In this sixth installment of his Vagus Nerve Training series, Bill from Beyond Fitness Online explains how cognitive difficulties—such as poor concentration, memory lapses, and learning challenges—can stem from dysfunction in the superior vestibular nucleus, a key hub linking the vestibular system to the vagus nerve. He outlines a rehabilitation approach that combines vertical eye or head tracking of a moving target with simultaneous bilateral resistance movements (e.g., chest press, shoulder press, push‑ups, pull‑ups, squats, leg press). This dual‑task method is designed to stimulate the superior vestibular nucleus and, by extension, the vagus nerve, with Bill reporting “fantastic results.” He invites viewers to try the protocol, share outcomes in the comments, and subscribe for future vagus‑nerve‑focused content.
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Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online. Today's part 6 of 6 about how I work with clients who have vagus nerve issues. So to recap, I take a history of people, a medical history, and then if we determine that things are pointing towards a vagus nerve issue, I start to analyze different parts of their bodies and their brains. In this video, we're going to talk about cognition, and basically that's things like: Are you able to concentrate? Do you have memory issues? Do you have difficulties learning, or when something new is presented to you, do you have a hard time kind of understanding it? If this is you, then the cognition part of the vestibular of the vagus nerve is impacting your vestibular system and the rest of your body, and in particular. This is getting the superior vestibular nucleus, and I got more information about that right here. The superior vestibular nucleus is really impacted when we do vertical eye movements and vertical head movements, and we also want to get bilateral arm or leg movements as well. So what we'll want to do is we will want to have a target either that's moving in front of us that we either follow with our eyes Or follow with our head, or a combination thereof. And that's going to be the best way to impact that nucleus, which is going to communicate at some level with the vestibular system. Now, while we're doing that, we want to do bilateral exercises. This could be a chest press, this could be a shoulder press, this could be a push-up, it could be, you know, a pull-down or a pull-up, anything we're using both arms. It could also be done with a squat, it could be done with a leg press. So anything we're using— both of your limbs at the same time. And at the same time as that, you're using this vertical eye movement to impact that. So this is an example of how I start to get people to do their exercise but also stimulate the vagus nerve at the same time, and we see fantastic results. So if this is— if this sounds like you and you give this a try, let me know in the comments below how this worked for you. And I've got way more stuff coming in the future. About vagus nerve activity and how to stimulate that the right way. So if you want those, don't forget to subscribe. And until next time, live healthy.
