Nerva: Brain-Gut Therapy

Mindset Health

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About this app

Fix the miscommunication between your gut and brain. Designed for people living with IBS, functional dyspepsia (FD), GERD, bloating symptoms, and other gut–brain conditions — as well as those seeking additional support alongside IBD care — Nerva is a personalized brain–gut therapy program that supports symptom management through daily sessions, practical tools, and structured guidance.

Target the root cause

Many people spend years cutting out foods in an effort to calm their gut - a difficult path that can miss what’s really driving symptoms. In disorders of gut–brain interaction (DGBIs), the root cause is gut–brain hypersensitivity.

After a trigger like illness, antibiotics, or prolonged stress, the nerves in the gut can become over-reactive. Even once the gut tissue heals, the nervous system may keep the alarm turned up. Normal digestion, gas, or movement are then misread as danger - leading to pain, bloating, reflux, urgency, constipation, or diarrhea.

Diets and medications can reduce symptoms temporarily, but they don’t retrain this signaling system. That’s why symptoms often return or shift over time.

Lasting relief means calming the nervous system and restoring healthy gut–brain communication - where the symptoms actually start.

How Nerva helps

Nerva is a structured brain–gut therapy program designed to physically retrain the gut–brain axis. Nerva works on the nervous system to:

- Reduce gut nerve hypersensitivity
- Calm threat signaling between the gut and brain
- Normalize digestive sensation and motility over time

Tailored to you

No two guts are the same. Nerva adapts your program to your symptoms, triggers, and progress - using AI to adjust the coaching and guidance as you go. The sessions, the tools you receive, and the coaching you follow are all shaped around your experience.

Evidence-based

Unlike most apps, Nerva is built on clinical research. In a randomized controlled trial at Monash University, Nerva helped 81% of people significantly manage their gastrointestinal symptoms. Since then, more than 300,000 people have used Nerva, and over 11,000 healthcare providers recommend it.

Features of Nerva

- Daily 15-minute sessions designed to retrain brain-gut miscommunication
- Flare-up tools for pain, bloating, constipation, reflux and diarrhea
- Long-term maintenance plan to keep symptoms under control after the program
- AI personalization to tailor the program to your triggers and progress

Who is the team behind Nerva?

Nerva was built by Dr. Simone Peters, GI psychophysiologist, together with clinicians, dietitians, and researchers. Many of us live with gut conditions ourselves. We built Nerva to target the root cause - the miscommunication between the gut and brain.

Member stories

“Nerva has really worked for me. I’ve been using the app for several months now, and I’ve noticed that I’m experiencing less negative instances with my stomach. I would highly recommend to anyone - absolutely worth the subscription”

”Amazing, so glad I was referred towards using this app. sceptical at 1st, but actually look forward to listening to it every morning. calms my whole body down”

Disclaimer

Nerva is a general well-being app designed to help people live well with a diagnosed disorder of the gut-brain interaction (DGBI). It does not replace professional medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. Always follow your healthcare provider’s advice. If you have thoughts of harming yourself or others, call your local emergency number right away. For more information, please see our Terms and Conditions of Use: [https://www.mindsethealth.com/terms-conditions-nerva-app](https://www.mindsethealth.com/terms-conditions-nerva-app)

Ratings and reviews

Pros: Kinda like guided meditation, relaxing. Based on research. Cons: I don't know if it's effective, there's only a 7 day free trial though it takes a month+ to find out if it works for you, and then it's $200 for a year as the only payment plan. If there was a monthly payment plan or a longer trial I would probably try it out. Only 1 session a day is unlocked if you go into the app and start the session, so if you miss a day during your free trial, or start one after midnight, you're SOL.

This app is great overall and has done a lot for me. However, there are two reasons why it isn't 5 stars for me: 1. The repetitiveness and lack of customizability of the "warm-up" part of the session. I personally don't find the "Release" or "Sense" warm-ups nearly as relaxing as "Flow", yet there is no ability to customize. 2. The cost and subscription model. Nerva is advertised as a 6 week program, but they only offer a $199/year annual subscription after the one week trial.

I found it very helpful. A lot of my symptoms are reduced. However, the price is too much. Having had it for a full year, there hasn't been a major update to make it more user friendly. No ability to speed up the reading nor no ability to select the relaxation part of the meditation. There's especially no ability to pay weekly or monthly. It's wild that the app costs this much just for an hand full of meditation recordings.

What’s new

We’ve refreshed the Nerva home screen to make your experience feel calmer and easier to navigate. Get quicker access to your daily session, clearer progress visibility, and simpler navigation - with the same program you know and trust.