Mona Sharma explains that your gut has more nerve endings than your brain and directly signals your stress levels through digestion. Training your vagus nerve to shift from fight-or-flight to rest-and-digest mode can build resilience and improve health.
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Get to know your gut though. We have more nerve endings also within the gut microbiome than we do within the brain. But we don't have any connection to what's happening in our gut though. We're so disconnected. Get to know your gut. Get to know your gut through things like your bowel movements through, you know, if you're somebody who gets nervous all the time and your stomach kind of goes off, right? Like just get to know your gut because if it's not and you're suffering from any of those digestive symptoms, it's sending a stressful state, a stressful feeling up to the brain. There's so many modalities that activate your, your vagus nerve that we need to focus because you're building resilience back into the body. So going back to the resiliency training, you're retraining your vagal tone by shifting your body, knowing how to shift your body from fight or flight into your parasympathetic which is your rest and digest.