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This is amazing!! A lot of my problems that lingered from Covid were coming from the vagnus nerve and I didn't know it!! Finally relief achieved!! I am so grateful for this and sharing with all like me who are suffering from this!!

🙏🏽🧡🙏🏽🧡🙏🏽🧡 .I am praying for everyone who needs a Miracle. Only God can do the impossible, He can make a way when there seems to be no way. Today I pray God touches your health, your home, your family, your faith, and your finances. God bless you Amen!

Thank you so much! 3 1/2 years in therapy and I've learned some wonderful techniques, but never once has my psychiatrist or psychologist talked about the vagal nerve.

One of the best videos on this topic… I have cranial cervical instability and injured neck, subluxated c2, it went undiagnosed for 5 years… vagus nerve was compressed by misalignment… everything you mention x100!! I was ready to give up. I’ve been stabilized c2 is aligned currently and BP is went from super night to low when in meds… anxiety and depression relieved… even constipation and gut problems reduced. I will do these exercises for sure every day! Thank you!

Dr. Dawn, your video is well received and informative. It is very Fascinating how the VAGUS NERVE has come into Vogue pertaining to overall health concerns. I suffer with a number of Spinal Maladies form my SI Joints, through the Lumbar discs, to my Cervical spine, even a T9-T10 disc herniation. I'm 70 yo, and suffered a Right Femur fracture in 1966 (15 yo then), playing HS Football. When the Body cast was cutoff after 3 months, the right leg was 1 inch shorter than the left. It was left Unaddressed by the Ortho doctor and my parents (European immigrants - doctors / Nuns/ Priests were Never questioned). After 20 years or so, the fun began...lower back stiffness with mobility restrictions when bending over. A chiropractor that I visited for 6 sessions or so, said to me, the moment he met me:" Oh Boy, You got problems, and you will have many more down the road"... Oh Man was he right. He immediatley saw the Leg Length discrepancy affecting my hips and contributing to dextroscoliosis. FF to 2011, that's when I finally started to address the issues evolving and worsening. The cervical issues, I feel, have supplanted the lumbar issues in that, cervical instabilities are affecting the Vagus Nerve. I have Tinnitus, TMJ syndrome, lightheadedness, bouts of Incontinence / Overactive Bladder, IBS (that started in 1981 - 82 with the expectorant delivery of our 1st child), heart palpitations / anxiety attacks, peripheral nerve damage with a loss of Reflexes, neuropathy in the arms and legs ...... It SUX. Been to 5 Spinal / Neuro Surgeons for opinons.. all said no surgery for you, Too Much Arthritis in the spine and DDD. So, I do my own own research , like this channel, and many others which focus on the affects of Cervical Instabilities and the effects to the Vagus Nerve. THX for sharing your knowledge and supplying advice of exercises to try.

In India, people used to pray by pulling the ears and squatting. It was done every morning . School teachers would make the students do the same as a punishment . It was meant to relax the student and concentrate but we lost all the importance behind the practice

Deserves a view, as a massage therapist I have always believed massage can do wonders!

Very informative. I had a cervical lamenectomy in November and actually, I have been doing the massage. It works for my TMJ as well. I learned so much today! Thank you

Excellent commentary and so spot on….thank you! Can you do more videos of the vagus nerve? We are all so stressed out of minds. For me it’s also menopausal from hell, that I just can’t get rid of it. I just wonder if the vagus nerve will help with this? And I’ve packed on so much weight that, I want this flab off my body! Share this video with everyone you know.

Thank you! I gave the massage a go and my throat went scratchy/made me cough. I’ve never had a strong voice, I’ve only recently put two and two together and related it back to my vagus nerve. I will keep up with the massage (as well as the other practises I’m already doing) and see what happens 🤗

Wow!! I'm crying happy tears right now!! Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️

Thank you, I needed this recommended message techniques. All of my other Providers just ignored or deflected my stress triggered Polivigal Nervous Syndrome- Freeze, Vascular Syncope and High Risk for Re-Detachments of Retinas.

Have been doing this and deep breathing for vagus nerve for quite sometime and it truly has tremendous benefits

HAY THANKS DOC FOR GIVING SUCH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE VAGUS NERVE AND ITS RESPONSIBILITY, GOOD JOB

One of the most disheartening things is that as a bloke with Complex ptsd, it is seeming to be essentially a full time, life long process of intense education, readjustment, medications, treatments, preventions, clinicians etc. I feel cursed. Even with such a great support network around me and much therapy, which i praise God for, it still seems like an eternal march up a barren mountain. If it wasnt for meeting Jesus Christ at 25, i would have committed suicide already, like my Dad did in childhood or moved onto heroin. I have only dealt with this since 25 ( being set free from alot and healed of alot) i'm now thirty and there is much progress yet it still saddens me so much. All things are wearisome one might say, the eye never gets its fill of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. I apologise if this triggers anyone. Just a saddened bloke venting on a webpage. Please pray to Jesus for me.

