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191: The Power of the Vagus Nerve: Unlocking Your Body's Natural Healing Mechanism

Ancient Health Podcast

Ancient Health Podcast

Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Our ability to adapt to stress in a healthy way relies on our ability to train our habits and consistently surrender. In this interview, Dr. Motley and Courtney Bursich take a deep dive into stress and how it is communicated and processed in our bodies.
Other topics discussed:
  • How to remind your body to listen to itself
  • Why kids have nervous system related conditions
  • How hormones are made
  • How the body prioritizes certain hormones based on the presence of stress
  • Symptoms of nervous system dysregulation
  • Why we are a gallbladder and liver dominant society
  • How overwhelm and frustration are correlated to your liver and gallbladder
  • How to train your stress management habits
  • EFT tapping, NET, and brain work
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Because research shows if you neglect the desires and cravings part portion of your brain

0:07.8

to release enough endorphins and dopamine and pleasure chemicals, you literally will

0:12.8

push it aside and you're training your body to be an adaptation phase, you're adapting

0:17.3

to hard work.

0:18.8

And so if you don't listen to your cravings and desires, there's no fuel for your passion.

0:23.5

So you won't have enough dopamine, you won't have enough serotonin, you won't even have

0:28.8

enough oxytocin to make you feel pleasure so you become numb.

0:32.1

So that's why the adaptation phase is very dangerous and you will never ignite passion.

0:38.5

If you know how passion and move, you know you're in that phase where the vagus nerve is

0:43.6

totally out of whack.

0:46.7

Welcome back to the Ancient Health Podcast where we educate you on real health solutions that

0:52.4

will help transform the way you live, feel and overcome disease naturally.

0:57.2

I'm your host Courtney Versage, along with Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Chris Motley.

1:02.3

We're so happy you've joined us, let's dive into today's episode.

1:06.0

All right, welcome back friends.

1:07.8

Yes, welcome back and we're here, we're here again, we're in the beautiful state of South

1:14.8

Carolina.

1:15.8

It's right.

1:16.8

And this has been a really good experience.

1:19.0

We were just chatting everybody that we're about to do a really good subject, we're going

1:23.1

to talk about the nervous system and Courtney's probably going to clarify more because we

1:28.6

were talking about, talking about vagal nerve tone.

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