• Activate Your Vagus Nerve

  • Unleash Your Body’s Natural Ability to Overcome Gut Sensitivities, Inflammation, Autoimmunity, Brain Fog, Anxiety and Depression
  • By: Dr. Navaz Habib
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
  • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (351 ratings)

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Activate Your Vagus Nerve

By: Dr. Navaz Habib
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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Repair your vagus nerve and experience amazing health and wellness benefits

Your vagus nerve is the largest and most important nerve in your body. It carries messages to and from your brain, gut, heart, and other major muscles and organs. However, common issues like inflammation, stress, or physical trauma can interfere with the nerve's ability to function. Luckily, there are tons of quick-and-easy ways to activate and exercise the nerve, strengthening its function and restoring your body to good health. Packed with easy-to-follow exercises and activities, this book will show you how to unlock the power of the vagus nerve to heal your body and get back to a state of balance.

©2019 Navaz Habib (P)2019 Tantor

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Elton John? & Great book

When he was talking about the effects of listening to Mozart, the bit about Mozart seemed to conclude and then the words “Elton John” were spoken as it that was the title of a new section. After that, the book continued without any further information or mention of Elton John.

I loved this book and read it because I have IBS-C. My colon doesn’t move! After 5 minutes breathing for the last 4 nights, my colon has done its job 4 days in a row (inconceivable!!!) I will do more exercises but I definitely think this is a fruitful path for me. Thank you for writing this book!

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This Guy’s voice is insanely annoying

Who the hell is the reader... its sooooo bad I really want the information in this book but this reader is actually making it harder to understand. The inflection is just off

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Boring!!!

Read like someone cut and pasted info from Wikipedia on the physiology and pathology of every organ in the body. It dragged on and on, with nothing practical offered until the last two, very short chapters. My conclusion: this was an infomercial for this doctor. Oh yeah.... this functional “medical” doctor is actually a chiropractor. Don’t waste your time on this. Read ( or listen to) the experts: Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, Peter Levine, Stanley Rosenberg, Kathy Kain.

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"Put the Pieces Together for Me"

This book helped synthesize a bigger picture for me as to why things like cryo/cold-therapy, breathing exercises, music, laughter, yoga/Pilates, etc are said to be important for improving HRV and thus long term health, but I didn't understand how or why about the whole Sympathetic/Para-sympathetic nervous system works...the author does that in Ch.15.

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Such a Great Discovery I am Ready to Be Healed!

Such great insight on what the vague nerve is responsible and how it affects all parts of our body . This is an awesome listen and the narrator was very articulate and has such a refreshing voice. I am listening again!

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Complete, relevant, organized info

Exactly what it promises to be. Not sure yet but hoping there’s a PDF download of lists - written form of the suggested exercises, or else I’ll have to go way back and take notes. But, good book.

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incredible insights and practical data.

I think this is the bet book I have ever encountered on this subject and its related states of mind and body
Thank you for a brilliant review of the essential functions the vagus nerve.

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not what i expected

Contained significant advertising and was not up to the type of book i was looking for.

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Eye Opening

Great book with a ton of valuable information. I was totally clueless about the Vagus Nerve prior to reading this book.
It is a must read.

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Much to Think About

I have learned a lot about the way my body works from listening to this book. The narrator’s calm voice helped me get through parts that my brain had a hard time hearing. I have much to think about now, and considering where I am health wise, that is very good. For example, I’d had enough if people and books saying “meditate”. What I needed to know was specifically what meditation did physically for my body, not my mind or my attitude. I feel like I have a better understanding of that having listened to this book. And I am glad to say that meditation was only one of the exercises I learned about from Activate Your Vagus Nerve.

Oh, one more thing: I am also glad to report that this was not the kind of book that is basically a long sales pitch for something else the author is selling. When I’m ready, if I choose to do it, I learned plenty of exercises and changes I can make to improve my health that won’t cost me a bundle of money. Support from others is talked about as one arrow in the quiver, and supplements are another arrow, but they are not at all the only arrows. I appreciate that.

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  • raoul
  • 08-11-19

The forward alone was enough to return this book.

The forward smacks of a cheesy infomercial. The book itself even has advertisements to a product and promo codes to purchase it. Utterly nauseating.

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  • F Richardson
  • 11-07-19

dont bother

Awful really badly put together. You can find all this information in about 10 mins on Google.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 08-22-19

I’m not sure on the quality of the science

There is an overall overview of human biomechanics which takes up most of the book with only a short chapter at the end with any sort of advice. I’m not 100% sure that everything in that overview is accurate, there are some very general conclusions about some aspects of the workings of the body. Don’t use this book as an introduction to medicine, I would say. There is a tendency to bring EVERYTHING back to the vagus nerve when that may not be the case. There are many things that can impact heart rate variability and the length of time it takes to process food. State of thyroid function for example. Overall advice such as exposure to cold are not a cure all for everybody, especially people with an already stressed nervous system. And ‘make sure you tai chi analyse your space’? Really...