I have POTS and I’m glad I found your video. Thank you so much for sharing!

Vagus nerve massage Component HPA axis Cardiovascular and autonomic control Blood sugar regulation Anxiety regulation Massage over tragus , conchus circular massage towards the neck Yoga , meditation is also helps calms vagus nerve

Thank you! I hope you are practicing those simple activation techniques yourself because it looks like you are very stressed as you speak. There’s nothing to stress about - you’re doing a great job teaching such important information. Best wishes !

This has given me more information than what I found on Wikipedia and other sites.

Amazing! This is for me very important and many other friends and family with chronic diseases...god bless your channel. Thank you for sharing, this is what the people need to know...sending love and light💫

Wow...amazing information. ..I have been doing these massages on my clients during their sessions and had no idea what or what it was doing....thank you for explaining...I just know that the ears have a lot if nerve endings which can positively affect ones wellbeing but I didn't know the depths of it... thank you again...👍👍👏👏❤❣

I have gastro paresis which resulted from a botched open gastric bypass in 2003, exploratory surgery two weeks later due to pancreatitis, another open surgery a year later to remove hernias all up and down the initial suture line and a re-do of the gastric bypass in 2012. Four cuts intersecting my vagus nerve made it not very happy. After several hospitalizations for it, one doctor finally got to see me having an attack while I was an inpatient; she hit on anxiety as a major cause of my attacks and recommended Ativan to keep the nausea and anxiety under better control. Lo and behold, it worked wonders. But this might just be a non-pharmaceutical way to avoid gastro paresis attacks. I’ll give it a try.

Thanks, your advice and guides are much more helpful than some drug and medicine. Good luck, thanks one more time.

Found your videos, always hear about vagus nervos at you, never read much . Thank for great information

Much appreciation for this most helpful and divinely timed ✨🙏🏾✨

Without a doubt hands down the best explanation/tutorial of the Vagus nerve and tone. TY Dr. New subber ♥

Love this! I tried it for the first time and felt something instantly!! Thank you

I have so many of these symptoms! I thought I might have MS at one point. 😑I'm going to try this massage first and see if it relieves these issues.

Dr. Snipes you are the best....you have helped me heal so much🙏🏼

Incorporating manual VNS into my practice as a LMT. grateful for your accessible information

Once again satisfying and headed for further education. Thanks.

After more than a year of a severe sinus infection that worked its way down my back causing sciatic pain. Scratching my itching ear causes involuntary movements in my feet. Using an electric massager on my neck and ears causing electric spasms. It feels like everything is connected. It's nice to hear that I'm not crazy! The itching is insane and seems to come out of nowhere.

Thank you, wonderful information, many blessings to you 🙏

When I was a nurse in a step down unit (floor for patient not quite ready for regular floor after being transferred from icu) I learned about vagus nerve massage , my nurse manager prohibited me using it on patients that their heart rates were getting dangerous ly rapid and out of control. As for everything new learned; provide with caution

This was very helpful thank you. I will start this right away. Thanks for putting it on KZfaq 🙏😊

Id no idea ive autoimmune disorders epilepsey ptsd anxiety and hsd a trauma from a physical abusive relationship resulted in a tear to my corotifd artery resilting in a cognitive stroke im definetely going to put yhis vegal yherspy inyo my everyday practice in aid of the rest of my recovrry i csnnot convey enough to u my appreciation for u educating me on the vagus nerve had i have kniwn id have incoroprayed this thetspy into my life ages ago yhanks again m

Thank you for this wonderful info~ I appreciate your explanations, your calm , clear presentation~

Can this be done any time of the day or night? I am assuming so. When I first used it I did as soon as I woke up too early in the morning from depression anxiety. It took it away. Now for some reason I am filled with anxiety most the day this past week. I’m hoping for the same relief. Thank you Doc Snipes!

Excellent video, thank you! Could you share some links to the research on how yoga and meditation can stimulate the vagus nerve? Thanks !

This felt great! I will continue this massage❤️💖❤️💖❤️💖❤️

I greatly appreciate 🙏 this information, I really needed this 🙂 thank You

Thank you so much. Will be sharing this with others :)

Bless you 🙋‍♀️❤️🙏. Wow Doc. Love this. Totally 💯. I’ve received Acupunture in my ears. Thank you so much!! I practice QIGong. Perfect 👍

This makes me feel hopeful.(Shared) I’ve experienced dis-regulation of all of the physiological components that the VN manages (that you mentioned). I did not know that they were regulated by that one nerve. I will give this a try for sure. I have autoimmune syndrome: Primary Sjogren’s, and my parotid, submandibular and sublingual glands are permanently enlarged from it. I wonder if their increased size puts pressure on the VN?

