Vagus Nerve and the Non-specific Immune Response
Although the above video doesn’t show the non-specific immune response of the vagus nerve and…
Science’s Transparent Brains
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Vagus Nerve Embryology / Development
Excerpts from The Second Brain : The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct and a Groundbreaking New…
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Your body’s levels of stress hormones are regulated by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) [3]. The ANS has two components that balance each other, the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS).
The SNS turns up your nervous system. It helps us handle what we perceive to be emergencies and is in charge of the flight-or-fight response.
The PNS turns down the nervous system and helps us to be calm. It promotes relaxation, rest, sleep, and drowsiness by slowing our heart rate, slowing our breathing, constricts the pupils of our eyes, increases the production of saliva in our mouth, and so forth.
The vagus nerve is the nerve that comes from the brain and controls the parasympathetic nervous system, which controls your relaxation response. And this nervous system uses the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. If your brain cannot communicate with your diaphragm via the release of acetylcholine from the vagus nerve (for example, impaired by botulinum toxin), then you will stop breathing and die[6].
New Earth Physiology - Activating the Vagus Nerve, by Angela Savitri Peterson, 10/25/2012](http://25.media.tumblr.com/42288f45d0bd3243f62833a89fdde1bc/tumblr_mlmmczueqV1s4l97wo1_500.jpg)
Your body’s levels of stress hormones are regulated by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) [3]. The ANS has two components that balance each other, the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS).
The SNS turns up your nervous system. It helps us handle what we perceive to be emergencies and is in charge of the flight-or-fight response.
The PNS turns down the nervous system and helps us to be calm. It promotes relaxation, rest, sleep, and drowsiness by slowing our heart rate, slowing our breathing, constricts the pupils of our eyes, increases the production of saliva in our mouth, and so forth.
The vagus nerve is the nerve that comes from the brain and controls the parasympathetic nervous system, which controls your relaxation response. And this nervous system uses the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine. If your brain cannot communicate with your diaphragm via the release of acetylcholine from the vagus nerve (for example, impaired by botulinum toxin), then you will stop breathing and die[6].
New Earth Physiology - Activating the Vagus Nerve, by Angela Savitri Peterson, 10/25/2012
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Research into the History and Health Benefits of Qigong and Tai Chi
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The Rescuing Hug
This picture from 1995 helped change the way doctors, nurses, even parents treated a newborn child.…
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Introducing Muse: Changing The Way The World Thinks
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Gut Microbiota: Mind-Altering Micro-Organisms
Potential mechanisms by which microbiota affect CNS function
From the following article:
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Documentary: Resonance - Beings of Frequency
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