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VAGUS NERVE EXERCISE: Heal and Revive Your Vagus Nerve Naturally: Self-Help Exercises to Banish Stress, Anxiety and Chronic Diseases
Tired of anxiety and depression? Are you weary of the persistent challenges and discomforts that often accompany the transition into your fifties?
Struggling to manage sleep disturbances, digestive disorders, chronic diseases while maintaining a balanced lifestyle?
If you answered YES , read on!!
The weight of anxiety and depression weigh on your shoulders, making each day feel like an uphill battle, robbing you of the joy and peace you deserve.
Often the torment of persistent digestive problems, leaving you bloated, uncomfortable and unable to enjoy a single meal without worrying about the repercussions it brings. Embark on a transformative journey of self-healing and restoration with "Vagus Nerve Exercise" a guiding light that offers ✅Discover the hidden wonders of the vagus nerve the Gateway to Inner Harmony and Resilience through Vagus Nerve Examination and Your Solution to Distress and Anxiety✅You will experience a new sense of control and empowerment over your health and well-being as you unlock the potential of your vagus nerve through Breathing Techniques✅Exercises Never Revealed involving therapeutic massage, stretching,acupressure and yoga the Ultimate Path to Serenity and Well-being through Vagus Nerve Mastery✅Unleashing the Power of Eating Rituals, Extraordinary Exercises, and Revolutionary Technologies for the Over 50s - A Transformative Panacea for Digestive Sleep Woes and a Resilient Defense Against the Grip of Chronic Diseases
Discover Stress Reduction Techniques, Intermittent Fasting, and Revolutionary Tools to Liberate Your Vagus Nerve Like Never Before
Imagine a life where anxiety and depression no longer hold you back.
Envision restful nights and a peaceful digestive system.
Picture engaging in quick exercises that seamlessly fit into your schedule.
Take charge of your well-being and embark on a transformative journey towards a healthier, happier you.
Unlock the Power of your Vagus Nerve and experience the remarkable benefits it brings .
Order your copy of "Vagus Nerve Exercise" today and embrace the life you deserve!!
Struggling to manage sleep disturbances, digestive disorders, chronic diseases while maintaining a balanced lifestyle?
If you answered YES , read on!!
The weight of anxiety and depression weigh on your shoulders, making each day feel like an uphill battle, robbing you of the joy and peace you deserve.
Often the torment of persistent digestive problems, leaving you bloated, uncomfortable and unable to enjoy a single meal without worrying about the repercussions it brings. Embark on a transformative journey of self-healing and restoration with "Vagus Nerve Exercise" a guiding light that offers ✅Discover the hidden wonders of the vagus nerve the Gateway to Inner Harmony and Resilience through Vagus Nerve Examination and Your Solution to Distress and Anxiety✅You will experience a new sense of control and empowerment over your health and well-being as you unlock the potential of your vagus nerve through Breathing Techniques✅Exercises Never Revealed involving therapeutic massage, stretching,acupressure and yoga the Ultimate Path to Serenity and Well-being through Vagus Nerve Mastery✅Unleashing the Power of Eating Rituals, Extraordinary Exercises, and Revolutionary Technologies for the Over 50s - A Transformative Panacea for Digestive Sleep Woes and a Resilient Defense Against the Grip of Chronic Diseases
Discover Stress Reduction Techniques, Intermittent Fasting, and Revolutionary Tools to Liberate Your Vagus Nerve Like Never Before
Imagine a life where anxiety and depression no longer hold you back.
Envision restful nights and a peaceful digestive system.
Picture engaging in quick exercises that seamlessly fit into your schedule.
Take charge of your well-being and embark on a transformative journey towards a healthier, happier you.
Unlock the Power of your Vagus Nerve and experience the remarkable benefits it brings .
Order your copy of "Vagus Nerve Exercise" today and embrace the life you deserve!!
