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Two common benefits of vagus nerve stimulation are that it usually leads to an improvement in heart rate variability (HRV) and a drop in blood pressure (BP). Both these ‘biomarkers’ are important indicators of your long term health. Knowledge of the importance of maintaining a healthy blood pressure has been well known for a long […]
From Surgery to Skin If you are on our website, you will very likely have heard something of the vagus nerve and how important it is to general health and well being. If you haven’t, you can look through our site or read some of our older blog posts to learn more about it. Similarly, […]
Researchers in Germany have been investigating the potential of using transcutaneous auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) to help regulate our eating habits. In a study published in the Brain Imagine and Behaviour journal, scientists administered an hour of tVNS stimulation to a cohort of healthy participants and put them in an fMRI scanner to see […]
So you’ve received your kit and you’re excited about trying out your first session. Getting started is very easy. Instructions are on screen and on the included card. There is no one right way to do vagus nerve stimulation. As with everything, try things out to see what works best for you. Here are 10 […]
Researchers have discovered that transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) administered to the auricular (at the left ear) branch of the vagus nerve can enhance language learning in adults. The findings were reported this month by a team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and University of California, USA; and published in the Nature Partner […]
Vagus nerve stimulation has a long precedence in medicine. As early as 1880, physicians noted that compression of the vagus nerve in the neck could abort seizures. It was not fully understood at first that this was specifically actuated by compression of the nerve rather than the carotid artery, which runs alongside the nerve, but […]
We used to think we could measure our circulatory health with a combination of blood pressure and heart rate. Low measures indicated healthy arteries, veins, and heart. However, recently researchers have begun to realize that there is another interesting and powerful measure of the strength of your nervous and circulatory systems and of your health […]
Immune System Health Your best defence against illness is not modern medicine, doctors or hospital treatment, it’s your own body’s immune system; take care of it and you will give yourself the best chance of remaining fit, healthy and illness free. But how do you take care of your immune system? Well, it’s difficult to […]
