Dialed In Health

Stuck in survival mode? Your body has to feel safe first. Spiritual director Jada Dobesh shares why, and a 30 second reset you can do anywhere. Jada Dobesh is a certified spiritual director and the owner of Selah Space, a holistic wellness cooperative for women in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Host Melissa Goodwin asks what a spiritual healer actually does, why so many high functioning women live in...

Is your high protein food really high protein? Certified nutrition coach Sydney St Clair shares a 10 second label test: drop the last digit off the calories. If the grams of protein match or beat it, it is high protein. Sydney owns Let's Reach New Heights Nutrition (LRNH Nutrition) in Wagner, South Dakota. Host Melissa Goodwin asks what she sees in her clients every week: women under eating, prote...

Peripheral neuropathy: here are the five things Dr. Jordan Stenzel, DC tells people to do at home every day. Movement, food, e-stem, PEMF and red light therapy, in that order. The first neuropathy episode passed 74,000 views and drew more than 200 comments. Almost all of them said the same thing. Slower. Simpler. Tell me what to do, what to take and how. Dr. Stenzel came back to Dialed In Health w...

A tight pelvic floor is not a weak one. If yours is already tight, a hundred more Kegels can make your symptoms worse. Ember Smith, PT, DPT of Well Balanced Physical Therapy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota was a gymnast who leaked through high school and never told anyone. She now treats the problem she had. Host Melissa Goodwin asks what the pelvic floor is, whether Kegels work, how to tell tight fr...

MTHFR is not a disease. It is a gene variant that slows your methylation cycle, and 40 to 50 percent of people carry a copy of it. Kristine Cassar, owner of BeeWell Functional Wellness in The Woodlands, Texas, carries two copies. So does her daughter. Host Melissa Goodwin asks the questions people actually search: what MTHFR stands for, what the variant does to folate and B12, whether it explains...

Ketamine is the only psychedelic available nationwide by prescription, and Jerry Cook explains exactly what a session feels like, start to finish. Jerry Cook is a trained psychedelic journey guide and integration consultant and the owner of Metanoia Journey Consulting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is not a prescriber. Ketamine is prescribed and administered through licensed medical partners aft...

Direct primary care costs $80 a month for adults and $60 for children at Prairie Roots Health in Sioux Falls, and it buys unlimited visits, one-hour appointments, and your provider's cell number. Sam Niewenhuis is a family nurse practitioner and founder of Prairie Roots Health, a direct primary care clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Host Melissa Goodwin asks him what people type into Google bef...

Why can't you sleep? Dr. Jerome Puryear, MD, an obesity medicine physician who diagnosed his own sleep apnea, explains what is actually going wrong at night and how to fix it no matter what shift you work. Dr. Jerome Puryear, MD, Dipl. ABOM, is an obesity medicine physician and interventional radiologist who spent years surviving night call before a doctor told him he was overweight and pre-diabet...

Can AirPods work as hearing aids? Only barely. They top out around 25 decibels, which fits a mild loss and nothing past it. Audiologist Dr. Mandy Rounseville-Norgaard, owner of Sioux Falls Audiology Associates in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, joins host Melissa Goodwin to answer the question people are actually searching: can you turn AirPods into hearing aids, and should you? She wears hearing aids...

What is actually in your THC or functional drink? Hightail founder Anna Baskin decodes THC, CBD, CBG, adaptogens, and how to drink less without giving up the ritual. Host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Anna Baskin, founder of Hightail (siphightail.com), a Chicago based line of low dose functional and hemp THC beverages, for a plain English label reader's guide to a category that got confusing on p...

A 3D nipple and areola tattoo is the final step of breast reconstruction, and under a 1998 federal law your insurance often has to cover it. Almost no one tells women it exists. Host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Krissy Dykhouse, a Registered Nurse and Certified Paramedical and Cosmetic Tattoo Artist and the owner of Rise Skin Studio in Brandon, South Dakota. After 15 years in hospital nursing, K...

Your skincare might not be the problem. The way you layer it is. Esthetician Kaila Meier, owner of KJ Relaxin Medical Spa in Sioux Falls, explains the correct order to apply your skincare, what medical grade really means, and the trends worth skipping. On this episode of Dialed In Health, host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Kaila Meier, owner and lead esthetician of KJ Relaxin Medical Spa. Kaila h...

