Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Song | Vagus Nerve_ The Unexpected Key to Your Child's Gut Health

3 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video (Aaron Hartman, MD upload) featuring Dr. Song describing how improving vagus nerve function can improve children’s gut microbiome diversity and function independent of diet. The speaker recommends interventions such as breath work, Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping), cognitive behavioral tools, and vagus-nerve devices as potential ways to improve vagal function and thereby impact microbiome-related outcomes.

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By working on your vagus nerve function and optimization that could improve children's microbiome diversity and function, and that was independent of diet. So for a lot of families where, you know, we're trying to work on their microbiomes and they're super, super picky eaters, or maybe they're, you know, eating a highly processed diet and it's challenging to switch just yet, we're working on that, but it's a work in progress. Then working on the vagus nerve with breath work or with emotional freedom technique tapping or cognitive behavioral tools, Vagus nerve devices can be so impactful.