Celebrity Acupuncture: Gwyneth Paltrow Edition
Gwyneth Paltrow gets acupuncture every week according to this US weekly article. If you click through, you can see a screen shot of her with...
Electric Stimulation of Ear Reduces the Effect of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Signaling Pathway on Kainic Acid-Induced Epileptic Seizures in Rats
Ancient Medicine Made Modern Study that shows benefit for ear stimulation, TAVNS, in rats with induced epilepsy. I was unaware that epilepsy had an inflammatory...
Acupuncture for Pets: Not Placebo
Pet Talk: Acupuncture—to believe or not to believe? This veterinarian is unapologetic about using acupuncture and describes the science behind it. “My response to the...
Anatomo-Physiologic Basis for Auricular Stimulation
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions for Remarkable Results Everyone seems to see the potential for auricular stimulation in lieu of more invasive vagal nerve...
Negative Studies are Buried or Not Published
This is a huge problem. Researchers bury studies because their data don’t fit their hypothesis. Drug companies famously have not reported the negative results for...
Using HRV to Predict Success with Implanted Vagal Nerve Stimulators for Drug Resistent Epilepsy
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions for Remarkable Results This article achieves something that has always been on the back burner of my HRV project. ...
Heart Rate Variability in Fibromyalgia Patients
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Your Path to Resiliency and Long Life I have treated fibromyalgia patients over the years, and the condition is of intense...
Neurophysiologic effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) via electrical stimulation of the tragus: A concurrent taVNS/fMRI study and review.
Ancient Medicine Made Modern: Scientific Solutions, Remarkable Results This study looks at taVNS (auricular stim) and the effects on fMRI. They compare tragus stim with...
Auricular vagus nerve stimulation enhances central serotonergic function and inhibits diabetic neuropathy development in Zucker fatty rats.
This study uses 30 minute daily sessions, not at all difficult to achieve. Granted this study is in animals, but this study also used 30...
Vagally mediated heart rate variability in headache patients–a systematic review and meta-analysis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed Cephalalgia. 2016 Mar;36(3):265-78. doi: 10.1177/0333102415583989. Epub 2015 May 11. Vagally mediated heart rate variability in headache patients–a systematic review and meta-analysis. Koenig J1, Williams...