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Dysautonomia and Cardiometabolic Dysfunction

Evolution of Medicine Podcast

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Vagal Tone and Polyvagal Theory - What Role Does It Play in Functional Medicine

Theory of polyvagal theory says there are two branches of the vagus nerve. It's important to understand this when you're looking at evaluating patients, he says. The idea is that they don't think about it as alternating. So if you have great ventral vagal tone, she or he will kind of keep these two kids in check so that they can't just go all over the place.

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