Which cranial nerve is the vagus nerve?

Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Improving autonomic function with fasting #intermittentfasting #fastinglife #weightloss #shorts

18 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube segment by Anne Truong MD describing how intermittent fasting can improve autonomic function. The speaker asserts intermittent fasting enhances heart rate variability by increasing vagus nerve (cranial nerve X) activity, lowering heart rate and stress, and thereby improving blood flow.

Questions this video answers

The vagus nerve is cranial nerve X (10).

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It actually improved your autonomic function. So what's autonomic function? Autonomic function is either sympathetic nervous system or a parasympathetic nervous system. And intermittent fasting has been shown to improve heart rate variability. Now, what that means is that it enhances the activity of the vagus nerve, or cranial nerve 10, which then lower heart rate. So when you lower the heart rate, you lower the stress, and you improve heart rate variability, which then improve blood flow. So that's how intermittent fasting can help with increasing blood flow.