Bill explains how to spot vagus nerve involvement in chronic inflammation, like widespread redness or joint swelling in autoimmune conditions. He presents three strategies: a Stroop test during cardio to stimulate vagal pathways, lymphatic drainage techniques with taping and manual pumping, and intense muscle contractions like high-tension bicep curls to trigger autonomic responses.
Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online. Today is video 4 of 6 answering the question, how do I work with clients who have vagus nerve issues? The important thing is to, one, identify that there's a vagus nerve issue, and then two, determining which areas of the vagus nerve need to be worked on because the vagus nerve touches so many parts of the body. So today what we're going to be talking about is if you have chronic inflammation throughout your body. So this might be redness in the skin, this might be undetermined pain, unspecified what's causing pain, could be issues in the joint, could be swelling anywhere in the body but particularly in the joints. It may be diagnoses of things that are autoimmune like rheumatoid arthritis. So if this is you, then what we wanna do is pick exercises that will help this. So we will want to do things beyond your standard exercises, but we'll wanna do them with an intense focus on something. So sometimes what I will do with people is something called a Stroop test. So this is, you can download this on a smartphone. They have a million apps for this. A word will come up with a, it'll say a color, like it'll say green. But the letters will be in blue, and then you've got to pick which color you're seeing, not which color you're reading, and it really requires a lot of focus. So I'll have people do this while they're on like a stationary bike, for example. I may also have people do a lymph drain, which you have lymph nodes right here, or lymph drains, and they help to get a lot of swelling out. So I may put some tape on that and hold that down, or I may have them warm up by just pumping these, and I'll show you a video for that right up here. And then thirdly, we want to do some really hard contractions. I like to use a bicep contraction. So you can really bend the elbow, turn the hand so the thumb is going up, and lift that elbow up and across your body. You'll feel that bicep get really, really, really tight, and some people even start to cramp. If you're cramping while you do that, then you need to let it go and relax on that, and you will get stronger with that over time. So sometimes I'll just use heavy lifting or heavy, heavy weights. So those are all just different things I like to combine together if I see that there's a vagus nerve impacting inflammation within the body. I got 2 more parts for you. They're coming the next 2 weeks. If you have any questions, please leave them below. I'm happy to answer them. And if you want to catch those next 2 videos, don't forget to subscribe. I'll post those on Friday mornings. And until next time, live healthy.
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