Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme
- You have about 100 billion nerve cells in your body and they're all orchestrated by the vagus nerve
- The vagus nerve was discovered in 1872 in medicine but is still not understood in the Western world
- Vagus comes from the Latin vaga, which means to wander, and it wanders throughout the body
- The things that get in the way of the vagus nerve working optimally
- How emotions come into play here
- What brain freeze teaches us about the vagus nerve
- Where Western medicine recognizes the connection of emotions to the vagus nerve
- Liver toxicity can lead to wakeups from 1-3 a.m.
- Ways to support the vagus nerve
- How we can sometimes intuitively avoid foods that are harmful to the vagus nerve
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