The Inflammation Code

Most women have felt it. You bring your symptoms to a doctor, you leave without real answers, and somewhere between the waiting room and your car, you start wondering if you are the problem. You are not. In this episode of The Inflammation Code Podcast, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with Meghan Rabbitt, award-winning health journalist and author of The New Rules of Women's Health, written for Maria...

Summer can quietly dismantle the health routine you worked so hard to build. Travel, heat, later nights, celebrations, and disrupted rhythms all ask more of your body than regular life does. In this solo episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta explains why summer can increase inflammation through the Ayurvedic lens of Pitta season and Vata disruption from travel. She shares the three priorities that help prote...

Could Hashimoto’s be the missing root cause behind your thyroid symptoms? If you have been told your thyroid labs are “fine,” or you are taking thyroid medication but still feel exhausted, foggy, inflamed, or not like yourself, this conversation will help you understand what may be happening underneath the surface. Hashimoto’s is not just a thyroid problem. It is an immune system condition that ca...

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the last couple of years, you’ve heard about Ozempic and GLP-1 drugs. You’ve seen the before-and-afters. Maybe a friend asked if you should try it too. And if you’re like most of the women Dr. Shivani works with, you may feel confused. The results look real, but something feels off. Are we treating a symptom? Are we missing something deeper? In this epi...

You've tried supplement after supplement. You followed the trends, bought what the influencers recommended, spent real money on the latest ingredients, and still felt nothing change. If that sounds familiar, it's not because natural remedies don't work. It's because many of the products built around them were built for the market, not for you. In this solo episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta draws on her P...

If you've been eating well, exercising consistently, and still watching your body change in ways that don't make sense, this episode is for you. Karen Martel is a Certified Hormone Specialist, Certified Thyroid Specialist, and host of the globally ranked Hormone Solution Podcast. She went through early menopause at 42, rebuilt her health twice, and has spent the last decade helping women understan...

Have you been told your thyroid is normal, but you are still gaining weight, losing hair, exhausted by 3 PM, and living in a fog? If you have done everything right, clean eating, consistent exercise, and supplements, and nothing is working, this episode may finally give you the answer you have been looking for. It is not you. It is your thyroid. In this episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with Dr...

You know what you need to do. You have the supplements on the counter. You set the alarms. You started strong. And then, somewhere around week two, it all fell apart. Not because you are lazy. Not because you do not care about your health. But because the protocol was asking more of you than your real life could give. I know because that was me. This past fall, I could not follow my own protocol....

Are you eating clean, managing your stress, doing everything right and still gaining weight, snapping at everyone you love, and lying awake at 3 a.m. wondering what happened to you? You are not imagining this. And you are not broken. In this episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with the beloved Dr. Anna Cabeca, OB-GYN, hormone specialist, and creator of Mighty Maca Plus and the Magic Menopause pro...

What if the system designed to protect your health was never actually built to make you well? Dr. Shivani Gupta has spent 25 years studying why the body gets sick and more importantly, how it heals. What she discovered along the way changed everything about how she practices, how she lives, and how she thinks about the relationship between patient and doctor. In this deeply personal solo episode,...

Most of us are walking around with underpowered cells and we don't even know it. In this episode, Dr. Shivani welcomes back Caroline Alan, founder of Beam Minerals and author of The Mineral Reset, for a conversation that will completely change how you think about your energy, your sleep, and your health. Caroline breaks down why your body needs a full spectrum of 18-22 minerals in the right ratios...

Have you ever done everything right, eating clean, exercising, managing stress and still felt like your body was quietly unraveling?  In this episode, Dr. Shivani sits down with Cynthia Thurlow, nurse practitioner, two-time TEDx speaker, and author of the brand-new book The Menopause Gut, for one of the most important conversations in women's health: what happens to the gut during perimenopau...

Most of us have been taught to treat our health like a checklist. Take the probiotic. Go to the gym. Sleep more. Reduce stress. Check, check, check. But what if the checklist itself is the problem? Not because those things aren't good, they are, but because a list of isolated actions is not the same as a system that works together. Dr. Shivani Gupta has spent decades living between two healing wor...

