In the last few decades, medical researchers made vast progress in understanding how complex the human body is. For years, the focus for healthcare was on the intervention of a silver bullet. Most commonly it was seen as a drug or surgery as the best way of healing disease. These are ef...
When you push yourself too hard, the ‘sympathetic system’ diverts from the normal practice of healing, building tissues, and eliminating waste and begins breaking down the body. On the other scale, your ‘parasympathetic system’ works to decrease the heart rate, increases intestinal and gland...
It is often called “the X cranial nerve or the tenth cranial nerve” because it extends throughout the body into the cranium of our brains. The vagus is the longest nerve in a human’s nervous system, starting in our intestinal area and stretching all the way into our brains. Where is...