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Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Today we have a really interesting topic. Peyton and I were discussing it yesterday and we're excited to talk about this topic. It's how to improve your

vagal tone. And essentially, vagal tone is, we can talk about what it is, but improving your

vaguely tone, improving your parasympathetic nervous system can really improve your stress

resilience. And why this is important is because not only will it allow you to respond better to emotional stresses

in your life, but you can respond better to physical stresses in your life, including

your fitness routine and ultimately see better results from your fitness routine, feel

better, respond better to stressful events in your life. So it's really cool. And it's a part of

the equation that I think isn't talked about enough. So Peyton did a bunch of research on this.

We chatted about it yesterday. And can you just start by telling us what does this mean?

What is vagletone? Yes. So vagal tone is essentially

the the activity of your vagus nerve. So your vagus nerve is the primary driver of the

parasympathetic nervous system, which we know as our rest, digest, recover system. And vagal tone is how active that nerve is or that activity is within

the nerve. Yep. Love it. And having higher vagal tone means you have a higher parasympathetic

response. Parasympathetic response.

So it means with having a higher resting vagal tone, it means that you're in a more

rested, relaxed state.

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