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Deb Dana: Befriending Your Nervous System

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

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In your new series, befriending your nervous system, you talk about how these pathways are by directional. You mentioned that these two sides of the vagus nerve o, the ventral vegal goes to the heart, and the dorsal vagal goes down into the gut. Can you, for one, help us map them on our body, and then also explain this bi directional nature and why that matters? O, so yes, we could. We could map them. First tough if en you want to put your your hand up at the base of or your skull, that beware, you're both ventral and dorsal vega begin. That's the origination point for them. And

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