09/28/2025
There’s a powerful nerve running from your brain to your body that touches nearly every major organ and is very important in balancing the nervous system.
It’s called the vagus nerve — and it is highly integrated into the parasympathetic branch of the nervous system, which is a network of nerves that relaxes your body in response to danger or stress.
The sympathetic branch of the nervous system deals with the “fight or flight” response.
In modern life, many of us are stuck in “sympathetic overdrive” — constantly wired, overstimulated, and inflamed. And the health consequences are serious.
🩺 Conditions like:
Heart disease
Stroke
Obesity
Autoimmune disorders (RA, lupus)
Depression + anxiety
All these health conditions can have as a component, a dysregulated autonomic nervous system.
There are ancient practices that we now know stimulate the vagus nerve and help calm our body:
Practices like chanting, humming and breathwork stimulate the vagus nerve
Even yoga has a name for it: Pranayama
Singing in a group or a choir? That also counts.
There is also a device called a transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) that has been shown to help the body enter a state of feeling safe and secure.
By using these devices for 30 minutes a day, we’re finding that people are able to get improvements in a number of markers, including things like stress and inflammation.
🔍 Learn more about the vagus nerve and how to stimulate it naturally in our latest video.
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBKRgihPnQe