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Published August 29, 2023
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February 28, 2025
My rating: 3 stars (actually a 2.5 rounded off)
The cover of this book may catch your attention because of the term “vagus nerve.” So you may already know what it is and simply want to know how to take care of it.
However, if you’re just curious and want to know what it is, here is a simple definition: It is a long nerve in your brain connected to various organs, including your heart, lungs, and digestive tract—why it is also known as the “pneumogastric nerve.” The vagus nerve is an essential part of the “parasympathetic nervous system,” which regulates functions like heart rate, digestion, breathing, and reflex actions. So it is like a communication supervisor, which compels those organs to “talk to each other” daily, ensuring their automatic processes run smoothly.
If your vagus nerve isn’t working properly, your health is affected and you're more prone to the negative effects of stress. This is why we all need to nurture it.
This book may be helpful to you if you are NOT immersed in Latin American and Asian (particularly Southeast, Central South, and Middle Eastern) culture.
Otherwise, if you grew up in a region—or are exposed to a faith system or culture—that uses ancient, alternative, or holistic therapies/medicinal practices, the information in this book is old hat to you, regardless of your current geographical location.
Therefore, the readership most likely to benefit from this book is Western. I can vouch for the effectivity of exercises targeting the vagus nerve, as my BFF and I have been practicing them regularly, thanks to ancestral wisdom handed down by her granny—knowledge she shared with me back when were kids. This was way before the term “vagus nerve” became a buzzword.
These are my observations on this book, one of which doesn’t have a bearing on the star-rating:
1) On presentation:
In non-fiction publications, especially those informative and educational in nature, acronyms should be spelled out and their definitions stated in the first instance. After that, the author is free to spread them out short-form throughout the publication.
For example, the acronym CNX should have been introduced when the vagus nerve was first mentioned in the introduction because readers might confuse it with CNS (central nervous system). The author should have also explained that this acronym stands for the vagus nerve and that it is called so because it is the 10th cranial nerve—the reason for the X, the Roman numeral for 10.
The glossary helps a bit, but it contains only a few terms—not sufficient for a thorough understanding of the book. That is, unless readers just look at the illustrations and focus on the exercises. And possibly the cuisine part, ie, vagus nerve-friendly food.
Acronyms should also be consistent, including spacing. For example, CNX should appear the same in all instances—with all three letters together. However, it appears this way in a couple, such as location 264: CN X (with a space between N and X).
2) On readability:
The author did not bother to explain numerous medical terms in simple language. With the few that she did, she should have done so earlier in the manuscript. For example, the term “innervation” should have been defined in laypeople’s terms from the beginning, preferably in the intro with the phrase, “innervational modalities” (page 13, chapter 1) because it appears multiple times throughout the book. The context of the word “innervation” was also misused a number of times.
One may think the author meant this publication for medical students, but from her book description, it looks like her intended readers are regular folks. Or she probably expects her ebook readers to simply highlight a word they don’t know and use the built-in dictionaries of their digital devices. Still…
Included in the subtitle (and description) of the book is “self-help,” so readers expect the content to be written in everyday language. “Self-help” implies “easy to read.”
There’s also a continuity problem. One example: location 739—“It may be feasible to indirectly stimulate the CNX via these regions since it links to so many different sections of the body.”
Comment: Which regions? Even if they were mentioned at the beginning of the book, there’s no mention of these in both the preceding and succeeding paragraphs in this chapter.
Solution: Have a developmental editor go through the manuscript.
3) On content:
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but it looks like part of the publication was written with AI. Sections with scientific jargon (particularly the first portion of the book) appear to have came from a medical textbook. This isn’t a writing offense, but the author should have taken the time to rewrite the native/raw text and molded it into an easy-to-understand, mass-reader-friendly presentation.
It seems like the information in the first section of the book was from one source or category of sources (medical textbooks, particularly allopathic medicine), while the latter portion was from a different source or category of sources (functional medicine website, yoga handbook, acupressure manual) in an informal language. It’s because the resulting “tones” were not just vastly different, but the methods of delivery were also at odds with each other.
