The Importance of the Vagus Nerve: "80% of the information on the vagus nerve is actually afferent, meaning coming from all of the organs, sharing status information from the organs back to the brain. That's huge."

Ancient Practices and Modern Science: "And this is an area that acupuncture has been utilizing for generations to help improve vagus nerve stimulation or vagus nerve function."

The Gut-Brain Connection Unveiled: "The gut brain connection is physically made up by the vagus nerve. And we know that 70% of our immune cells by volume are located in the gut and the gut lining."

"How Immunity Works:": "The splenic nerve will then release norepinephrine at the spleen level, activating a set of t cells called chat cells."

Inflammation Control: "And that acetylcholine signal goes to those macrophages to tell them we need to shut down or decrease the amount of inflammation that's happening."

The Importance of Acetylcholine: "And that acetylcholine helps to manage the inflammation within the brain. This is huge because this is an area that needs to be addressed in many, many health conditions, whether they be neurodegenerative in nature, like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or dementia, Or TBI, concussion, stroke, whiplash, those types of injuries can also severely increase the inflammatory response within the brain."

The Wide Reach of Systemic Inflammatory Dysfunctions: "So these are the target cells of that entire cholinergic anti inflammatory pathway. It can be dysfunctional in many different conditions, whether autoimmune in RA, SLE, MS, asthma, type 1 diabetes, vascular conditions, like atherosclerosis, digestive conditions, very, very important here, irritable bowel, Crohn's, colitis, metabolic conditions, obesity, type 2 diabetes, NAFLD, NASH, neurological conditions, Alzheimer's, autism, schizophrenia, dementia dementia, Parkinson's, and then even hormonal effects as well, endometriosis being a an inflammatory condition as well."

The Importance of Mitochondrial Health: "How many of us have heard about mitochondrial health and the importance of maintaining good mitochondrial health for longevity, for energy, for overall optimal function, and metabolic ideals?"

The Importance of the Vagus Nerve: "But how many of us have forgotten that the vagus nerve is part of that sheath and so so important to our overall health and survival?"

How Migraine Treatments Affect the Brain: "This was a great study, and it continued on to show that not only is the effect local within the brain stem, but it actually creates a biphasic response above in different areas of the brain."