Healing Hormones

Today’s guest on Healing Hormones is Dr. Kayla Borchers. She is a physical therapist, prenatal and postpartum corrective exercise specialist, board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist, and a certified yoga teacher with a passion for helping active families thrive. She’s also here in Columbus, Ohio, which was such an exciting discovery!

We talk about her new boutique pelvic floor physical therapy practice, work/life/parenting ba...

Today, I am joined by Mel Angus from Tempdrop. She’s a certified fertility awareness educator and heads the brand’s customer support and user experience department. Tempdrop is basically the easiest way to track your basal body temperature – I recommend it to all of my clients. Don’t worry, we get into how, why, and all the techy details in this one. And if you’re interested in getting your own Tempdrop device, you can visit tempdr...

Today on the show, I am talking to Dr. Alyssa Dweck, who is a practicing gynecologist and the chief medical officer of Bonafide Womens Health Supplements. An OB GYN for over twenty-five years with a special interest in menopausal health and training in female sexual health, she’s been all over TV and magazines as a top expert in her field.

We talk a lot about low estrogen symptoms – what if you're experiencing these symptoms in your...

Emily Pereira is an international retreat leader, yoga teacher, and women's coach who has, after 13 years of intensive and extensive spiritual training and exploration, amassed a treasure trove of astonishing wisdom practices – and a memoir that details it all.

She's used her vast life and health experiences – from a painful drawn out diagnosis, to a surprise breakup, revealing plant medicine ceremonies, a deep dive into cellular re...

Today’s guest on Healing Hormones is Avanti Kumar-Singh, MD, a former ER doctor turned ayurvedic healer. Finding the ancient Indian medical practice after – you guessed it – experiencing her own health and wellness issues that traditional medicine could not address in a way that relieved her symptoms, she knew there had to be a better way.

Ayurveda relies on a natural approach to physical and mental health; getting closer to nature ...

Today’s guest is Tamar Samuels, a registered Dietitian Nutritionist, National Board Certified Health Coach, and the co-founder of Culina Health. In this episode, we talk a lot about how, when you're trying to heal the root cause of what's going on, whether it's gut issues, hormone health, thyroid disorders – really, whatever it is – it can cause us to have a lot of disordered eating tendencies and black-and-white thinking that actu...

Today on the show, I am talking to Courtney Babilya, who is a fitness nurse and mom of two on a mission to help women find their way out of diet culture, and back into their power, through sustainable fitness and cyclical living.

We talk about her difficult rock bottom, complicated further by a misdiagnosis of bipolar syndrome and some challenging reactions to the medications she was prescribed. Constantly fighting her own body with...

Does this sound like you? You’re considering ditching birth control and finally starting Fertility Awareness Method … but you’re feeling totally stuck.

On one hand, you’re so nervous to stop the pill because you’ve been on it more years than you can count, and on the other hand, you’re terrified of getting pregnant. It feels so paralyzing! I hear these fears a lot and you’re absolutely not alone.

The best way to ease the fear of tran...

Many women who are looking towards natural birth control (aka Fertility Awareness Method) are curious about the rise in popularity of wearable thermometers. With a variety of temperature tracking devices out there, it poses the question: how do these new technologies compare in both ease and accuracy?

These are important questions to ask when choosing a thermometer for natural birth control accuracy! Recently, there have been two bi...

We’ve all heard it online and all over social media – that you can only get pregnant during a five or six day window each month, aligning with the presence of your more fertile cervical mucus.

But, what if your CM is here to party most of the month? Especially for those of us practicing Fertility Awareness Method (FAM), the risks in not knowing for sure are huge. 

In this solo episode, I break down this issue, why such black-and...

My guest today, Kitty Blomfeld, is just like so many of us, having gone through a cycle of dieting, binging, and doing things she thought were good for her body (like heavily restrictive practices), but were actively hurting it. Her health and wellness travels brought her to weight training, and then everything changed.

Through regimented eating and training routines, Kitty got truly healthy. Now, she shares her learnings through Nu...

Today’s well-informed guest on Healing Hormones is Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC (!). She is the founder and CEO of The Integrative Women's Health Institute and the author of Outsmart Endometriosis. 

Jessica’s worked with women on their chronic pelvic pain for more than twenty years, she facilitates educational programs for women health professionals in more than 60 countries globally, and leads virtual wellness progr...

Through her work as a scientist, award-winning skincare formulator, and acne expert – and her amazing blog, Honesty For Your Skin – Cheryl Woodman helps women who've tried everything under the sun to treat their acne and still feel stuck at rock bottom. 

She joins the show today to teach us about skin care that leads to healthy, happy, clear skin you can feel comfortable and confident in. Who doesn't want that?

We break down the...

My guest today, Lahana Vigliano, is the CEO of Nuvitru Wellness and a board-certified and holistic clinical nutritionist in Austin, TX. She’s here to answer all of our questions about stress – where does it come from, how can we reduce it, and what is it really doing in our bodies?

She also asks some of her own – teaching us to question our food choices, what’s actually in your control, and what isn’t? It’s time to get honest with o...

Today, we’re talking about the Copper IUD. There are so many questions about this hormone-free birth control product. And luckily, there’s tons of research on it. Let’s talk about how it's used, risks, and of course, effectiveness. How long does it stay in? How does it affect our FAM practice? And, isn’t copper toxic? 

This episode isn't intended to scare anybody from the Copper IUD. At the end of the day you should feel empowe...

Maddie Miles is a fellow podcaster in the hormone space, hosting “peace. love. hormones. By The Maddie Miles” since 2020. She joins the show today to talk about her personal health journey battling the negative effects of antibiotics, birth control pills, lyme disease, and anorexia. 

In and out of programs for eight long years, we talk about Maddie’s eventual wakeup call experience overseas which flipped the switch in her mind ...

Cassy Joy Garcia is a New York Times bestselling author and the creative force behind popular wellness editorial site, Fed + Fit. Her mission is to make cooking more manageable, especially for moms – which is why I am personally so excited to share this one with you.

Once she had her first child, Cassy was looking for ways to still eat healthy but take out some of the work from cooking. This led her to develop the “cook once” method...

My amazing guest today, Noelle Tarr, is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), an NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer, author, and all-around badass. She’s worked in the industry for more than seventeen years and is open to admitting she’s made every mistake in the book – which is why she’s so dedicated to helping others on their body and overall wellness journeys. 

We talk about body image, its role in how we grow up thinking o...

By now, you’ve heard of the gut biome and how critical those little bacteria are in supporting your overall wellbeing. Well, today, Dr. Mark Burhenne joins me to dive into even further detail with one specific, important, and very famous, part of our digestive system – our mouth!

It’s about so much more than bad breath and coffee stains, although we cover the importance of the small stuff too. The truth is that oral health is direct...