How Neuromodulation Devices Can Support Your Nervous System, Vagus Nerve & Areas such as Migraine, Stress, Anxiety, Sleep, Digestion, Pain Management & Your Overall Wellbeing
- Claire Jarvis
- Apr 15, 2025
- 8 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
When we talk about supporting health from a holistic perspective, the nervous system and in particular the vagus nerve, sits at the very centre of everything. From stress resilience and emotional regulation to digestion, sleep, pain perception and migraine, how well your nervous system is functioning can significantly influence how you feel day-to-day.
For many people today, the nervous system is under constant pressure - chronic stress, poor sleep, hormonal shifts, inflammation, illness, and modern lifestyle demands can all keep the body stuck in a prolonged “fight or flight” state. Over time, this can contribute to symptoms such as anxiety, digestive discomfort, poor sleep, pain conditions and migraine.
This is where neuromodulation devices can offer valuable support.
What Are Neuromodulation Devices?
Neuromodulation devices are designed to gently influence the nervous system — often via the vagus nerve — helping the body shift out of stress mode and into a calmer, more regulated state. When used appropriately, they can become a powerful part of a wider naturopathic approach to supporting long-term wellbeing.
They use technologies like sound vibration, electrical impulses, or gentle stimulation to activate your body’s natural relaxation response.
Think of them as helping your body “relearn” how to shift out of stress mode and into a state of calm, healing, and resilience. neuromodulation migraine stress anxiety sleep nervous system
The Role of the Vagus Nerve in Health & Wellbeing
The vagus nerve is one of the most important nerves in the body. It plays a key role in regulating:
The stress response
Heart rate and blood pressure
Digestion and gut motility
Inflammation and immune signalling
Mood, emotional regulation and pain perception
When vagal tone is low, which is common in chronic stress, migraine, digestive conditions and pain disorders, the body may struggle to switch into a calm, restorative state. Supporting vagal tone is therefore a key therapeutic focus in many of the clients I work with.
How Neuromodulation Devices Can Support the Nervous System
Here are just some of the areas where neuromodulation can make a powerful difference:
Stress and Anxiety Support: Helping to reduce feelings of overwhelm and anxious tension by calming the nervous system.
Sleep Improvement: Promoting better relaxation can help improve sleep quality and make it easier to fall asleep naturally.
Digestive Health: A calm nervous system supports healthy digestion, making it easier to manage issues like IBS.
Migraine and Vestibular Migraine Relief: Some neuromodulation devices are designed specifically to support migraine management by helping regulate the nervous system and ease migraine frequency or severity. There are specific types of neuromodulation devices available with clinical data to support this type of condition. Please contact me for more details on how to integrate this into your management plan.
Mood Balance and Emotional Wellbeing: Supporting vagus nerve tone can positively influence mood and emotional resilience.
Overall Nervous System Regulation: Helping the body become more adaptable and resilient to daily stressors.
How I Integrate Neuromodulation into Client Support
As a naturopath & Nutritional Therapist for some clients, neuromodulation becomes a key part of their personalised protocol, alongside nutrition, lifestyle adjustments, supplements, and other holistic strategies.
When used thoughtfully, these tools can:
Enhance the benefits of nutritional therapy
Improve outcomes for chronic conditions like migraine, IBS, and anxiety
Support nervous system healing, resilience, and flexibility
Empower you to take daily steps toward better wellbeing
I offer personalised guidance on how to choose and use neuromodulation devices in the context of your overall health plan. You may want to read my own story with chronic vestibular migraine as I really do understand how this impacts you and the challenges it can bring us - however there is light and often a joined up, educated and informed path is often the most sucessful as each of us are very unique in our journeys and understanding your own picture is often so helpful to long term management.
Neuromodulation Devices Recommendations
As a Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, I often integrate neuromodulation devices into my client protocols when appropriate. Here are a few options I love and recommend:
Sensate: A wearable device that uses sound and gentle vibration to stimulate the vagus nerve via the chest area, promoting relaxation, stress reduction, and better sleep. Its very relaxing and gentle to use.
Senstae is a one off purchase and is just not for the dedicated user, so it can be used my more than one member of the household.
It comes with optional soundscapes or breath work options to do alongside or you can just use it to sit quietly.
For more information and to visit sensate CLICK HERE plus use code NATUROPATHIC at checkout for my exclusive 10% off
Pulsetto: A vagus nerve stimulator designed to help manage stress and anxiety naturally that is worn round the neck and stimulates the vagus nerve points via the neck.
This devise has focussed and targeted sessions with settings for support with stress, anxiety, burnout, sleep & pain management and you can choose the setting you wish to use and if needed multi sessions can be used through out the day.
Depending on the settings used sessions will last from 2 - 40 minutes and can be varied in intensity depending on the individual.
The devise is purchased as a one off unit. An electrolyte gel is used on the neck while using the devise which is then wiped off once completed. Extra gel will need to be purchased periodically for use with the devise.
For more information and to visit Pulsetto CLICK HERE plus my exclusive code ClaireJarvis to get a 10% discount.
GammaCore: A hand-held device used for acute migraine and cluster headache management through non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (FDA-approved for certain conditions).
This handheld devise is designed for use with migraine, menstrual migraine and vestibular migraine.
