Vagal tone

I tolerate some stress, I come back to the midline.

That ability to do that is your vagal tone.

If you have good vagal tone, you're going to have good resilience.

That means that if you missed a meal, and five hours have gone by, yeah, you're going to be okay.

Nothing bad is going to happen to you.

Whereas the one who doesn't have resilience, he's going to be really out of shape because he didn't have a meal.

Or you're in a high temperature, or you're in a cold temperature, or you didn't have the right kinds of foods, for example, or you're in a very stressful situation for many, many hours.

You'll be able to tolerate that better if you have greater vagal tone.

John's stated mission is to liberate human consciousness, and he's building a full ultrasound-based neural interface program.

We're living through an exponential moment in neurotechnology, and today we'll dig into the science of vagal tone, what ultrasound can do that electricity can't, and where this is all headed.

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Hey, John.

So y- you know, we- we've, we've had a couple presentations on it.

We know it runs from the brainstem to the heart, the lungs, the gut.

So maybe walk us through what it actually does and why, why the vagal tone has become such a hot biomarker for, for stress resilience, and even longevity.

So long story short, if your body is stressed out constantly, it's not gonna do good things for you.

What's my nervous system saying to my adrenal glands to release his cortisol.

someone being constantly stuck in that fight or flight, freeze, fawn, sympathetic tone, like Dr. X has talked about, we have to be supporting vagal tone.

This person almost always has poor vagal tone.

We talked about the gym a moment ago.

Well, if someone's biceps or core is weak, they have to strengthen it.

It would be like doing it once and saying it didn't work would be like me going to the gym once and saying, well, that gym didn't work for me.

You have to tone something that's weak.

I'll tell you, I had a, by the way, in Chinese medicine, they have a formula for increasing vagal tone, and it's called the wonder formula, or the free and easy wonder formula, because it's all, anyways, to your point, what we call the vagus nerve.