Post workout
The auricular branch of the Vagus Nerve that Nuropod targets is the only peripheral branch that reaches the skin, allowing non-invasive electrical stimulation to influence central vagal pathways
- FDA Non-Significant Risk Designation in US
- Use during non-intense activities
- No gel needed
- No software or mobile app required
- Charge once, use for weeks
- Scientifically tested
- Efficacy confirmed in multiple peer-reviewed randomised placebo controlled studies
A Quiet Revolution in Nervous System Health - The Vagus Nerve
Our bodies have a distinct system that naturally manages our response to stress to keep us healthy & adaptable. That system is regulated by a largely underappreciated nerve called - the Vagus Nerve.
The Vagus Nerve, also known as cranial nerve X, is a 24/7 two-way hotline between your brain and nearly every major organ: heart, lungs, gut, liver, etc.
Keeping this nerve active is key to keeping us healthy and adaptable.
Why A Stressed Nervous System Can’t Properly Recover
Over 70% of persistent symptoms—including heart disease, fatigue, autoimmune disorders, and depression—are linked to persistent stress and inflammation, ie Vagus Nerve imbalance (1).
Persistently exposing your body to stressors (even simple ones like deadlines) may leave you stuck in a survival loop, fight-or-flight dominance, and visible symptoms like:
- Constantly wired or exhausted
- Increased heart rate
- Narrowed focus and anxious feeling
- Slowed digestion
- Short-term immune response
- Slower recovery processes
See Causes Of Vagus Nerve Impairment
See Symptoms Linked To Vagus Nerve Impairment
What causes Vagus Nerve Impairment
Some evidence suggests vagus nerve impairment can stem from various causes, including:
- surgical procedures [25]
- neurological disorders [25],
- blood sugar regulation problems [26],
- chronic stress [25],
- autoimmune symptoms [26],
- exposure to toxins and alcohol [27],
- trauma [25],
- post-infection complications [26],
- heavy metals [27].
FUNCTIONAL OR STRUCTURAL
Symptoms linked with Vagus Nerve Impairment
Some evidence suggests vagus nerve impairment can stem from various causes, including:
- Anxious thoughts, Panic, Trauma [2,3]
- Brain Fog [4]
- Chronic Tiredness [5]
- Cognitive Impairments [6]
- Problems swallowing [7]
- Persistent low mood [8]
- Sleep problems [10]
- Dizziness and Headaches [1]
- Cardiovascular Symptoms: Abnormal Heart Rate [12], Fainting [1], Blood Pressure Problems [13]
Hit Your System’s Reset Button. Promote Restoration.
Nuropod helps your body maintain homeostasis, balancing your “rest and digest” response, countering “fight or flight” domination.
Parasympathetic Nerves
Responsible for “Rest and Digest” state
Reinforce Neural Pathways
Regulate Heart Function
Stabilizes Airways
Stimulate Gut Function
Support Immune System
Sympathetic Nerves
Responsible for “Fight or Flight” state
Heighten Brain Reactivity
Increase Heart Function
Inflate Airways
Slow Digestion
Shift Immune Function
Parasympathetic Nerves
Reinforce Neural Pathways
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Enhances neuroplasticity
- Learn faster, rewire habits
- Boosts prefrontal cortex activity
- Mental recovery, less cognitive fatigue, sharper focus
- Increases serotonin & GABA levels
- Calmer baseline, reduced rumination
- Activates parasympathetic tone
- Lower stress, improved resilience
- Supports neurochemical balance
- Steadier mood, emotional control
- Facilitates default mode network reset
- More creativity, deeper self-awareness, social connectedness
Parasympathetic Nerves
Regulate Heart Function
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Enhances vagal tone
- Faster recovery, reduces palpitations, stabilizes heart rhythm
- Increases cardiac drive
- Slower resting heart rate, enhanced endurance
- Improves heart rate variability (HRV)
- Better stress tolerance, increased resilience
- Reduces sympathetic overdrive
- Lower blood pressure
- Modulates baroreflex sensitivity
- More stable cardiovascular function
- Facilitates default mode network reset
- More creativity, deeper self-awareness, social connectedness
Parasympathetic Nerves
Stabilizes Airways
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Activation of bronchial smooth muscle
- Less airway constriction, easier breathing
- Modulates vagal efferents to the lungs
- Calmer breath, reduced chest tightness
- Reduces hyperreactivity of airway nerves
- Fewer stress-triggered breathing issues
- Balances autonomic tone in respiratory centers
