Couple of years ago I was having intense attacks of pain in my chest where I could barely breath or walk...it was excrutiating. I was 62 then. Went to a cardiologist, he said I looked fine. 😳 Long story short, I realized I had a periodic Hiatal hernia, and after looking around and asking questions online, some guy said it was my Vagus nerve. He told me to just stand facing a wall and stretch my hands up as far as I could and hold that position. It stopped the pain in 30 to 60 seconds...every time. Closest thing to a miracle I have ever experienced. He also said his dad had the same thing, but he would jump on a trampoline for a while till the Hiatal hernia reduced back down below the Hiatus and that's how he got rid of his pain. Vagus nerve is amazing.
Western Nursing training is focused on root causes, as l was trained over 30 years ago as an RN. Western medicine in my decades of observation has been a sell out to all the political greed based variables. It is easily proven outside my observation on the over four trillion dollars spent yearly to the shit outcome ratios where we statisicly plumit in comparison to health in the world.The sad part being the world is catching up.
I'm going through this right now. Three sets of scopes in 9 years, no GI disease other than reflux. C6 and 7 slippage and arthritis building up and I'm just now finding out about this
That is where the money is !! If doctors “cure” a problem, it no longer has future earning potential !! If doctors prescribe to treat the symptoms of that problem ,then it will earn them money for decades ! If those prescribed medications produce side effects ,then other meds are prescribed to control the side effects ……. more and more money in the doctor’s pocket !! Oh what a lovely scam !!
I’ve met someone who had a vagus nerve implant! They had complex PTSD and they said the implant was a god send and helped relieve so many physical issues related to it
This makes so much sense why the hardest year of my life was my best for weight, health and digestion. I went through a really heart breaking break up and in order to cope and heal I went on a real journey. I was walking 2 - 5km daily, journaling twice a day and meditating daily anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour every day without fail. I also started a dance class which I went to 5 hours a week. I lost 26 lbs (taking me to 15% body fat as a woman) and my digestion was great. I dont have the time to do all that any more but I know that it must have been really helping my digestion. Now, I have methane sibo which Im trying to treat. I realise I don't breath when I eat, I don't breath from the diaphragm and I don't chew enough. I was eating way too much sugar and junk too, added to the stresses of life and buying a house/moving in this past year and having so many things break, and the financial stresses of it all.
Absolutely love videos like this one. I have found many ways to work with my symptoms by listening to the body, following videos that help me understand what my body is trying to tell me, and what I can do. I continue to watch them in hopes of healing further. I've gone from being so limited on what I eat and feeling like crap to enjoying more foods and now water, fruit, vegetables and more. I still have tough times, but it's much easier than it's ever been. Thank you for your help with your videos and I look forward to learning more on my healing journey.
I have been chronically stressed and anxious for so long. so I started using L-theanine to help me relax, it’s definitely helped, and it’s just an amino acid. Also a quality mediation is amazing.
This video was very insightful for me. My quality of life has been horrible for months and I’ve always known my sibo was directly related to my vagus nerve and this video really helped me narrow down the root cause of my sibo/autoimmune reactions. Its either my gut bacteria imbalance or either a structural condition directly effecting my vagus nerve. Thank you so much for this detailed explanation on everything, it really helped a lot
I fell a couple of years ago and dislocated my left shoulder. I suggested to a young gp in the uk that I felt I’d damaged my vagus nerve. She mocked me and said if my vagus nerve was damaged I’d be dead. Honestly. 😢
I had Omicron 1 year ago with severe inflammation of my brain, and upper back nerves, and had the worst gut inflammation and Candida overgrowth I have ever experienced. Post Covid, for a couple months I experienced high blood pressure, tachycardia, POTS etc. That's gone away now, thankfully. Now I feel I have SIBO, and other gut issues such as motility issues, diverticulitis flare ups. I am already feeling relief working on my Vagus nerve.
