Discover Health Podcast
As a Doctor of Chiropractic and health coach, I feel like my mission is to help moms struggling with chronic illness. We know how hard it can be for moms to feel exhausted, overwhelmed, and frustrated with the health care system because we lived it. My wife battled chronic Lyme, mold illness, EBV and more. After finding solutions that actually helped her go from using the walls for support just to walk through the house to now exercising and traveling with her family, we want to help other moms achieve their dream health goals too!
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Why Your Nervous System Is Stuck in Fight or Flight (And How to Finally Turn It Off) | Jon Hacker
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Is your body stuck in survival mode without you even realizing it? On this episode of the Discover Health Podcast, Dr. Joshua Sharp sits down with Jon Hacker, biomedical engineer, neuroscientist, and CEO and co founder of Nurgear, where he led the development of ZenBud, the world's first ultrasound based vagus nerve stimulator.
Jon opens up about his own struggle with severe OCD as a teenager and how that experience led him to spend years studying the nervous system. He and Joshua dig into why so many of us are stuck in chronic fight or flight, how entire industries profit from keeping us there, what is actually happening in your body when you feel wired but tired, and simple, practical ways to help your nervous system find its way back to recovery.
If you have ever felt like you cannot fully relax, this conversation will help you understand why, and what you can actually do about it.
Learn more about Jon Hacker and ZenBud: https://zenbud.health
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to Jon Hacker and Nurgear
01:00 Jon's superhero backstory and OCD struggles
04:10 The cycle of mental health and how OCD develops
06:22 Discovering ultrasound vagus nerve stimulation
08:30 Fight or flight: who profits from your stress
11:18 Social media, news, and the business of fear
16:14 Signs your nervous system is stuck in survival mode
18:38 What is the vagus nerve and why it matters
20:59 Trauma and how your nervous system learns to overreact
23:35 Silent everyday stressors and how they train your nervous system
26:35 Simple ways to shift into the recovery state
29:22 The truth about vagus nerve stimulation terminology
34:58 How ultrasound actually stimulates the vagus nerve
39:33 Benefits, dosage, and how long it takes to see results
42:23 Anger, fear, and regaining emotional control
43:01 Is vagus nerve stimulation addictive? Dependency and tolerance
46:25 Why ultrasound instead of electrical stimulation
49:22 The future of neurostimulation technology
50:49 Where to find ZenBud and connect with Jon
52:14 Real user stories and closing thoughts
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