Vagus Nerve Stimulation - Rezzimax & Stimpod Rezzipes

Unlock deep relaxation and nervous system balance with this step-by-step Rezzipe for stimulating the vagus nerve using the Rezzimax Tuner and Stimpod. By combining resonance therapy with targeted neurostimulation, you can amplify the effects of vagus nerve activation—helping to reduce stress, enhance recovery, and support overall well-being.

This powerful duo works together to:

  • Enhance vagal tone for improved nervous system regulation
  • Reduce pain and inflammation through neuromodulation
  • Promote relaxation and mental clarity by calming the body's fight-or-flight response

First, we'd like to share an introduction to Vagus Nerve Stimulation by Dr. Kieran Collins, DC. 

"We're going to talk about vagal stimulation. You have two systems in your body: your sympathetic nervous system and your parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic is fight or flight and it's what pain and inflammation run on. Your parasympathetic is rest, repair and restore.

If you imagine that a person who is a meditator has a higher parasympathetic nervous system, or the people in New York are running totally around on sympathetic. All chronic pain is based upon your sympathetic nervous system and deregulation of your parasympathetic nervous system.

What controls your parasympathetic nervous system is the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in your body. It's a cranial nerve. It goes from your brain to your ear, your throat, your heart, the lungs, goes through every organ in your body and it ends in your colon.

With Stimpod and Rezzimax we do it in two points: we're going to do it in the Cymba Concha in the ear which is right here. So it's down around under the hood and you stick the Stimpod right up in there and then we'll put the Rezzimax on the patient's belly button. And the premise of that is the vagus nerve goes through the umbilicus between mother and child and its communication point and it gets severed at the point of birth.

When you stimulate that it has a positive effect on the vagus nerve. When you are doing vagal stimulation, you're basically hacking your nervous system. You're up-regulating your parasympathetic nervous system, so you're cheating and you're becoming a master meditator. Also, when the patients are doing this therapy, you would have the patients lay down, breathe in through their nose and out their mouth for the whole duration of the therapy.

Within the parasympathetic nervous system is your cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway. That is your body's natural way to decrease pain and inflammation. We can literally treat any kind of pain, whether that's fibromyalgia, failed back surgery, by literally treating a nerve in their ear.

When I have patients coming in for vagal stimulation, I want them to be breathing on their own also at home. I have them breathe 25 times in the morning before they get out of bed, and 25 times before they go to bed. This has a really profound positive effect on a ton of chronic pain patients.

I had a woman who was referred to me by a neurologist for Bell's Palsy. Half of her face was paralyzed. I asked her, 'What else does she feel? What else is wrong?' She said, 'I have this polyneuropathy thing where I feel electric shocks going through my body.' I have her breathing. We're doing the vagal stimulation. Her face resolved from the Bell's Palsy.

After the third visit, I said, 'How are you doing?' She goes, 'I feel great! I don't feel any more electric shocks anymore. I don't feel the world is pressing down on my body.'

I'm relaying to her that your health is from inside out rather than outside in. It's not the Gabapentin that's going to make you healthier. It's up-regulating your parasympathetic nervous system and making your own self healthier.

This is something that they've been lied to their entire life: that it's from outside in. You need to take medication for everything that is wrong with you. And that's not the fact. There's a lot of important things in reference to vagal stimulation. It is your brain-gut access. That is your vagus nerve.

A lot of things can happen when you do vagal stimulation. But one of the things that always happens are neurotransmitters are made in the lining of the gut. When you do vagal stimulation, it forcefully creates the production and release of neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are the communication factors throughout your body and make you feel normal. Basically, patients will do the vagal stimulation and they'll immediately feel much more chill and calm.

I'm going to talk about the things that I've treated with vagal stimulation, and it is a ton of different stuff:

I've treated Alzheimer's patients with vagal stimulation. They do vagal nerve implants on newly diagnosed, people with Alzheimer's. This is the brain-gut access. And when you release those neurotransmitters, it makes your brain function more normally.

I've done it for depression. I've done it on patients who are bipolar. They came in in a manic phase, left completely calm.

I think this should be relayed prior to people just seeing vagal stimulation. Because if you just see vagal stimulation, it's like giving car keys to a kid and they have a Lamborghini and they’re like: all right, just press the button and go! Just floor it! What's going to happen? It's not going to be good. They don't know what they're doing. We have to actually teach them a bit about their body and how they shall move forward."

Follow this simple guide to experience the synergistic benefits of vibration and electrical stimulation for optimal results!

Don't forget to place your tongue between your teeth and hum gently while you use the Stimpod and Tuner, while breathing out for four times as long as you breathe in. This helps your vagus nerve to magnify the positive effects.

*Steps 1 & 2 will be done simultaneously*

Step 1:

  • Device: Stimpod NMS 460, Stimulation Probe and Cables, Electrode Pad, Conductive Treatment Gel
  • mA/Hz: 3-5 mA/2 Hz
  • Duration: 5-10 Minutes
  • Location: Across Navel

Setting Up

Connect the green plug of the cable into the top port of the Stimpod. Next, pull out a square electrode and remove the plastic, exposing the adhesive. Now stick it onto your left wrist. Take the red clip on the remaining cable and clip it to the metal snap on top of the pad.

Stimpod Operation

Turn on the Stimpod. You can use the button on the top left to adjust the intensity of the pulses. The button on the top right adjusts the frequency of the pulses, and should be set at 2 Hz. 

Using the Probe Pick up the stimulation probe and add a small amount of conductive treatment gel to the tip. This will improve the connection between the Stimpod and your body.

With the Stimpod turned on, place the tip of the probe up into the cymba concha of your left ear. That's the shell shaped indentation just above your ear canal. Try moving the tip around until you find the spot where the nerve stimulation is strongest. Turn up the intensity of the Stimpod until you find a level that produces a strong tapping sensation, but isn't painful or pinching.

Step 2:

  • Device: Rezzimax Tuner & Accessory Tongs
  • Mode/Level: Blue Mode or Comfortable Level
  • Duration: 5-10 Minutes
  • Pressure: Light
  • Location: Across Navel

Place the Tuner sideways across your navel with the tongs open as you breathe in with your nose and taking twice as long to breathe out. Keep it here for 5 to 10 minutes.