Earlier today, Palmer on X asked about Inflammation, what is it really ? And I have this great book, it's called "The Great Nerve" and it's be an inflammation expert named Dr. Kevin Tracey. I'm including highlighted segments from his book addressing that question - so just click through the pictures on here to see what he says. Highly encourage you to buy his book, either physical or on Kindle: https://amzn.to/40s8y7W Summary: Inflammation is essential for healing 🩹 but becomes harmful when chronic, driving diseases like heart disease ❤️🩺, stroke, Alzheimer's, diabetes 🩸 & cancer 🎗️. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) 📶 can reduce inflammation, treating conditions from arthritis to depression. Non-invasive tech like ultrasound is rapidly growing. 3 Summary Points: 1. Essential protector ⛑️ turned silent killer ☠️ when chronic. 2. Vagus nerve is inflammation's "off switch" 🔌. 3. Non-invasive VNS (like ultrasound 📡) is the future 🚀. Ultrasound Bullets: - Rapidly growing non-invasive VNS intervention. - Focused ultrasound harnesses vagus nerve's anti-inflammatory power. - Goal: Accessible treatment without implants. I encourage you to browse through the pictures and highlights from the book, you will find some fascinating tidbits about what Inflammation *is* more through those. Thanks for reading ! Additionally, if you too believe you are experience a "dysregulation" of inflammation in your body, and you want to try some form of "VNS" - without resorting to taking "drugs" - then I would highly recommend you explore some of the Course Modules we have available here on Skool.com/vagus Our Easily accessible Classroom module here: https://www.skool.com/vagus/classroom/4d7222e2?md=84dd1b644b3f4b398e79861564632b31 Will cover cover the two "best" options in my eyes: Electrical and Ultrasound VNS. Also, if you do decide to pursue either, we recommend you of course make a free account here on Skool.

I've been going slow with introducing US stimulation to my R vagus daily since last Sunday. My stimulus dose has been 30s to 90s. I've noticed an increased sense of hopelessness and feeling shut down and almost dead inside. I haven't changed anything else in my daily and weekly routine. I am recovering from severe neuroimmune terrain collapse and have made great strides, but this has felt very disheartening. Only thing I can think to do is take a few days off to allow the terrain to integrate the coaxing from the US and restart back at 30s without increasing length of time for a while. Has anyone else had this experience?

We’ve begun keeping chickens, as so many people have I guess. Our girls are a couple months old now and get lots of love and attention from the family. So everyone was sad and worried when one of them developed a “sour crop”. To explain: the crop is like a secondary stomach located at the bottom of the neck. The crop helps predigest the chickens food. The chickens occasionally intake very small pebbles which go into the crop and help mechanically break up food. When the crop becomes stuck due to impacted matter not passing through it can become “sour crop”. This can cause the chicken harm and ultimately great pain and worse. One of our favorite birds, a very robust large white chicken. I just begun today to show signs of sauerkraut. She was very inactive and was making a sad for Loren. Well, we’ve never heard before. She also wanted to sit constantly. We decided to give her an ultrasound application on the crop and the results were astounding. During the ultrasound, the bird went from tense and cawing pathetically to pushing into the device in an embrace. She then became relaxed and began to fall asleep on it. Her crop is a bit smaller and lower. I attribute this to decreased tension. We will see how she is tomorrow but this is a rapid change for the better. Thanks for all your posts and Sterling being the spark behind this community. I’m new and appreciate the community citizen scientist aspect of this community.

There has never been a better time to get to work, and get some Likes here in Vagus Skool - as now I've loaded what may a CRITICAL component of breaking free of a severe Inflammatory Cycle. In this module we're going to talk about Insular Cortex Inflammatory Engrams. What are Engrams ? Engrams are memory patterns that your brain can replay like a full Movie. And this is really critical in your Inflammasome - because if you have ever had a critical Inflammation event in your past, and your body produced far too much inflammatory cytokines (or too few, or not the right ones) your brain just "Remembered" it - in a very Associative Condition type of way. Think Pavlovian Dog Research, ring a bell, and the dogs salivate on command. In the Insular Cortex case, you have just a "thought" flash through your mind (traumatic, unpleasantness, etc) - and your Inflammatory system will go into Inflammation Production mode immediately. I think this is actually why people can stay sick for many years AFTER the original event happened. Also, this is very well studied ! See Here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-023-01051-8 and Here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34752731/ I've seen Asya Rolls speak in person on this at a Bioelectric Medicine Conference (covering Vagus Nerve Stimulation - both electrical and Ultrasound methods) - and she explained this scenario so clearly, it absolutely is a valid point of view on Inflammation cascades hitting a person repeatedly long after the initial "infection" or traumatic bodily event. So, Go To Classroom Now https://www.skool.com/vagus/classroom/a6967013?md=e133286722df4b27a8d813d9e23fa9fc And Start Reading !! Also, if you need some Likes - write something cool in below and I'm certain you can get enough likes to access Lvl2 content in no time !

This is a Free to Join Skool Community! A community designed to help people Stimulate and Repair their Vagus Nerve! Comment Below! - What you know about the Vagus Nerve 🦄 - Your preferred method of Vagus Nerve Stimulation ? (Breath, TENS, Ultrasound, etc?) 👩‍💼 - A Want or Have Had Experience from Vagus Nerve Land !? (A win, or something you are striving for) And when you comment, like a post, get 5 likes across your comments, and click "Complete" on a few of the modules in the Classroom, you can then unlock the Ultrasound module ! YAY ! So, I hope this can become a great community page, it's very open, and you have access to SO MUCH good information, actionable information, on the Vagus Nerve, and all the ways you can make it happy and healthy ! So from the Vagus Skool to you and yours... WELCOME !