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This is a good overview: http:// | This is a good overview: http:// | ||
+ | Hopefully based on anatomy. | ||
+ | The vagus nerve travels nearer to the skin are various points along the way. | ||
+ | Some doctors or bodywork practitioners have suggested the manual methods described above. | ||
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+ | "The incoming signals lead to many reflex responses, mediated at cell stations in the brain stem, and entailing either autonomic or somatic motor responses. For example: irritants in the airways stimulate vagal sensory nerve endings and lead to a cough reflex; information on the state of inflation of the lungs causes modification of the breathing pattern; distension of the stomach leads to reflex relaxation of its wall. | ||
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+ | "The outgoing, motor fibres in the vagus nerves represent most of the cranial component of the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system. Vagal stimulation slows the heart beat, and excessive stimulation can stop it entirely. When Otto Loewi first showed, in 1921, that stimulation of the vagus nerve to a frog heart caused something to be released that could slow down another heart that was linked to the first only by fluid perfusion, he called the unknown factor Vagusstoff. We know now that vagal nerve endings act on the heart' | ||
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+ | "The term ‘vaso-vagal’ attack refers to fainting, when — from a variety of causes ranging from emotional shock to the pain of injury — there is a strong parasympathetic outflow in the vagus nerves, causing slowing of the heart that leads to a fall in blood pressure sufficient to cause unconsciousness. | ||
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+ | So, you can actually stop your heart with excessive stimulation? | ||
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Different researchers have also identified that the vagus nerve controls glucose homeostasis, | Different researchers have also identified that the vagus nerve controls glucose homeostasis, | ||
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+ | The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve that runs from brainstem to abdomen and is responsible for communicating with our nervous system to turn on our bodies’ parasympathetic nervous system, or relaxation response. | ||
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