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Happy New Year! Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2023🥳

Keeping active to stay strong as the weather changes, the daylight shortens as winter approaches. These exercises can make a difference no matter how old you are.
Make a change today, to have an effect on your future health and happiness.

The Green Goddess Diana Moran on keeping strong and well as you age Diana Moran introduces 6 strength and balance exercises from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy that can help older people to feel healthy and stay active

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THE VAGUS NERVE
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A seemingly never-ending branching nerve that connects most of our major organs to our brain 🧠.
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It’s the longest cranial nerve in our body, one for the right side and one for the left. And is largely responsible for the connection for its role as a mediator between thinking and feeling, you know our “gut feeling.”
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The vagus nerve is the “queen” of the parasympathetic nervous system. The “rest and digest” or the nerve. So the more we do things to activate the nerve (like deep ), the most we combat the effects of its opposer, the sympathetic nervous system - the “fight or flight”, rushing around, have to do something, releasing one.
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A few other functions of the vagus nerve, just to name a few:
▪️slows your heart rate and respiration.
▪️lowers blood pressure.
▪️helps with calmness and relaxation.
▪️controls involuntary muscles in the digestive system, therefore, aiding digestion.
▪️taste sensation.
▪️movement function for the muscles in the neck responsible for swallowing and speech.
▪️gut-brain communication.
▪️reduces inflammation.
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