Metabolic health is how well your body turns food into steady energy, and in midlife it shifts when estrogen drops. Functional medicine nurse practitioner Jessica Morrell, CNP, IFMCP, MSN, founder of Radiant Health and Hormone Therapy in Sioux Falls, explains what metabolic health actually is, the numbers that measure it, and why belly fat shows up after 40, in plain terms anyone can use. Host Mel...

POTS is not anxiety, and salt is not the fix. If you stand up and your heart takes off while every scan comes back normal, this episode names what is happening. Host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Dr. Cooper Dykstra, DC, FIBFN-FN, CFMP, founder of Brain Health and Chiropractic in Sioux Falls and a Fellow of the International Board of Functional Neurology. He has worked with more than 1,000 complex...

What is spiritual health? It is the condition of your inner life, and two pastors say it shapes your mental health, your relationships, and your whole wellbeing. In this episode, Rev. Sara Nelson, Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls, SD, and Pastor Brandon Dunham of Harrisburg United Methodist Church join host Melissa Goodwin for a plain language conversation about the di...

Does menopause cause hearing loss — and can untreated hearing loss raise your risk of dementia? Audiologist Dr. Mandy Rounseville-Norgaard, who has worn hearing aids since age 3, says yes to both, and almost no one is connecting the dots. On this episode of Dialed In Health, host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Dr. Mandy at Audiology Associates in Sioux Falls, South Dakota (she also practices in Mi...

You don't need motivation to work out. You need discipline. Megan and Dirk Kool of Mega Strong Fitness explain why everybody wants it until the alarm goes off, and what actually keeps people training for years.   Around 90% of people who join a gym quit within 90 days. Megan Kool started Mega Strong Fitness eight years ago training a handful of women in her living room. Today she and her husband D...

You do not have to hit rock bottom to get sober. Jon Sommervold runs a 30 night, 12 step immersion program in Sioux Falls with roughly a 50 percent success rate, when the national average is closer to 10 percent. In this episode he explains how recovery actually starts. Jon Sommervold is the Executive Director of Tallgrass Recovery and Sober Living Homes in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He has been s...

Functional fitness over 40 is training your body for how you actually live, not how a 25-year-old lifts. Will Sturgeon explains why. Will Sturgeon is the owner of MB (Mind Body) Wellness in Sioux Falls, SD, a licensed massage therapist and exercise scientist who built his entire practice around one person: the business owner over 40 who has been sitting for ten hours a day and is starting to feel...

Pregnancy and the year after birth change your brain more than any time since puberty. Postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, intrusive thoughts, and perinatal psychosis are biological, not a sign that something is wrong with you. Allison Steinwand, a licensed perinatal counselor in Sioux Falls, explains what is actually happening and what real help looks like. On this episode of Dialed In Health, h...

Standing in front of a supplement wall, googling reviews on your phone? Here is what to actually take daily and the magnesium mistake almost everyone makes. After 55 years running Wayne & Mary's Nutrition Center , Andrew & Rosanne Reinartz walk through the 5 supplements most adults need every day, why magnesium glycinate beats magnesium oxide, the truth about whether the FDA regulates supplements,...

You have been Googling the wrong question. "Are facials worth it" is the wrong question. The right one is the one almost nobody asks: when is a facial more than a facial? Two people can lay down for the same treatment and walk out with completely different skin. The machine is not the difference. The serum is not the difference. Your nervous system is the difference. Sheri Roelfsema has owned Radi...

If you wake up at 3 a.m. with burning feet, if your legs do not answer when you stand up, if a doctor handed you a script for gabapentin and told you this is just diabetic neuropathy and there is nothing more to do, this episode is for you. Dr. Jordan Stenzel, DC is the founder of Stenzel Chiropractic Clinic in Mapleton and Mankato, Minnesota. He helps people regrow nerves using a clinical framewo...

I can hear, I just can't understand." If that sentence sounds familiar, this episode is for you. Most people walk into an audiology clinic thinking hearing care is about hearing aids. Melissa Baker and Dr. Libby Benson of Baker Audiology in Sioux Falls explain why hearing is a brain, body, and timing problem, and why women in their twenties, thirties, and pregnancy years are some of the most under...

Your GLP-1 stopped working, your labs came back "fine," and your body still feels like it is fighting you. Jennifer Oknin, CIHP, explains why and what to do about it. In Episode 15 of Dialed In Health, Melissa Goodwin sits down with Jennifer Oknin, a Certified Integrative Health Practitioner and the founder of The Modern Midlife Woman, for a precision health conversation built for women 40 to 60 w...