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hey guys in this video we’re gonna talk

about how to trigger or stimulate

something called the vagus nerve now

what does the vagus nerve it’s one of

the longest nerves in the body it

originates from the brainstem on both

sides okay and it goes throughout the

whole thorax or the the the chest and

the abdomen intervening the heart the

digestive organs the spleen and it has a

two-way street

in other words information can be picked

up from the digestion and sent back up

to the brain and an information from the

brain can be sent down there so if

there’s something going on digestive

lies down here it can really affect you

up here okay that’s probably why you

know if you are bloated or you feel

constipated you just don’t feel right

your your your brain fog you have a

headache things like that so the vagus

nerve is part of something called the

parasympathetic nervous system now the

parasympathetic nervous system is

responsible for rest and digest

so digestion rest recovery things like

that and then you have the sympathetic

nervous system which is flight-or-fight

picture being chased by a tiger running

away you need high pulse rate you need

blood flow to your muscles adrenalin

then when you sleep you need the

parasympathetic so you need both of

these working in harmony

now the problem most people is that

they’re very heavy on the sympathetic

nervous system because of stress and

very weak on the parasympathetic nervous

system now if you can picture this let’s

say for example you run up a stairs

right and your pulse rate goes up as

soon as you get to the top and you stop

running up the stairs the

parasympathetic nervous system kicks in

and is activated and it’s you can kind

of a picture it like a wave it’s like a

push down wave that it’s pushing

actively your pulse rate down

so after exercise the parasympathetic

nervous system kicks in there and is the

recovery mechanism so if you have poor

recovery you really have a weakened

parasympathetic nervous system some of

them has a really good recovery they can

bounce back quick they have a very

strong parasympathetic nervous system

but a problem with this system can

really affect your not just recovery but

your ability to sleep heal it can create

all sorts of

problems in the digestive system and

fortunately certain drug companies are

starting to develop something called

electro suit achill devices for example

here’s one the vagus nerve stimulation

which they basically put a little device

on your chest and they stimulate through

little mini shocks the vagus nerve to

help people with migraines headaches

fibromyalgia inflammation Crohn’s

depression epilepsy and the list goes on

and on but that’s pretty invasive and

there’s side effects and the

effectiveness isn’t that great so I’m

going to show you four things that you

can do to strengthen the vagus nerve and

really the parasympathetic nervous

system okay number one simple breathing

you can control your own breathing okay

consciously and affect the

parasympathetic nervous system because

when you’re in a stress mode your

breathing is altered usually it’s like

you’re breathing in slowly but you’re

breathing out very shallow so the

breathe the exhalation is very shallow

so it’s like like that when you’re

stressed so if you’re trying to sleep at

night for example and you can’t sleep or

you want to just calm your nervous

system down this is what you would do

you would slowly breathe in for four to

five seconds and then slowly breathe out

for four to five seconds so right before

bed you’re you’re just doing this you’re

like

you’re breathing in and then you’re

having your exhalation is exactly the

same is your inhalation at about four to

five seconds okay that over a period of

a few minutes is going to calm down the

nervous system and you’re gonna probably

fall asleep pretty quick so this is a

great technique right here okay number

two long walks calm the nervous system

down it’s low stress a lot of oxygen

will stimulate the parasympathetic

number three there are certain minerals

that also support the parasympathetic

nervous system and the big one is

potassium because it’s a calming mineral

magnesium and sodium so just make sure

your diet includes enough of these

minerals and in the ketogenic plan it’s

built around supplying these minerals

right here and including some sea salt

as well on the flipside if you look at

the sympathetic nervous system you need

phosphorous okay and also calcium so

phosphorus you would get from animal

meats so if you’re consuming too much

protein for example not enough vegetable

you can that alone can stimulate the

sympathetic nervous system so we want a

balance of a good amount of vegetables

to provide the potassium in magnesium

and some meats to help balance that out

and lastly there’s techniques

acupressure techniques that you can do

to greatly improve the parasympathetic

recovery and also kind of turn off your

sympathetic nervous system I put a link

down below if you haven’t seen this but

I did a whole webinar it’s called a

stress webinar and actually walk you

through how to do this step by step all

right so go ahead and apply this and I

will see you in the next video

so if you don’t have this book you might

want to check it out it’s entitled it’s

not lose weight to get healthy it’s get

healthy to lose the weight healthy

ketosis and in a minute fasting check it

out I put a link down below