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that the vagus nerve which is a you know multi- uh pronged pathway big pathway it's probably its own major branch of the nervous system really um is is sending bidirectional communication between brain and body and presumably when we're around somebody or something that doesn't quote unquote feel right the Vegas is involved
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And uh a large part of this birectional communication is also mediated through the vagus nerve which many of your listeners and viewers may have heard about because it's become a topic of intense activity. Now the vagus nerve is a bundle of nerve fibers that comes out basically of your skull, out of the central nervous system and then sends fibers in to your heart, your gut, all sorts of visceral organs. That information is both apherrant and epherent. The veagal fibers sense things that are happening in the body. So when you're the reason you feel your stomach tied up in knots if you're tense is that those veagal fibers are sensing the contraction of the gut muscles. They're also aference which means that information coming out of the brain can influence those peripheral organs as well.
This brain body connection is critical not just for the gut but for the heart, for the lungs, for all kinds of other uh parts of your body.