Brendas Story V2
Brenda Duncan · Zionsville, Indiana
She runs the cold protocol before she catches the cold.
A whole winter around sick people. Not one sick day. Brenda's rule for the VIBE is simple: get there first.
Brenda Duncan, Zionsville, Indiana
The night before
She had a procedure scheduled for the morning. Any symptoms and they'd cancel it.
That evening she felt a cold coming on. The scratchy, heavy, here-it-comes feeling everyone knows. Most people would go to bed and hope.
Brenda picked up her VIBE, ran Common Cold, then ran Immune Support, and went to sleep.
“This morning I felt fine.”
Brenda Duncan, the next dayThat's not a lucky night. That's how she uses the thing. She doesn't wait for the cold to arrive and then fight it. She runs the protocol at the first hint, or before there's any hint at all.
Get there first
The winter nobody in the house got sick.
When cold and flu season came around, Brenda and her husband didn't wait to see who'd catch what. They ran Common Cold and Flu every day, starting before anyone around them was coughing. They were around a lot of sick people that year.
Neither of them got sick. Not once, the entire year. As of the day we talked, still nothing.
Before the roomCrowded space aheadCommon Cold and Immune Support, any time she's about to be in a crowd.
Before the nightEvening stackVagus Nerve, Relax and Balance, Brain Wave Delta, Sleep. Run before the night has a chance to go wrong.
Before the dayRough morningBrain Wave Alpha or Brain Fog when she wakes up wondering how she'll get through it.
Before the chairThe dentistHer friend Sandy ran hers five minutes before a blood-pressure check that would have cancelled her procedure. It didn't.
Same device, same button. The only trick is timing. Brenda's timing is early.
Ahead of the problem
She bought the ring so she'd know before, not after.
About a year and a half ago Brenda got an Oura Ring, because she wasn't sleeping and wanted something that would tell her when to go to bed instead of telling her in the morning that she'd blown it. The ring gave her a number she hadn't been looking for: heart rate variability in the high teens and low twenties.
She remembered the VIBE had a Vagus Nerve protocol. She started running it in the evenings, sometimes twice.
19HRV before, give or take
39HRV, her high since
0sick days that year
Her sleep stack came from Doris in the Resona Health Therapy Facebook group, who never promises anything but will suggest what to try. Brenda's rule now: the nights she doesn't sleep are the nights she skipped it.
“When I don't sleep, it's not because I was using it. It's because I wasn't using it at all.”
Brenda DuncanOne question, before anything
“What are your thoughts on non-traditional medicine?”
Brenda doesn't hand the VIBE to anyone cold. She asks that first. If the answer is a shrug, she leaves it in her purse. If the answer is yes, she tells them what she and her husband have seen.
A friend of hers had just come through her second knee replacement, after a fall that hyperextended the first one so badly the surgeons thought she might lose the leg. Nothing was touching the pain. Brenda asked her question. Her friend was all for it.
Brenda set the VIBE on Fibromyalgia and her friend put it on the knee, right over the bandages. Five minutes in, her friend said the pain had dropped significantly. Five minutes after that: “I can feel the nerve endings trying to find each other.”
Two weeks later Brenda saw her walking in heels.
She became a Resona Health affiliate on the spot. Her friend Sandy in Florida, who wears hers every day for arthritis and bone-on-bone pain, helped one person who then ordered ten. Brenda's brother, with circulation trouble behind one knee that surgery wouldn't fix, wears his under his shirt all day and answers “how's it going?” with “where's yours?”
The routine
What runs when, in Brenda's house.
Everything here is a built-in setting on the VIBE. Nothing to program. Pick it, press it.
| Before a crowd | Common Cold, Immune Support |
| Cold and flu season | Common Cold and Flu, daily, both of them, starting before anyone gets sick |
| Evenings | Vagus Nerve, Relax and Balance, Brain Wave Delta, Sleep |
| Rough mornings | Brain Wave Alpha, Brain Fog |
| Her husband, before back-to-back meetings | Runs it for focus; wears it daily; used it for his back |
| Her granddaughter | Vagus Nerve |
| Anyone anxious | Anxiety, Relax and Balance, Vagus Nerve, or PTSD, what Resona Health calls the Power of Four. If one doesn't sit right, try the next. |
The minimum that works is one protocol every other day, three or four sessions a week, rotating through the ones you picked. Run them more often if you like, at any time of day. Wear it on the lanyard, in a pocket, or tucked in a bra; it's 2.4 ounces and you'll forget it's on.
He tried to get stopped on purpose
Airport security, answered in advance.
Brenda flew with hers through O'Hare, wearing it. Nobody blinked. Mark L Fox, who designed the VIBE, has spent years trying to get pulled aside at TSA so he could tell people exactly what to expect. He can't manage it. He once dumped fifteen in a single bin and the agent said, “You can't have that many TV remotes in one bin. Put them in three bins.”
If anyone ever asks, the true answer is that it's an MP3 player. The protocols are audio files and the board is an MP3 player's. It has a coil where the speaker would go.
The VIBE, from Resona Health
$299 $399
A pocket-sized PEMF device with 60 core protocols and 70 expansion protocols built in, including every one in Brenda's routine. One button. No app, no subscription, nothing to figure out. Run it before, not after.
- 2.4 ounces; wears on the included lanyard, in a pocket, or tucked away, and works through clothing
- Rechargeable, about 5 hours per charge at full power
- Safe for people and pets
- Free shipping worldwide
- 30-day money-back guarantee and 1-year warranty
The guarantee was decided before the purchase, too: it's why Brenda's husband said yes. Thirty days. If it does nothing for you, send it back for a full refund.
Most people buy something like this after.
After the cold, after the bad night, after the surgery, after the pain has been there long enough to have a name. Brenda did too, the first time. Then she learned to run it first.
Before the crowd. Before the night. Before the chair. Before the procedure that would have been cancelled.
Cold and flu season is coming. That's the point.
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The VIBE isn't the only thing in Brenda's house.
She owns a BlueVibe too. And the ring on her finger is why she knows her Vagus Nerve numbers at all. Three more from Resona Health, every link carrying Brenda's name.
BlueVibe
$349 $499
PEMF and blue light, both pulsed at 40 Hz, in a one-button wearable for the wrist or the back of the neck. Made for focus, memory, and mental clarity. The one to run before the meeting, not after the fog sets in.
See the BlueVibe
VaguVibe
$249 $349
A pendant worn over the chest that gently supports the vagus nerve with low-level PEMF all day. No menus, no sessions, nothing to feel. The all-day version of the protocol that moved Brenda's HRV.
See the VaguVibe
Kario Wellness Watch
$149
HRV, sleep, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen, and a single Vitality Score, on your wrist. Sleep and HRV are the two numbers that matter most. Brenda watches hers on a ring; this is the same measurement for a fraction of the price.
See the Kario WatchThe VIBE, BlueVibe, and VaguVibe are FDA general wellness devices. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Individual results vary.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. The stories here are Brenda Duncan's own and those of family and friends she knows. Protocol names are the names of settings on the device, not claims of treatment for any condition. Heart rate variability figures are her own consumer wearable readings. See your physician for any health concern.
Brenda Duncan is an independent affiliate of Resona Health and earns a commission on purchases made through the links on this page, at no additional cost to you.