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  • Activate Your Vagus Nerve

  • Unleash Your Body’s Natural Ability to Overcome Gut Sensitivities, Inflammation, Autoimmunity, Brain Fog, Anxiety and Depression
  • Written by: Dr. Navaz Habib
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
  • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (34 ratings)

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Activate Your Vagus Nerve

Written by: Dr. Navaz Habib
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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Repair your vagus nerve and experience amazing health and wellness benefits

Your vagus nerve is the largest and most important nerve in your body. It carries messages to and from your brain, gut, heart, and other major muscles and organs. However, common issues like inflammation, stress, or physical trauma can interfere with the nerve's ability to function. Luckily, there are tons of quick-and-easy ways to activate and exercise the nerve, strengthening its function and restoring your body to good health. Packed with easy-to-follow exercises and activities, this book will show you how to unlock the power of the vagus nerve to heal your body and get back to a state of balance.

©2019 Navaz Habib (P)2019 Tantor

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Lacking Depth but good introductory info

May be I had a wrong expectation about this book. Book sprinkles good amount of information about Vagus Nerve and how is connected with various functioning of body organs and systems.

But I felt that the book lacked depth and some amount a sticking story.
If someone had read book on nutrition, diet, mindfulness, sleep - you can skip this book and follow what is said in rest of the book. Because you will only learn the vagus nerve is connected to all these things. Any dysfunction or impairment leads to poor function of vagus nerve which subsequently affects other systems of the body one by one.

Active methods to activate Vagus nerve Slow Deep Diaphragmatic Breathing, Getting great sleep, Love your space , 3. Sleep on your side for sleep, cold exposure, hum or chant mantras, gargling, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, laughter, social interaction, listening to music, smart dietary choices, intermittent fasting, exercises, resistance training, aerobic exercise, sunlight exposure,avoidance of coffee, supplementation, pro-biotics, omega-3 fatty acids, etc are some of suggestions in this book.

Passive methods to activate Vagus nerve : Auricular acupuncture, massage therapy and reflexology, Visceral manipulation, chiropractic care

So, if you read the above 2-3 paragraphs, that will be the takeaway for you.

I felt that I paid more for this audible book despite the member price

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Easy to Understand for Average Person

I researched the Vagus Nerve prior to purchasing this audiobook. I was looking for a complete guide for the average person looking to optimize their health. This is the book! It is thorough but written in easy to understand language and with simple examples. Breathing through with the diaphragm and nose has been the best thing I have learnt. I am retraining my body after many unclear health issues and challenges over the last 10 years. I am going through it again to see what else I missed or need to implement. Well done!

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Very informative!

Dr Habib provides very practical and thorough advice on how to help your own healing process.

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super useful information

thank you for this book!!! I hope this info makes it to everyone especially to health care professionals.

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  • KZ
  • 2021-05-12

Good information

This book gives good info about the VN but it is pretty technical and dry.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2019-10-17

Elton John? & Great book

When he was talking about the effects of listening to Mozart, the bit about Mozart seemed to conclude and then the words “Elton John” were spoken as it that was the title of a new section. After that, the book continued without any further information or mention of Elton John.

I loved this book and read it because I have IBS-C. My colon doesn’t move! After 5 minutes breathing for the last 4 nights, my colon has done its job 4 days in a row (inconceivable!!!) I will do more exercises but I definitely think this is a fruitful path for me. Thank you for writing this book!

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  • Marcia T. Pinna
  • 2019-11-24

This Guy’s voice is insanely annoying

Who the hell is the reader... its sooooo bad I really want the information in this book but this reader is actually making it harder to understand. The inflection is just off

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  • Jeff Rockwell
  • 2019-10-24

Boring!!!

Read like someone cut and pasted info from Wikipedia on the physiology and pathology of every organ in the body. It dragged on and on, with nothing practical offered until the last two, very short chapters. My conclusion: this was an infomercial for this doctor. Oh yeah.... this functional “medical” doctor is actually a chiropractor. Don’t waste your time on this. Read ( or listen to) the experts: Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, Peter Levine, Stanley Rosenberg, Kathy Kain.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2019-10-24

Such a Great Discovery I am Ready to Be Healed!

Such great insight on what the vague nerve is responsible and how it affects all parts of our body . This is an awesome listen and the narrator was very articulate and has such a refreshing voice. I am listening again!

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  • fitwriter
  • 2020-04-14

Complete, relevant, organized info

Exactly what it promises to be. Not sure yet but hoping there’s a PDF download of lists - written form of the suggested exercises, or else I’ll have to go way back and take notes. But, good book.

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  • Margaret Miller
  • 2020-02-05

"Put the Pieces Together for Me"

This book helped synthesize a bigger picture for me as to why things like cryo/cold-therapy, breathing exercises, music, laughter, yoga/Pilates, etc are said to be important for improving HRV and thus long term health, but I didn't understand how or why about the whole Sympathetic/Para-sympathetic nervous system works...the author does that in Ch.15.

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  • Elan Sun Star
  • 2019-08-16

incredible insights and practical data.

I think this is the bet book I have ever encountered on this subject and its related states of mind and body
Thank you for a brilliant review of the essential functions the vagus nerve.

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  • Gretchen Eisentrager
  • 2020-01-10

Chapter on how to heal very thorough

The skills list was exactly what I wanted given my previous studies on vagus nerve. This very important for trauma work with clients in mental health services.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2019-11-27

Eye Opening

Great book with a ton of valuable information. I was totally clueless about the Vagus Nerve prior to reading this book.
It is a must read.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2020-09-05

not what i expected

Contained significant advertising and was not up to the type of book i was looking for.

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  • Amazon Kunde
  • 2022-12-04

Interesting and useful

I skipped , as suggested by the author, some chapters an concentrated on the last ones , the more practical ones.