Top Doctor: This Nervous System Reset Stops Migraines, Sugar Cravings, Exhaustion, & More

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 117 minutes

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If you're dealing with a health issue, your underlying trauma might be the source, and this top doctor says if you don’t address it, it will continue to manifest in different ways. The solution? Resetting your nervous system. Dr. Aimie Apigian, a double board certified physician with master's degrees in biochemistry and public health shares completely paradigm-shifting ideas about the science of how all of us are dealing with trauma that's impacting our bodies at a cellular level and exactly what we can do to change that. 🎧 What you’ll learn: • The hidden link between chronic illness and stored trauma • How to read your nervous system's "dashboard" • The 5 patterns stored trauma creates in your life • Why talking about your childhood in therapy may not be enough • The one language shift that can keep you out of overwhelm • The biology behind why trauma becomes physical For more from Dr. Aimie Apigian: • Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/draimie • Website: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/ • Book, The Biology of Trauma: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/book Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome.Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/. Use our discount codes from our highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors: • Timeline: visit Timeline.com/Liz to save up to 39% off. • PaleoValley: head to PaleoValley.com/LizMoody or use code LizMoody at checkout for 15% off your first purchase. • Lumebox: right now get 40% off, that's $260 off the regular price of $629, when you go to TheLumeBox.com/Liz. • OneSkin: go to OneSkin.co/Liz and use code LIZ to get 15% OFF for a limited time. • Pique: head to PiqueLife.com/LizMoody for 20% off + a FREE Starter Kit on $100+ of subscriptions. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 434. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So what I'm going to have you do is I'm going to have you lift up a heavy rock above your head.
0:04.6	I'll give you a rock. Here you go.
0:06.1	Oh, like literally heavy.
0:08.0	Whatever it is, like double that, triple that.
0:10.5	Like, I want you struggling right now.
0:12.5	Okay.
0:13.5	So if you're struggling but being successful, this is the stress response.
0:18.2	And you're like, yeah, this is hard, but I'm doing it. We're going to let that
0:22.8	rock crush us. Exactly. Right there. What do you notice happening in your body as you let the rock
0:29.2	crush you? Like a heaviness, a tightness in my chest. That's it. That's it. That's exactly what
0:35.9	overwhelmed feels like. And what would be thoughts that come into your mind as you let this rock crush you?
0:42.8	Like more of a despair and helplessness. That's it. We can recognize our states based on sensations in our body. Our thoughts are just generated by our state. I notice the thought and be like, oh, isn't that interesting?
0:55.7	That thought tells me where your physiology is right now. I'm not going to ask you to change your
1:00.9	thought. I'm going to ask you to change your physiology because then that physiology will change
1:05.4	your thinking. So how do we change our physiology in that moment? If you're exhausted, if you are anxious, if you are depressed, if you're dealing with gut issues or autoimmune conditions, or bad perimenopause symptoms, if you're stressed and overwhelmed by day-to-day life, it might be because you have not addressed your underlying trauma.
1:24.6	And until you address it, it's going to continue to show up in your
1:28.3	brain, in your body, and in your interactions with other people and the world around you.
1:33.3	Dr. Amy Epigion, a double board certified physician with master's degrees in biochemistry
1:37.9	and public health, has an approach to feeling good that I have never heard anywhere else.
1:43.1	Her new book is called The Biology of Trauma.
1:45.0	It features a glowing forward from Dr. Gabor Mate and completely revolutionary paradigm shifting
1:50.8	ideas about trauma.
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