TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z

Why do you wake up at 3 AM every night and struggle to fall back asleep? 

It's not insomnia the way you've been told — and it's not a character flaw. Your body is doing something specific in the early morning hours, on a clock.

If you fall asleep fine but snap awake at 3 or 4 AM with a racing mind — the to-do list, the worry, the thing you said years ago — this episode is for you. Dr. Z walks through what's act...

More than 80% of women in perimenopause and menopause never get adequate care — and the most common explanation for that number is almost entirely wrong.

The story we tell is that these women didn't advocate for themselves. That they stayed quiet, put everyone else first, didn't make the appointment. Dr. Z has sat across from thousands of these women over nearly 20 years in practice. Most of them did go. They made the appointm...

Most people have tried to change something about their health and watched it quietly fall apart by day nine — or day two. Not from a dramatic failure. Just a slow fade.

The common conclusion? You don't have enough discipline. You're not motivated enough. Something's wrong with you.

Dr. Z is here to correct the record.

In this episode, Dr. Z breaks down the actual mechanism behind follow-through — and it has nothing to do w...

Foundayo just got FDA approval. Which means a lot of women who never thought about a GLP-1 medication — because the needle was a hard no — are now thinking about one. The conversation in midlife wellness changed overnight.

In this solo episode, Dr. Z is not here to tell you whether to take a GLP-1. She's here to give you what she has not seen anyone else give you: a clinical, body-led framework for how to think about thi...

Energy healing, emotional blocks, and nervous system release — what if the reason nothing is working isn't a strategy problem? What if you are not stuck — you are just blocked?

In this conversation, Dr. Z sits down with Stu Weintraub — shamanic and Reiki energy healer, TEDx speaker, founder of Waves of Love Wellness, and the creator of the Center for Child-Safe Divorce. Stu's work lives at the exact intersection of...

Limiting beliefs, midlife reinvention, self-sabotage, and inherited fears — what if the voice telling you to stay small was never even yours to begin with?

In this episode of TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z, Dr. Z sits down with Susan Houston — TEDx speaker, podcast host of Done Pretending, and the woman who walked away from a 19-year career to finally stop living under someone else's ceiling. Susan's work focuses on one of the...

Personalized nutrition, DNA testing, and nutrigenomics — the science that finally explains why the same diet, supplement, or caffeine habit works beautifully for one person and completely backfires for another. Dr. Z sits down with the researcher behind it all.

If you have ever followed all the right advice, eaten clean, taken the supplements, and still not gotten the results you were promised, this episode is the explanation ...

Burnout, executive coaching, and high-performance leadership — this conversation with former Google Director Stacey Kulongowski is for every woman who has built something impressive and still felt completely disconnected from herself.

Stacey Kulongowski spent 13 years at Google, built a team of nearly 200 people, oversaw a $2 billion revenue imprint — and ended up under her desk, crying, after a revenue call went sideway...

Celiac disease, dietary change, and the grief nobody tells you about — this conversation with Rebecca Stanevich is for anyone who has ever felt like a diagnosis or a dietary shift just blew up their entire life.

Because here's what the wellness world almost never addresses: when you have to change the way you eat — whether from a chronic diagnosis, a sensitivity, or a health decision — you don't just change your di...

GLP-1 weight loss pills, menopause weight gain, and midlife hormone chaos — the conversation just got louder. FDA-approved Fondeo is here. And Dr. Z is not here to tell you it's evil. She's here to make sure you think before you decide.

Because the real question is never just: will this make me lose weight? The real question is: what is your body actually asking for? In this solo episode, Dr. Z cuts through the social ...

Fatigue, bloating, hormone chaos, and weight that won't budge — even when you're eating clean, taking supplements, and doing all the right things. Dr. Z is naming what nobody else will say out loud.

In this solo episode, Dr. Z dismantles one of the most damaging patterns she sees in high-performing women: the override pattern. The cycle where more discipline, more restriction, more pressure is the answer to a body that's alrea...

Health misinformation, toxic supplements, and social media wellness trends are costing women their health — and their trust in their own bodies. Dr. Z is done staying quiet about it.

In this solo episode, Dr. Z delivers one of her most important conversations yet — a frank, 20-years-in-the-making breakdown of what's really happening in the wellness industry. The algorithm rewards what stops your scroll, not what'...

You've tried the diet. The supplements. The routine. But the exhaustion is still there — because none of it addressed what's actually running the show: the gap between who you are and how you're living.

In this conversation, Dr. Z sits down with Danielle Zilg — coach, motivator, and Marriage and Family Therapist in the making — to dismantle the idea that mental health is a mind problem. It's a whole-body problem. A...

What if the exhaustion you’re feeling isn’t because your cortisol is crashing… but because your stress response is stuck?

Many high-performing women today are living in a constant state of “wired but tired.” You push through the day with determination, yet your energy crashes, your brain feels foggy, and when it’s finally time to sleep… your mind won’t shut off.

In this episod...

Wired at night, exhausted by day? It's not your hormones — it's your nervous system stuck in emergency mode.

In this episode, Dr. Z breaks down why "adrenal fatigue" is actually HPA axis dysfunction — and why high-performing women are the most vulnerable. You'll learn exactly how chronic stress creates a cortisol cascade that wrecks your blood sugar, thyroid, progesterone, and digestion — plus a 3-phase burnout rec...

Feeling burned out? You’re not alone — and it’s not a flaw.

In this episode of TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z, Dr. Dee talks to Amy Schamberg, a school psychologist, functional medicine health coach, and Denver’s Top Burnout Coach. Together, they dive deep into why burnout is a predictable outcome — not a personal weakness — and how high-achieving women can finally break free from the cycle.
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What if the reason you can’t get off the couch at night isn’t laziness… but survival?

In this episode of we explore the high-functioning freeze response — the nervous system shutdown that many driven, capable women find themselves in without even realizing it. Dr. Z breaks down:

• What the freeze response actually is (and why it’s not relaxation)
• The difference between high-functioning anxiety and ...

Have you ever walked out of a doctor's office with "normal" blood work but zero answers for your exhaustion, weight gain, or brain fog? You aren't crazy, and you aren't just "getting older."

In this episode, Dr. Z reveals why standard medical labs often miss the root cause of your symptoms. We break down the difference between your organs being "present" versus "communicating," and why taking more supplements might be like piling pa...

What if healing isn’t about pushing harder — but listening deeper?

 In this episode, we explore why stress, trauma, and unprocessed emotion live in the body… and how true healing begins when force stops.

Stress doesn’t just live in your mind — it embeds itself into your body.

In this powerful episode of True Wellness with Dr. Z, Dr. Danielle sits down with holistic practitioner Vince Glasser, whose ...