Dialed In Health

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...

Most physical therapy stops at "pain gone." That's also where the next round of pain quietly starts to build. In this episode, Nathan LeMaster, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, founder of Empower U in Sioux Falls (with locations in Omaha, NE and Austin, TX) walks through what performance physical therapy actually is, why he walked away from the insurance based model, what dry needling does that standard PT doe...

Most men in midlife think the answer is TRT, peptides, or a GLP 1. The answer is usually protein, sleep, strength training, and real food. In that order. In this episode, host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Dr. Joe Moen, DC, CCSP, owner of Origin Health, Origin Strength, and Origin Nutrition in Sioux Falls, SD. Joe is a certified chiropractic sports physician with extra training in movement and nu...

Most healthcare waits for people to walk in the door. Midwest Street Medicine walks out to find them. In this episode, host Melissa Goodwin spends a morning in the field with Dr. Melissa Dittberner, PhD, executive director and co founder of Midwest Street Medicine, and Dr. Bob Santella, MD, a retired physician who volunteers two days a week. The team brings medical care, mental health support, and...

Is ChatGPT a real therapist? Can AI replace therapy? Is it safe to use ChatGPT for mental health? Millions of people are asking these questions — and increasingly, they're asking ChatGPT itself. Over 230 million people ask ChatGPT health questions every week, and a growing number have decided AI is their therapist. Sioux Falls clinical therapist Paula Lain, LPC sees clients walk into her office "w...

By the time the average woman walks out the door in the morning, she has already applied 150 different chemicals to her body. Most of them are talking to her hormones. In this episode, Jessica Morrell, NP, owner of Radiant Health and Hormone Therapy in Sioux Falls, SD, sits down with Melissa Goodwin to break down what endocrine disruptors actually are, where they are hiding in your house, and why...

When families call Kore Cares, it is usually because something has already happened. A fall. A stroke. A hospital stay. Gabrielle Hoing spent more than two decades in geriatric care and helped build 11 private duty agencies across 8 states before founding Kore Cares in South Dakota 10 years ago. In this episode, Gabrielle answers the exact questions adult children ask when they are figuring out wh...

Wellness is not just physical. Your nervous system, your energy, and the way you breathe are running the show under everything else. In this episode of Dialed In Health, Melissa Goodwin sits down at Alchemy House in Sioux Falls with founders Megan Randall and Jillian Gunlicks to talk about what actually happens when your body gets stuck in fight or flight, why conventional care often misses the en...

Most of us filter our drinking water and never think twice about the shower. But your skin and lungs absorb chlorine, chloramines, and disinfection byproducts every time you turn on the hot water — and for many municipalities, that's just the beginning. In this episode, Alyssa sits down with the team at Kinetico to talk about what's actually in our tap water, why Sioux Falls shut down 21 wells in...

What if the reason you can't lose weight has nothing to do with your diet? Dr. Jessica Pearson is a physician, Air Force veteran, and functional medicine provider at Prairie Roots Health in Sioux Falls. In this episode, she breaks down why cortisol is the hormone most people overlook and why addressing it can change everything from belly fat to energy to hormone balance. In this episode: what cort...

Most women will see six providers before they get a real hormone diagnosis. Mary Jordan, NP, saw five herself before figuring it out on her own. In this episode, Mary Jordan from Encompass Wellness in Sioux Falls, SD sits down with Melissa Goodwin to break down what most providers miss when it comes to hormone health for women and men. Mary spent 12 years in the ICU watching labs keep patients ali...

Peptides are everywhere right now. But most of what people are reading comes from influencers with discount codes, not from the practitioners who actually prescribe them. Ashley Wagner is a nurse practitioner and the owner of Vitalis MVMT in Harrisburg, South Dakota. She answers the questions people are actually searching: what peptides are, how they work, what they are being used for, what the ri...

Most people hire a birth doula the first time because they want support. Most partners call for one a second time because they saw what it did.   Kelsie Thomas and Renee Forred of Transitions Doula Services in Sioux Falls join Melissa Goodwin to answer the questions people are actually searching: what a doula does, how they train, what Medicaid covers in South Dakota, and what happens when a doula...

What happens when a US Marine and professional MMA fighter with 22 surgeries finally admits he needs help? Clark Bevens served in the Marine Corps from 1993 to 2001, fought 24 professional fights, won world titles in jiu jitsu, and spent decades ignoring injuries because asking for help felt like weakness. After COVID forced him to step back from running a major health club organization, the pain...