@@mrs.s8855 Im feeling much better.!! Took Grapefruit Seed Extract every morning upon waking to kill off the bad bacteria, and only ate bone broth, then soft boiled beef with broth, some scrambled eggs and feta cheese for a month. Now Ive added a bit of well-cooked mushy rice and mashed well-cooked broccoli to my beef and broth with no problems. I have Kefir once a day now too. All food is organic, even my morning coffee and full fat cream. Either 30 minutes before, or 2 hours after my main beef meal of the day, I take 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar in a cup of water, to help with digestion. Also, I take 300mg Magnesium, D3 2000 iu + K2, Zinc, and B-vitamin supplement, turmeric tea, medicinal mushrooms, wheat grass shot, citicholine, Co Q10, Cod Liver Oil for Omega 3, Black seed oil, Boswellia for inflammation, and Olive leaf. 16-hour daily intermittent fasting has helped a lot too. And finally, brisk walking 1 hour a day has helped with gut motility immensely, so all in all feeling much better! The only remaining symptom is tinnitus, but even that has gotten better as long as I keep doing my Vagus nerve massage, neck stretching exercises, zero sugar and very low carbs intake etc.
I could have written this comment. Same symptoms. Did you also have horrible tight neck stiffness and pain at the brain stem. How long till it began to feel better? Mine came on after covid too.
Really great 👍🏻 video. Awesome info! Great passion and knowledge about this complex and misunderstood topic of study. I really like how vagus can influence or affect inflammation, digestive enzymes, bowel movement frequency, and other. I’ve seen vids on other channels, with some people activating their Vagus nerve and teaching how to do so. More of a meditation 🧘♀️ thing to relax from what I can understand or feel. When someone starts connecting vagus nerve stimulation or lack of it , and SIBO conditions,- somethings or combinations of things may be going wrong at the same time. The whole mind , gut and vagus nerve connections very complex on it’s own. I’d imagine that this complex and sensitive system can get out of wack or can be influenced heavily by a person’s actions and behaviors, or any disorders a person might have, like depression or anxiety imbalances. Since it’s so nerve and chemical, what drugs, medicine, vitamins or supplements can stimulate these vagus nerves and the connected system ? What could help? What could hurt? Maybe this could be touched upon in future videos 🤷🏼♀️! Thanks for everything!
i love all your videos, but these vagus nerve video are the best. i believe my mom had a vasovagal syncope and it scared the shit out of a lot of people because we were at a wedding reception, and ended up in the ER in Boston, which turned out to be more of a zoo for the mentally unstable because they’re in freakn drugs but this vagus nerve is one big pain in the ass. i’m going to learn everything i can about this from you and other videos if they can even come close. i don’t know how many video you have that are related to the vagus nerve but i hope you’d be willing to make as many as possible. thank you for taking the time so do everything you do to teach us all by telling the raw truth. thank you !!!!
I agree. I'm working backwards now, at watching other videos since subscribing. I love her vids. So down to Earth. I'm a retired nurse, and, have forgotten more than I can remember. But, she is helping me remember, and, I love it, and, can apply it, praise God, and, may He bless her abundantly, amen.
Did you end up doing a video about how to help relax the vegas nerve? I have a lot of severe gut issues and this video was helpful but now need to know next steps!
OMG, Dr. DiNezza, I was just having attack and tell my kids that this is a vagus never issue that causes me pain. I told them that all of my doctor think that I am crazy. I told them that every time I have to use to pooh, the pain coms on my neck and head and my sinuses get congested and it last for a couple of hours. Teh pain is like a 12, stabbing, burning, tingling and a lot of pressure. Then after the pooh comes out the pain dies down and I have to use hot water to decongest my nose. I told them that I think its the vagus nerve and inflammation. I stop eating foods that cause mucus and inflammation. I have not laid flat since Oct/2022. The anxiety come on me and I do breathing exercises to calm down. The pain just comes on me, in a 24 hour day, I have 5-8 pain attacks. Then I started fasting to control the pain, still it happens. The vagus nerve is serious. Thanks for explaining this out in simple detail where I recognize all of my symptoms as you speak, and there are others. Excellent video, thanks for making it, This was my first time seeing you, thank you so very much for telling us. I have heard this from Dr. Hauser in Florida. Now, I have back up evidence from you that I'm not crazy. God bless you and your family.
also thx for being so direct and just talking about fecal matter, freakin motility, or whatever...kinda humanizes this whole thing, which I found helpful.
