having omega-3 in your body or enough of it and I know you don't right now I'll tell you you don't you've got a Vegas nerve that's not working optimally I'll just tell you that right now you see our omega-3 levels today are so low it's unreal I have

yet to see maybe one out of 40 Labs that come back with omega-3 levels are optimal it's called Omega check nobody even checks for it and the worst part of it it's not just Omega 3 they have tooo much Omega 6 so it's not just omega-3 it's the ratio of omega3 and six so if you have a relatively low omega3 it's okay if you also have very low Omega 6 because it's the ratio that really matters more than anything else but these these days we are all toxic with Omega 6 because we all eating vegetable

seed oils and then we eat nuts that have been roasted in vegetable seed oils and we go out and eat too much and all they use is vegetable seed oils and you're paying for it too and tipping them on top of it too much Omega 6 too little omega-3 omega-3 is needed especially for one big nerve in the body and that's your Vegas not that's your Vegas no you got to have omega you have to take Omega-3 supplements now if you're total vegan and you can't take fish oil but where does Omega-3 come from by

the way oh it comes from fish well actually it doesn't even come from fish comes from algae and the algae get eaten by small fish sardines all those and then they get eaten by bigger fish bigger fish eventually gets to you the farm ones have no omega-3 in it cuz I don't see algae down there anyway so you're got to be careful about just hoping that you're getting all your omeg threes from fish good luck unless you're really eating only wild cat salmon every day and then you also got to eat a lot of it

but then you know that's not my advice my advice is look it's easy hack the system just go and get Omega-3 supplements and make sure that it is it doesn't contain PCP or dioxin or Mercury so you get a high quality fish oil if it smells bad it's no good if it tastes good it's probably okay mustn't be rancid and once you get it put in your refrigerator so it doesn't get rancid rancid means what oxidized because if if if fatty acids get oxidized they're really bad for you right causes small dense LDL causes lipid

peroxidation blah blah blah all the things we talked about on other shows but bottom line is you you you want you want a healthy vegus nerve a healthy vegus nerve is full of Omega-3 and you must hack it frequently constantly hack your vagus nerve then that pathway will be will be facilitated as we call it so here we go so it stopped here oh yeah okay I saw another girl the other day she was having gold bladder issues so her gallbladder wasn't working so what innovates the gold bladder the Vegas live right so with her

we did the same thing we worked on a gut and they said they were going to take a gold bladder out and I said yeah well you got to follow the instructions but just try this and she did and her symptoms got better so you she didn't have a g Stone so why what was the problem she had a lazy gallbladder so they give you this little medication and then they look at your contractions on your gallbladder and gallbladder just wasn't Contracting properly and sure that'll cause a lot of problems right so my solution for

that was listen just just wait a month try this and we worked on her gut and we worked on her maternity and a Vagas nerve function and she did exercises vagal nerve exercises and she still has a gallbladder so I just think that it's very important now I'm not saying that all gold bladders must stay even Stones no I'm not saying that I'm just saying that there's lots more that meets the eye let's just be a little sensitive about those two the kidneys are important the colonary dimenstion and the heart and lungs of course they're

in capitals because that's that's that's to me that is really important inflammation so the vagus nerve has a two-way traffic I already told you and you must hack it it is the software that's running your system look if there one thing you must take home today is to understand that your Hardware requires a software that software is your vas nerve you must have a healthy vagous nerve tell tells everything what to do oops I went too far ahead so what is this this is heart rate variability right it's just showing that beat to beat there's

a slight change in your heart rate and that tells you you have a nice heart rate variability that's good that's good that means you have lot of vagal tone so sympathetic shrinks parasympathetic the interval gets longer I like that this was a study that I wanted to show you all long-term effect device guided slow breathing on blood pressure regulation and chronic inflammation patients with essential hypertension using a a wearable device so basically what they did in the study is that these patients had breathing exercises that was Guided by a cell phone app app so the

C phone app tells him okay breathe now don't breathe now expire now take a deep breath in so it made it guided them through a breathing pattern okay now why was I interested in this cuz I told you that all he's doing when he's doing this is he's hacking the Vegas nerve that's all he did right right and look at the results there was a significant decrease in blood pressure after 1 month of exercise how did the blood pressure come down cuz bringing down the blood pressure is the job of the parasympathetic nervous system the