The author/ghostwriter must have simply merged these two (or three, or four) disparate sources into one manuscript. This isn’t a mortal sin in writing. However, it would have been better if the author/editor “blended” the material into one cohesive language.
Analogy: If this publication was an audiobook, it would have had a medical professional or biology teacher stiffly reciting its first half, then a holistic practitioner—perhaps a yoga instructor or TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) therapist—conversationally relating the other half.
4) On semantics and cognitive structure:
Despite her English name, the author doesn’t seem to have English as her first language. If I’m mistaken in this assumption, then her ghostwriter(s) and editor(s) should be blamed for the shortcomings of this publication. I’ve come to this conclusion because the structure of numerous sentences is awkward, several claims contradict each other, and the phrasing of some questions and statements is either grammatically wrong, unwieldy, or sounds strange. Many of these “literary transgressions” are littered throughout the book.
Examples of passages that sound weird:
Page 39, location 692:
“This chapter will lead us on an adventure along the vagus nerve’s wayward journey.”
Recommendation: “This chapter will take us on an adventurous journey through the winding paths of the vagus nerve’s complex network.”
Page 43, location 760:
“You should hardly feel any air blowing into your finger as you breathe. The objective is to slow your breathing so that less air enters your body. During this exercise, you should feel air-hunger.”
Recommendation: “You should barely feel any air against your finger as you breathe. The goal is to slow your breathing to reduce the amount of air entering your body. During this exercise, you may experience shortness of breath.” While the term “air hunger” is appropriate in a formal medical or physiological context, “breathlessness” is more suitable in a casual statement.
Examples of sentences that need restructuring:
Page 30, location 600: “Each of them is crucial, and over the day, we traverse all of these various circuits, yet most of the time, we aren’t even aware that we perform this because of how rapidly we move through them.”
Comment: Vague, lengthy, run-on sentence; comma splices
Recommendation: “These various circuits are crucial. Throughout the day, we traverse each of them. Most of the time, however, we are unaware of doing so because of how quickly we move through them.”
Or: “Each of these circuits is crucial. Throughout the day, we move through all of them, often without awareness due to how rapidly we transition between them.”
Location 1,833:
“What data says about how to activate the vagus nerve?”
Recommendation: “What does data say about how to activate the vagus nerve?”
Location 700: “It overburdens the human body with hormones, inhibits critical brain activities, and fuels inflammation.”
Recommendation: “It overburdens the human body with EXCESSIVE hormones, inhibits critical brain activities, and EXACERBATES (or AGGRAVATES, or INTENSIFIES) inflammation.”
5) On visuals:
5a) Visual number 1 is missing from the collection of illustrations.
5b) Illustration number 5 was repeated.
5c) The diagrams need to be more specific, particularly with the eye exercises. Perhaps strategically placed labels and arrows would help, as well as 3D images.
6) On formatting (not included in the reason for the rating):
There isn’t enough space between paragraphs (in the body copy) to delineate each from the rest. If there were indents in the succeeding paragraphs, this would have been acceptable. This isn’t a problem if the author’s target readers are young and can effortlessly read material no matter how it’s presented to them. However, from the book description, it’s clear that she’s marketing the book to people halfway through the century mark (or almost there).
Specifics:
* The author or formatter forgot to make some headings and subheadings bold so that readers can distinguish them from the body copy. As a result, the preceding paragraphs look like they’re run-on, making the meaning of entire sections different and rendering the sentences that make them up contradictory.
* There is also inconsistency in the spacing between bullets and the words that follow them.
To be fair, this may not be the fault of the author because numerous technical issues often arise in the publication process, especially when it comes to ebooks. These may be due to a number of causes: from formatting within the native software/app to file transfer/compression/conversion, upload method, and publishing platform. I know, because I’ve faced the same challenges and have since corrected them. However, despite my best efforts, some books may still show up with messy formatting depending on the book seller’s platform. This is why I didn’t include this aspect as a criterion in my rating. However, I found it necessary to mention it because the author may not be aware of the issue.
