The Vagus Nerve: a new player in inflammation and immunity? with Emrys Goldsworthy
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The Vagus Nerve: A Multi-Talented Nerve
The vagus nerve not only is innovating a raft of organs, particularly more in the up part of the viscera. It's also innovating muscles of the throat and sensory areas of the throat as well. And it's multi-talented nerve, like I always say. It does so much. People think that it's just having an effect on organs, but that's not even really its main role. The best way now to describe it for me,I really come to the conclusion that the vagus nerve is not a doer. It's a sensor. It senses things. And it gets really bad at sensing things and doesn't act appropriately, or we can ramp
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