Good Day.. thank you so much for this information! My elderly mother has experienced an AVALANCHE of health issues recently. We have been to a number of specialists. They all bandaid the underlying issue, which I now believe is the vagus nerve. She recently saw a neurologist and this wasn’t even part of the conversation. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I wish I had discovered this sooner.. however, better late than never! A question please… how often should she perform the massage? I don’t want her to overstimulate and aggravate her issues. Thank you.. grateful. 🙏🏼

Excellent video and succinct, easy to understand lesson :)

Thanks for sharing this information ☺️ Stay Positive

excellent video, when I press on the left side of my neck no matter if under ear or lower down I feel such a tension and a pull on something connected to my left shoulder and oh boy does it get painful when I press. Years of computer gaming and looking to my right screen has caused this and when I feel most stressed this is the area that causes discomfort/harder to relax, sleep and breath

Thank you Dr. Snipes for all of your information. I do have a question for you and, I hope you have some time to reply. I've had vertigo since I was in my twenties do you think by doing this massage it will help ? Thank you.

Can we also experience not knowing when we are hungry based on vagal nerve dysfunction? I’ve noticed for myself and my child on the spectrum we don’t have the cue in our bodies to alert us that we are hungry.

I cannot see where to massage. Maybe the demonstration video could be bigger on the screen.

Wonderful presentation! Thank you !!

Thank you! This was very helpful...

Does this help keep the HPA axis calm? I’m part of the Cushing’s Disease community. We’re always searching for ways to help regulate that axis. A dysfunctional axis seems to be what’s developing the ACTH tumors, which are notorious for returning. Many of us are trauma survivors with PTSD or CPTSD issues. Our body’s attempts at managing the traumatic events and prolonged stress caused the need for an increase in cortisol production, thus the tumors. Yoga and meditation is helpful for some of us, but not everyone is healthy enough for yoga, or has the ability to focus on meditation because they’re so anxious! I’m having a recurrence of symptoms but no sign of a tumor, yet. I’m trying to jump on it before it gets worse. Thanks for your videos, very informative!

Wow you are amazing wirh so much interesting Videos. Vagus Nerve is very important. I Made pranyama Breathing. So i trained very slowly breathing

This is excellent feedback….. to train our vagus nerve to respond correctly.. the right amount of electricity ⚡️ ….. Effectively controlling our breath

That is a spot that i subconciously work on when my head is hurting. interesting. ty for the video!

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This is so helpful, thank you

So this is making me wonder if being on a keto diet can cause poor vagal tone? This is extremely interesting and it’s very sad that it’s not being discussed enough to help the average person figure it out. Thank you!

Thank you so much, that was relaxing.

Really interesting and hopefully effective. Am going to focus on this.

Thank you for this understanding video and advice 💗

What happens if you over message the v nerve ?

Appreciate your initiating this topic, but loads of medical terms such as tVNS, BP, VN,GI, are not necessarily understood by many views. It would be better explained in using simple words other than medical terms

Amen! He is the Waymaker

Excellent presentation. Thank you

Gracias por la información y recomendación . Desde Sudamérica gracias 🌈🌴🌄

Interesting information, thank you!!!

Hello would it help a person if the suffer with tinnitus?

I've found that placing the o2/pulse sensor on my toe, I can use the fingers of both hands for VN stimulation and get biofeedback. People often forget those devices work on the toes as well as fingers.

Dr. Snipes, is there any risk in massaging the neck area even though it's done so gently, such as dislodging blood clots from a neck vessel?

High fat diets high in omega 3s is HEALTHY! ppl don't get fat from eating fat Ppl get fat from eating too many WHITE carbs. High fat diet (60 - 70 grams of fat per day) & 5 cups of vegetable a day helped me loos my fat . I also worked out 5x a week including zumba. Please be careful when you say "obses ppl or pplbthat eat high fat diets"

Stimulating the vagus nerve in the neck can cause you to faint if you have low heart rate and also can cause a lower heart rate.

Disagree about the high fat diet because much depends on the types of fats consumed. Fat for Fuel (book) by Mercola explains it brilliantly. Quality matters in all macros (Fat, Protein, Carbs...). So does how clean all your food is. Standard USDA is not my idea of clean food.

Will this help someone i know? She has a not-light-at-all form of bi-polar, with high tendency for personality disorder episodes. It’s very hard for stress not to UNCONTROLLABLY “change” her, sometimes just the FEAR of stress or trauma. And often emotions, talks or situations that might threaten or just affect her sense of security/esteem/rejection/etc may trigger her into any mild or full-on level of “over-reactive” mode, visible by a very compulsive defensive-offensive stance, or more sadly, a frightful-to-panicked presence. Many times one after the other, almost as one personality reacting to the other. Sorry for long description, was just wondering if a highly sensitive vagal nerve was very connected to this.