Greetings from Hunedoara, Romania. Congratulations! I'm Erwin, and when the weather changes, that's when my end comes..., in other words, I feel the sudden change in temperature, from cold to warm and vice versa, like fog, I can anticipate the weather forecast through intercostal neuralgic pains. I want to write to you that I had a respiratory virus when I was 20 years old, but as a small child I had "nerves in my stomach", as I explain in a simplified way that anyone can understand. I would like to ask you what you think happens when the weather changes, because only when the weather changes do I have these manifestations, mood changes, anxiety, palpitations, even from the wind blowing irregularly. Do you think it's about the autonomic nervous system, sympathetic/parasympathetic, only, or also the vagus nerve, and what exercises would you recommend?! Thank you very much. With respect and honest friendship, Erwin. 🤗
Dr Nicole, I love watching your videos especially about vagus nerve. You give sound advice about nature, giving back, being grateful. But sometimes it's not enough? You can have a physically damaged vagus nerve (from head surgery' etc) so how can someone help it physically? Red light therapy etc ...things like that I'm looking into. Also..... heavy metals are attracted to nerves..... that's a big problem
Can issues with the vagus nerve cause heart palpitations? Last night I had bad indigestion and a few seconds after my heart started racing for a minute.
To actIvate the vagus nerve is also very strong possible with a cold plunge or ice swimming. But If you have gut inflammation the best activation do not help. First you have to heal the inflammation.
Did I miss the video about the Vagus and HRV? I'm very interested in that one. My heart speeds up a bit and beats stronger after I eat. Need info. Thanks!
I hear you. I have actual AFib and more and more it looks like it is the vagus nerve connection that triggers it. Doctors used to scoff at the notion, but more are coming around to the theory these days!😉 I follow an actual cardiologist on You tube and he says there's strong implication of the vagus nerve being involved.
Beside gargling Yogis use their thongs to roll it back up to nasal cavity touching or almost touching Alfactory Nervous plexus & in Yogic scriptures it called Kechari Mudra . It is a part of advanced Hatha Yoga. Also so called Kriyas, body clinsing techniques like Basti, Kunjar, Neti... Wind purification. .. Modern medical science just has different than Sanscrit , English or Latin names for it Thanks for important presentation on Vagus .
My life is ruined after 2nd dose of pfizer, 22 months of pain every day...i had many syntoms... Most neurological... And from 9 months reflux, gastritis and sibo... Can't heal even on diet...
@@thedadyouneverhadchannel3544 tried everything, even fasting, ozonotherapy ecc i was really fit and healthy, a gym maniac now life ruined forever and doctors won't admit was the jab. Only by voice, nothing written.
My gut is messed up have had so many tests done but nothing helps. I have burning stomach. Back pain.i am 70 years old I have been to the doctors but nothing helps. Plz I want to know where can I contact u or how do I work on my vagus nerve.i really need Healp..
Couple of years ago I was having intense attacks of pain in my chest where I could barely breath or walk...it was excrutiating. I was 62 then. Went to a cardiologist, he said I looked fine. 😳 Long story short, I realized I had a periodic Hiatal hernia, and after looking around and asking questions online, some guy said it was my Vagus nerve. He told me to just stand facing a wall and stretch my hands up as far as I could and hold that position. It stopped the pain in 30 to 60 seconds...every time. Closest thing to a miracle I have ever experienced. He also said his dad had the same thing, but he would jump on a trampoline for a while till the Hiatal hernia reduced back down below the Hiatus and that's how he got rid of his pain. Vagus nerve is amazing.
Hey there. Currently dealing with this now. Can I email you regarding this? Thank you!
The tendency of western medicine to treat symptoms and ignore the root cause never ceases to amaze me.
Its all about the $$$$
Western Nursing training is focused on root causes, as l was trained over 30 years ago as an RN. Western medicine in my decades of observation has been a sell out to all the political greed based variables. It is easily proven outside my observation on the over four trillion dollars spent yearly to the shit outcome ratios where we statisicly plumit in comparison to health in the world.The sad part being the world is catching up.
