When Pain Won’t Sleep
Burning feet at 2am, aching joints, restless legs. Your labs are fine, but your body is screaming. Touchology & reflexology with Dr. Njideka Olatunde.
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New Episodes of The Nervous System Eats First™
Autism · Menopause · The Nervous System
Hosted by Dr. Stacey Denise, The Neuroaesthetic MD™
New Episodes of The Nervous System Eats First™
Autism · Menopause · The Nervous System
Hosted by Dr. Stacey Denise, The Neuroaesthetic MD™
The Podcast
The Nervous System Eats First™
Autism, Menopause and Beyond. A physician-led conversation about what happens when your nervous system, hormones, sensory processing and identity all shift at once, and medicine has not given you language for the pattern.
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Age Range of Listeners
19+
Episodes
25+
Countries Reached
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Latest Episodes
Belonging in Your Own Body
Five Element Medicine and late-diagnosed autism, and what it means to finally feel at home in yourself. With Dr. Janice Campbell.
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From Survival to Sovereignty
Has your body ever simply refused to keep going? EFT tapping, brainspotting and somatic tools for midlife. With Cassandra Love Lambert.
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From the Blog
Go Deeper Between Episodes
The show in written form. Longer-form articles on the nervous system, menopause, neurodivergence and the science underneath each conversation, for the nights you would rather read than listen.
Neurodivergence
The Missing Sense: Interoception
You feel your chest tighten but can’t tell if it’s stress or sadness. Dr. Kelly Mahler on the hidden sense behind your perimenopause picture.
Nervous System
Breathwork Is Nervous System Medicine
What if breathing isn’t simple when your nervous system has been running on the wrong frequency for decades?
Nervous System
Scent as Medicine
Clinical aromatherapist Amy Anthony on how scent works as nervous system medicine in perimenopause, menopause and autistic burnout.
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Watch the Frameworks Come to Life
Video episodes are available on the Dr. Stacey Denise YouTube channel. See the frameworks drawn out, follow along with on-screen examples and watch the clinical concepts in full visual context.
Your Host
Meet the Host
Dr. Stacey Denise
Board-certified surgeon, The Neuroaesthetic MD™, and a late-diagnosed autistic woman who lived the exact pattern this show is about. She started The Nervous System Eats First™ because the menopause conversation kept leaving out the nervous system, neurodivergence and the women who were told their symptoms were all in their head.
Each episode brings a physician’s clarity and a patient’s honesty to the questions midlife women are actually asking.
The Essays
Don’t miss what comes between episodes.
The longer-form essays behind the show, the research, the stories and the language for what your body has been trying to say. Free, straight to your inbox.