In this solo instructional video, Bill from Beyond Fitness Online explains how a range of seemingly unrelated symptoms—midline core weakness, dizziness, balance issues, digestive problems, and diffuse torso pain—can stem from vagus nerve dysfunction. He provides a concise overview of the vagus nerve’s anatomy (cranial nerve X) and its roles in breathing, swallowing, heart rate, and organ regulation. The core of the video is a practical toolkit for stimulating the vagus nerve: diaphragmatic breathing, cranial (scalp) mobilization, ear vibration or TENS, pelvic floor activation and relaxation, tongue exercises, and gargling/swallowing drills. Bill shares anecdotal client results, noting reductions in vertigo, improvements in core strength, and enhanced attention span. He encourages viewers to try the techniques, comment on their experiences, and visit his website for more resources.
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Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online, and today I want to tackle a bigger topic than what I normally do. And the reason is, is because I'm seeing a lot of clients lately that have a lot of different symptoms. Symptoms of like midline weakness, so like weak core and just hard time keeping their spine under control, dizziness, balance. Different kinds of gut problems, which don't always seem like that would cause movement problems, but if you're having digestive issues, that's a symptom of a bigger issue. Pain throughout the torso that you can't quite pinpoint. Maybe you're like, oh, it kind of hurts in this general area, but you can't really repeat it with movement and it comes and it goes. So all of those are symptoms that can be fixed by working on one thing called the vagus nerve. Now, the vagus nerve is the longest nerve in your body, and if you want more information on it, you can look up cranial nerve 10. And it comes from the brainstem and goes right down and innervates the back of the head, behind the ear and in the ear. It innervates the throat. It innervates all of your organs basically through your torso. It's involved in swallowing and and closing your throat and breathing. So there's a lot of different things that this does. It's also really involved in your heartbeat and your heart rate and basically the cardiac muscle. So in order to work on the vagus nerve, here's what we need to do. There's a lot of different ways to attack this. Now, you can go and check some of my previous videos. I'll post some right up here, I think right there. And what we'll do is, You're gonna see breathing is a really big piece because as you can start to really focus on diaphragmatic breath and breathing into the belly, then that can help to stimulate the vagus nerve more. You can start to do cranial mobilization. So there's another video here that I've done that with where you're starting to mobilize the scalp and that can help to upregulate the vagus nerve. You can also work on Vibration, or even if you have a TENS unit that fits in your ear, you can start to kind of give a little shock or vibration, or really any sensory nerve to the ear. Usually like right up above that little crest right inside the ear is really a good place to start. Pelvic floor work, working on contracting and then completely relaxing your pelvic floor. And I'll do a future video on that one. I don't have any yet, but That's coming up. There's really strong inputs into the whole midline of your body when you can start to control your pelvic floor. Also working on your tongue. So there's a lot of different tongue exercises you can do. You can try pressing your tongue into your cheek like this, like, mm. You can add resistance with your finger. You can press your tongue into the roof of your mouth. You can lick your teeth. All kinds of different work with your tongue will also help to really stimulate The vagus nerve. Gargling water, you can do swallowing exercises, like try to swallow 3 times without rewetting your mouth. And if you're able to do that, then you're doing pretty good. If not, then vagus work might be something you need to do. There are a lot of different things to do, but this was a few different things that I've been doing with several clients lately and seeing great results. And it really has helped relieve vertigo symptoms, it's helped increase core strength, and there's a lot of different things that you will find really get a lot better, including things that don't have anything to do with fitness, like maybe attention span. Those kinds of things all start to upregulate as you work on this stuff. So give it a try. Tell me which ones down below in the comments that you tried and that you like. And if you have any questions or wanna know more, also let me know in the comments. If you wanna see more of what I do, check out my website at www.beyondfitnessonline.com. And if you haven't already, please subscribe to my channel. I post new updates every week. And until next time, live healthy.