I'm going through this right now. Three sets of scopes in 9 years, no GI disease other than reflux. C6 and 7 slippage and arthritis building up and I'm just now finding out about this
That is where the money is !! If doctors “cure” a problem, it no longer has future earning potential !! If doctors prescribe to treat the symptoms of that problem ,then it will earn them money for decades ! If those prescribed medications produce side effects ,then other meds are prescribed to control the side effects ……. more and more money in the doctor’s pocket !! Oh what a lovely scam !!
I’ve met someone who had a vagus nerve implant! They had complex PTSD and they said the implant was a god send and helped relieve so many physical issues related to it
This makes so much sense why the hardest year of my life was my best for weight, health and digestion. I went through a really heart breaking break up and in order to cope and heal I went on a real journey. I was walking 2 - 5km daily, journaling twice a day and meditating daily anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour every day without fail.
I also started a dance class which I went to 5 hours a week.
I lost 26 lbs (taking me to 15% body fat as a woman) and my digestion was great. I dont have the time to do all that any more but I know that it must have been really helping my digestion. Now, I have methane sibo which Im trying to treat.
I realise I don't breath when I eat, I don't breath from the diaphragm and I don't chew enough. I was eating way too much sugar and junk too, added to the stresses of life and buying a house/moving in this past year and having so many things break, and the financial stresses of it all.
@hannah check out the book Super Gut by Dr William Davis. I think you’ll find the help you need with sibo. A lot of testimonials following his advice.
Absolutely love videos like this one. I have found many ways to work with my symptoms by listening to the body, following videos that help me understand what my body is trying to tell me, and what I can do. I continue to watch them in hopes of healing further.
I've gone from being so limited on what I eat and feeling like crap to enjoying more foods and now water, fruit, vegetables and more.
I still have tough times, but it's much easier than it's ever been. Thank you for your help with your videos and I look forward to learning more on my healing journey.
I have been chronically stressed and anxious for so long. so I started using L-theanine to help me relax, it’s definitely helped, and it’s just an amino acid. Also a quality mediation is amazing.
Where is part 2 to this? Good info on the mechanisms of the vagus nerve.
I'd like to hear about how to treat the vagus
This video was very insightful for me. My quality of life has been horrible for months and I’ve always known my sibo was directly related to my vagus nerve and this video really helped me narrow down the root cause of my sibo/autoimmune reactions. Its either my gut bacteria imbalance or either a structural condition directly effecting my vagus nerve. Thank you so much for this detailed explanation on everything, it really helped a lot
As a black man from South Central Los Angeles i find your content very informative keep up the good work. 👍
I fell a couple of years ago and dislocated my left shoulder. I suggested to a young gp in the uk that I felt I’d damaged my vagus nerve. She mocked me and said if my vagus nerve was damaged I’d be dead. Honestly. 😢
I had Omicron 1 year ago with severe inflammation of my brain, and upper back nerves, and had the worst gut inflammation and Candida overgrowth I have ever experienced. Post Covid, for a couple months I experienced high blood pressure, tachycardia, POTS etc. That's gone away now, thankfully. Now I feel I have SIBO, and other gut issues such as motility issues, diverticulitis flare ups. I am already feeling relief working on my Vagus nerve.
I started having these similar symptoms after getting Covid last year. How are you feeling and what are you doing to treat your symptoms?
@@mrs.s8855 Im feeling much better.!! Took Grapefruit Seed Extract every morning upon waking to kill off the bad bacteria, and only ate bone broth, then soft boiled beef with broth, some scrambled eggs and feta cheese for a month. Now Ive added a bit of well-cooked mushy rice and mashed well-cooked broccoli to my beef and broth with no problems. I have Kefir once a day now too. All food is organic, even my morning coffee and full fat cream. Either 30 minutes before, or 2 hours after my main beef meal of the day, I take 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar in a cup of water, to help with digestion. Also, I take 300mg Magnesium, D3 2000 iu + K2, Zinc, and B-vitamin supplement, turmeric tea, medicinal mushrooms, wheat grass shot, citicholine, Co Q10, Cod Liver Oil for Omega 3, Black seed oil, Boswellia for inflammation, and Olive leaf. 16-hour daily intermittent fasting has helped a lot too. And finally, brisk walking 1 hour a day has helped with gut motility immensely, so all in all feeling much better! The only remaining symptom is tinnitus, but even that has gotten better as long as I keep doing my Vagus nerve massage, neck stretching exercises, zero sugar and very low carbs intake etc.
