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🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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In this episode, Erin Holt sits down with JP Errico—inventor, entrepreneur, and co-founder of electroCore—to explore the powerful role of the vagus nerve in whole-body health. If you’ve never heard of the vagus nerve before, you’re not alone—but this key player connects the brain, gut, immune system, and autonomic nervous system, impacting everything from inflammation and digestion to stress and chronic illness. Erin and JP dive into the explosion of autoimmune conditions, the mind-body connection, and how vagus nerve stimulation could be the missing link to better health. Tune in to discover how activating this vital nerve may help restore balance and unlock healing.
In This Episode:
(4:06) Vagus Nerve: The Brain-Body Connection
(11:52) Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic States
(12:46) Understanding Heart Rate Variability
(16:29) Why Rest-Based Training Produces the Biggest Gains
(24:30) How the Brain’s Perception Influences the Immune Response
(36:42) The Potential Asthma Treatment You Haven’t Heard of Yet
(47:43) Vagus Nerve's Impact on Gut Health
(49:55) How the Vagus Nerve Device Boosts Learning & Cognition
(53:15) Vagus Nerve: Key to Aging
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0:00.0 | I'm Erin Holt, and this is the Functional Nutrition Podcast, where we lean into intuitive |
0:07.2 | functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment, our emotions, and our beliefs |
0:12.5 | all affect our physical health. This podcast is your full-bodied, well-rounded resource. |
0:18.6 | I've got over a decade of clinical experience and because of that, |
0:22.2 | I've got a major bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model. |
0:26.3 | They're both failing so many of us. But functional medicine isn't the panacea that it's made out |
0:31.5 | to be either. We've got some work to do. And that's why creating a new model is my life's work. |
0:38.7 | I believe in the ripple effect. So I founded the Functional Nutrition Academy, a school and mentorship for practitioners |
0:43.5 | who want to do the same. This show is for you if you're looking for new ways of thinking about |
0:48.6 | your health and you're ready to be an active participant in your own healing. Please keep in mind |
0:53.5 | this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never |
0:57.1 | be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. |
1:00.7 | I would love for you to follow the show, rate, review, and share because you never know |
1:05.4 | whose life you might change. |
1:06.7 | And of course, keep coming back for more. |
1:10.5 | Hello, my friends. |
1:11.5 | Today is a good one. |
1:12.8 | We're talking all things, vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system. |
1:16.5 | We're going to get into the gut-brain connection. |
1:18.8 | Eczema, asthma, what my guest refers to as the new fibromyalgia. |
1:24.4 | We have J.P. Eriko on the show. |
1:26.5 | He's an inventor. |
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