998 - Most Powerful Way to Reset Your Vagus Nerve

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Discover how vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) can transform your gut health, brain function, and autoimmune conditions. In this comprehensive episode, we break down the science behind vagal tone, review the best VNS devices on the market, and share our clinical protocols for optimal results.

🎯 What You'll Learn:

The vagus nerve's role in the gut-brain axis and immune regulation
Detailed device reviews: which ones work and which to avoid
Our clinic's proven protocols for maximum therapeutic benefit
Stimulation device usage and placement recommendations

✅ Start healing with us! Learn more about our virtual clinic: https://drruscio.com/virtual-clinic/

📖Gut Reset Guide (Free Download)

https://drruscio.com/guides/get-gut-reset-guide/

💊 Featured Products:

NuroPod: https://nuropod.com/products/nuropod-bf

Vagustim: https://vagustim.io/collections/home/products/vagustim-v2-vagus-nerve-stimulation-device

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Protocol:

Frequency: 25 or 20 Hz (some studies also use 10 Hz)
Pulse width: 250 to 500 microseconds

If you're sensitive, you can start lower and increase gradually

5-7 days per week
10-30 min, 1-2x per day
80% intensity (if you feel pain, the intensity is too high)

If you're sensitive, you can start lower and increase gradually

Morning may be optimal

Dr. Ulf Andersson's Story: Case Study – Findings about the VAGUS test:

https://vagus.co/case-study-findings-about-the-vagus-test/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2IeX9qRZzE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZL3fWbkg8A

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And if you have any questions or topics you would like covered in the future, let me know in the comments!

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https://drruscio.com/vagus-nerve-damage-symptoms/

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https://drruscio.com/vagus-nerve-reset/

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📌Timestamps

00:00 Intro

01:42 Brain, gut & autoimmune benefits

03:41 How transauricular VNS works

09:29 Recommended device #1

09:51 POTS & HRV benefits

12:52 Best VNS ear placement

14:07 Recommended device #2

14:36 Unilateral vs. bilateral stimulation

18:00 Other Devices - not recommended

20:38 Vagus nerve stimulation protocol

22:31 Dr. Andersson's recovery story

Featured Studies

📉Clinical application of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38362860/

📉Parasym's Nurosym Research: https://docsend.com/view/gexjebntfmznxhay

📉Optimization of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Using Functional MRI:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27898202/

📉The effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on cycling ergometry and recovery in healthy young individuals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37974551/

📉Current Directions in the Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation I – A Physiological Perspective:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2019.00854/full

📉Unlocking the Power of the Vagus Nerve: https://pulsetto.tech/pages/science

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:14.8	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player. For weekly
0:22.6	updates, visit Dr. Russo.com. Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Let's discuss electrical stimulation of
0:30.6	the vagus nerve. This actually has some pretty interesting research demonstrating benefit for both
0:37.3	the brain and systemic inflammation.
0:40.3	So in the brain, conditions like depression, anxiety, insomnia, and poor cognition,
0:46.3	and for systemic inflammation, things like fibromyalgia, autoimmunity, and irritable bowel syndrome. So we'll cover where we stand to benefit
0:57.4	from using one of these at home, vagal nerve stimulation devices, what the two devices on the
1:06.9	market that I would recommend are based upon them mirroring what's been used in their research.
1:14.0	And then also cover the three or four devices that are available direct to consumer,
1:19.7	but I'm not comfortable recommending because I don't feel they have adequate data supporting that they're effective.
1:27.2	And also provide you with some guidelines for use and talk
1:30.4	a little bit more about how it is physiologically that the vagal nerve stimulation leads to
1:37.3	this myriad of benefits and that's maybe where we start starting with really practically does vagal nerve stimulation that you can use with a at-home
1:49.2	device have demonstrated legitimate science supporting that it is effective. And the short answer is yes,
1:58.3	here is what I feel to be the most compelling data point substantiating
2:04.2	that position. A 2024 review paper. This paper looked at over 100 studies, and very importantly
2:13.6	here, these studies were what's known as sham versus intervention. So the people in the
2:20.9	study were given either the legitimate device or a device that's designed to look and feel
2:28.9	like the therapeutic device, but has no therapeutic effect. When we compare the groups, we can see the
2:36.4	placebo effect present in the sham group, but any benefit that the treatment group experiences above
2:44.0	the placebo effect, we can assume pretty safely is a legitimate benefit from the device.
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