@@tigerspiritjourney oh wow, glad you are doing better. I might been to make some changes in my diet and get moving, than laying in bed depressed.
I could have written this comment. Same symptoms. Did you also have horrible tight neck stiffness and pain at the brain stem. How long till it began to feel better? Mine came on after covid too.
What vagus nerve exercises did you do?
Really great 👍🏻 video. Awesome info!
Great passion and knowledge about this complex and misunderstood topic of study.
I really like how vagus can influence or affect inflammation, digestive enzymes, bowel movement frequency, and other.
I’ve seen vids on other channels, with some people activating their Vagus nerve and teaching how to do so. More of a meditation 🧘♀️ thing to relax from what I can understand or feel. When someone starts connecting vagus nerve stimulation or lack of it , and SIBO conditions,- somethings or combinations of things may be going wrong at the same time. The whole mind , gut and vagus nerve connections very complex on it’s own. I’d imagine that this complex and sensitive system can get out of wack or can be influenced heavily by a person’s actions and behaviors, or any disorders a person might have, like depression or anxiety imbalances. Since it’s so nerve and chemical, what drugs, medicine, vitamins or supplements can stimulate these vagus nerves and the connected system ? What could help? What could hurt? Maybe this could be touched upon in future videos 🤷🏼♀️!
Thanks for everything!
i love all your videos, but these vagus nerve video are the best. i believe my mom had a vasovagal syncope and it scared the shit out of a lot of people because we were at a wedding reception, and ended up in the ER in Boston, which turned out to be more of a zoo for the mentally unstable because they’re in freakn drugs but this vagus nerve is one big pain in the ass.
i’m going to learn everything i can about this from you and other videos if they can even come close. i don’t know how many video you have that are related to the vagus nerve but i hope you’d be willing to make as many as possible.
thank you for taking the time so do everything you do to teach us all by telling the raw truth.
thank you !!!!
I agree. I'm working backwards now, at watching other videos since subscribing. I love her vids. So down to Earth. I'm a retired nurse, and, have forgotten more than I can remember. But, she is helping me remember, and, I love it, and, can apply it, praise God, and, may He bless her abundantly, amen.
Did you end up doing a video about how to help relax the vegas nerve? I have a lot of severe gut issues and this video was helpful but now need to know next steps!
I did :) just search my channel a bit. To be clear though, it's more about facilitating proper tone than relaxing the nerve..
@@gutmicrobiomequeenyour drawing about the human digestive system and brain is excellent doctor, seems you attended drawing classes as a child.🙏🙏🙏
I’ve been looking for this information! So well explained, thank you! Subscribed! 😊
OMG, Dr. DiNezza, I was just having attack and tell my kids that this is a vagus never issue that causes me pain. I told them that all of my doctor think that I am crazy. I told them that every time I have to use to pooh, the pain coms on my neck and head and my sinuses get congested and it last for a couple of hours. Teh pain is like a 12, stabbing, burning, tingling and a lot of pressure. Then after the pooh comes out the pain dies down and I have to use hot water to decongest my nose. I told them that I think its the vagus nerve and inflammation. I stop eating foods that cause mucus and inflammation. I have not laid flat since Oct/2022. The anxiety come on me and I do breathing exercises to calm down. The pain just comes on me, in a 24 hour day, I have 5-8 pain attacks. Then I started fasting to control the pain, still it happens. The vagus nerve is serious. Thanks for explaining this out in simple detail where I recognize all of my symptoms as you speak, and there are others. Excellent video, thanks for making it, This was my first time seeing you, thank you so very much for telling us. I have heard this from Dr. Hauser in Florida. Now, I have back up evidence from you that I'm not crazy. God bless you and your family.
Great video! Thank you so much for explaining this in detail and simple words :)
Excellent video; will be sharing with multiple fam members that could use this info
also thx for being so direct and just talking about fecal matter, freakin motility, or whatever...kinda humanizes this whole thing, which I found helpful.
Excellent presentation,why dont primary care physicians ever talk about it?
They want you to pay for meds ! Why cure when you can milk a problem for decades !
Great information, thank you for sharing!
Greetings from Hunedoara, Romania.