Vegas and a significantly continues decrease in tnf Alpha was also what does that mean a significantly continuous decrease it keept going down tnf what is tnf T necrosis Factor Alpha so that's an inflammatory marker so when I'm doing your Advanced lipid panels starting now I've been doing them it's the Cleveland heart lab stuff that I'm looking at I'm looking at inan six I'm looking at T necrosis Factor unfortunately some of the insurances don't want to pay for it but this tells me that if your T acros Factor level is high you have lot of inflammation

in your body and didn't the study just show me that I can decrease it just by breathing how cheap is that so who's going to pay for the study in the future nobody because you don't get paid by telling somebody to take a nice deep breath in but a long breath out so there you go the barrel reflex indices were also significantly increased heart rate variability did not show differences at this time that's because there were other factors also still in the patient and the positive correlations between sympathetic index and and this is there you

go so the sympathetic all went down tacros Factor levels also went down slow breathing exercises have a beneficial effect on blood pressure and chronic inflammation you become uninflamed when your vagus nerve is stimulated and hacked by you by breathing so just pay attention to your breathing you see the autonomic nervous system is autonomic it works on its own but you can also control it you can override it and the best way to override it is your breathing see if you don't pay attention to your breathing you're still breathing right it's all traumatic but I can

hold my breath I can breathe out hard so I can also over write it so I'm saying to you do it do it Whatever It Takes do it I don't care what form I don't care which yoga class you go to or whether you just do it at home or whether you do taichi or whether you do postures or whether you use a machine to guide you or or whatever you want just but just do it this one is a device versus non-device guided slow breathing to reduce blood pressure this is another systematic review uh

modest blood pressure reductions low level vus stimulation suppresses postop atrial fib and inflammation I love this study why so in patients who have surgery open heart surgery they often go into Atri fibrillation at least 20% of the patients go into Atri now my interest in atop is that why why do they go into atal fibrillation post up and say why it's the irritation of the pericardium and there's blood around the pericardial space and blah blah blah but I'm saying there's something more fundamental at the biochemical level there's something else and it's an imbalance between the

sympathetic and the parasympathetic system in these patients that throws them into atrial formulation so surgery is sympathetic of course surgery is very stressful your adrenal levels are high your intramyocardial catac colomine levels will be really really high so if a patient goes into surgery with high vagal tones he's healthy he's been doing all this stuff he's going likely going to have less Atri fibrilation posttop because so here what they did is that they did lowlevel vagus ner stimulation so what they did is after the surgery was done the surgeon implanted a little device right on

on the vas nerve and and gave it little energy the vagus nerve posttop and what happened to the incidence of Atri fibrilation let's look conclusion this lowlevel vagus nerve stimulation LL VNS suppresses postoperative Atri fation and attenuates inflammation also wow inflammation also now you got my attention because I'm all about inflammation because what causes coronary arter disease inflammation what causes chronic diseases in humans inflammation what is that we all suffering from today in this world is inflammation right there you go yeah so there you go that's what I'm me so let's see in this group

what happened okay so we saw that serum tumor necrosis Factor there he shows up again interlan six significantly lower in the group that had vagal nerve stimulation so how is that possible well the Vegas nerve I told you is a two-way traffic it sends the signal from here to the brain the Vagas nerve got stimulated says Ah that's good everything is hunky dory the signal it got back the king is sitting in his chair and his Scout went out and checked it out and came back and who's the Scout the Vegas ner is coming back

right telling it everything is hunky dory how did he know that because the Vegas nerve was being stimulated right by the the electricity was com good good Vegas stimulated that's great so the king said oh that's all right that's great bring back the horses and bring back the men stop the inflammation if that signal was not coming You' say oh my God there's no Vegas activity oh Jesus this is terrible terrible news inflammation will on be ongoing ongoing inflammation so it turns off the inflammation next these are the ex I think I already told you

some of these oh by the way this balloon blowing I didn't tell you about the balloon blowing so when you blow a balloon you're raising the intrathoracic pressure that stimulates your vagus nerve and I'll show you some slides later on to show you how people take advantage of that and will sell you a little machine well wait a second get a balloon do yourself play with the balloon do something useful play with it then laugh now you get lot of vus nerve activity so Ice Water Ice pect to the egg valva Vala Vala valva so