It has clinical data to support its use and can be purchased with a subscription plan via gamma-core with the sign off from a medical professional.
Subscription plans are for 3 months use and then automatically renewed.
For more information and to visit Gammacore CLICK HERE plus use my exclusive discount code CJ10 for 10% discount on your subscription.
Many of the above companies also offer a happiness guarantee so it can be a great opportunity to try them and understand if it is for you as in my experience you often will work this out very quickly!
There is other neuromodulation options on the market for migraine for example such as Ceflay which works on the trigeminal nerve - so it is sometimes helpful to understand the symptoms and your picture to understand which nerve you may want to focus on & why.
Each device has unique features and benefits depending on your personal health goals, symptoms, and preferences. I have a series of small videos for you to view to see these in action or can view this on my instagram page
What’s the Evidence?
Neuromodulation devices are supported by an increasing body of clinical research, particularly in migraine prevention and management. Clinical trials to reduce migraine frequency, intensity and reliance on acute medication, with good safety and tolerability. Research into vagus nerve–targeted neuromodulation also suggests benefits through modulation of pain pathways, reduced nervous system sensitivity and improved autonomic balance.
Although vestibular migraine is less extensively studied than other migraine types, emerging evidence and clinical experience indicate that neuromodulation may help by calming central sensitisation and supporting nervous system regulation including the work with Dr Beh. Overall, neuromodulation devices are considered safe, non-invasive tools that may be a helpful adjunct within a holistic migraine and nervous system support plan.
You can read clinical trails here
How Can I Support You as a Naturopath & Nutritional Therapist?
Supporting the nervous system - particularly in complex areas such as migraine, chronic stress, pain, digestion and sleep - rarely involves just one tool or one quick fix. For most people, meaningful change comes from understanding their unique picture and building a plan that supports the body from multiple angles.
As a naturopath and nutritional therapist, I take a holistic, personalised approach. Neuromodulation devices can form one part of that support, but they work best when integrated alongside nutrition, lifestyle, nervous system regulation and, where appropriate, deeper investigative work.
I offer several ways to work with me, depending on where you are on your health journey.
A Supportive Starting Point: My Migraine Management Self-Paced Course
If migraine or nervous system sensitivity is a key concern for you, my Migraine Management: A Holistic Guide to Managing Migraines self-paced course is a great place to start.
This course has been designed as an accessible and cost-effective option, allowing you to work through evidence-based education and practical strategies at your own pace over 12 months. It helps you understand:
Migraines, their role and migraine assessment tools with my migraine management wheel and how to raise your migraine threshold, how to build your migraine toolkit and lots more.
The role of nutrition, diet, hydration & lifestyle can interact on migraine with detailed information, support with implementation guides and handouts and over 100 migraine friendly recipes for support.
The Role of your nervous system and how to supporting and how to support this in many ways and includes meditation, yoga, breath work and nervous system support classes as well as the role of neuromodulation devices.
The role of inflammation, the gut, the nervous system, hormones, perimenopause, food intolerance, exervise, stress, and so much more!
Many people start here to build strong foundations with the reassurance that 1:1 support can be added at any time if deeper guidance, support, functional medicine testing options, diet & supplement reviews if and as you need them or perhaps if you would like a 1:1 consultation or roadmap written and personalised for you at any time.
You can find out more here
1:1 Consultations & Support Packages
For those who feel they would like a direct and more personalised approach or those dealing with a more complex, chronic or long-standing picture - I also offer 1:1 consultations and structured support packages.
Working together allows us to explore:
Your full health history and symptom patterns that are unique to you
Diet, Nutrition and lifestyle diary review
A personalised road map written and personalised to your needs with follow up and support as we work
Personalised supplementation and naturopathic tool support
Ongoing guidance, adjustments and accountability
This option is ideal if you’d like a bespoke, hands-on approach with professional support throughout. You can find out more HERE
Functional Medicine Testing for Deeper Insight
In some cases, symptoms such as migraine, anxiety, poor sleep, digestive issues or pain are driven by underlying imbalances that are not always obvious on standard tests.
I offer a range of functional medicine testing options to help uncover potential contributors, including:
Hormonal imbalances
Gut and microbiome dysfunction
Nutrient insufficiencies
Metabolic and nervous system stress
Testing allows us to move from guesswork to clarity, supporting a more targeted and effective plan. You can find out more HERE
Ongoing Support: Shopping & Resources
If you’re exploring neuromodulation devices or other supportive tools, you can visit my Shopping & Resources page for:
Practitioner-recommended products
Trusted devices and supplements
Exclusive discount codes
Resources to support your nervous system and overall wellbeing
This page is designed to help you continue your journey with confidence and informed choices.
I am a Naturopath & Nutritional Therapist offering one-to-one, in-person, or online consultations.
My Specialist areas include:
🥑 Migraines & Headaches
🥦 Female Hormonal Health & Menopause
🫐 Digestive, Gut Health & Food Intolerance
🍋 Eczema, Acne & Skin Health
🍉 Energy & Vitality (including fibromyalgia & chronic conditions)
Naturopathic Nutrition's holistic approach to health & wellness recognises the interconnection between diet, nutrition, lifestyle & overall wellbeing to support the body's natural healing processes & provide necessary nutrients to help you optimise your health, & feel your best!
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