QC: The Vagus Nerve & Endometriosis: How Stimulation Can Relieve Pain

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Your nervous system plays a crucial role in endometriosis pain, with practical tools available to help manage symptoms through the emerging field of neuropelviology. Professor Marc Possover, a world-renowned pioneer in treating chronic pelvic pain, explains how targeting pelvic nerves can bring relief to patients who've been told to simply live with their pain.

• Three ways to activate the vagus nerve for pain relief
• Transauricular vagus nerve stimulation through the ear for 10 minutes morning and evening
• How positive morning thoughts can significantly impact your pain levels throughout the day
• Using subliminal audio messages to reduce pain through autosuggestion
• Physical activities like swimming and hiking decrease sympathetic nervous system activity
• Exercise creates a natural massage of the solar plexus, reducing pain perception
• Smoking increases sympathetic nervous system activity, potentially worsening pain

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What if I told you that your nervous system has
more to do with yourendometriosis pain than you
probably think?
And what if I told you there'spractical tools in place that
can help you with your painmanagement?
Have you ever heard ofneuropelviology?
Or maybe you even heard aboutfight or flight, or rest and
digest and the vagus nerve?
Professor Mark Possover isjoining me today to go over that

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Today's guest has built hiscareer on a bold but vital
belief that suffering painshould not be a life sentence.
And for Professor Mark Possover, that belief isn't just a
philosophy, it's a mission as aworld-renowned pioneer in
neuropelviology yes, you heardthat right.
He has transformed how weunderstand and treat chronic
pelvic pain, especially when thesource is elusive or deemed

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untreatable.
His work bridges the worlds ofgynecology, neurology and
minimally invasive surgery totarget the pelvic nerve directly
, often bringing relief topatients who've been told to
simply live with it.
Professor Possover isn't justtreating symptoms.
He's finding the root cause,especially in cases involving
nerve entrapment, endometriosisand neuropathic pelvic pain.

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Please help me in welcomingProfessor Mark Possover.
How do we activate that vagusnerve?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I think you have three possibilities.
One is to activate the vagusnerve passively, and one very,
very easy way is what we callthe transauricular vagus nerve
stimulation, because the vagusnerve will send branch
everywhere, some fibers, nervefibers, everywhere in the body
and some of these fibers reachthe ear.

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And these fibers are veryimportant because they are
directly connected to the brain,so they are tense device.
Tense device that means thatbring very nice electricity.
There is some device you bringhere on what we call the conch,
and then you can activate thevagus nerve and, for example, my

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patient affected byendometriosis or spinal cord
injury patient who aredepressive, I advise them please
, in the morning, in the evening, 10 minutes when you are lying
down in your bed, try to do alittle bit stimulation of the
vagus nerve here.
Now there is another way ismassage.

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How are you If you're staying upin the morning and you say, oh,
today is a bad day?
You have high risk that it willbe a bad day If you're coming
up, staying up and you'reobliged to think, oh, today is a
beautiful day, I will have ablue sky.
If you try to convince yourselfthat it will be a beautiful day

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, you have much better chance toget a beautiful day.
You have much potential to geta beautiful day and there is
another method to increase thevagus nerve.
It's what we call thesubliminals.
Subliminals are audios, they aremusic.
Where in subliminals you canbring a message in a high

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frequency, so you will not hearthe message, but your brain will
hear it.
And in this music, which isvery peaceful, you can bring the
message.
Today it will be a nice day,you will be happy, you will have
no pain.
Okay, you will get your mindbleeding, but you will see, it
will be much better than thelast month.

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And when you do that, it's likea kind of auto-suggestion which
will increase the activity ofthe parasympathetic nerve and
your day will be better.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Interesting.
Is this impactful with breathwork and doing body movement if
you can, and things like that,because we hear a lot about that
?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
how important is that to increasing that
parasympathetic system yes, withsport activity, and for that
I'm pretty nice, located hereI'm in switzerland because we
have the mountain, and themountain is really swimming and
hiking, on both methods not toincrease the vagus nerve.

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Of course, if you're in themountain and you see a sea, it's
beautiful, it will make youhappy.
Then you have an activation ofthe parasympathetic nerve.
But if you're swimming or ifyou're hiking, you're embracing,
and when you're embracing a lotyou will induce a massage of
what we call the plexus solarand this way you will decrease

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the activity of the sympatheticnerve system and that way will
increase the parasympatheticnerve system.
So it's true, if you are doingsport activity running, hiking,
swimming you will feel the painmuch less.
And if you're thinking about apatient or a woman who are doing

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very lot of activity, sportactivity and usually much, much
less pain during men's bleedingthan patients who are sitting at
home and yeah, it's simple likethat it's anatomically activity
will decrease the sympatheticnerve system and, by the way,
smoking will increase theactivity of the sympathetic

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nerve system.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
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