And while this novel ‘gadget’ used to be solely for meditation style brain training, the recent development of the Muse S headband has overseen an exciting new entry into the sleep tracking wearable space.
“Orchestra” is a word we use quite deliberately, as our interview guest today will reveal, because sleep is an impressively complex process. Many of us who track our sleep have heard of ‘light sleep’, ‘deep sleep’ and ‘REM sleep’ – and perhaps we are even fooling ourselves into thinking we can tell which of these phases our brain via our finger or wrist…
But what if I told you there was an ‘on switch’ for that rest and digest or parasympathetic part of your nervous system? You might want to know more about that!
Well it turns out, there is, and it is called your vagus nerve, which just so happens to be the longest ‘cranial’ nerve in your body, connecting your brain to nearly every major organ. From the Latin word for ‘wandering’, it is responsible for sending the calming signals (via neurotransmitters) that shift your body into rest and digest.
