@Sterling Cooley Hi Sterling, Would you have evaluated the 100-Hz pulsed photobiomodulation Vielight Vagus device for vagus nerve stimulation and memory related benefits? Link - www.vieligjht.com/devices/ vagus/ Thank you.

The vagus nerve is the body's primary neural regulator of systemic inflammation. Recent 2026 research confirms its central role via the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. The mechanism involves efferent vagal fibers releasing acetylcholine within the spleen. This neurotransmitter binds to α7 nicotinic receptors on macrophages, effectively suppressing NF-κB signaling. This inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNF-α and IL-6 while preserving essential antibacterial responses. It prevents cytokine storms without inducing broad immunosuppression. Trials in rheumatoid arthritis patients showed a 68% reduction in serum TNF-α. C-reactive protein levels fell by 52%, demonstrating significant clinical efficacy and dose-dependent control. Bioelectronic medicine is redefining immune health. We are entering an era of precise, neural-based control over inflammatory homeostasis. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1605635113 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-019-0235-2 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.662588/full https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41737248

I am looking at the guidebook, and the link for the MP3 for ultra priming does not work. I tried it on my I-phone and on my laptop. And I have used Google Drive for file sharing before. It says “file not found” when I click on the link.

Wow, I as doing so much research on VNS without even considering checking within the Skool app. I glad I did! So far I’ve tried lots of body and breath work. But recently I’ve ventured into the Tens Unit world and I am not quite sure if it’s helpful. It seems like this group is into Ultrasound. I’d love to know more about the device! I’d also love to know if a Tens Unit with an ear clip is just hype?

Part 1 of a three-part series on distributed biological intelligence. Octopuses have become something of a celebrity in popular neuroscience, and it's easy to see why. They open jars, they recognize individual humans, they squeeze their soft bodies through implausibly small holes, and they do all this with a nervous system that looks nothing like ours. The detail that gets repeated most often is that an octopus has roughly 500 million neurons, but only a small fraction of them are in the head. Most are spread out through the eight arms. That number is real. The central brain is estimated at around 40 to 50 million neurons. The paired optic lobes add something like 130 million on top of that. And the eight arms together house around 350 million — somewhere in the neighborhood of two-thirds of the entire nervous system. Connecting all of it is a surprisingly thin wire: by classic estimates, only about 30,000 nerve fibers run between the central brain and the arm cords. If you're used to the idea that intelligence happens in a brain, full stop, this picture is genuinely disorienting. Where is the octopus actually thinking? The honest answer is that we don't fully know. But we know enough to say that the octopus arm is doing real work. Each arm contains a thick axial nerve cord running its full length, four smaller intramuscular nerve cords alongside it, and a small ganglion at the base of every single sucker. There can be hundreds of suckers per arm. Recent imaging has sharpened the picture considerably. Olson, Schulz and Ragsdale published a striking 2025 paper in Nature Communications showing that the axial nerve cord isn't a uniform tube but is organized into segments, with cell bodies arranged in repeating columns and a topographic map of the suckers built right into the wiring. A 3D molecular atlas published the year before by Winters-Bostwick and colleagues in Current Biology added another layer of detail, identifying multiple distinct neurochemical cell types whose distribution differs from arm base to arm tip.