5-Day Vagus Nerve Challenge – Learn Practical Skillsets – Day 1
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Space Summary
This Twitter Space focused on the controversial topic of microtubules, delving into their role in cognitive functions and precognition. The conversation explored overclocking the mind, time dilation effects in sports, and the backward propagation of information, suggesting a connection to precognition abilities within the AI niche. Key points included the impact of microtubules on problem-solving, the importance of vagus nerve activation, and methods for cognitive enhancement through visualization and self-stimulatory techniques. Participants were encouraged to engage with speakers for future discussions, highlighting the significance of exploring these topics further. The space provided insights on vision, performance, visualization, the nervous system, breathing techniques, and the intriguing world of microtubules.
Questions
Q: What was the focus of the discussion?
A: The focus was on microtubules, cognitive functions, and precognition, discussing their interplay and implications.
Q: How is overclocking the mind related to cognitive functions?
A: Overclocking the mind involves processing information faster to enhance cognitive responses and problem-solving abilities.
Q: What effect do microtubules have on problem-solving processes?
A: Microtubules were linked to non-computational problem-solving methods, suggesting their role in cognitive functions.
Q: Can the vagus nerve enable precognition abilities?
A: The vagus nerve, along with pyramidal neurons, was proposed as a potential enabler for precognition abilities.
Q: How can handheld ultrasound aid in vagus nerve activation?
A: Handheld ultrasound was highlighted for its role in activating the vagus nerve, potentially enhancing cognitive functions.
Q: What methods were suggested for self-stimulatory vagus nerve activation?
A: Methods like visualization and self-stimulatory techniques were suggested for activating the vagus nerve.
Q: Why was the backward propagation of information mentioned?
A: Backward propagation of information was mentioned in the context of potentially enhancing precognition abilities and cognitive processes.
Q: What role do pyramidal neurons play in cognitive abilities?
A: Pyramidal neurons were highlighted as playing a role in precognition abilities and cognitive functions, potentially in connection with the vagus nerve.
Q: Why is visualization important for vagus nerve activation?
A: Visualization was highlighted as a method for activating the vagus nerve, potentially aiding in cognitive enhancement.
Q: How did the session conclude?
A: The session ended with expressions of gratitude and anticipation for future engagements and discussions with the participants.
Highlights
Time: 00:00:52
Introduction to the Session, Host introduces the session and sets expectations.
Time: 00:01:17
Emphasis on Relevance, Importance of the session being relevant and beneficial to the audience.
Time: 00:10:57
Exploring Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Discussing the novel effects of vagus nerve stimulation with ultrasound.
Time: 00:14:50
Introducing Vision Setting, Introduction of the concept and practice of vision setting.
Time: 00:37:21
Upcoming Discussions Teaser, Mentioning future discussions on inducing psychedelic effects with ultrasound and vision-setting practices.
Time: 00:49:58
Personal Insights Shared, Host shares personal insights on deep learning and mental challenges.
Time: 01:00:19
Audience Experiences on Mental Preparation, Audience member shares experiences related to mental preparation and performance.
Time: 01:04:18
Insight into Quantum Physics Concepts, Brief explanation of quantum physics concepts related to mind function.
Time: 01:07:31
Focus on Visualization and Breathing, Emphasizing the importance of visualization and breathing techniques for mental clarity.
Time: 01:14:32
Confirmation of Future Session Topics, Confirming topics for future sessions, including visualization and vagus nerve activation techniques.
Key Takeaways
- The discussion focused on microtubules and their impact on non-computational problem-solving processes.
- Time dilation effects in sports
- where reality seems to slow down
- were mentioned.
- Overclocking the mind may involve capturing faster snapshots of reality to respond effectively.
- The concept of precognition and the ability for backward propagation of information were explored.
- The vagus nerve and pyramidal neurons were highlighted as potential factors for precognition.
- Handheld ultrasound was discussed for vagus nerve activation and its benefits.
- Methods for self-stimulatory vagus nerve activation
- including visualization
- were explored.
- Encouragement for participants to engage with speakers for future discussions was given.
- The importance of vagus nerve activation for cognitive functions and well-being was emphasized.
- The session concluded with gratitude and anticipation for future interactions.
