#824: What Most Has My Attention Right Now — Credible (vs. Bogus) Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Well hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world class performers to determine or identify, try to identify how they do what they do. In this episode I have turned yet another conversation into a how to search. for myself to help me with various things, chronic inflammation and other issues that seem very squirrely, difficult to treat with many frontline treatments. So who did I find? I found someone named Kevin J Tracy MD. He is the president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health. a pioneer of vagus nerve research and author of the recent book, The Great Nerve, The New Science of the Vegas Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes. Now I say this in the interview, but there's so much nonsense floating around about the Vegas nerve. and so many different hocus pocus hand wavy things related to it that I discarded it. But

Dr. Tracy is the real deal. His contributions include identifying the therapeutic action of monoclonal anti-TNF antibodies, we'll explain what TNF is, and discovering the specific reflex control of immunity by the nervous system, called the inflammatory reflex. These discoveries launched the new scientific field called bioelectronic medicine, which investigates the therapeutic applications of vagus nerve stimulation to cure disease. The case studies are tremendous, but also the published studies and Just data overall are so compelling. There's a lot you can use here.

And it all started with A mysterious death from sepsis of a toddler who was in his care. That's how he started pursuing studies of inflammation. His lab has since revealed molecular mechanisms of inflammation and identified the use of vagus nerve stimulation to treat it. An inventor on more than 120 US patents and the author of more than 450 scientific publications. He is among the most highly cited scientists in the world. He co-founded the Global Sepsis Alliance, is the author of Fatal Sequence, and is a national and international lecturer. So I'm so excited to introduce you guys to Kevin. He is amazing. He is Not only a world class.

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