Brenda Duncan, Zionsville, Indiana

The part she'd rather not admit

Brenda already believed in PEMF. That was the problem.

She'd owned a full-size PEMF mat for five years. She knew what the technology did. But the mat doesn't travel. It's big, it's expensive, and if the airline loses it or crushes it, that's a lot of money in a baggage claim office. So when a pocket-sized version from Resona Health kept showing up in her social media feed, she did the math out loud to her husband: it's a fraction of the price, and there's a money-back guarantee. If it does nothing, it goes back. No loss.

He said sure, try it.

They flew to California for twelve days. She wore it religiously. She did great with it.

Then she came home, put it in a drawer, and went back to her mat.

That's where most stories like this would end. A gadget in a drawer, a guarantee that quietly expired, a mat in the other room.

The number on her finger

Her Oura Ring said her HRV was in the high teens.

Brenda bought the ring about a year and a half ago because she wasn't sleeping and wanted something to tell her when it was time to go to bed. What it told her instead was that her heart rate variability was sitting in the high teens and low twenties.

She remembered she had a Vagus Nerve protocol on the VIBE. So she started running it.

Her HRV has been as high as 39.

Her sleep routine now comes from Doris in the Resona Health Therapy Facebook group, who never says “this will fix that” but will suggest a stack to try. Brenda's is Vagus Nerve, Relax and Balance, Brain Wave Delta, and Sleep, run in the evening. Some nights she runs Vagus Nerve twice.

An Oura Ring can tell you that you slept badly last night. It can't make you sleep better tonight. That's the difference Brenda found once the VIBE came out of the drawer: one device measures, the other one does something about it.

The skeptic in the house

Her husband puts up with a lot.

Brenda is the one who tries things. He's the one who watches. But he's the one who wanted his own VIBE, and now he wears it every day. He ran it for his back. The thing he mentions most, though, is focus: he's in and out of meetings all day, and he says it's helped him concentrate. One morning on the road, after a bad night, he told her he felt foggy. She had hers in her purse. He put it on Brain Fog. It helped.

Her granddaughter runs Vagus Nerve. Her brother has circulation trouble behind one knee that surgery wasn't going to fix, so Brenda told him about it. He got one. She dropped by one afternoon to ask how it was going and he answered with a question: “Well, where's yours?” His was under his shirt.

Brenda's advice

Don't do what she did the first time.

Read the whole list. Pick the protocols that fit you. Then keep going. The minimum that works is one protocol every other day, three or four sessions a week, rotating through the ones you chose. You can run them more often, and at any time of day. What doesn't work is twelve good days and a drawer.

Wear it on the lanyard around your neck, drop it in a pocket, or tuck it in a bra. It's 2.4 ounces. You'll forget it's there, which is the point: her brother wears his under his shirt all day, her husband wears his through back-to-back meetings, and Brenda has hers in her purse on the days she isn't wearing it.

And if you get it wet, skip the bag of rice. A blow-dryer is what actually works.