Jun 30, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
Today I want to share a simple, natural way to lower your blood pressure by tapping into the power of your vagus nerve. With nearly half of the population dealing with hypertension, I see too many…
So today I'm not going to talk about these two because diabetes causes high blood pressure because of high insulin levels and that causes nitric oxide depletion.
But today I'm going to talk to you about the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system.
That makes your heart rate go up, vasoconstricts you, makes your blood pressure go up.
Then you have your parasympathetic, which slows your heart rate down, lowers your blood pressure.
And it's anti-inflammatory also because it starts repairing your system that is now recovering from the sympathetic output that you just had preceding it.
So after a sympathetic increase, stress, then you're supposed to rest and relax and let the parasympathetic come in.
But the trouble in today's lifestyle is that there's so much stress going on all the time and you're always running around chasing your tail and your adrenaline levels are running so high all the time.
And this is what we're going to talk about today as to how we can overcome this.
How can I bring in my vagus nerve to overcome the sympathetic drive of modern living? Modern living.
And the thing is that the way we were developed in our etiology, in our evolution, the body does not discriminate whether it's coming from physical stress or mental stress.
Did you know that? Did you know that your body reacts the same way with the chemicals it produces, the cortisol, the adrenaline, the dopamine, in the same way
So today I'm not going to talk about these two because diabetes causes high blood pressure because of high insulin levels and that causes nitric oxide depletion.
But today I'm going to talk to you about the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system.
That makes your heart rate go up, vasoconstricts you, makes your blood pressure go up.
Then you have your parasympathetic, which slows your heart rate down, lowers your blood pressure.
And it's anti-inflammatory also because it starts repairing your system that is now recovering from the sympathetic output that you just had preceding it.
So after a sympathetic increase, stress, then you're supposed to rest and relax and let the parasympathetic come in.
But the trouble in today's lifestyle is that there's so much stress going on all the time and you're always running around chasing your tail and your adrenaline levels are running so high all the time.
And this is what we're going to talk about today as to how we can overcome this.
How can I bring in my vagus nerve to overcome the sympathetic drive of modern living? Modern living.
And the thing is that the way we were developed in our etiology, in our evolution, the body does not discriminate whether it's coming from physical stress or mental stress.
Did you know that? Did you know that your body reacts the same way with the chemicals it produces, the cortisol, the adrenaline, the dopamine, in the same way
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