The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And when I say engaging the vagus, I mean engaging very specific pathways within the vagus circuitry. You now, of course, can appreciate that the vagus nerve is a superhighway, bidirectional superhighway of sensory and motor connections, has a ton of specificity. It's signaling mechanical and chemical information. It's controlling the body, and yet, there are specific pathways that will indeed calm you down, if you activate them.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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