Overall, if readers could get past the jargon and just focus on the exercises and diet portions of the book, it could be beneficial in maintaining vagus nerve health.
NOTE TO THE AUTHOR:
Hopefully, she gets to read this part of the review. She may not be aware of these issues (including the formatting one), so I’d like to bring them to her attention:
1) The blurb only addresses those on the way to age 50. So potential readers may perceive this book as only for middle-aged folks and pass it over. By limiting her target audience, the author is missing out on younger people interested in optimizing the health of their nervous system.
2) The last page (132) states: “Download your free extra vagus nerve exercise,” but the link doesn’t work. Readers may just want to try the QR code.
The cover of this book may catch your attention because of the term “vagus nerve.” So you may already know what it is and simply want to know how to take care of it.
However, if you’re just curious and want to know what it is, here is a simple definition: It is a long nerve in your brain connected to various organs, including your heart, lungs, and digestive tract—why it is also known as the “pneumogastric nerve.” The vagus nerve is an essential part of the “parasympathetic nervous system,” which regulates functions like heart rate, digestion, breathing, and reflex actions. So it is like a communication supervisor, which compels those organs to “talk to each other” daily, ensuring their automatic processes run smoothly.
If your vagus nerve isn’t working properly, your health is affected and you're more prone to the negative effects of stress. This is why we all need to nurture it.
This book may be helpful to you if you are NOT immersed in Latin American and Asian (particularly Southeast, Central South, and Middle Eastern) culture.
Otherwise, if you grew up in a region—or are exposed to a faith system or culture—that uses ancient, alternative, or holistic therapies/medicinal practices, the information in this book is old hat to you, regardless of your current geographical location.
Therefore, the readership most likely to benefit from this book is Western. I can vouch for the effectivity of exercises targeting the vagus nerve, as my BFF and I have been practicing them regularly, thanks to ancestral wisdom handed down by her granny—knowledge she shared with me back when were kids. This was way before the term “vagus nerve” became a buzzword.
These are my observations on this book, one of which doesn’t have a bearing on the star-rating:
1) On presentation:
In non-fiction publications, especially those informative and educational in nature, acronyms should be spelled out and their definitions stated in the first instance. After that, the author is free to spread them out short-form throughout the publication.
For example, the acronym CNX should have been introduced when the vagus nerve was first mentioned in the introduction because readers might confuse it with CNS (central nervous system). The author should have also explained that this acronym stands for the vagus nerve and that it is called so because it is the 10th cranial nerve—the reason for the X, the Roman numeral for 10.
The glossary helps a bit, but it contains only a few terms—not sufficient for a thorough understanding of the book. That is, unless readers just look at the illustrations and focus on the exercises. And possibly the cuisine part, ie, vagus nerve-friendly food.
Acronyms should also be consistent, including spacing. For example, CNX should appear the same in all instances—with all three letters together. However, it appears this way in a couple, such as location 264: CN X (with a space between N and X).
2) On readability:
The author did not bother to explain numerous medical terms in simple language. With the few that she did, she should have done so earlier in the manuscript. For example, the term “innervation” should have been defined in laypeople’s terms from the beginning, preferably in the intro with the phrase, “innervational modalities” (page 13, chapter 1) because it appears multiple times throughout the book. The context of the word “innervation” was also misused a number of times.
One may think the author meant this publication for medical students, but from her book description, it looks like her intended readers are regular folks. Or she probably expects her ebook readers to simply highlight a word they don’t know and use the built-in dictionaries of their digital devices. Still…
Included in the subtitle (and description) of the book is “self-help,” so readers expect the content to be written in everyday language. “Self-help” implies “easy to read.”
There’s also a continuity problem. One example: location 739—“It may be feasible to indirectly stimulate the CNX via these regions since it links to so many different sections of the body.”
Comment: Which regions? Even if they were mentioned at the beginning of the book, there’s no mention of these in both the preceding and succeeding paragraphs in this chapter.