Congratulations!
I'm Erwin, and when the weather changes, that's when my end comes..., in other words, I feel the sudden change in temperature, from cold to warm and vice versa, like fog, I can anticipate the weather forecast through intercostal neuralgic pains.
I want to write to you that I had a respiratory virus when I was 20 years old, but as a small child I had "nerves in my stomach", as I explain in a simplified way that anyone can understand.
I would like to ask you what you think happens when the weather changes, because only when the weather changes do I have these manifestations, mood changes, anxiety, palpitations, even from the wind blowing irregularly.
Do you think it's about the autonomic nervous system, sympathetic/parasympathetic, only, or also the vagus nerve, and what exercises would you recommend?!
Thank you very much.
With respect and honest friendship, Erwin.
🤗
Dr Nicole,
I love watching your videos especially about vagus nerve. You give sound advice about nature, giving back, being grateful.
But sometimes it's not enough? You can have a physically damaged vagus nerve (from head surgery' etc) so how can someone help it physically? Red light therapy etc ...things like that I'm looking into.
Also..... heavy metals are attracted to nerves..... that's a big problem
Thanks for another great video! Any suggestions/thoughts regarding Tens therapy to stimulate or improve the tone of the Venus Nerve?
Can issues with the vagus nerve cause heart palpitations? Last night I had bad indigestion and a few seconds after my heart started racing for a minute.
Yes, it can.
Plz make videos how you activate yor Valgus nerve.plzzzzzz
To actIvate the vagus nerve is also very strong possible with a cold plunge or ice swimming. But If you have gut inflammation the best activation do not help. First you have to heal the inflammation.
Thank you so much! Very enlightening
Very interesting video, can't wait for the next
Did I miss the video about the Vagus and HRV? I'm very interested in that one. My heart speeds up a bit and beats stronger after I eat. Need info. Thanks!
I hear you. I have actual AFib and more and more it looks like it is the vagus nerve connection that triggers it. Doctors used to scoff at the notion, but more are coming around to the theory these days!😉 I follow an actual cardiologist on You tube and he says there's strong implication of the vagus nerve being involved.
Is the Bachrial plexus nerve bundle near this? I have brachial Plexopathy
Great question! Nope, different area. The brachial plexus is near the armpit and the vagus nerve passes through the neck.
Any correlation between autism and vagus nerve dysfunction?
Thank you
Thank you, can we also relate it to mental dysfonction like anxiety or depression ?
What about effects created from side impact in car crash?
Beside gargling Yogis use their thongs to roll it back up to nasal cavity touching or almost touching Alfactory Nervous plexus & in Yogic scriptures it called Kechari Mudra .
It is a part of advanced Hatha Yoga.
Also so called Kriyas, body clinsing techniques like Basti, Kunjar, Neti... Wind purification. ..
Modern medical science just has different than Sanscrit , English or Latin names for it
Thanks for important presentation on Vagus .
How can I join your webinar please??
Have you come across Vagus nerve connection to bubbly urine? (with Kidney issues eliminated via testing).
My life is ruined after 2nd dose of pfizer, 22 months of pain every day...i had many syntoms... Most neurological... And from 9 months reflux, gastritis and sibo... Can't heal even on diet...
Go to a Naturopath asap
Supplements?
@@thedadyouneverhadchannel3544 tried everything, even fasting, ozonotherapy ecc i was really fit and healthy, a gym maniac now life ruined forever and doctors won't admit was the jab. Only by voice, nothing written.
There is ways to stimulate the vagus nerve
I am vagotomy person
I only live with one posterior vagus nerve
My surgery doctor they removed my entrior vagus nerve
My gut is messed up have had so many tests done but nothing helps.
I have burning stomach.
Back pain.i am 70 years old I have been to the doctors but nothing helps.
Plz I want to know where can I contact u or how do I work on my vagus nerve.i really need
Healp..
Go to a Naturopath asap
Burning stomach? Maybe an h pylori overgrowth. Watch my video on how I got rid of it.
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
Great mem
So it all starts with the GI tract.
This video was an absolute waste of time. 15 minutes and not one tip of how to improve your gut health.
Please do not use foul language in your presentation. Thank you.
Grow up ya pos baby.