Vagus Rhythm Insight
Welcome to Vagus Rhythm Insight a place built from lived experience
My Path Back to My Own Body
My health decline did not begin with anxiety, digestion, or hormones. It began the day I could not hold a cigarette in my mouth. I was helping a friend move and the cigarette kept falling. The left side felt weak. When I saw my reflection, I knew it was serious. At the ER a full stroke response started until one doctor stopped it and diagnosed Bell’s palsy. The paralysis resolved and I moved on, not realizing it was the first sign of a nervous system losing stable communication.
In the years that followed my body drifted. Fatigue grew. Brain fog deepened. My weight reached 378 pounds. Heart rhythms became unstable. Sleep broke apart. Cognition slipped. Providers kept telling me I was fine. The issue was that they were looking in the wrong place.
I started tracking everything myself. Blood sugar curves. Heart rate spikes. Skipped beats. Blood pressure swings. Nighttime wakeups. Temperature shifts. Skin reactions. Autonomic sensations. These patterns showed a mechanical loop in the nervous system, not an emotional one. Heart rate would jump without warning. Then came pauses and skipped beats. A chest pressure appeared before each change. Thirst shut off. Sweating stopped. Temperature reactions changed. These matched dysautonomia and small fiber autonomic neuropathy.
Hospital visits became normal. Monitors flashed PVC, PAC, and bigeminy while staff said everything looked fine. My chest ECG device captured the real patterns. Alongside this, labs made even less sense. Inflammation, hormone crashes, iron instability, polycythemia, anemia, autoimmune markers, adrenal imbalance, and elevated Epstein Barr virus. Each specialist treated a single marker. Nothing stabilized.
Three years of IV fluids, iron infusions, and phlebotomies changed numbers but not function. The turning point came when I stopped chasing symptoms and treated my body as a communication system. The nervous system is the fast messenger. Hormones are the slow messenger. Mine were out of sync. My gut was damaged by SIBO, candida, histamine overload, and malabsorption, blocking normal regulation.
When I repaired my gut and reduced system load, everything shifted. My knees stopped hurting. Cognition returned. Energy stabilized. Hunger normalized. Weight started dropping without effort. Protein based meals created steady responses. Labs corrected on their own. Iron rose naturally. Testosterone increased. Inflammation dropped. Electrolytes stabilized. Hydration normalized. Heart rhythms settled. The fog lifted.
Not because of new medications. Because communication returned.
Most people do not feel bad from one issue. They feel bad because the communication between systems is disrupted. When the nervous system, hormones, gut, hydration, and mechanical load stabilize, the body repairs itself.
This site exists to help others read these patterns the same way I learned to read mine.
Our Mission
Vagus Rhythm Insight exists to teach people how to understand their body’s signals through clear, mechanical patterns instead of guessing. The goal is to help individuals see how the nervous system, hydration, hormones, and mechanical load work together, so they can finally make sense of symptoms that traditional testing often misses.
Our Vision
Vagus Rhythm Insight aims to build a future in which people no longer feel lost or dismissed by confusing symptoms. We strive for a community where individuals can read their body’s signals, recognize what’s off, and respond with informed action — restoring trust in their own physiology and reclaiming control over their health.
