Dr. Michael Kilgard
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The left vagus nerve on the cervical branch, just right here, find a little crease in your skin, open that up, put it in, close it up.
If you feel your jugular, your carotid artery, it's running right there.
You're anesthetized for 35 minutes.
So from open to close, that part of it is half an hour.
Typically people, you know how it is.
Shorter than a haircut.
Yeah, is the actual part where you're open.
Right.
But the actual showing up and getting checked in and checked out, it does take two hours or whatever it is.
I don't actually know.
That's a good question.
You do it once and you're done.
And when it's off, it's off.
Like the medications are maybe lingering in your body, having effects.
You're talking about specificity, which I want to get back to.
The specificity, it doesn't activate any other nerves than the one that it's on.
It's a tiny bit of current.
So we put a band around your neck.
It looks like Bose headphones or Beats headphones around it.
That has got a coil.