Also remember, just as water takes the shape of the pipe it flows through, the Life principle in you flows through you according to the nature of your thoughts. Claim that the healing prescence in your subconscious is flowing through you as harmony, health, peace, joy and abundance. Think of it as a Living Intelligence, a lovely companion and firmly believe it is continually flowing through you vivifying, inspiring and prospering you. Namaste! 🙏🏽

Great information thank you ❤

Thank you

Hi, thanks for sharing this ...unknowingly - of the vagus nerve but I have been doing this for years as my nerves are often iffy cause of my hormone replacement, it really helps soothe, cool down and feel great all day.....a daily practice brings amazing results...the way you mentioned the details scientifically, i have just been doing it most of it for years out of knowing the body.....thanks a lot, am going to start again today....and be regular 💖✨ P.S. if you could please guide me with this: i lost one of a very precious videos i heard about HPA axis where you touched about in a topic i really be interested in....i had a terrible trauma since my childhood that am currently working from years now.....so my pituitary (doc says rarest of rare) works but I do have Hypopitutarism.......I have been under medication for decade now, however lately i tapered and left my medicine and felt equally good....my pituitary is flat but works and even secretes a fine amount of cortisol....while hydrocortisone has its goods and many bads.....I got really resonated with your concept of - hot water running too much that it has cool down but till what limit, so the secretion(HPA axis goes off)....excuse my words, am not doctor but I understand my situation, body more holistically..... Could you please suggest how can u work naturally to bring the HPA axis back to its orbit :) (ofcourse balancing that luke warm technique).....I really hope my query is clear, i will be more than happy to explain in a more scientific way, connecting things with trauma in my home since i was born (your concept of not feeling happy/safe in safe zone ) because most doctors did seminars and research on my particular case....never found a thing....and just concluded it must be by birth.....However all body functions, periods, secretions were absolutely balanced till i was 19-20years....thereby things went slow and periods went off (i rememberyou mentioning about GABA- it's not the time for pleasure/creativity/sexual - it's also connected to sacral chakra - things are much better since i have worked with my body in natural ways - eating, working outs, massages, nerve massage, pranayaam and meditations)......I have a strong feeling my HPA axis could be brought back....naturally....as for last 1.5years i have put in my day,night,soul releasing and healing that trauma and all traits and people related to it....I had a narcissistic and Co-dep parents and a greater god brother....I was scapegoated for 39 years ... .when this all caught my attention......and i worked on healing it all....through self, detachments and a lot of other healing practices. I FEEL YOUR APPROACH CAN HELP ME WITH MY PITUITARY .....please reply to advise/guide .....Many thanks for your videos ....they are exceptional knowledge house and are helping me immensely.....i listen to each atleast twice to get the hold of it, make points to work....Thanks..... In anticipation of a reply to my query....thanku so much again ! ✨

I was diagnosed with vasovagal syncope after several “near” fainting spells. Will this massage technique help me to avoid these episodes? I still have them from time to time.

you just connected so many dots for me thank you !!!\

Thank you for the information.😊

Thanks for the information 👍

My nerve vague was damaged in a surgery at my stolach/oesophage. I cough since than when I eat but also randomly, I have a lot of acidities and extreme blood pressure fluctuating. Also vagal syncopes. I will try the ear massage but are there other solutions? Thank you for your answer and your video!!

Always helpful!

when this needs to be done? I mean any specific time of the day? how long? like how many repeatations? kindly let me know

Very helpful! Thank You❤

Very interesting, but, I find caption irritating. How do you shut it off

Thank you so much!!

That message is pretty tender! Is that normal? Can a compressed vagus cause sciatic problems too? I have nerve issues in my low back/pelvis that sometimes make my legs go numb. But I have vagus symptoms too.

Great video,good advice.

I tug on my ears often especially when under stress. Realize now that it’s pulling on those areas

Amazingly insightful, thank you.

what is up with likes disappearing on medical channels?

Thank You so much. Very helpful🕊🚀🛸☘🦋👀

Will this actually stimulate your VN? TY

In 2007 i had a vasa vagul attack in the middle of the night i had a "fit" and was taken to hospital...i ended up with a pacemaker after i had some other "fits" i feel better now but i do suffer from anxiety quite often ....so i dont know what is happening there...perhaps someone could let me know ...thankyou.

I had a traumatic brain injury in 2013 with a right temporal lobe fracture and fracture in base of skull……maybe a year or 2 later (I can’t remember when it started) but I started getting these shooting pains on the right side of my neck that feel like nerve pain. So is it possible to actually feel pain with the vagus nerve? Or what else could it be? I fractured a small bone in my right inner ear too. I don’t necessarily have any other symptoms except for that sharp pain in the right side of my neck…..massaging it doesn’t work, cause I’ve naturally tried. 🤔