Reinventing Ourselves

31/05/2026

22/05/2026

Oh dear!!! We drink this stuff ... 😬😬😬

22/05/2026

If you are someone living with a brain injury or are passionate about helping others who have a brain injury, there are a lot of opportunities available in Arkansas to make a difference!

20/05/2026

We had so much fun at Wellness After Hours tonight where the trivia questions were all about sleep, Vivienne Golde specialty area! She obviously was excluded from the competition ... but let me tell you the competition was fierce!!! We had a 3 way tie for first and had to have 2 different tie breakers!! Do you know how many hours of sleep the average person gets in a life time? Which part of the brain controls sleep? What a chronotype is? Congrats to our twin winners - Scott Gann (last week) and Kristin from this week!!

19/05/2026

Interesting!

THE VAGUS SWITCH.

You reach the end of the day and feel like your body weighs 220 pounds. You have that brain fog that won't let you think clearly, persistent bloating after every meal, and a quiet irritability that seems to have no real external cause.

It's not a lack of willpower or simple accumulated tiredness; you're experiencing Low-Grade Systemic Inflammation. Your body is stuck in a constant state of alert where the immune system doesn't know how to put out the internal fire.

This is where pure anatomy comes in. There's a biological cable, the vagus nerve—the information highway that connects your brain to your vital organs—that acts as the handbrake for inflammation. A 2024 Stanford study confirmed that this nerve not only watches what's happening in your gut, but can issue direct commands to stop the production of inflammatory cytokines within minutes.

When you apply a brief thermal stimulus—exactly 15 seconds of ice-cold water to the side of the neck—you trigger a survival reflex that forces the vagus nerve to send a massive electrical signal down the neck. This signal reaches the spleen and gut, ordering immune cells to stop releasing attacking agents. Military medics already use this mechanism to restore balance in acutely stressful situations, finding that blood chemistry changes in as little as 4 minutes.

The biological tool for this is the Vagus Nerve (Nervus vagus).

The Immune Peacemaker (Vagus Nerve + Immersion Reflex)

The beauty of this process is that it requires no deep meditation or hours of mindful breathing. It's a physical switch. By cooling the baroreceptors in the neck, the body interprets this as a sign to conserve energy and calm the system, activating the anti-inflammatory cholinergic pathway that measurably reduces markers like interleukin-6.

Shots Protocol

The Shock - Anti-inflammatory:

You don't need to submerge yourself in an ice bath. Tilt your head and let ice-cold water fall directly onto the side of your neck, just below your jaw and towards your collarbone, for about 15 seconds. You can do this at the end of your regular shower or simply using tap water during a moment of high mental stress.

Maintain this consistency for a few weeks and you'll notice how your body regains its ability to return to calm, your digestion becomes lighter, and that morning heaviness begins to dissipate without the need for external chemicals.

Source 📚: Li A et al., 2025 (PMID 40254393)

19/05/2026

Hmm.... how do you feel about this? I had never thought about it. 🤔