“Is Your Vagus Nerve Broken?”- with Dr Raskin – your SV Ayurveda Newsletter Dec 4, 2025, #48, Vol 15

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The

Vagus Nerve

with Dr Lisa Raskin

Vagal toning. Cold plunges. Humming exercises. Breath-work protocols. The wellness world is obsessed with fixing the vagus nerve right now — and for good reason. More people than ever are walking around with signs of vagal dysfunction: unexplained anxiety, dizziness, chest tightness, visual disturbances, sudden fatigue, that feeling of being “electrically overwhelmed” from the inside out.

But here’s what almost no one is asking: Why now? Why are so many nervous systems suddenly struggling?

I’ve been wondering about this for months, and it finally clicked!

The vagus nerve isn’t broken. It’s responding.

This is my theory based on what I’ve observed in my own body and in my practice — it may not be true for everyone, but it’s a pattern I keep seeing.

For sensitive systems especially, the vagus–brainstem–heart pathway is ground zero for electromagnetic dysregulation. When radio-frequency fields hit this pathway, the system destabilizes. Not because you’re anxious or fragile, but because your autonomic nervous system is reacting to an electrical load it was never designed to handle.

I know this because I’ve tested it on my own body hundreds of times.

When I wear my EMF-protective hoodie in high-RF environments — crowded stores where dozens of people are carrying cellphones emitting radiofrequency — I feel completely fine. Even though my face is still exposed. Why? Because the hoodie shields the exact pathways that trigger my symptoms: the chest, neck, vagus nerve, and brainstem. These are the entry points where RF penetrates deep enough to disrupt autonomic regulation.

My face being exposed doesn’t matter. The visual disturbances that EMFs sometimes cause aren’t from my head being exposed. They’re caused by brainstem–vagal destabilization showing up through my vision. Shield the autonomic core, and the whole system settles. We’re treating symptoms while missing the cause.

The vagus exercises help — they absolutely do — but for many sensitive people, what’s actually driving this is environmental, electrical, and invisible. The vagus nerve isn’t “acting up.” It’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do: responding to threat. And when you reduce the electrical load hitting your autonomic core, the dysregulation often resolves on its own.

One thing to try: if you experience unexplained anxiety, dizziness, or chest pressure in certain environments, notice what happens when you shield your chest and neck area with EMF-protective fabric. Even a simple shielding scarf can reduce the load enough to show you something real is happening.

Regular fabric won’t work — radiofrequency goes right through it. But actual shielding material over your autonomic core can make the difference immediately visible. You will feel it.

Your nervous system isn’t broken. It might just be responding to something we’ve been trained not to see.

Dr. Lisa Raskin, DC

Soma Radiant Wellness

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