vagus nerve in Podcasts
personA hormone that promotes relaxation and is associated with the parasympathetic nervous system.
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Huberman Lab
Essentials: Improving Health With Stronger Brain-Body Connection
And I want to highlight a term that many of you have probably heard, which is the vagus nerve. We talked about vagus a little bit earlier, but the vagus nerve, this vagabonding wandering nerve is involved in everything I've talked about up until now.
Huberman Lab
Essentials: Improving Health With Stronger Brain-Body Connection
So I really want to dive in and dissect what is this system of brain-body communication? What does it look like? What are the actual neurons and connections? The system that's most often associated with this is our 10th cranial nerve called the vagus nerve. The word vagus relates to the word vagabond, which is to wander. And indeed the vagus nerve is a vast, So it's not one nerve.