Natalie Nixon

I feel hungry.

And interoception is powered by the vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the body.

It extends from the brain down through the heart and lungs and into the gut.

So when we say things like my gut is telling me, it literally is.

We literally have a neural highway system linking our brain, our heart, our lungs, and the gut.

And the heartbeat detection study asked people to sit in a chair

with their feet on the ground and their hands on their lap.

And they were asked to tap out on their lap their heartbeat rate, not by putting their fingers on their wrist to detect a pulse.

And some people are outstanding at this.

They can sit very stilly.

And they just begin to tap out their heart rate.

And other people are like, what do you mean?

I can't do that.

But that's called interceptive awareness and interceptive accuracy.

And so the experiment went on to find that people with high levels of interceptive awareness are attuned to that inner state.

Also are really good at at at.

at accurate strategic decision-making in high stakes environments.

And that experiment blew my mind because it, it, it demonstrated that this is not woo woo, that there is, there is now scientifically documented connections between our interceptive awareness power by our vagus nerve, which is responsible for intuition and rational cognitive strategic decision-making in intense high stake environments.

So this,