Ep 073: How Stress & Leaky Gut Team Up to Cause Vagus Nerve Inflammation

Vagus nerve inflammation can determine how intensely stress affects you. Ever wondered how and why stress can make you physically sick in many ways? There is a strong connection between gut inflammation and anxiety related to stress and it starts with the vagus nerve’s involvement in the neuro-immune system. The vagus nerve is a nerve that comes directly from the brain and has connections to and from the heart, lungs, ear, tongue, throat, esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, kidney, ureters, spleen, female reproductive organs. With all those connections it’s no wonder that the effects of stress on the body are vast. In this episode Doc J breaks down the connection between chronic inflammation, stress and how they combine to cause an overactive neuro-immune system.

Resources From This Episode:
• Neural Circuitry and Immunity
• A Heart and A Mind: Self-distancing Facilitates the Association Between Heart Rate Variability, and Wise Reasoning
• Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: How you do it matters
• Stimulating the Vagus Nerve: Memories are Made of This
• The vagus nerve and the inflammatory reflex—linking immunity and metabolism
• Vagal-immune Interactions Involved in Cholinergic Anti-inflammatory Pathway
• Metabolic endotoxemia with obesity: is it real and is it relevant?
• Auricular Acupuncture and Vagal Regulation
• 28 Ways to Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve

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