The Vagus Nerve: a new player in inflammation and immunity? with Emrys Goldsworthy
FX Medicine Podcast Central
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Vagal Nerve Stimulation and Inflammation
In our first podcast, we spoke about vagal nerve stimulation or VNS. And it's use on anxiety and other sort of emotional type disorders. But you also alluded to its anti-inflammatory actions, which we're talking about today. How does the vagus nerve influence inflammation specifically? Well, I've mentioned that it's a sensor. So it's sensors where when things are sort of changing, where you might have immune cells activating it senses this in the gut. This is a new area that's being explored. Because it actually suppresses the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis,. They're wondering how it's actually doing that.
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