DrTalks Podcast

Mandy Patterson, ND, explains how nutrigenomics can personalize thyroid nutrition, supplementation, detox support, and hormone care. Mandy Patterson, ND, explores how nutrigenomics can help personalize thyroid care by examining how genetic variations influence nutrient needs, detoxification, inflammation, and hormone function. She discusses functional testing, supplementation, diet, toxins, and li...

Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD explains how habit change, mindful eating, and supportive routines can help break patterns of binge eating. Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD, explores the habits, emotions, and thought patterns that can contribute to binge eating. Drawing from both her clinical experience and personal history, she discusses time-restricted eating, mindful eating, accountability, community support, bal...

Kara Fitzgerald, ND, IFMCP, explains how nutrition, exercise, sleep, and stress can influence epigenetics and potentially slow biological aging. Kara Fitzgerald, ND, IFMCP, explores how epigenetics may help explain why biological age can differ from chronological age. She shares findings from her research on diet and lifestyle interventions, including nutrient-dense foods, exercise, sleep, stress...

Gary Taubes challenges long-held nutrition beliefs and explains how refined carbohydrates, insulin, obesity, and diabetes may shape longevity. Gary Taubes examines how nutrition science developed some of its most influential ideas about fat, calories, obesity, and diabetes. He explains why he believes refined carbohydrates, sugar, and insulin deserve greater attention, and he connects metabolic he...

Michael Kyle, MD, explains why obesity needs personalized treatment and how biology, cravings, appetite, and emotional eating can affect weight loss. Michael Kyle, MD, explains why obesity is a chronic, complex disease that often requires individualized treatment. He discusses different obesity phenotypes, how appetite signaling and emotional eating can influence weight, and why long-term support,...

Jesse Bielmann shares how he rebuilt his brain and body after TBI, seizures, organ failure, chronic pain, and a medically induced coma. Jesse Bielmann shares his journey from military service and traumatic brain injury to seizures, organ failure, chronic pain, memory problems, and a medically induced coma. Alongside Kent Holtorf, MD, he discusses how immune dysfunction, mitochondrial health, toxin...

Kashif Khan explains how genetic insights can personalize nutrition, hormones, lifestyle, and regenerative medicine for better health outcomes. Kashif Khan explores how understanding your genetic "instruction manual" can make regenerative medicine more personalized. He discusses genetic differences in metabolism, hormone pathways, detoxification, stress response, behavior, and neuroplasticity, sho...

Anne Truong, MD explores peptides, hormones, blood flow, pelvic health, and lifestyle strategies that may help restore sexual vitality in men and women. Anne Truong, MD, explains why sexual health can serve as an important window into overall health. She discusses erectile dysfunction, hormonal changes, endothelial function, pelvic floor strength, and lifestyle factors such as sleep, exercise, die...

Nafysa Parpia, ND explains how peptides may support immune regulation, tissue repair, and recovery in long COVID and complex chronic illness. Nafysa Parpia, ND explores why long COVID and complex chronic illness require highly individualized care. She describes two long COVID subtypes and explains how persistent inflammation, immune dysregulation, infections, toxins, vascular issues, and nervous s...

Judy Mikovits, PhD explores how cannabis, CBD, and hemp may influence inflammation, sleep, pain, immune signaling, and regenerative health. Judy Mikovits, PhD, explores the endocannabinoid system as a regulator of inflammation, immune activity, pain, sleep, and tissue repair. She discusses CBD, CBN, CBG, THC, and plant-based cannabinoid formulations, including their potential roles in neurological...

Dr. Wendy Myers explains how toxic metals may impair mitochondrial energy production and shares strategies for testing, detoxification, and recovery. Dr. Wendy Myers explores how toxic metals may interfere with mitochondrial energy production and contribute to chronic fatigue. She discusses common exposure sources, testing options, minerals, binders, natural chelators, sweating, and other detoxifi...

Dr. Mindy Pelz explains how fasting and time-restricted eating can help the body switch between sugar and fat burning to support metabolism and fat loss. Dr. Mindy Pelz explains metabolism through the body's two primary fuel systems: sugar and fat. She shares how fasting and a compressed eating window can help the body move between these energy sources more efficiently. She also outlines a 16:...