- Smooth, rhythmic breathing under pressure
- Lowers respiratory tension
- Decreases shortness of breath
- Facilitates default mode network reset
- More creativity, deeper self-awareness, social connectedness
Parasympathetic Nerves
Stimulate Gut Function
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Enhances input to the enteric nervous system
- Promotes healthy digestion and motility
- Increases vagal tone to the gut wall
- Less bloating, smoother gut movement
- Stimulates acetylcholine release in GI tract
- Boosts peristalsis, improves regularity
- Improves brain–gut signaling
- Fewer stress-induced digestive issues
- Modulates gut inflammation
- Supports gut lining, reduces discomfort
- Facilitates default mode network reset
- More creativity, deeper self-awareness, social connectedness
Parasympathetic Nerves
Support Immune System
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Activates cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway
- Lowers chronic inflammation, more physical energy
- Inhibits inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6)
- Reduces systemic inflammation, protects tissues
- Modulates splenic immune activity
- Enhances immune regulation, prevents overreaction
- Improves balance in lymphoid organs
- Optimizes immune surveillance and repair
- Supports gut–immune crosstalk
- Supports gut lining, reduces discomfort
- Facilitates default mode network reset
- More creativity, deeper self-awareness, social connectedness
Sympathetic Nerves
Heighten Brain Reactivity
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Increases noradrenaline release in the cortex
- Heightened alertness, mental tension, brain fog
- Activates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis
- Stress-driven thoughts, harder to relax, irritability
- Sensitizes the amygdala to threat cues
- Exaggerated emotional responses, anxious states spikes
- Suppresses prefrontal cortex regulation
- Reduced impulse control, harder to focus
- Supports gut-immune crosstalk
- Strengthens mucosal immunity and microbiome balance
- Elevates cortical excitability
- Restless mind, sleep disturbances
Sympathetic Nerves
Increase Heart Function
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Stimulates β1-adrenergic receptors
- Faster heart rate, ready for action, slower recovery
- Increases myocardial contractility
- Stronger heartbeats, boosts blood flow during stress
- Enhances cardiac output
- Diverts oxygen to muscles in "fight or flight"
- Releases catecholamines (e.g. adrenaline)
- Heightened cardiac alertness, but drains recovery
- Activates cardiac sympathetic nerves
- Sharp rise in pulse
Sympathetic Nerves
Inflate Airways
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Stimulates β2-adrenergic receptors
- Opens airways for faster breathing
- Promotes bronchodilation via circulating adrenaline
- Quick expansion of airways during "fight or flight"
- Enhances perfusion-ventilation in lungs
- Optimizes oxygen exchange when demand spikes
- Relaxes bronchial smooth muscle
- Reduces airway resistance, enhances airflow
Sympathetic Nerves
Slow Digestion
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Inhibits enteric nervous system
- Slows gut motility, digestion becomes inefficient
- Reduces blood flow to gastrointestinal tract
- Impairs nutrient absorption and enzyme activity
- Suppresses vagal (rest-and-digest) signaling
- Leads to bloating, fullness, or constipation
- Activates α2-adrenergic receptors in gut walls
- Decreases peristalsis, disrupts gut rhythm
- Increases sympathetic tone to GI sphincters
- Can cause reflux, cramping, or delayed emptying
Sympathetic Nerves
Shift Immune Function
Mechanism:
Effect:
- Increases circulating cortisol and adrenaline
- Suppresses immune activity short-term, waking tired
- Shifts immune response from Th1 (cellular) to Th2 (humoral)
- Weaker defense against viruses and allergy
- Inhibits natural killer (NK) cell activity
- Reduces early defense against infection
- Disrupts gut-immune barrier
- Increases vulnerability to pathogens and dysbiosis
- Suppresses lymphocyte proliferation and trafficking
- Slows immune recovery after illness or injury
When it comes to anxious states the papers I've looked at do provide evidence of support that transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation is effective at improving parasympathetic drive, it can reduce fatigue and personally I've seen this improves my HRV when using this device.
