Tag: stress and health
The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health
This is a paper calling for monitoring of HRV and using neurostimulation for prevention of “non-communicable diseases” ie cancer, heart disease, and other chronic non-infectious conditions. It’s a combined effort of French, Belgian, and US researchers. I’m still picking my way through, but wanted to make this available to readers. It comes at a good…
Read MoreStress Reduction Over Time: Lu.Wi. Edition
This is another set of data from a healthy patient in his mid thirties who has issues with allergies, anxiety, insomnia. This is his data for the first year of treatment. Again we see an increase over time.
Read MoreImprovement in HRV, Autonomic Balance Over Time? Vi.Le edition RMSSD
This data is from a patient we’ve looked at before. One overriding goal of this HRV project (looking at stress levels and autonomic balance in conjunction with acupuncture) is to explore and document stress levels over time with consistent treatment. Of course correlation doesn’t mean causation, but it is something that is of tremendous interest…
Read MoreTAVNS Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation and HRV: Clinic data Ly.Ma edition
My ongoing work to use HRV (heart rate variability) to document improved autonomic activity (stress levels) has as one of its foci the use of TAVNS and if there appears to be improved stress levels with its use. Even though there are studies showing that TAVNS activated autonomic centers in the brain, I have not…
Read MoreNerve Stimulation: Immunomodulation and Control of Inflammation.
Immunomodulation and control of inflammation Torres Rosas 4.7.2018 Another great article by Luis Ulloa and Torres-Rosas. I can’t stress enough the importance of this kind of thinking. Calm your system, you calm inflammation and autoimmune. Trends Mol Med. 2017 Dec;23(12):1103-1120. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2017.10.006. Epub 2017 Nov 20. Nerve Stimulation: Immunomodulation and Control of Inflammation. Ulloa L1,…
Read MoreAbstract for NANS meeting. TAVNS and Autonomic Balance in the Acupuncture Clinic: Clinical Case Study
This is my abstract for the upcoming NANS conference in NYC. It was accepted! So to NYC for me in August. Introduction: Improving autonomic balance (increasing parasympathetic activity and decreasing sympathetic activity)leads to better immunity, pain tolerance, mood, longevity and inflammation. Both Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Nerve Stimulation (TAVNS)[i] and acupuncture[ii] [iii] [iv]have been shown to…
Read MoreMechanism Underlying Acupuncture-Ameliorated Depressive Behaviors by Enhancing Glial Glutamate Transporter in Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress (CUMS) Rats.
This article is a great example of the preventative effects of acupuncture. They invoke Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress (CUMS), and then give acupuncture 36Stomach and Liver 3. “improving sucrose consumption, latency, and food intake in CUMS rats. However, acupuncture appears to achieve an antidepressant effect later than riluzole does because it might need accumulated stimulation…
Read MoreHidden Signals: History and Relevance of HRV
This is a handy and thorough overview of HRV history and applications. Some useful tables and basics on the various parameters used in HRV (time, frequency and non-linear measures.) I’ve pasted some of the text here for my own reference and for readers. ” Already more than one century ago scientists observed and proposed associations…
Read MoreIncreased Sympathetic Activity in Headache Patients
This article compares autonomic activity in headache patients. They make no distinction between headache and migraine. Though I’d expected as much, they found lower parasympathetic activity and higher sympathetic activity in headache patients. I do have one patient who has had remarkable results with acupuncture, but his stress levels remain quite high. Other than his case,…
Read MoreMigraine and Heart Rate Variability: Autonomic Impairment in Migraine Patients
“Reduced parasympathetic activity with sympathetic predominance was found in migraine patients during the night period, most affected being migraine with aura patients.” Interesting to see. Some migraine patients I see, indeed, have a high baseline stress level. But not certainly not all. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2015 Oct;19(20):3922-7. Autonomic impairment in patients with…
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