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EPISODE · Feb 27, 2026 · 11 MIN

Can You Really “Hack” Your Vagus Nerve?

from Medicine Made Simple · host Dr. Maanas Samant

The vagus nerve gets a lot of credit - calming anxiety, reducing inflammation, improving digestion, etc. But what does it actually do?In this video, I break down: what the vagus nerve really iswhy its linked to breathing, ice baths, and humming/chanting.where wellness claims oversimplify or misuse real physiologyThis isn’t a takedown of wellness, but more an explanation of what’s actually happening in the body, and why the calm people feel is usually about stress, recovery, and context, not nerve hacks.

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