Solution: Have a developmental editor go through the manuscript.
3) On content:
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but it looks like part of the publication was written with AI. Sections with scientific jargon (particularly the first portion of the book) appear to have came from a medical textbook. This isn’t a writing offense, but the author should have taken the time to rewrite the native/raw text and molded it into an easy-to-understand, mass-reader-friendly presentation.
It seems like the information in the first section of the book was from one source or category of sources (medical textbooks, particularly allopathic medicine), while the latter portion was from a different source or category of sources (functional medicine website, yoga handbook, acupressure manual) in an informal language. It’s because the resulting “tones” were not just vastly different, but the methods of delivery were also at odds with each other.
The author/ghostwriter must have simply merged these two (or three, or four) disparate sources into one manuscript. This isn’t a mortal sin in writing. However, it would have been better if the author/editor “blended” the material into one cohesive language.
Analogy: If this publication was an audiobook, it would have had a medical professional or biology teacher stiffly reciting its first half, then a holistic practitioner—perhaps a yoga instructor or TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) therapist—conversationally relating the other half.
4) On semantics and cognitive structure:
Despite her English name, the author doesn’t seem to have English as her first language. If I’m mistaken in this assumption, then her ghostwriter(s) and editor(s) should be blamed for the shortcomings of this publication. I’ve come to this conclusion because the structure of numerous sentences is awkward, several claims contradict each other, and the phrasing of some questions and statements is either grammatically wrong, unwieldy, or sounds strange. Many of these “literary transgressions” are littered throughout the book.
Examples of passages that sound weird:
Page 39, location 692:
“This chapter will lead us on an adventure along the vagus nerve’s wayward journey.”
Recommendation: “This chapter will take us on an adventurous journey through the winding paths of the vagus nerve’s complex network.”
Page 43, location 760:
“You should hardly feel any air blowing into your finger as you breathe. The objective is to slow your breathing so that less air enters your body. During this exercise, you should feel air-hunger.”
Recommendation: “You should barely feel any air against your finger as you breathe. The goal is to slow your breathing to reduce the amount of air entering your body. During this exercise, you may experience shortness of breath.” While the term “air hunger” is appropriate in a formal medical or physiological context, “breathlessness” is more suitable in a casual statement.
Examples of sentences that need restructuring:
Page 30, location 600: “Each of them is crucial, and over the day, we traverse all of these various circuits, yet most of the time, we aren’t even aware that we perform this because of how rapidly we move through them.”
Comment: Vague, lengthy, run-on sentence; comma splices
Recommendation: “These various circuits are crucial. Throughout the day, we traverse each of them. Most of the time, however, we are unaware of doing so because of how quickly we move through them.”
Or: “Each of these circuits is crucial. Throughout the day, we move through all of them, often without awareness due to how rapidly we transition between them.”
Location 1,833:
“What data says about how to activate the vagus nerve?”
Recommendation: “What does data say about how to activate the vagus nerve?”
Location 700: “It overburdens the human body with hormones, inhibits critical brain activities, and fuels inflammation.”
Recommendation: “It overburdens the human body with EXCESSIVE hormones, inhibits critical brain activities, and EXACERBATES (or AGGRAVATES, or INTENSIFIES) inflammation.”
5) On visuals:
5a) Visual number 1 is missing from the collection of illustrations.
5b) Illustration number 5 was repeated.
5c) The diagrams need to be more specific, particularly with the eye exercises. Perhaps strategically placed labels and arrows would help, as well as 3D images.
6) On formatting (not included in the reason for the rating):
There isn’t enough space between paragraphs (in the body copy) to delineate each from the rest. If there were indents in the succeeding paragraphs, this would have been acceptable. This isn’t a problem if the author’s target readers are young and can effortlessly read material no matter how it’s presented to them. However, from the book description, it’s clear that she’s marketing the book to people halfway through the century mark (or almost there).
