Rachel Stephens Wellness

You have done the work. The clean eating, the calorie deficit, the workouts you keep showing up for, the thyroid medication and the dose adjustments. And the scale still will not move, or it climbs anyway, and you are starting to wonder if it is just you. In this episode, Rachel offers a different way to read that frustration. Sometimes it was never a willpower problem. When your thyroid is undera...

You went to your doctor because something was wrong. The fatigue, the cycles that turned unpredictable, the bloating, the anxiety that came out of nowhere. Then the labs came back normal, and you were left feeling confused, dismissed, and a little crazy. If the tests are normal, the problem must be you. Right? In this episode, Rachel explains why a normal lab result does not mean nothing is wrong....

You have done the work. More than one practitioner, the progesterone, the thyroid medication and the dose adjustments, the clean diet, the drawer of supplements. And you still feel tired, foggy, wired but tired, and not quite like yourself. In this episode, Rachel offers a different way to read that frustration. Sometimes the hormones were never the thing that was broken. Sometimes something under...

Most hypothyroidism in women is autoimmune. It is called Hashimoto's, and it means your immune system has started attacking your thyroid. Yet the antibodies that actually name it are rarely run, so women can be treated for years without anyone naming the real driver of how they feel. In this episode, Rachel breaks down what Hashimoto's really is, why a standard workup usually misses it, and what c...