What Aimie Apigian has said about Caffeine
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 23, 2026
Aimie Apigian, Physician and trauma expert, author of The Biology of Trauma and founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated, has been quoted on Caffeine 2 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on October 23, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Apigian claims that eating gluten is partly an unconscious way to numb exhaustion because gluten proteins bind opiate receptors.
“your body knows that those proteins in gluten bind your opiate receptors so that you can help to numb yourself”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 26:19
Apigian argues that caffeine and even microdosed nicotine can be strategic tools if timed to the body's rhythms, but most people use them to push through.
“Nicotine, microdosing nicotine. is a powerful strategic tool when used in the right way”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie Apigian (Oct 23, 2026) · Listen from 30:21
Episodes
Re-Air: Childhood Trauma Can Lead to Disease | Here’s How to Heal Now! | Dr. Aimie ApigianMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 23, 2026 · 2 h 13 min
Physician Aimie Apigian tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen how unresolved trauma affects cells, the nervous system, and chronic diseases, and how somatic work can help.
Others on Caffeine
- Michael Pollan · 3 quotes
- Jonathan Cohen · 1 quote
Aimie Apigian on other topics
- Psychological trauma · 3 quotes
- Autoimmune disease · 2 quotes
- Somatic experiencing · 2 quotes
- Stress response and adrenaline · 2 quotes
- Menopause · 1 quote
- Irritable bowel syndrome · 1 quote
- Microglia · 1 quote
- Alcohol and health · 1 quote