Vala is when you when you you you you take a breath in you breathe in and then you pretend like you're going to breathe out but you don't you close your glotus and you strain and when you strain what's happening you're increasing the abdominal pressure and the vagus nerve that supplies all the intestine get squeezed and you get an intense increase in your vagal nerve that's Val Sala we do that in patients who have SVT super ventrical tearia when they go into that runaway Rhythm we say okay now sit down and push and they do

that and boom the SVT breaks because you increase the parasympathetic you can do that too not because you're getting SVT but just do it for fun so you're at home feeling a little stressed out you don't have a balloon then just do a couple of Val Salas see couple of those rounds fine people say what are you doing you're having a bow movement no I'm not it's okay do it yoga pastures meditation humming goling I mentioned all these cold water shot now this hit I put at the bottom that said intense activity I really like

this I think this is because that's what I do I look I don't have time to go to the gym for an hour I I don't know how many people got time to go to the gym or get on that treadmill and do all this I I don't have time for that so I do short bursts of Activity real fast it takes me literally minutes but as soon as I'm done with that rapid activity then I just totally rest and no one's even around I just do it on my own it only takes me a

few minutes every day every day just takes me a few minutes to do that's it and that that's that's how I like to do it with intense activity with intense rest intense rest see nobody ever told you that they just told you to do intense activity didn't they why don't they tell you to do intense rest right after the intense activity that's what I like to see I want to see that you facilitate the ying and the Yang do intense fast activities with maximum ability that you can and then just lie down and rest so

one of the ones that I do which I like is the hands on the knees you know you when you jump up real fast and just do that just for just for about a minute or so and then you're really huffing and puffing your heart rate probably goes to about 150 and then just lie down lie down and you'll find that you'll be able to hack your system much faster and better so the anic nervous system I already talked about disbiosis I'm coming back to this because I put the slide up because look I'm telling

you the gut is huge yeah it is huge most of us have a big gut and and the nervous system in the gut is very important so you can hack that and can hack you that is why if you got a gut problem your life is miserable just think about it if you have a gut problem your life is miserable why why is your gut so so important to you because it's the home of the largest nerve in the body your vegus nerve that's why your gut is important that's why you need to make sure

what you eat is right when you eat is right how much you eat is right what you eat in terms of fiber and your bacteria is very important probiotics are really important if you're missing them fermented foods are very important fiber is very important right right right so there you go so um CNS inflammation already mentioned mental fog depression oh yeah look at this one mental fog depression and anxiety do you know how many people that we have an epidemic right now of what of depression of mental fog of anxiety heck everyone's anxious disas have

you noticed everyone's a cat on a hotton roof huh everyone's going through so much stress in their day-to-day life for whatever reason we just going through all this you need to start hacking your life so that you can get rid of all that and the best way to get rid of this is watching your diet fix your gut fix your anic nervous system hack your vagus nerve very important that you do this in this part now of course you know I always talk about my insulin levels and I talk about sugar that's a different talk

that's very important also your hormones but this is very important too so there you go all right so Parts I told you about inappropriate Sinar to Syncopy fainting spells how many young people I'm seeing every day fainting all the time fainting fainting all the time you do a tilt table test on on them they faint blood pressure went down to 70 heart rate 50 they all have vas of vagal symptoms cu the vagus nerve is not working out it's too active in them overactive vagus nerve is also no good you see when a nerve becomes

dysfunctional it can stop working or it can become really irritated so you can get diarrhea we can get constipation see both ways it can go both ways so your vag nerve can cause both problems too much or too little PVCs and pac's palpitations the balance of your electrical system in your heart is based on the ying and the Yang the sympathetic and parasympathetic if I give you a shot of adrenaline you're going to get PVCs but if I give you a shot of adrenaline and I stimulate your vagus nerve at the same time you won't

get PVCs cu the balance is there so who's not having palpitations I see them in my office every day oh palpitations doc I'm having palpitations because you're imbalanced your ying and the Yang is out atob orthostatic cap constipation D SEO gallbladder dysfunction I already mentioned all this so buy this little Gadget here you can buy this little Gadget you teachers you can you can actually dial it up for how much resistance you want for inspiration how much resistance you want for exper ation and um yeah you can buy these little gadgets but my favorite Gadget

