Posts tagged "inflammation"

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Hashimoto's, the Thyroid, and the Vagal Anti-Inflammatory Reflex

Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease, and like all autoimmune diseases it lives or dies by the body's ability to resolve inflammation. The vagus nerve runs that resolution program — and its dysfunction is consistently observed in autoimmune thyroid disease.

By VagusSkool Team May 14, 2026

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Chronic Pain Is a Vagal Problem: How the Cholinergic Brake Counters Central Sensitization

Chronic pain is increasingly understood as a disorder of central sensitization driven by neuroinflammation — and the vagus nerve is one of the few systems with direct biological access to that loop.

By VagusSkool Team May 14, 2026

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Mold Toxicity, CIRS, and the Autonomic Collapse: Why the Vagus Goes Silent

Biotoxin illness produces a measurable autonomic phenotype — low HRV, orthostatic instability, and chronic vagal underactivation — that explains why so many CIRS patients fail to recover even after exposure ends.

By VagusSkool Team May 11, 2026

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MCAS and the Vagal Brake: Why Mast Cells Need a Quiet Nervous System

Mast cells are wired into the autonomic nervous system. When the vagal brake fails, mast cells become reactive — and the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway emerges as one of the most underused tools in MCAS care.

By VagusSkool Team May 11, 2026

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Long COVID and the Damaged Vagus: A Three-Reflex Model of Recovery

A 2024 mechanistic framework reframes Long COVID as a coordinated failure of three anti-inflammatory reflexes — vagal, HPA, and mitochondrial — and explains why some patients improve only when treatment addresses all three together.

By VagusSkool Team May 11, 2026

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Brain Fog and the Vagus Nerve: The Autonomic Cause of Cognitive Cloudiness

Brain fog isn’t a thinking problem — it’s a body problem with cognitive symptoms. The fix usually isn’t a smart drug. It’s a nerve.

By VagusSkool May 7, 2026

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Depression Through the Vagal Lens: Beyond Serotonin

For decades, depression was treated as a serotonin problem. The newer story is that depression often lives in the vagus nerve — and that opens different doors.

By VagusSkool May 7, 2026

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Autoimmune Disease and the Vagus Nerve: The Inflammatory Reflex Frontier

Autoimmune disease used to be treated as a chemistry problem with no electrical answer. The discovery of the vagus-immune circuit changed that — and is reshaping treatment.

By VagusSkool May 7, 2026

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The Inflammatory Reflex: How the Vagus Nerve Controls Immune Balance

The vagus nerve’s cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway is your body’s fastest mechanism for controlling inflammation — a neural circuit that could reshape how we treat chronic disease.

By VagusSkool Apr 9, 2026

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Is AstaZine a Good Supplement for Dry Eyes? Vagus Nerve, Parasympathetic System, and Tear Production

Is AstaZine a Good Supplement for Dry Eyes? Vagus Nerve, Parasympathetic System, and Tear Production Research Note | Evaluating astaxanthin-based AstaZine for dry eyes alongside vagus nerve stimulatio

By Sterling Cooley Mar 21, 2026

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The Cholinergic Anti-Inflammatory Pathway — The Vagus Nerve as the Body's Master Switch

Your body has a neural circuit that shuts down dangerous inflammation in real time — the vagus nerve releases acetylcholine directly at immune cells, suppressing cytokine storms before they damage tissue.

By VagusSkool Team Mar 19, 2026