The Missing Link to Healing SVT: The Vagus Nerve
What is the Vagus Nerve?
I’m going to start sharing a series of posts with pertinent information (from my book coming soon: Heal SVT Naturally: Integrative Solutions for Supraventricular Tachycardia) about the Vagus Nerve: The Missing Link in SVT Healing
Today I’m sharing: What is the Vagus Nerve?
The vagus nerve is the longest nerve of the autonomic nervous system in the human body.”
The vagus nerve, also known as the vagal nerves or wandering nerve, are the main nerves of your parasympathetic nervous system and is the superhighway that connects your body and your brain. Nicknamed the CEO of your parasympathetic nervous system, the vagus nerve plays a key role in tasks such as: heart rate, breathing, gastrointestinal peristalsis (the wave like motions that move food through your intestines), sweating, and detoxification, along with controlling the muscles responsible for swallowing, as well as phonation (producing sound through vibration), speech and more.
The vagus nerve has multiple branches that diverge from two thick stem roots in the cerebellum and brainstem and wander through the diaphragm into the abdomen, intestinal tract, and other organs. This is the most obvious physical representation of the mind-body connection. The vagus nerve path presents the most compelling evidence of the SVT-GUT Connection, my origin theory, not only due to the physical connection but to what this nerve regulates. I believe this is why many people commonly go into SVT when bending forward or crunching forward. The bending position squishes the vagus nerve, (especially if it is already inflamed) and triggers the SVT. As such, massaging the vagus nerve through the stomach, where the SVT occasionally originates, will also serve as one of most non-invasive ways of breaking an SVT. If you experience both going into an SVT this way and breaking your SVT this way, you will begin to understand SVT from a whole new capacity and as a clear symptom of Vagus Nerve Dysfunction, which I believe is the overall underlying root cause of Supraventricular Tachycardia.
I have long viewed SVT as a symptom and one that responds well to lifestyle changes, dietary changes, self-care, rest, emotional release, calming the nervous system and more, which are the very same overall solutions to help calm (tone) the vagus nerve and bring your parasympathetic nervous system back into a balanced state.
Follow along for much more information about my theory and why an integrative approach to healing that is layered with calming, nourishing practices that address the vagus nerve from an emotional, nutritional, energetic and spiritual level are the real healing solutions to SVT and other vagus nerve dysfunction symptoms.
Stay tuned for how to know if you have Vagus Nerve Dysfunction, symptoms of vagus nerve dysfunction and the lifestyle practices that make a true difference to help you heal.
Author: Laura Madrigano, www.HealSVTnaturally.com
@HealSVTnaturally
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