Emotions and Their Impact on the Vagus Nerve with Diane Ducarme

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Self-improvement, Wellness, Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Parenting, Motherhood, Mom Life, Nutrition, Natural Living, Organic

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme

You have about 100 billion nerve cells in your body and they're all orchestrated by the vagus nerve
The vagus nerve was discovered in 1872 in medicine but is still not understood in the Western world
Vagus comes from the Latin vaga, which means to wander, and it wanders throughout the body
The things that get in the way of the vagus nerve working optimally
How emotions come into play here
What brain freeze teaches us about the vagus nerve
Where Western medicine recognizes the connection of emotions to the vagus nerve
Liver toxicity can lead to wakeups from 1-3 a.m.
Ways to support the vagus nerve
How we can sometimes intuitively avoid foods that are harmful to the vagus nerve

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:02.0	Wellness Mama podcast, I'm Katie for Wellness Mama.com and this is round two with my guest
0:07.8	Diane de Karm and another absolutely fascinating episode.
0:11.6	We had a whole episode about the mind-body connection and the relation
0:14.9	of emotions to physical health, especially through the lens of migraine sufferers, but so much
0:19.7	relevant information for all of us. And Diane is back today talking about the emotions and how they impact the Vegas
0:26.6	nerve and I feel like the Vegas nerve in general does not get enough talk time in the
0:30.5	health community and she makes this extremely practical and
0:33.4	actionable and I love her approach.
0:35.8	She is so impressive in her own right.
0:38.6	She's the founder and CEO of Nectar Health,
0:40.8	which is a company that adds years to the lives of those suffering from
0:44.2	migraine disease, but she also has an MBA from Harvard Business School. She's a Fulbright scholar and an
0:49.6	Edmon Hillary fellow. She has a Masters in science, engineering technology, and mathematics from Europe,
0:55.0	and has studied traditional Chinese medicine, as well as speaking seven languages.
1:00.2	And I very much love her approach and how she unites things that are certainly not talked about enough in general and certainly not talked about enough in relation to each other.
1:08.5	And I am excited to keep learning from Diana, so let's join her now.
1:12.8	Diana welcome back.
1:14.8	Thank you thank you for having me again kiddie.
1:17.8	And if you guys missed our first episode I will link to it in the show notes and
1:20.8	definitely encourage a listen because absolutely fascinating
1:24.0	info on certainly for migraine sufferers but really for all of us on the physiological importance
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