I’m highlighting this article because it most likely has a bearing on my heart rate variability research in women.
This article is significant in that this baseline heart rate variability value may influence how people react to stessors. Could acupuncture be considered a subtle stressor? Biol Psychol. 2012 Apr;90(1):105-11. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.02.019. Epub 2012 Mar 3. Cardiac vagal control
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25207649 PLoS One. 2014 Sep 10;9(9):e105328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105328. eCollection 2014. Relationship between Vagal Tone, Cortisol, TNF-Alpha, Epinephrine and Negative Affects in Crohn’s Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Pellissier S1, Dantzer C2, Mondillon L3, Trocme C4, Gauchez AS4, Ducros V4, Mathieu
I can speculate on a few reasons why catgut embedding might be more effective than acupuncture alone. Zhongguo Zhen Jiu. 2014 May;34(5):439-43. [Observation of long-term efficacy and life quality in allergic rhinitis treated with acupoint catgut embedding therapy combined
The biotech community has discovered vagal stimulation and is hot on its trail, as covered in this piece about SetPoint Medical. Of course, we in the Acupuncture Community have long known this. It’s all a question of who, what, when, where,
This is a Plos One, so the whole article is available online. They make that case that positive affect is correlated with high HRV. I Been doing a lot of reading today, and the autonomic nervous system is involved in everything. Affective
I’m going through data and just can’t grapple with the different profiles of different patients. Methinks it is much more complicated than I want to admit. I’ve written to the author of this paper and hope to get a copy.(Update:
This has been the ultimate goal of mine, the tiny implant that could mimic acupuncture needling on an ongoing basis. They are developing the technology. Wow. It’s actually happening. But “we believe this can be paradigm-shifting,” he said, and “can