is this one here this is the respirate it is my favorite Gadget so you can buy this on the Internet it's been approved by the ftva for lowering blood pressure so what am I interested in I can rather give a drug right no this is really good this is equivalent to at least one medication what it does it's very simple this is very easy you see these little wordss over here you pull them out and you put it in your ears and it gives you a tone and then a separate tone and you just follow

it with inspiration and expiration so now you have a teacher basically telling you how to breathe so it'll first listen there's a strap that goes on your chest it listens it to your own breathing pattern of what you are doing right now and then over the course of the next 10 minutes the machine slowly slowly increases the inspiration but more so expiration so at the end of this you hopefully should have a breathing rate of about 8 nine times a minute when's the last time you breathed only eight times a minute you see my point

breathing eight times a minute more effectively by following inspiration and then prolonged expiration it's far more effective in doing gas exchange and at the same time it's stimulating the Vagas crazy so blood pressure comes down when you do this you only need to do this 10 minutes in the morning 10 minutes in the evening now I like it not because it lowers blood pressure only I actually think that this no tests have been done on this meaning nobody's gone in and measured inter Lucan six levels or t necrosis Factor levels with this nobody's measured heart

rate variability changes but those studies are there there are in in smaller studies and they are in animal studies but we need bigger studies but the problem is who's going to fund those studies but this is so good and basically it's doing what we talked about earlier on it's hacking your your system but it's a machine guided hack so I I do like this very much I think this machine um will help your guts as well but this machine costs I think it cost about between $100 and $200 to buy the machine yeah yeah um

I know it's exactly been an hour since I started so but I think that the Vegas nerve is very exciting it's exciting because nobody's done anything much with it I'm saying it's the most accessible nerve because I can't hack my trigeminal nerve I can't hack all my other cranial nerves this s i can hack it so happy hacking thank you okay yes sad to say yes it's true you must have heart rate varability if you don't have heart rate varability you have information going going on somewhere you need to find it and eradicate it super

highe levels super high methane levels uh yeah super high methan level means that you have the wrong bacteria in your large bowel and they need to go because they are either producing noxious agents or not producing the anti-inflammatory ones that you should be producing such as so the wrong bacteria will not produce short chain fatty acids the short chain fatty acids are butc acid aceto atic acid propionic acid they are not being produced and because they're not being produced they are anti-inflammatory they'll increase your heart rate reliability so it's either that those are not there

or these guys are producing bad stuff soim verus your natural I prefer the natural always you know so there's there's one called um candibactin a candibactin b it's a 14-day course that you take and because this is colonic you need to be a little bit stronger you also need to take Cur ctin every day and you must take um cumin 300 Mig twice a day and then once you finish the 14-day course then you must take essential oil of um clove one drop oil of uh oregano and oil of cinnamon three drops so one drop

of each once a day and then after about a couple of weeks you go to two drops of each and then you end up at about three drops of each that's it and the way I do that is I would tell them to just take a little bit of olive oil just a teaspoon and just put the drops in it and then just take it and put it in your salad or you just take it yourself that'll help you to and then the last thing you need to make sure is if you're still having a

problem is check for fungus that you could have fungal infection too and there's a CA of herbal treatment for that as well now the refaim you can do but um it's very expensive and I just don't like to kill bacteria doesn't yeah and it kills the good and the Bad and the Ugly all of them so I prefer not to Yes Man yes so let me tell you about sleep AP so people think you see now now I'm going to ask you you think that sleep happen is only because of obstruction right now that is

true if you have a big glot here and you and you're snorting a lot at night that's sleep apnea right so your brain thinks that you're choking you're going to die so instead of letting you go into deep sleep it puts you into shallow sleep and when you're only in Shallow sleep guess which nerve is shut down your vagus nerve right so yes it does sleep apnea but your question was does this cause sleep apnea that's right so you want to get rid of your obstructive sleep apnea but I'm going to tell you something else

the patients who have sleep apnea they can reduce the fat in the tongue and the glossop angal muscles and all that by f fasting so if you fast and get when you lose weight from fasting the muscles in the tongue they shrink first because the tongue is very full of fat the the tongue is 90% fat so it just Fades away snoring gets better they start slipping better right away so fasting is number one for that um and then the other thing I want to tell you is that when you do have Bagel nerve dysfunction

