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

In this lecture, I’ll show you how to hack your vagus nerve to improve your health, reduce stress, and enhance longevity. It is impacted by your thoughts, emotions, but also by your Microbiome, leaky gut, food, sensitivities. Learn how you can restore, autonomic function and discover simple breathing techniques, lifestyle changes, and dietary tips that can stimulate your vagus nerve, promote relaxation, and fight inflammation. Learn about the benefits of better parasympathetic function. Start hacking your health today! Remember that my videos are not a substitute for individualized medical care by a qualified physician. Always consult your physicians before making any diet, nutrition, medication, or lifestyle changes. Download the slides from this lecture here:   Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:52 What is the vagus nerve? 3:59 Breathing exercise to hack the vagus nerve 9:58 Exercise and the vagus nerve 11:43 Understanding the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system 21:44 Different techniques to hack the vagus nerve 27:57 The vagus nerve and the gut 42:04 Study - Device Guided Slow Breathing 45:17 Study - Atrial Fibrillation, inflammation, and the vagus nerve 48:20 balloon blowing hack 48:59 Valsalva and the vagus nerve 50:10 Intense exercise and rest 51:40 enteric nervous system dysfunction 53:40 Fainting, blood pressure, and the vagus nerve 55:12 Devices that hack the vagus nerve 56:05 The vagus nerve and the gut 58:04 Conclusion 58:35 Q&A - What should you be eating when you break your fast? 1:00:56 Q&A - Do these hacks have any effect on sleep apnea? 1:05:45 Q&A - Does fasting effect pre and post menopausal woman differently? 1:13:56 Q&A - What should you be eating when you break your fast? 1:15:53 Outro Other videos in this series: How to Fast for Different Goals - AGEs: The Surprising Link Between our Diet and Aging - Evolution of Cardiac Diagnostics: A New Era with AI-Powered FFR-CT - More coming soon! Make sure you subscribe! My other videos: Reversing Diabetes - The Roles Medication and Diet Play - Vitamin K2: The Surprising Benefits From Your Heart to Your Bones - Exposing the links between Calcium, Vitamin K2, and Plaque Buildup in Blood Vessels - Best and Worst Breakfast Foods - What Eating Processed Flour and Vegetable Seed Oils Really Does to You - Lunch and Dinner | The Meats and Vegetables you Should be Eating and Avoiding - What is a Coronary Calcium Score? - What is a CT Angiogram (CTA) of the Heart? - What is Cardioversion? - What is a Leadless Pacemaker? - What is Right Heart Catheterization? - What is a Heart Attack? - Heart Attack Treatment - What is a Kraft Test? - What is an Echocardiogram? - Monitoring Heart Failure with CardioMEMS - Introduction to Cardiac Catheterizations - What is a Loop Recorder? - External Counterpulsation (ECP) for Chest Pain and Coronary Calcium - Why your Cardiac Examination is Incomplete - Reverse High Blood Pressure by Treating its Root Cause -   Past lectures: How Fasting and Diet can Prevent Heart Disease - “Fasting for Survival” - Addiction: Why You Can’t Fast or Keep a Diet - “The Fat Lies“ - “The Bittersweet Truth“ - Social Links: About Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, MD, MBBS, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP, FACP The founder and Chief Medical Officer of Cardiovascular Interventions, P.A. in Orlando Florida where, since 1990, he has been repeatedly recognized in local publications as a Top Doctor performing thousands of interventional procedures in hospital and out patient settings. As a consultant cardiologist with a large diversified inpatient and outpatient practice he is noted for his passions for teaching and illuminating prevention for cardiovascular disease . He is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at The Florida State University and University of Central Florida.