Specifics:
* The author or formatter forgot to make some headings and subheadings bold so that readers can distinguish them from the body copy. As a result, the preceding paragraphs look like they’re run-on, making the meaning of entire sections different and rendering the sentences that make them up contradictory.
* There is also inconsistency in the spacing between bullets and the words that follow them.
To be fair, this may not be the fault of the author because numerous technical issues often arise in the publication process, especially when it comes to ebooks. These may be due to a number of causes: from formatting within the native software/app to file transfer/compression/conversion, upload method, and publishing platform. I know, because I’ve faced the same challenges and have since corrected them. However, despite my best efforts, some books may still show up with messy formatting depending on the book seller’s platform. This is why I didn’t include this aspect as a criterion in my rating. However, I found it necessary to mention it because the author may not be aware of the issue.
Overall, if readers could get past the jargon and just focus on the exercises and diet portions of the book, it could be beneficial in maintaining vagus nerve health.
NOTE TO THE AUTHOR:
Hopefully, she gets to read this part of the review. She may not be aware of these issues (including the formatting one), so I’d like to bring them to her attention:
1) The blurb only addresses those on the way to age 50. So potential readers may perceive this book as only for middle-aged folks and pass it over. By limiting her target audience, the author is missing out on younger people interested in optimizing the health of their nervous system.
2) The last page (132) states: “Download your free extra vagus nerve exercise,” but the link doesn’t work. Readers may just want to try the QR code.
July 22, 2024
Just finished the Vagus Nerve Exercise: Heal and Revive your Vagus Nerve Naturally: Self Help Exercises to Banish Stress, Anxiety and Chronic Diseases and cannot WAIT to put some specific exercises into practice. The title of this book speaks mountains about the Vargus nerve and how it affects our continued wellbeing as we age. Understanding its importance and the profound effect it has our bodies is imperative for the motivation needed to change our health for the better. This book undertakes this humongous educational task effectively and thoroughly with helpful explanations, diagrams and instructions for the life changing exercises it recommends. The content not only leaves its readers more literate on the subject, but also inspires them to make the changes needed to improve their health and longevity. This book has now become my NEW go-to reference for Vargus Nerve information and exercise, and I will revisit it frequently not only to help myself, but others in family as well. Thanks Gracie Williams!
September 6, 2024
This book, Vagus Nerve Exercise, was very informative. There was an extreme amount of detailed information to digest through the pages. From the breathing, short exercises, and notes and quotes, this author has certainly done her research.
And like an instructional manual, she added photos so you get the idea of how to position yourself correctly. Now I have never suffered with this type of pain, but this is a book to keep on hand, nonetheless. This could very well help with other issues one may have.
And like an instructional manual, she added photos so you get the idea of how to position yourself correctly. Now I have never suffered with this type of pain, but this is a book to keep on hand, nonetheless. This could very well help with other issues one may have.
May 21, 2024
I don’t know much about the vagus nerve system. This book certainly provides a good scientific background. The exercises were simple and relatively easy to do. For example, the breathing exercise described in the book is similar to the one on the Mayo Clinic website, which I’ve been doing for many years to help ease my chronic bronchitis problem.
All in all, it’s an informative read.
All in all, it’s an informative read.
June 8, 2024
Informative
I didn't know much about the vagus nerve but I did learn a lot about it and the exercises were useful. Some of the words I didn't understand but that may have been because of my dyslexia. I'll definitely keep these exercises in mind for the future.
I didn't know much about the vagus nerve but I did learn a lot about it and the exercises were useful. Some of the words I didn't understand but that may have been because of my dyslexia. I'll definitely keep these exercises in mind for the future.
November 2, 2024
Informative
A very interesting read with a lot of information and studies to back up what the vagus nerve is and does. Before reading I hadn't heard of a vagus nerve now I'm keen to try some of the exercises.
A very interesting read with a lot of information and studies to back up what the vagus nerve is and does. Before reading I hadn't heard of a vagus nerve now I'm keen to try some of the exercises.
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