generally then when you do do sleep you're not going to sleep as well either you're not going to go into good deep sleep because your vagus nerve is not coming so yeah the vagus nerve kicks into just about everything so let's say you have a really dysfunctional vagus nerve you will wake up fatigued and tired in the morning because vagus nerve even though the brain said turn on vagus nerve it just didn't turn on properly yeah so there you go you know so sleep AP is very important you got to get that treated you got

to get rid of sleep apnea so temporarily you may need a mask but after you've lose the weight then the sleep apnea is gone now there are two other forms of sleep apnea you need to know about one is broism so if you're grinding your teeth a lot at night and the dentist looks at your teeth and say oh my God these mountains are all now flattened out all the Peaks are gone you have to get a mouthpiece and work on your brism there are ways to get get rid of stress related so you should

be doing this meditation relaxation blah blah blah so that is very important because that interrupts with your your sleep upset and then the second thing is restless leg syndrome so restless legs also causes sleep disorders so if you're IR deficient and you have restless legs at home for example then that will keep your brain awake all night so even though you slept for 8 hours you wake up in the morning fatigued and tired and you're having the same effect as if you have obstruct to sleep apnea it's also Central apnea Central sleep apnea is a

category in itself it's Central sleep those patients usually have either congestive heart failure severe left vular dysfunction or they've had a stroke so these patients breathe and then they just quit breathing not because they're obstructing it's just they're not getting the message from their medala telling them to take a deep breath in and out they just stop breathing and the pH in their body and the the the senses have are all messed up and therefore the stimulation to breathe is gone Central slep apne is a problem but Central slep apne can also be partly treated

it um sometimes with lowd do sleap and sometimes there are some medications they can give you for simple sleep app yeah yeah yeah yeah and you know medications often cause Central sleep apnea as well so you got to really look at the patient in the hole to see why is this patient not breathing at night why does it quit breathing at night SLE Central sleep apne can also occur if someone has obstructive sleep apne and they using a mask and the settings are not right then they can go into C uh low serotonin can but

L it's more related to just your general AFF effect it it it affects you in your ability to get to sleep stay in sleep and go into deep sleep because you need serotonin to go into deep sleep you see what happens tryptophan why do I give tryptophan to everybody just about every patient comes to my office I give them because tryptophan gets converted to serotonin serotonin then at night gets converted to melatonin melatonin by is very good for your mitochondria as well melatonin fantastic for the mitochondria so I give that because of Serotonin so when

you have a good serotonin level in your in your body you're going going to sleep better and in the mornings when you wake up you're going to even feel better you get uninterrupted sleep you feel so much that serotonin what a great question I love the question the question is how come these people working all day long living in a big crowd with everybody and yet they were living well into their 90s without significant health problems because remember remember this and actually I should have said this in my lecture earlier on that the Vegas ner

starts in the midbrain right but it has lots of rostal connections rostal me from the front so prefrontal cortex your frontal cortex your hippocampus your all that has connections to your vag nerve so if I am stressed out all the time because I have I I I have a certain philosophy in my life about relationships how children should be how parents should be for example living in that family situation if I'm stressed out all the time then my cognition my ideas is going to affect my Vagas nerve and then I'll get vas nerve dysfun function

right so and then you get ill chronic diseases these people don't because they have a life philosophy a life philosophy that will allow your vaguest nerve uninterrupted and let it be what it needs to be so your life philosophy is very important so I'm going to name the life philosophy important things number one living in the moment right they they they live in the moment number two they don't drive looking in the rear view mirror right they don't look at the past and they don't hold grudges they don't hold grudges right right number three they

don't NEOS about the future they do what they can in this moment and they move along with that right it's very important right number four they have a meaning in their life that means they bring meaning into their life they do certain things they they know it's meaningful to them to this person that's meaningful that's meaningless stuff you just watch the car but to me it was something meaningful it brought me a lot of Pride and joy and I felt good about it my meaning so they bring meaning into the that whatever you do it

brings meaning into that so the hat is very important friend Circle social support very important when you have social support So now let me tell you about the Vegas nerve okay so here I am and I don't touch when I touch someone well you touch me let us have you touch me you come touch me that means you're not my enemy right you caress me you hold me I'm not that means I'm now saying you're not my enemy so which one do you think is working my Vegas or my my sympathetic my Vegas you just