Dr. Jason Fung explains how fasting can support weight loss, type 2 diabetes reversal, autophagy, and longevity while preserving muscle function. Dr. Jason Fung explains why fasting is more than a calorie-cutting strategy. He discusses its effects on insulin, stored fat, type 2 diabetes, autophagy, and longevity, while addressing concerns about muscle loss. He also explores shorter and longer fast...

Dr. Robert Lufkin explains how nutrition, sleep, exercise, stress, and purpose can help reverse metabolic dysfunction and support lifelong health. Dr. Robert Lufkin shares how his own experience with gout, abnormal lipids, high blood pressure, and prediabetes changed his view of chronic disease and longevity. He explains how nutrition, sleep, exercise, stress management, mental stimulation, and pu...

Evan Brand reveals how gut infections, toxins, and mitochondrial dysfunction can drain your energy and what to address for lasting recovery. Evan Brand explains why lasting energy recovery often requires looking beyond supplements and biohacks. He explores how environmental toxins, mold, gut infections, mitochondrial dysfunction, and poor elimination can contribute to chronic fatigue, brain fog, a...

Beth Lambert explains how cumulative environmental stressors can affect children’s health and how families can reduce total load and build resilience. Beth Lambert explores the concept of total load, the cumulative impact of environmental, microbial, nutritional, and emotional stressors on children’s health. She discusses research examining how modern exposures may relate to chronic and developmen...

Cathleen King, DPT, explores how nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and brain retraining can help transform anxiety and panic. Cathleen King, DPT, shares her journey from years of anxiety, panic, insomnia, and chronic illness to developing a nervous system-based approach to healing. She explores how fear, trauma patterns, emotional suppression, and a lack of perceived safety can infl...

Kim Bruno, DC, CCN, explores hidden drivers of neuroinflammation, including microbes, toxins, gut dysfunction, and their links to mental health. Kim Bruno, DC, CCN, examines hidden contributors to neuroinflammation and their potential connections to mental health. She discusses how microbes, mycotoxins, environmental chemicals, gut dysfunction, and blood-brain barrier disruption can contribute to...

Michael Goran, PhD, explains how excess sugar affects kids’ health and shares practical ways parents can reduce added and liquid sugars. Michael Goran, PhD, explores how excess sugar can affect children’s health and development, from tooth decay to the broader effects of today’s high-sugar food environment. He distinguishes natural sugars in whole fruit from added and liquid sugars, discusses conc...

Dr. Siggie Cohen explains why tantrums happen, how parents can stay calm, set boundaries, and recognize when a child may need added support. Dr. Siggie Cohen explains tantrums as a developmental expression of young children’s limited ability to contain and communicate emotions. She shares how parents can respond with calm, simple language and firm safety boundaries, then reflect afterward to build...

Andy Mant explains how light timing can affect circadian rhythms, sleep, mood, and stress and shares practical ways to improve light hygiene. Light helps set the timing of sleep, wakefulness, alertness, and hormone release. Andy Mant joins Caroline Leaf, MS, PhD, to discuss how natural and artificial light may influence circadian rhythms, sleep, stress, anxiety, and mood. He shares practical ways...

Dr. Miles Nichols examines the gut-brain axis, the psychobiome, and research linking microbial imbalances with mood, stress, and brain health. The gut and brain communicate through more than digestion. In this solo talk, Miles Nichols explores the psychobiome and research connecting gut microbial patterns with mood, stress responses, and neurological function. He examines proposed pathways involvi...

Dr. Mariza Snyder explains how perimenopause can affect mood, sleep, focus, and identity and discusses personalized support for mental health. Perimenopause can feel like losing touch with the person you used to be. Mariza Snyder joins Sharon Stills, NMD, to discuss how hormonal changes may affect mood, sleep, focus, stress tolerance, and emotional resilience. She explains why symptoms differ from...

Shawn Stevenson shares three science-backed habits involving sleep, whole-food nutrition, and shared meals that can support mental health. Protecting your mental health often begins with the habits that shape everyday life. Shawn Stevenson joins Caroline Leaf, MS, PhD, to explain how sleep, nutrition, and meaningful connection may influence emotional resilience. He shares ways to create a screen c...

Michelle Sands, ND, explains how shifting hormones can affect mood, focus, and brain fog and discusses personalized support during midlife. Changes in mood, focus, sleep, and energy during midlife are often treated as separate problems. In this conversation, Michelle Sands, ND, explains how declining and fluctuating hormones may contribute to anxiety, irritability, brain fog, and other symptoms du...