Nourish your Vagus Nerve to upend mental health imbalances

Demystifying the Vagus/ Gut brain axis junction

To underline the importance of everyone’s favorite new wellness buzzword the “Vagus Nerve”, it is important to understand the link between the vagus nerve and the role it plays in intensifying mental health issues. It’s not just a buzzword; it can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and respecting its role in regulating the gut brain axis can make all the difference when it comes to alleviating mental health complaints like chronic anxiety, stress and depressive disorders.

Understanding the link between Vagus Nerve and the Gut/Brain axis:

The vagus nerve, the longest of the cranial nerves, winds its way through the body like a cosmic highway, connecting the brain to various organs. One exit on this cosmic highway serves the Gut/Brain axis. Monitoring and regulating inflammatory processes via the parasympathetic nervous system, the vagus nerve has a hand in immune modulation, as well as digestive functions, heart rate and mood regulation. These modulatory functions lend a key to managing mental health imbalances.

Importance of the Vagus Nerve and Gut Junction

The vagus nerve has cellular receptor sights which extend into the gut. These sights can be negatively impacted and ultimately damaged by excessive alcohol consumption, excessive simple carbohydrate consumption and excessive sugar consumption. When you are feeling like you are not yourself, it’s not a bad idea to examine this junction and identify any aggravating behaviors that may be playing a role in this dysfunction.

Attenuation of Vagus Nerve dysfunction via changing food habits: A key to ending the cycle of mental health imbalance.

Attenuating vagus nerve dysfunction via altering food consumption habits can be a very simple undertaking! Here are some expert tips to fast track yourself from the land of blues and into the confident kick ass person you are destined to be:

• Adding Fermented and probiotic rich foods to your diet: The vagus nerve serves as the shortest route of communication between the gut and brain and adding things like yogurt, Kombucha, sauerkraut to your diet can greatly enhance neurotransmitter secretion to combat nervous energy and provide some much-needed happy chemicals.

• When in doubt, juice it out: A nutrient dense fast of fresh organic juices can be exactly what your body needs to detox from a long weekend of debauchery and or a cravings fueled food bender, serving to jump start your nervous system into properly regulating things like inflammatory cytokines and stress hormones that may be circulating unchecked.

• Expertly Curated Supplements: Regular supplementation of expertly curated supplements like clinically evaluated probiotics and ancillary gut barrier rejuvenators can quickly increase gut brain communication via the vagus nerve to reverse depressive slumps and chronic mood disorders.

Vagus Nerve: Knowing the hacks can save on time, money and years of therapy.

How will people gain from respecting this sacred junction between the brain and nervous system via vagus nerve wellness?

1. Stress Reduction:

Upping the communication between gut and brain via the vagus nerve prompts the parasympathetic nervous system to directly counterbalance stress responses by lowering cortisol levels, leading to a greater general feeling of wellness.

2. Anxiety attenuation:

The vagus nerve’s influence extends to mood regulation areas in the brain, via direct stimulation of calming chemicals like GABA that serve to quell and unruly fight or flight response.

3. Overall Well-being:

Beyond stress and anxiety, vagus nerve stimulation positively impacts heart health, inflammation levels, and digestive function, contributing to holistic well-being.

If you are fighting the battle of mental health imbalance, Schedule a consultation directly with NurAlHusayn at Nur@Nurishmnt.com and prepare to engage holistic wellness like you have never engaged it in the past.