How to Use Nuropod?
Step 1
Attach the earpiece
The tragus is the front door to your Vagus Nerve. It allows Nuropod to gently tap in and engage your autonomic nervous system with laser precision.
Step 2
Activate & Adjust
Step 3
Feel instant Calm
Step 4
Use 30-60 Minutes Daily
Resilience, day and night
Resilience, day and night
During work
Before Bed
During Meditation
Daily protocol to optimize Nuropod for your individual needs
When used correctly, Nuropod may boost parasympathetic activity by over 61% in just five minutes* and deliver 2-4x greater parasympathetic activation than breathwork or meditation. Monitor your HRV with a smart device like Apple watch to track progress.
Morning Activation
30 minutes
Use Nuropod as soon as you wake up to kickstart your parasympathetic system and fortify resilience against daily stressors. This session helps set a calm, balanced tone for the day ahead. Especially useful for those managing symptoms like brain fog and tiredness.
Midday/Evening Wind-down
30 minutes, optional
Study Participant Outcomes
Nuropod AVNT™ protocol: Compounding Long-term Benefits
Onset time: Feel visible results in as little as 5 days*
5 Days
Improved Mood + Energy*
- Brighter days and higher motivation
- Clear and stable mental patterns
- Prolonged periods of focused energy
2 Weeks
Lower Stress Levels + Better Sleep*
- Strong decline in reactivity to stress triggers
- Less anxious and other negative thoughts
- Feel well balanced and grounded after sleep
4 Weeks
High HRV + Accelerated Recovery*
- Visibly higher HRV via wearable monitor
- Reduced inflammation post workouts
- Scientifically proven to reduce resting heart rate
3 Months
Gut + Persistent Symptoms Improvement*
- Less bloating and more regular digestion
- Immunity against post-viral symptoms
- Pain and autoimmune symptoms improvements
*Results in study populations, individual results may vary
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Meant to be used without limitations
No apps or paid subscriptions
Battery lasts for weeks
Small and light, so you can take it during travel
No distraction, use during any non-intense activity
No gel needed
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“I could lift my arm. Walk to the bathroom. Eat sitting up. It felt like my body finally got the memo: you’re safe… There are ways to help your system shift out of chaos—and into something quieter, steadier. For me, that changed everything.”
“I remember doing a session late in the day before seeing friends. For the first time in months, I felt stable. That was huge. I use it alongside meditation, either together or one after the other. It became part of my daily routine.”
"I end up finding myself in balls of stress. Since Nuropod, the biggest benefit I've had is about my mood and how I approach stressful situations. It just makes it easier."
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Meet the Doctors
A practicing health professional of psychiatry, Elisabetta has an MBA from INSEAD Business School, and experience in direct user care, neuroscience research, communication and management. Dr. Burchi is a physician-scientist, working with Parasym in scientific affairs with a track record of publishing in the most important scientific journals such as The Lancet, writing successful grant proposals for the NIH, and leading the production of editorial, scientific, regulatory and promotional material in collaborative multidisciplinary teams. Dr. Burchi has also coordinated scientific studies and implemented a tele-medicine practice which received a certification of excellence among more than 100,000 professionals.