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The Vagal Bitters Protocol™: A 21-Day Bitter-Receptor Vagal Activation Protocol, Kindle book cover by The Navigator
The Sovereign Field Library™ · Vol. 06

The Vagal Bitters Protocol™

A 21-Day Bitter-Receptor Vagal Activation Protocol

TAS2R bitter receptors, expressed extra-orally in the duodenum, trigger the fastest deliberate vagal-afferent activation in the physiological toolkit. Twenty-one days. ~63 signals. A shifted autonomic baseline.

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TAS2R → Gα-gustducin → PLCβ2 → IP3 → Ca²⁺ → CCK → CCK1 receptors on vagal afferents → nucleus of the solitary tract → parasympathetic activation. An 8-to-12-minute cascade. Meyerhof (2010), Lu et al. (2017).

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