Bill explains how vagus nerve dysfunction causes irregular heart rate, blood pressure swings, dizziness, and vertigo. He walks through exercises like head tilts, squats, and lunges designed to stimulate specific parts of the inner ear and brainstem, with the goal of steadying your heart rate and blood pressure.
Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online. Today's going to be part 2 about how I deal with vagus nerve issues with, with clients. So last week, you can catch that right here, we talked about issues in the cervical area or in the neck. This week, we're going to talk, talk about issues that relate to the cardiovascular system or the heart that the vagus nerve can impact. You might have issues with your heart rate variability, or your blood pressure might be all over the place. You might have dizziness issues or vertigo, and those are all potential issues with the vestibular— with the vagus nerve impacting things like the vestibular system. In particularly, the inferior vestibular nucleus could be impacted by this part. So what you'll want to do Is you're going to want to stimulate the posterior canals. This is going to be head tilts this way and this way, or even neutral right here. You're also going to want to do exercises that stimulate your saccule, which is the part of your vestibular system that goes up and down. And then you'll also want to add in limb movement because a lot of this goes right through your— what's called your PMRF. And that control— that's stimulated a lot by stability. And mobility. So what we're going to want to do is get head into different positions back here. We're going to want to do exercises like squats. We're going to want to do lunges, and we're going to want to have the eyes fixed on one spot as we tilt the head back and do squats on that side. So if you have an issue on one side and not the other, you may tilt the head this way. If your issue is bilateral, you may keep it more in the middle, midline, neutral. What While you do, say, a squat or a lunge or exercises where you're moving up and down. And the key is having your eye fixed on a specific point. And then while you're doing that, you may want to add in something like an arm curl while you squat, make it a very dynamic movement. So this is one example of an exercise I would choose for somebody demonstrating issues there. What's amazing about this is that afterwards you tend to find that the heart rate has leveled out and things have gotten a lot smoother and a lot better, and blood pressure can be more even and controlled. So it's really powerful. I'm gonna go into 4 more parts of this the next 4 weeks. So to catch those, go ahead and subscribe to my channel. They'll be posted every Friday morning. And until next time, live healthy.
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