Why Your Heart Depends on a Healthy Vagus Nerve and What You Can Do to Help | @JesseChappus Show

People say, well, what's a cardiologist talking about silence? It has everything to do with it because it changes your physiology.

It changes your whole thinking pattern, changes your thought patterns, your thoughts.

It changes them.

And there's so many studies to show that we have an influence on our health by our social factors in our life as well.

And that's all to do with thoughts.

So if your thoughts change, your physiology will change.

If your physiology changes, you will accrue all the benefits.

If we're on the go, go, go all the time, we're having excessive sympathetic overload all the time, all the time, and we never get the parasympathetic.

Huge problem.

Causes reactive oxygen species.

You're supposed to be sympathetic, get reactive oxygen species, and then you're supposed to quench them away with your cholinergic system.

The cholinergic system is your parasympathetic.

We don't know it.

We're constantly in the sympathetic mode all the time, which comes down to that question you asked in the beginning that, you know, what about the vagus nerve? Where does this all kick in? Well, that's the problem.

We have a Western lifestyle today that is vagalytic.

We just don't have enough vagus nerve function because we're constantly in synthetic, synthetic, synthetic, synthetic, and we know that.

Also, we've knocked off our vagus nerve.

So take the leaky gut, for example.

In the leaky gut scenario, you're producing reactive oxygen species a lot in the gut because you have that leaky gut.

And then all that chemistry is going to produce reactive oxygen species because all those white cells and all lymphocytes are producing reactive oxygen species both in your liver and in your gut lining.

And we can measure those.

Where's your parasympathetic? It's also dead.

Because the enteric nervous system, which is your gut's nervous system, comes from the vagus nerve.

So 80% of the signals from your vagus nerve go from your periphery, which is mostly your gut, to the brain stem.

And then 20% go outward.