We’re in a revolution, nerds. Wake the fuck up.

I agree with that theory, but so far we haven't been able to figure out what really causes many auto immune diseases or how to heal them. The current treatment methods involve nasty drugs that turn off parts of your immune system entirely, but also have various other side effects.

If we can adjust the inflammation threshold, we can fix the symptoms while we're looking to solve the underlying problem. Fixing chronic inflammation will probably take a few decades at least, until then I see no reason why we wouldn't treat the symptoms better, especially if it can be done with cheap and relatively non-invasive devices.

So Vagus Nerve signals going to spleen really allows the body to more properly regulate inflammation.

Having more control over it with simpler interventions would be a good thing.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine terms, the spleen has always been described as the cause of chronic inflammatory disease. "Spleen deficiency" the core feature of ulcerative colitis and arthritis f.e.

We used ML to help determine where the tip of the electrodes were in the brain. The received images needed a lot of processing (Fourier domain mostly), then ML against cadaver brains and other surgeries to help determine the position. Final say included a lot of test shocks to the patient and the surgeon's call.

I do tape over the mouth every night. It’s worth a try! I also wear an oral appliance to prevent teeth clenching at night which was a game changer for me in terms of jaw muscle inflammation (due to clenching).

Mouth taping is one thing my dad (dentist) recommends for people who snore. While I don’t snore or have sleep apnea, I do feel like I get a more restful sleep.

I have struggled with an issue during meditation for several years now. I get to a certain point and it feels like my body/mind is going to relax, but instead I get this intense rising feeling up into the back of my throat, followed by an itching sensation that causes me to cough, and break out of the moment. Extremely frustrating!!

I wonder what is going on with my vagus nerve.

The tricky thing with increasing butyrate production is that everyone's gut dysbiosis is different - and therefore, a prebiotic that works for one person may make someone else's condition worse. For example, I have big blooms in my Prevotella Copri population which would consume Inulin and make my butyrate production worse - but in people without a Prevotella Copri overgrowth, Inulin would improve their butyrate production.

I would look into 16S microbiome testing (I use Biomesight) and use that as a guide, as well as slowly trialing interventions and monitoring symptoms. None of this is perfect and you kinda have to be on the bleeding edge of science/alternative medicine to figure things out.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175646462...

Very glad it’s working for you :)

As laypeople, should probably take a beat before saying statements made by experts and medical researchers are "meaningless."

From google:

>Sepsis is a highly inflammatory disorder with the presence of organ dysfunction in severe cases and mostly caused by bacterial infection (Bone et al., 1989).

I'll talk to my GP this week when I see him.

That's so wild. If anything, you'd expect it to be the other way around, since French or cold press methods have the bean/grounds touch the water directly and therefore leave more oils in the final product, vs. drip coffee where it goes through a filter.

You want to breathe to expand your entire diaphragm, breathing into your upper and lower chest. One way to do this is to breathe through your nose slowly enough that you can't hear the sound of your own breathing.

To get a hang of it, lay on your back on a flat surface, place a hand on your stomach and a hand on your chest, and breathe in slowly. You should feel your stomach and chest rise evenly, neither too much in the stomach, nor too much in the chest.

Once you understand this feeling, you can practice it throughout your day. You feel your whole diaphragm expand, feeling the tension through your chest, stomach, and even expanding into your lower back. Anyways, that's how it's described in the book. I can say that since starting this breathing technique, I've felt a lot calmer. Best of luck, check the book out if you'd like a far more detailed and accurate explanation than mine.

Nasal Breathing: Inhaling and exhaling through the nose to filter and humidify the air, increase oxygen uptake, and engage in diaphragmatic breathing.

Tummo Breathing: A Tibetan practice combining visualization and breath control, involving deep inhalations and exhalations to generate body heat.

Holotropic Breathwork: Rapid and deep breaths, usually accompanied by music, to achieve altered states of consciousness.

Buteyko Method: Focuses on shallow and reduced breathing to increase CO2 levels, promoting relaxation and better oxygen uptake.