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  • STJKM
  • 05-13-21

How do I get a refund

I need a refund please. I have nothing nice to say so don’t want to say anything else. Thank you.

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  • Stella B
  • 08-09-19

Hugely informative and genuine self help book

I listened to this book via audio and couldn’t wait to listen to the next part. Few people know about the vagus nerve and it’s huge impact on the our overall health, including medical professionals it would seem. Dr Habib gives the best explanation of vasovagal syncope I’ve heard and provides many light bulb moments as your understanding of the functions of the vagus nerve develops. I’ll be listening again and taking many notes as well as making the vagus nerve a theme within my Yoga classes. Thank you DrHabib.

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  • 07-25-19

Loved it

Loved it. Made sence of what we feel. Great things to work on as well

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  • 01-30-22

Not worth it

There is no new knowledge. Most of the book talks about what can be wrong with health and then asks you to exercise, meditate and take cold showers. Waste of money and time.

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  • 06-08-21

Interesting with practical advice

Useful information about functional medicine. I was interested in functional medicine and now i know a lot more about how lifestyle can affect the body. I liked the strategies to improve.

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  • Katie A.
  • 01-10-21

The Future of Medicine - Vegas Nerve Health

A study into a greatly unknown and critical part of modern healthcare. The Vegas Nerve along with Nutrition and Movement are the key to frighting a majority of misunderstood illnesses, resulting in misdiagnosis, drug treatments, lifelong battles and ending in serious illness and death caused by a lack of education into the actual cause of a simple issue caused by modern lifestyles and habit of visiting the doctor to get prescription drugs.

Having personally been affected by a damaged Vegas Nerve, I've had the lot, hyperthyroidism, high blood pressure, depression, pains in bones, weakness, high heart rate, stress, anxiety, gut problems. The VN is the route cause of this after it was affected by a past trauma. My years of study have brought me to understand the profound effects that caring, repairing and taking a different approach to life, health and lifestyle is the key to recovery. Mindfulness is an exceptional part of VN control.

If there are two things in life you should understand. One is to learn how to live life working for what you love and make money along the way and the other is how caring for your VN, Nutrition and Movement are the keys to a healthy long and prosperous life.

Great book and I look forward to hearing further studies on engagement, activation and repair of individual aspects of the body. Presently the high blood pressure is a sticky area where I'm looking at working with VN neurological activation by a specialist in VN pathways and tapping to reactivate communication. It's not covered by is a treatment taking the world by storm. Suggest this could be a P2 to this book.

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  • Alex Robert Miller
  • 08-19-19

Loved it

Very informative, easy to listen to considering the informational content, extremely interesting and eye opening.

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  • Florian
  • 09-16-19

Excellent content easy to listen to.

Excellent content easy to listen to. Very informative. Would recommend to anyone interested in their overall understanding of the human body.

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  • 11-30-20

not at all what I was expecting or wanted

struggled through the book, so much information about the nerve and not much more about how to help yourself.

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  • Jane Simons
  • 10-06-21

Vagus Nerve Health

Straight to the point, well thought out, very easy to listen to. Lots of choices. Nice to know I was on the right track. Definitely involves with breath and microbiome

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  • Truth Devour
  • 01-30-21

The Nerve of Vegas

Informative and interesting. The Vegas nerve(s) really do have a lot to answer for. iThis book was another nice reminder of how everything is interconnected and to look for underlying causes to ensure optimum nutrition, performance and health.

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  • Sharni Loader
  • 01-13-22

Fascinating

I found the book to be so informative. There were so many times when I thought this describes me perfectly and some of the puzzle pieces have come together. Thank you so much

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  • Anonymous User
  • 07-15-21

loved this book

this book has alot of big words which I couldn't pronounce but strangling enough I understood most of the book and got really good information. its helped me with my anxiety and depression a big way, I would like to say thank you so much for your knowledge, because of you I have healed slowly but surly.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 03-02-21

This book made so much sense,

Really enjoyed this book, it was easy to listen to and explained in simple understandable terms

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  • ange
  • 02-07-21

Extremely informative!!

Loved it! Very informative, easy to listen to narrator, gained hope from the various options given! Thank you. ✨🙏💜

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  • Graham Leslie
  • 12-04-22

Awesome read

Very informative and explanations are exceptional! Love it…. Highly recommended
Definitely worth a listen if you care about your health! Lots of suggestions for you to try out as well! Thank you Dr

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  • Anonymous User
  • 10-11-22

Not very scientific and high level of BS.

avoid this book if you are looking for factual information, you may find some here but It's mostly BS.

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