Behind the Mic
All right. All right. I hope everybody can hear me. Okay. Doing this the old fashioned way, just holding the phone up to my face and talking. So today we’re going to be talking about the vagus nerve, which is a fascinating subject. I do have some notes here as well. And so we’ll kind of just keep things on a, I would say relatively consistent timeline. I want to make sure that today it’s something that you can follow, learn from, and benefit from. That’s very important. And the vagus nerve, it’s this nerve that starts in the brain, goes through pretty much every organ in the body. It controls our parasympathetic nervous system. And it’s quite literally the nerve that if you don’t know what it is, you should know what it is because it quite literally controls your ability to rest, digest, and so many other things. So I’m going to get into first, a little bit about how it was discovered. And it’s actually quite recent, in the grand scheme of things, an organ that really wasn’t fully understood until the last hundred years or so. And so what we think it is, and then some recent discoveries that, quite frankly, I only came across this last week, that blew my mind. I’m always down the rabbit hole of the vagus nerve and finding new things are the implications of new things. So it was really quite fascinating to discover this. So first, let’s talk a little bit about the vagus nerve. It’s a wandering nerve. It means that it starts in the brain, goes all the way down through the body, and basically innervates every single one of our organs. So that’s the heart, the lungs, the stomach, the intestines, the liver, the spleen. It’s just like wandering nerve that goes through and innervates everything. And it is basically command strip for the parasympathetic nervous system. And the parasympathetic nervous system is the rest and digest portion of the nervous system. So it’s what allows us to recover, to sleep deeply. It’s what allows us to eat and digest our food. It’s what keeps our heart rate low and regular. It’s connected to our breath. It’s what controls our breath rate. It literally innervates everything. And it’s the rest and digest portion of the nervous system. If you’ve ever felt like you were about to die from something like being in a car accident or anaphylactic shock or some other kind of dangerous situation, it’s the vagus nerve that would bring you down from that called the rest and digest. So I think one of the most interesting things you start to discover when you say, ‘What is the vagus nerve?’ Historically, vagus nerve didn’t mean a lot of things. The Blue Nerve, the Latin word for vagus. Vagus comes from Latin, meaning wandering. And the reason why it wanders, because it’s this nerve that just innervates all of these organs. And so when they discovered it, they were like, ‘This is a really odd nerve.’ It didn’t seem to have a home. It wasn’t like an organ or a vessel, but it’s innervated everything. And why that matters is there are, in modern understanding, in many ways, it controls and helps to regulate many different things, including pain. And inflammation in the body. And so when we talk about this and controlling pain and inflammation, you think to yourself, ‘If I have a pain problem or I have an inflammation problem, well, I don’t think to myself I should control that through my nervous system.’ But actually, they’ve discovered that there’s actually two sides to the vagus nerve. There’s what we’ll call sympathetic, the parasympathetic, and if you think about the sympathetic as being the alert, fight or flight nervous system response, parasympathetic being the rest and digest nervous system response. Vagus nerve has two sides. One side is activated by this fight or flight. The other side is activated by the rest and digest. And this is where it starts to get a little bit complicated because they are finding that a lot of our ability to control pain and inflammation is actually controlled by vagal nerve stimulation. Now, vagal nerve stimulation is actually a thing. There’s an implant that people can get it. It’s a pretty invasive procedure, but they implant this device onto your vagus nerve, and it actually stimulates the vagus nerve. And what that ends up doing is controlling a lot of inflammation. They’ve actually found it in people with rheumatoid arthritis. It literally even helps inflammation of organ diseases. Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, some of these other things. Truly impressive. So that’s why I think discovering this about the vagus nerve, it’s one of those things that you’re like, ‘OK, I need to know about this.’ So, cool. We’re getting people in here. Awesome. Vagolytic. Vagus nerve simulation device, exactly. And you go to VNS implant. It’s that, so the vagus nerve actually carries a mixed bag of fibers. You can have the afferent, which is the incoming signal, efferent, outgoing signal. So signals going from your body to your brain. And then the brain has a single exit point from the brain, sending signals down the body. And what you end up finding is that with vagus nerve stimulation, you activate the efferent fibers that are sending signals to your body. And this can help with regulating things like a migraine. It can help with depression. They’re actually discovering it helps there as well. Migraine, depression, anxiety, epilepsy, chronic pain syndromes, even gut health, which is pretty wild. The nervous system controls all of these things. And what’s fascinating about it, when you discover this, you’re thinking, ‘Well, this might be something I want to register.’ And they’ve developed different vagal nerve stimulation devices that are less invasive, such as the gamma core device that you can run up and down the side of your neck. And they’ve got a bunch of other things. But what we’re going to talk about today are actual noninvasive ways to do this on your own. And I’m going to talk a little bit about, not only how to do it for yourself, but how we’ve actually seen other animals use this. Because what’s fascinating about the vagus nerve is, they say it’s wandering, polyvagal, including other animals, dogs, cats. Other mammals have it too. And this is where it gets interesting. So we’re going to talk a little bit about a recent discovery that I think is particularly fascinating. So there’s a worm, a parasite that actually, it infects like cows and other things like that. And it ends up with a really disgusting thing. Launches a part of its body through the head or rather the nose and throat of its host, and it infects its body there. They discovered that looks a lot like the vagus nerve. This makes sense because this worm is actually hacking the vagus nerve. It’s discovered how to actually penetrate the vagus nerve and control that loop. Disgusting, but also fascinating. Because what they found is, when this worm is basically infecting these things, it’s causing these responses. Actually making the host calm down when it should be freaking out. Then it’s spreading easier because the animal that’s infected interactions that it would normally fight off or get away from. When you think about evolution, the vagus nerve is trying to protect as many hosts as it can. From an evolution point of view, the worm developed similar features. So implications for that blow my mind. So yeah, I think what’s so interesting about discovering this and thinking, ‘What does this mean that our vagus nerve is this disgusting thing?’ So then I had a thought, what if the nerves in our body formed this pattern because worms back then were on their own connection. And I realized that’s exactly what we’re talking about. Fascinating to think, ‘Oh my god, worms evolved into this?’ Presentation became real because I realize oh shit. I have seven years of research experience in the vagus nerve specifically. Conferences with the biggest companies, private gala events, speaking to the biggest minds, clients from all over the world, research papers, reviews, everything. And this discovery makes it likely that the disgusting proboscis shot from the worm’s head could actually be our vagus nerve, changing the whole picture. The vagus nerve isn’t just some loving nerve enabling us to feel love. There are theories on the vagus nerve like polyvagal theory that got debunked about a year ago. And people realized the methodology to understand it is questionable. Steven Porges, the leading researcher behind polyvagal theory, backed off from it, now it’s completely cast into doubt. They discovered new features, back to drawing board on understanding the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve chat makes sense among people realizing it’s not just some lucid nerve giving fluffy feelings but actually complexly tied to survival. Stretching down to our ancestors and back to a time of worms. And then recently, more things I find blow my mind. Hence, revelation about our voice being tied to the vagus nerve, manipulated sound from days when our ancestors were worms interacting with each other. One nerve makes them get along easier with hosts and fit into things a deeper level. It fits perfectly with discoveries. So moving along, vagus nerve has two sides. The sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic (rest and digest). Methodologies about it are transitioning as vagus nerve research is evolving. Found it even helps epilepsy, chronic pain, gut health. Stimulates vagus nerve, hacks, along with depression, pain, even breathing. Learning new things daily helps us understand it. So let’s share ways to protect our vagus nerve. Breath work and other natural means, modern solutions, neck exercises like the iron neck system. Great tools, but also common exercises. One way to help vagus nerve tension. With proliferation across many areas in our body using vagus nerve solutions. Engage vagus. Breathwork, strengthening neck muscles, helps vagus nerve to avoid compressions, which can aid in protecting it. And in these exercises, putting it together helps vagus nerve stimulation. So now, to my last pitch, tomorrow I’ll focus on ultrasound methods of stimulating vagus. Ultrasound devices held against neck, stimulating vagus by simplifying whole process. Our breathwork is effective but these additional tools help accurately and efficiently. So I’ll dive into ultrasound research, device info, self-stimulation for maximizing nerve benefits without extensive measures. Thanking everyone for joining. Update again at the same time, follow for more updates, I’ll mass post about it. Remember to follow, and join discussions. Thanks and see you tomorrow. Bye.