Box Breathing: Inhaling, holding the breath, exhaling, and holding the breath again, all for an equal count, to calm the mind and increase focus.

Pranayama: Various yogic breathing techniques to control breath and energy, aiming to balance the body and mind.

Pursed Lip Breathing: Inhaling through the nose and exhaling slowly through pursed lips to improve lung function and control.

Sudarshan Kriya: A rhythmic breathing technique used in conjunction with meditation to reduce stress.

I teach a simplified breathing method for actors called "Flash Breathing" that teaches a series of breaths starting at the speed of gasping, ending at the speed of slow, deep breathing, and concentrating on the "space" between exhaling and inhaling. Very effective.

4s:Full breath in

4s:Hold

4s:Full breath out

4s:Hold*

*this one seems the least natural to me as you're just sitting there, at the bottom of an invisible pool, wasting away.

> nose breathing

They did! Breathe in and out through your nose, spending 5.5 seconds each on inhale and exhale. This leads to taking the “optimal” 5.5 breaths per minute. Try to do this all the time but don’t experiment with new techniques when you’re driving a car or operating heavy machinery.

The book talks about all kinds of other stuff too but that’s the tl;dr.

My daughter was diagnosed around 2 years old and has been seeing a doctor at Boston Children’s hospital who is involved in EoE research. For a few years now she has been taking a compounded mometasone slurry daily which has kept all her symptoms at bay.

Now that she is 12 she is eligible for dupixent which the doctor has said she has hundreds of patients on who are in total remission.

Some would consider this as Roemheld syndrome, which isn’t an official diagnosis but I see it as more of an explanation that your digestive system can cause these symptoms, rather than there being a problem with your heart.

I don’t have any thing else to offer you as I’m not as familiar with EoE but you could look through the related subreddit to see if others have suggestions. Wishing you the best!

It is relatively easy to feel some of your chakras, I've done it, it took about a week of effort via a hodgepodge of breathwork, stretching, yoga, and "somatic" meditation facilitated by THC. You try to awaken muscles all over the body, "unblocking" points of tension, and eventually you start to have this impression of "energy"/"heat" flowing in loops from points on the spine, out along muscles and back again; in my case "unblocking" some of these caused buried emotions to pour out, and temporarily gave me near-perfect posture. It's interesting: these are clearly a description of something real.

More importantly, they served their purpose continuing knowledge as both a practice and oral tradition such that they have survived millennia. This in spite of libraries burning down and the limited access to/absence of text, etc. I think in this lens, it's not right to condescend, or be confounded or annoyed that the mechanism still works today. Further to that, I think in absence of this instinct in the scientific community to condescend, the valuable knowledge preserved in mystical practices could be understood sooner

Scientific reasoning is a relatively new phenomenon on top of the old way.

Interestingly, scientific reasoning is getting so prevalent that people don't imagine the old way existed...

You are not exercising when meditating, ergo your CO2 levels will drop.

I'd love to put a top meditator in a hyperbaric chamber and change the gas levels to something like CO2 @ 600ppm and then see how relaxed they are, unless they have high levels of myoglobin.

The higher the CO2 levels the more stimulated the body becomes. Its why some athlete's take a heaped teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate for asoda boost that has a stimulating effect on the body. Sodium causes the release of calcium from the bones which is stimulating, alters the metal profile in the blood, and the bicarbonate is double the CO2 which also stimulates the body and immune system. People who have trouble breathing used to be told to breath into a paper bag, as this increased the CO2 they rebreathed, which was useful when coal use was high.

So yes meditating can be relaxing, mainly because they are increasing oxygen levels in the body which is less stimulating than CO2 levels from running around.

The vagus nerve runs all the way down to the rectum in many animals, so be careful about stimulating it. One might have to suddenly evacuate in more ways than one, and this article seems like someone's idea of a joke, on the unprepared.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952396/ Effects of autonomic nerve stimulation on colorectal motility in rats

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15074355/ The role of the rectal branches of pelvic plexus in defecation and colonic motility in a canine model