Card 12Shape: a nerve

DJ Vagus

Nervus vagus. Spins at Second Brain FM. Runs the line between gut and brain.

Card 12Shape: a nerve

DJ Vagus

Nervus vagus

Spins at Second Brain FM. Runs the line between gut and brain.

DJ Vagus

The stats

Shape: A long nerve that wanders. Vagus is Latin for wandering.
Runs: From the brainstem, down the neck and chest, to the gut.
Carries: Messages both ways. Most of its fibres carry news up from the gut.
Fun fact: You have two, one on each side. They’re the longest of the cranial nerves.

The file on DJ Vagus

DJ Vagus isn’t a microbe. He’s the vagus nerve, and vagus is Latin for wandering: it leaves the brainstem and wanders down through the neck and chest, past the heart and lungs, all the way to the gut.

At Second Brain FM he keeps the line open between the gut’s own nervous system and the brain. The traffic runs both ways, and most of it runs up. The gut has a lot to say.

Shape: A long nerve that wanders. Vagus is Latin for wandering.
Runs: From the brainstem, down the neck and chest, to the gut.
Carries: Messages both ways. Most of its fibres carry news up from the gut.
Fun fact: You have two, one on each side. They’re the longest of the cranial nerves.

AnnouncerHe doesn’t take requests. Nobody tells a gut what to play.

Far-out fact

Vagus is Latin for wandering. It runs from the brainstem all the way down to the gut.

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