What if the reason you feel overwhelmed… isn’t because you’re doing too little but because you’ve been living in “go mode” for too long? In this conversation, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with Dr. Melissa Sonners, a nervous system guide, brainwave educator, and author of The Connection Code to unpack a truth most high-achieving women aren’t told: sometimes it’s not about doing more, it’s about fina...

Are you eating clean, working out consistently, and still gaining weight — especially around your middle? You're not broken, lazy, or imagining things. Your metabolism is inflamed. In this solo episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta breaks down the real science behind midlife weight gain and why the tired advice to "eat less and move more" can actually make things worse. Backed by a landmark January 2026 stud...

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Nicole Rothman, a functional medicine practitioner known for her whole-body approach to women’s health. We explore a refreshing, empowering message: menopause isn’t a cliff and HRT isn’t the only path. We talk about being pro-aging (not anti-aging), why some women don’t tolerate hormones well, and how detox, inflammation, stress physiology, and cellular health ca...

You wake up with a flat stomach… but by the end of the day, you feel bloated, uncomfortable, and wondering what went wrong. If you’ve tried eliminating foods, taking probiotics, or “eating clean” and the bloating still shows up, your body may be sending you a deeper signal. In this solo episode of The Inflammation Code Podcast, Dr. Shivani Gupta explores why bloating is often one of the earliest w...

In this episode of The Inflammation Code, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with Dr. Sonya Jensen, naturopathic doctor and women’s health expert, to explore the deeper roots of hormonal imbalance through the lens of identity, boundaries, nervous system regulation, and relational stress. Dr. Jensen shares how many women experience hormone symptoms as “hormonal chaos,” but what’s often happening underneat...

In this solo episode of The Inflammation Code, I introduce a powerful metaphor that can completely shift how you see your health: the iceberg effect. Most of what we experience — joint pain, fatigue, brain fog, bloating, anxiety, stubborn weight gain — is just the tip of the iceberg. What lies beneath the surface? Chronic, systemic inflammation. In this episode, we go below the waterline and explo...

In this episode, I’m joined by Christy Winner- a passionate low-tox lifestyle educator who’s helping women reduce their total toxic burden so their hormones, mitochondria, and inflammation levels can finally stabilize. If you’ve been doing all the right things - lifting weights, eating clean, focusing on protein, even trying HRT but still feel like your body is stuck… this conversation might revea...

Have you ever slept 7–9 hours… and still woken up bone-tired —like there’s a weight on your chest and your energy is gone before the day even starts? In this solo episode, I break down the kind of exhaustion that doesn’t resolve with more rest—because it’s often not a sleep problem. It’s an inflammation problem. You’ll hear about my personal story from 2016 (building Fusionary Formulas on the road...

Perimenopause and menopause don’t mean your body is “failing”—they’re often your body asking for a new kind of support . In this episode, I’m joined by two trusted South Florida wellness leaders: Rebecca Kastin (functional nutrition + mind-body eating coach) and Heather Marcus Berg (yoga + meditation + Buteyko breathwork instructor). Together, we unpack what’s really happening in midlife—and the s...

Today is a celebration— The Inflammation Code is officially out. In this special “flip-the-script” episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta’s mentor and friend Kiran Krishnan interviews her about the book, the science behind turmeric and inflammation, and the deeper Ayurvedic framework that makes healing feel personal and doable. Together they explore elemental design (Vata, Pitta, Kapha) , the role of circadia...

Welcome to the next chapter. In this first episode of The Inflammation Code , Dr. Shivani Gupta shares why the podcast is evolving from Fusionary Health into a focused space for decoding inflammation as a message , not a malfunction. You’ll learn why “more information” isn’t the answer when you feel off, how symptoms often share a common thread, and why healing works best through small, steady rit...

What if the secret to lasting weight loss, energy, and longevity isn’t doing more but simplifying everything? In this week's episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with Dr. Anthony Balduzzi, founder of the Fit Father Project and Fit Mother Project, to cut through the noise of modern health trends. Dr. Anthony is a naturopathic doctor, former national champion bodybuilder, and UPenn-trained expert in...