turned on my Vegas nerve so therefore when you have pets and you pet a dog who's getting the benefit the dog no you're getting it because your dog's your friend you love it you're getting a meaning out of it and when you pet that dog your Vagas nerve goes up your vagal nerve stimulation is good so so what I'm saying is that your whole life affects your vagous everything from what you think from how you as I said the touch the love being feeling being around the people the music you hear the language that you

hear the tone of somebody let's say you came and you talk to me and you were really screaming your head off at me which sympathetic what happened to me my sympathetic went up my Vegas went down right all of a sudden right but if you came to me and you had a nice demeanor and you had nice you are not no threat to me so this so what is this this is a very interesting this is called you you are not presenting an existential threat to me safe I feel safe similarly existential threats come from

society from the government you get taken away your Social Security right now your Vegas n is going to be dead for months because you see an existential threat people who live in societies like you talking about a household they don't see an existential threat the psychology of the household is such it's it's it's reforming each other they it's consolidative it holds people together they know that even if they make a mistake they're not going to be thrown out on the street see there's no existential threat we must not pose an existential threat to each other

because the moment moment you pose an existential threat your vas nerve shuts down right away and now you have only sympathetic you only have inflammation welcome to modern living because every day I bet you every day you are having a sense of existential threat are you are not having feelings of existential threat every day or are you having a lifestyle where you know you're safe you're going to be okay I get existential threat when I go shopping I don't know what I'm buying I don't know what's in it well no now I know better now

I know better I know how to read labels I know what to stay away from I know what to eat what not to eat but you know it's it is this existential threat that we all facing every day whether it's it's rules regulations or whatever it is or relationships or expectations or monetory or whatever it is there too much existential threat today and that connects to your Vegas nerve so the difference is you get sick how many people are going to come visit you in the hospital two people or 25 people 25 people your Vagas

nerve is flourishing you'll be out of the hospital in 4 days instead of 30 days and you'll have less complications you'll recover from your surgery FAS those Studies have been done your recovery rate is clearly related how can your recovery rate be clearly related to the number of people that came to visit you they didn't give you a medicine they did cuz when they came to visit you they gave you a dose of Vegas nerve do get it they just bumped up your Vegas nerve so we should be dishing out Vegas nerve function to each

other and to that's what we need we need Vegas nerve stimulation that's what it's all about so yeah you're right so what we didn't talk about here is the what I call the psychosocial predictors of Health for example I'll give you another example let's say you you you you're at work and you're at the lowest ranks and people are trotting on you all the time but you have access to the same Health Care as the boss because the company has the same Insurance you're going to die sooner get more diseases than your boss because you

had no control so that causes an existential threat in you as well cuz you have no control over the can't say what I want I can't do what I want I'm not in control of my time my environment how I do things that's huge this was the white hole study that was done in England so it's been shown so your whole life is affecting your Vagas nerve every day in every which way you look at it it's not just what we're putting in or our physical environment or the air we're breathing in or the chemical

blah blah blah all the things I talk about and your gut and everything that's just things that you can hack but ideally you also want to hack your psyche change your mind about everything live in the Moment release the past be forgiving forgive and forget you will be really and get a pet you're going to live long your Vagas will be fine really yes ma'am per menopausal women okay so women will not tolerate fasting right before the period so in women who are not menopausal I'm just saying for them right right before you should fast

you should fast after your period you'll tolerate it better that's that's one rule the second thing is that in the per menopausal phase that you're going to fasting is actually beneficial because when you're fasting in the per menopausal phase you're going to get lots of good physiological changes bdnf which is brain derived neurotropic Factor gives you more plasticity your brain actually was better your bright so you you are less succumbing to the symptoms of basom motor activity number two baso motor activity what is that that's flushing right you suddenly flush you feel hot you start

getting sweaty all the perimenopausal symptoms that you get right those are all controlled by what sympathetic so now you can offset that with parasympathetic more vagal activity is needed for per perimenopausal symptoms do more vagal activity because now you got to overcome regular Stuff Plus the vasomotor symptoms as a result of the drop in your your your estrogen levels you know EAS jobs in my 40s so is it advisable to fast after the period like a week after my period and that's and then continue back to eating regularly correct correct so long as you still

having periods I wouldn't fast right before my my first 14 days ovulation up to ovulation after ovulation then you can fast so you should know when you're kind of uating and then you fast after that to if you liked this video here's one that I would recommend and if you want to see my latest video please click here