1015 - 6 Powerful Tools to Reset Your Nervous System
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this video, Dr. Ruscio discusses 6 powerful tools to reset and calm a dysregulated nervous system. The tools he discusses include vagus nerve stimulation via the ear, resonance breathing, electrolytes / sodium optimization, a vibration tool called Apollo Neuro, an audio-visual stimulation device called BrainTap, and grounding. Each tool offers a uniquely beneficial input into the nervous system to help restore a healing, parasympathetic state.
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➡️ How to Reset Your Nervous System (In Just 10 Minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPNntVV2yY
➡️ 4 Powerful Vagus Nerve Tools to Rewire Your Nervous System:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adccokcgo0U
➡️ 5 Vagus Nerve Dysfunction Symptoms (& How To Fix It):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPr7kFG9HWE
➡️ SIBO, Histamine & the Vagus Nerve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2IeX9qRZzE
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📌Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:17 Vagus Nerve Stimulation
09:28 Resonance Breathing
12:51 Sodium / Electrolytes
15:10 Apollo Neuro (Vibration)
18:16 Brain Tap (Audio-Visual Stimulation)
23:16 Grounding
🎧Audio Episode & Featured Studies
📉 Clinical application of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38362860/
📉 BOLD fMRI deactivation of limbic and temporal brain structures and mood enhancing effect by transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17564758/
📉 Effects of Auricular Stimulation on Inflammatory Parameters: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109471592500008X?utm_
📉 Combined transcutaneous auricular vagus stimulation (taVNS) with 0.1Hz slow breathing enhances insomnia treatment efficacy: A pilot study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38042286/
📉 Chronic stress primes innate immune responses in mice and humans:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34496250/
📉 Effects of voluntary slow breathing on heart rate and heart rate variability:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35623448/
📉 Physical activity, mindfulness meditation, or heart rate variability biofeedback for stress reduction:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26111942/
📉 A RCT Comparing Daily Mindfulness Meditations, Biofeedback Exercises, and Daily Physical Exercise on Attention Control, Executive Functioning, Mindful Awareness, Self-Compassion, and Worrying in Stressed Young Adults: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27642375/
📉 Dietary sodium influences the effect of mental stress on heart rate variability:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24284498/
📉 Dietary sodium effects on heart rate variability in salt sensitivity of blood pressure: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18047481/
📉 Short-term high-salt consumption does not influence resting or exercising heart rate variability but increases MCP-1 concentration in healthy young adults: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36939211/
📉 Evaluating the impact of Apollo Neuro™ wearable on wellbeing in medical and pharmacy students:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40816518/
📉 Association of the Apollo Wearable With Fatigue, Raynaud Phenomenon, and Quality of Life in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39617410/
📉 Effect of Audio-Visual Brain Entrainment on Mood and Quality of Sleep:
📉 A randomized controlled trial (RCT) to explore the effect of audio-visual entrainment among psychological disorders: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35075067/
📉 Lightening the mind with audiovisual stimulation as an accessible alternative to breath-focused meditation for mood and cognitive enhancement: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39462004/
📉 A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study on the improvement of sleep quality with Earthing mat:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212958825000059?utm_source=chatgpt.com
📉 The biologic effects of grounding the human body during sleep as measured by cortisol levels and subjective reporting of sleep, pain, and stress: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15650465/
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| 0:25.9 | Hello, welcome back. |
| 0:27.6 | Let's discuss tools that you can use to reset your nervous system. |
| 0:32.1 | Stress has been called, I think rightfully so, the modern day equivalent to smoking. |
| 0:36.6 | And most people are inundated with an |
| 0:39.7 | excessive amount of inputs to their nervous systems. And these inputs are often stressful, |
| 0:46.3 | whether they're work stressors, financial stressors, relational stressors, over-simulation |
| 0:52.1 | from overuse of devices, artificial light, poor sleep hygiene, |
| 0:57.7 | processed foods, or alcohol. And all of these stressors accumulate in leading the nervous system |
| 1:05.4 | to be stuck in a stress response. And when it is, you actually have poor recovery or poor tolerance to stressors. |
| 1:15.1 | And this can manifest as any number of symptoms, which would include but not be limited to |
| 1:21.2 | feeling tired but wired, feeling anxious, feeling like you can't turn off, irritability, poor sleep is a big one, also brain fog, again, a low tolerance for any type of stress. |
| 1:35.8 | And this could include even exercise, too much exercise. And you may notice, I don't sleep well as an example. |
| 1:42.3 | And even also going as far as to influence and imbalance stress hormones, |
| 1:48.7 | gastrointestinal symptoms, IBS, and indigestion, just to name a couple, have been correlated with |
| 1:54.4 | an imbalance in the nervous system. And maybe the most interesting is chronic inflammation has also been associated with too much stress. |
| 2:04.2 | So if we set the objective of altering the resting state of the nervous system, then we can have this corrective effect. |
| 2:13.7 | And we can do so with a number of tools. |
| 2:16.6 | But I've selected six that I think are the most powerful |
| 2:19.6 | interventions for resetting that resting state of the nervous system. |
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