Your vagus nerve helps regulate digestion, breathing, heart rate, and your stress response. Stimulating this nerve could also help you regain a sense of calm in stressful circumstances.

"Our vagus nerve really affects a lot of things," Dr. Allyson Coffin said. "If it's off balance, you will notice." ...

Would you try an electromagnetic headset that claims to ‘reset the vagus nerve’? Emilie Lavinia investigates the world of ...

How does stimulating the vagus nerve improve your health? Slow, rhythmic breathing has long been a tried and tested way of ...

Meditation gains recognition for wellbeing, with breathing-focused techniques offering an accessible path to awareness, presence, and inner calm.

The vagus nerve is why your heart races and stomach curdles when you sense a threat and why your breathing slows and your body relaxes when friends welcome you to their house. The vagus nerve is ...

Life, as we live, goes into imbalance almost every day. Because of the speed, because of the expectations, because of the ...

You can do it yourself with techniques like deep breathing, humming, and endurance activities like jogging, says Dr. Nadkarni. There are also surgically implantable vagus-nerve stimulation devices ...

By taking control of your breathing, you’ll not only be giving your vagus nerve a workout, but you’ll also be taking time to pay attention to your body and get to know it better so you can ...