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EPISODE · Jun 10, 2026 · 33 MIN

The Bliss Molecule Nobody Told You About and 3 Positions That Release It

from Sexy After 50: Improve Sex & Intimacy by Healing Your Nervous System · host Dr. Julie Merriman

Send us Fan MailThere are forty-five thousand nerve fibers in your skin that exist only to tell your brain you are safe, held, and worthy of desire. Nobody told you they were there. Nobody told you they have been starving. That is what we are fixing in this episode.If you have been living with low desire and have tried the usual answers, communication, hormones, date nights, and come up empty, it is because the usual answers are addressing the wrong system.Dr. Juls introduces you to CT afferents, the class of skin nerve fibers specifically designed for affective touch and social bonding, and explains why their chronic under-activation is one of the most underdiagnosed drivers of desire loss in women over fifty. Drawing on cutting-edge research from neuroscientist Francis McGlone, the endocannabinoid science of Dr. Raphael Mechoulam and Ethan Russo, and Lisa Feldman Barrett's predictive processing model of emotion, this episode offers a framework for desire that is more precise, more actionable, and more honest than anything you have heard before.In this episode you will learn:Why the touch you are receiving, even from a partner, may be actively starving your desire rather than nourishing it, and the neurophysiological reason that functional touch and affective touch are processed completely differently by the brain.How anandamide, the brain's own bliss molecule, is produced through slow, non-goal-oriented touch and why its depletion in chronically stressed, touch-starved women explains the flat, motions-only quality of sex that so many women over fifty describe.Why your brain is predicting your lack of desire before you even get into bed, and the evidence-based protocol for changing that prediction at the level of the nervous system rather than the level of willpower.Three specific positions engineered for CT fiber activation, anandamide priming, and nervous system co-regulation: The Anchor, The Sovereign, and The Melt, with the physiological rationale for why each one works and how to use them as desire infrastructure rather than performance.The CT Awakening somatic practice and the Touch Ledger integration exercise to take this work from insight to your actual body this week.They told you the fire dies at 50. They lied.Desire Reset Guide is your 72-hour erotic reboot—where you'll unlock the arousal pathway buried in your nervous system, reclaim the raw hunger you were taught to suppress, and rewire your body to crave pleasure again.Not because you're broken. Because you're ready to burn.Get the Desire Reset GuideMove from Invisible to Incredible.Dr. Juls | Sexy After 50 PodcastNew episodes Wednesdays and Fridays, 5am CSTThis podcast is for women over 50 navigating low desire, sexual disconnection, and body changes who want nervous-system-informed insight into libido, aliveness, intimacy, and embodied pleasure so they can move from tamed and underground to rebooted, alive, and unapologetically hungry.

Send us Fan Mail There are forty-five thousand nerve fibers in your skin that exist only to tell your brain you are safe, held, and worthy of desire. Nobody told you they were there. Nobody told you they have been starving. That is what we are fixing in this episode. If you have been living with low desire and have tried the usual answers, communication, hormones, date nights, and come up empty, it is because the usual answers are addressing the wrong system. Dr. Juls introduces you to CT aff...

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