Hormone Heroines Podcast

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Jenna Richardson, founder of Princeton Integrative Health and co-host of Smoke, Mirrors, and Menopause, to discuss why hormone imbalance is often about much more than hormones alone.

Jenna shares her journey from management consulting into functional and integrative medicine after her infant son experienced health challenges that traditional healthcare struggled to explain. This ...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Arielle Cole, founder of Arid Blaine, to discuss her personal journey through hypothyroidism, mental health struggles, hormonal symptoms, and entrepreneurship.

Arielle shares how being diagnosed with hypothyroidism at a young age made her highly aware of her health and body from early childhood. Later, after experiencing severe mental health challenges in her twenties, she began ...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Nahum V. to explore his extraordinary journey through foster care, military service, PTSD, bodybuilding, and deep spiritual healing.

Nahum shares how his early life challenges led him into the military, where he trained as an airborne soldier and later became an EOD technician. After deployments and intense experiences in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, he faced a profound identity cris...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Dr. Heather Stone, functional medicine practitioner and thyroid expert, to discuss the real root causes behind hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Dr. Stone shares her own personal journey with thyroid dysfunction and explains why so many women are dismissed after being told their thyroid labs are "normal." We explore how thyroid symptoms often stem from deeper imbalances...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Dr. Mark Morningstar, chiropractic physician and clinical researcher, to explore a functional medicine approach to scoliosis.

We discuss why scoliosis is more than just a structural issue and how the brain, hormones, genetics, and gut health all contribute to its development and progression. Dr. Morningstar explains how the body may create a spinal curve as an adaptive response, ...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Lauren Manaker, registered dietitian and women's health expert, to explore the role of NAD in energy production, metabolic health, and healthy aging.

We discuss why NAD naturally declines with age, how this may affect women during perimenopause and menopause, and why mitochondrial health matters for everything from fatigue and brain function to ovarian health.

Lauren shares practi...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Dr. Shivani Gupta to explore why stress can negatively impact women’s health even when diet and exercise are optimized. Through an Ayurvedic lens, we discuss the concept of ojas (vitality) and how chronic stress depletes the body’s resilience, leading to fatigue, brain fog, and burnout.

Dr. Gupta shares practical strategies to restore balance, including improving slee...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, we sit down with Dr. Anshul Gupta to explore Hashimoto's disease beyond thyroid hormone imbalance. We discuss why many patients continue to feel unwell despite treatment, the role of mitochondria in energy and symptoms, and the major root causes driving autoimmunity. Dr. Gupta also explains the importance of gut health, infections, toxins, and stress in thyroid dysfunction, and shares a function...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, Dr. Heidi Codino and Dr. Serena Russum walk through the postpartum recovery journey, sharing what new mothers can expect physically, hormonally, and emotionally after birth. They discuss immediate postpartum care, including bleeding, perineal healing, and pain management strategies such as sitz baths, padcicles, and lidocaine sprays.

The conversation also explores abdominal separation (diastasis ...

In this episode of Hormone Heroines, Dr. Heidi Codino and Dr. Serena Russum share three very different birth experiences: a natural hospital birth, a home birth with complications, and a high-risk preterm hospital birth. They discuss labor progression, unexpected interventions, and postpartum recovery, highlighting the importance of preparation, flexibility, and understanding that birth outcomes can be unpredictable.

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In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, Dr. Heidi Codino and Dr. Serena Codino explore the realities of pregnancy loss, sharing both personal stories and medical insights. They discuss how common miscarriages are, why they happen, and the emotional and hormonal impacts on women's bodies and minds. The episode emphasizes that grief, anger, relief, or numbness are all valid, and provides guidance on coping, fertility after l...

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, Dr. Heidi Codino and Dr. Sundeep Dugar explore how estrogen drives energy production, mitochondrial health, and overall cellular function. The discussion covers why postmenopausal estrogen loss leads to fatigue, brain fog, muscle loss, and bone density decline. They also highlight Mito Catalyst E, a natural molecule that mimics exercise-induced hormonal effects to promote mitochondri...

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, the hosts speak with nutrition expert Jen Scheinman about mitochondrial health and why it plays such a critical role in energy, muscle performance, brain function, and the aging process. Mitochondria are often referred to as the "powerhouses of the cell," but they also help regulate cellular repair, communication, and turnover. As people age, mitochondria naturally become damaged and...

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, the hosts explore the role of testosterone in women's health and why it is often overlooked in conversations about hormones. While commonly associated with men, testosterone is a critical hormone for women, influencing energy levels, mood, motivation, libido, muscle development, bone density, and cognitive function. The hosts explain how testosterone gradually declines with age and h...

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, Dr. Christin Glorioso, MD-PhD and CEO of NeuroAge, reframes perimenopause as a neurological transition rather than simply a reproductive milestone. She explains how declining estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone influence mood, memory, sleep, and motivation—and why symptoms like brain fog are signals, not inevitabilities.

The conversation explores the nine pillars of healthy...

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, the hosts provide a comprehensive overview of how herbal medicine supports hormonal health across every stage of a woman's life, from PMS to perimenopause. Estrogen dominance with low progesterone is common in PMS, and liver-supportive herbs such as Dandelion, Burdock, and Milk Thistle help clear excess estrogen, while Vitex and Evening Primrose Oil support progesterone production. F...

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, the hosts provide a comprehensive overview of how herbal medicine can support hormonal health across every stage of a woman’s life—from PMS to perimenopause.

They begin by discussing the most common hormonal imbalance pattern: estrogen dominance with low progesterone, often seen in PMS. Liver-supportive herbs such as Dandelion, Burdock, and Milk Thistle help clear excess e...

Bloating, brain fog, weight gain, and hormone chaos aren’t just “part of getting older.” In this episode of Hormone Heroines, Dr. Emily Wolbers explains how gut health, the estrobolome, stress, and the mind-body connection shape hormone balance during perimenopause—and where women should start to truly heal.

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, Dr. Emily Wolbers—a naturopathic doctor recogni...

HRT isn’t always enough. In this episode of Hormone Heroines, Dr. Jannine Krause explains why women still struggle with weight loss, hot flashes, pain, and gut issues despite optimized hormones—and how peptides, bioregulators, and advanced testing can restore true vitality and health span.

In this episode of the Hormone Heroines Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause—a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist—dives into wh...