Dave Asprey
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You're not digesting well.
So get some digestive enzymes that have betaine HCL in them.
And magically, you take those when you eat and then your body can absorb all the nutrients from the food instead of letting it rot and then making everyone leave the room.
So like the vagus nerve is where you go for gambling.
Oh, no, that's wrong.
Dad jokes for the win.
All right.
The vagus nerve is so cool.
It is the largest nerve in the body.
And it basically controls everything.
It's like the central control system.
So there's little branches of it that go into your fingers.
And it's mostly available on the left ear and on the right ear.
And it controls your sympathetic response.
So is your body ready to fight and be stressed and perform?
Or is it ready to recover and digest?
Yeah.
So if you can't go to sleep at night, there's probably a sympathetic activation.
If you have a trauma anxiety response, you've got the vagus nerve involved.
So there's a company called Zenbud, and they make a, it's a few hundred bucks, a little ultrasound thing, looks like a headphone, you put it in your ear for five minutes, and it turns on parasympathetic.