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If you’re exhausted but can’t fall asleep, wake up wired in the middle of the night, or feel like you’ve tried everything with no success, this episode is for you.
In this episode, I’m breaking down the real reasons sleep struggles happen and exactly how to fix them using simple, practical sleep hygiene strategies that actually work. This isn’t about a perfect nighttime routine, it’s about training your brain and body to finally feel safe enough to rest.
In this episode, I cover:
If you’re ready to stop fighting your body at night and finally experience deep, restorative sleep, this episode will completely shift how you approach rest.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’ve been told your labs are “normal” but you still feel exhausted, bloated, moody, anxious, crampy, or completely off in your cycle, this episode is for you. Normal labs do not mean optimal hormones. And they definitely don’t mean nothing is wrong. Most women are living in the gray zone: not sick enough for medication, but not healthy enough to feel good. In this episode, I’m breaking down what balanced hormones actually look like, why lab ranges are misleading, and how to understand what your body is truly asking for.
In this episode I’m sharing:
Your symptoms are not random, they’re communication. You deserve more than being told “everything looks fine” when your body is clearly asking for support. This episode will help you understand how hormones really work, why labs often miss the bigger picture, and how to start building true hormone balance so you can finally feel like yourself again.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
🙏 Thank you to Paleovalley for sponsoring this episode!
👉 Go to https://paleovalley.com/leah and enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’re dealing with heavy or clotted periods, intense PMS, breast tenderness, migraines around your cycle, bloating before your period, or feeling overly emotional, anxious, or wired, you’re going to want to listen to this episode. Estrogen is not the enemy. In fact, we need estrogen for ovulation, bone health, insulin sensitivity, and brain function. The problem starts when estrogen is too high, not clearing properly, or overpowering progesterone. This episode will help you understand what your symptoms are actually telling you, and where to start.
In this episode I’m sharing:
Estrogen doesn’t work in isolation. When progesterone, liver detox, gut health, minerals, and blood sugar aren’t supported, estrogen symptoms show up loud and clear. This episode will help you recognize the signs of high estrogen, understand what’s driving them, and take practical steps toward calmer moods, lighter periods, and more balanced hormones.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD (or strongly resonate with it) and feel like you’re constantly hitting an invisible wall—knowing what to do but unable to follow through—this episode is for you. ADHD doesn’t mean you’re broken, lazy, or incapable. And it doesn’t mean medication is your only option. In this conversation, Gaia Broda and myself are reframing ADHD away from a life sentence and into something far more empowering: information you can use to take your power back.
In this episode we’re sharing:
An ADHD diagnosis can be a permission slip, not an identity. ADHD doesn’t get to decide what’s possible for you. When you stop outsourcing your power to labels, hacks, or medication alone and start building agency, nervous system safety, and supportive foundations, you can move from surviving to truly thriving. This episode will help you see your brain differently, reclaim your worth, and start working with how you’re wired instead of against it.
Connect with Gaia:
Beyond Meds Podcast Spotify | YouTube
15 Minute ADHD Morning Routine: https://bit.ly/dopaminedetoxtraining
Biohacking ADHD Membership: https://bit.ly/awcbiohackingmembership
LinkedIn
www.gaiabroda.com
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Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
🙏Thank you to Eversio Wellness for sponsoring this episode!
👉 Go to https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/LEAH or enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’re bloated, constipated, dealing with PMS, or feeling like your hormones are off and you don’t know where to start, this episode is for you. Hormone balance doesn’t come from juice cleanses, cutting more foods, or chasing the “perfect” diet. It comes from giving your body the raw materials it actually needs to build, detoxify, and regulate hormones properly. In this episode, I’m breaking down the foundational foods every woman needs to support hormone balance, without extremes.
In this episode I’m sharing:
Hormone balance isn’t about doing more, it’s about supporting the basics consistently. When digestion, liver detox, minerals, protein, fat, and carbohydrates are in place, hormones naturally regulate more easily. This episode will help you simplify your approach, stop chasing quick fixes, and start nourishing your body in a way that actually supports long-term hormone health.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’re getting 7–8 hours of sleep and still waking up exhausted, this episode is for you.
I used to sleep 10+ hours and still feel completely drained. Now, as a mom of three getting far less sleep, I have more energy than I ever did before. In this episode, I’m breaking down why “more sleep” isn’t the answer, and what actually restores your energy.
In this episode, I cover:
If you’re tired of relying on caffeine, crashing every afternoon, or feeling wired but exhausted at night, this episode will help you start working with your body instead of fighting it.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
🙏 Thank you to Paleovalley for sponsoring this episode!
👉 Go to https://paleovalley.com/leah and enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’re struggling with anxiety, poor sleep, restless legs, blood sugar crashes, muscle tension, or feeling constantly wired and depleted, especially during pregnancy or postpartum, this episode is for you. Magnesium is one of the most overlooked and under-consumed minerals for women, yet it’s involved in hundreds of critical processes in the body. And here’s the kicker: most women are deficient without ever being told. In this episode, I’m breaking down why magnesium matters so much, how to choose the right form, and why lab work often misses the real problem.
In this episode I’m sharing:
Magnesium isn’t just a nice-to-have supplement, it’s foundational. When this mineral is low, everything feels harder: sleep, stress, blood sugar, mood, and recovery. This episode will help you understand why magnesium deficiency is so common, how it shows up in everyday symptoms, and how to support your body wisely, especially during seasons of higher demand like pregnancy, postpartum, and chronic stress.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If your migraines show up like clockwork before your period, during your period, or right after it ends, this episode is for you. Hormonal migraines aren’t random, and they’re not a “Tylenol deficiency.” They’re a sign that estrogen, progesterone, minerals, inflammation, and nervous system chemistry are out of balance. While migraines can take time to fully resolve, understanding the pattern behind them is the first step toward real relief.
In this episode I’m sharing:
Hormonal migraines are not something you just have to endure every month. They’re feedback from your body, not a life sentence. This episode will help you understand why your migraines happen when they do, where to start with food and lifestyle support, and how to approach healing in a way that actually respects your hormones and nervous system.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
🙏Thank you to Eversio Wellness for sponsoring this episode!
👉 Go to https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/LEAH or enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’re ending the day feeling six months pregnant even though you started the morning fine, listen up. Occasional bloating can happen, but daily, uncomfortable, end-of-day bloating is not normal. And it’s not something probiotics or cutting more foods will fix. Bloating is a signal that digestion, minerals, stress, or blood sugar are out of sync, and once you understand the real cause, relief becomes much more attainable.
In this episode I’m breaking down:
Bloating isn’t something to silence, it’s information. Restricting food, cutting carbs, or piling on probiotics often makes it worse. When you support stomach acid, bile flow, minerals, hydration, blood sugar, and your nervous system, digestion can finally work the way it’s supposed to. This episode will help you understand what your body is asking for, and where to start so you can end your day feeling comfortable again.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
If you’ve tried cycle syncing before and felt overwhelmed, confused, or unsure if it was actually doing anything, this episode is for you. Cycle syncing isn’t meant to be another rigid protocol or checklist, it’s meant to help you work with your body, not against it. In this episode I’m chatting with Eversio Wellness Co-Founder Brandi Garden, and Dr. Desiree Caruso, Naturopathic Physician, who are breaking down how to use medicinal mushrooms to support each phase of your cycle in a simple, intuitive, and hormone-supportive way that actually feels nourishing instead of stressful.
In this episode we’re sharing:
Cycle syncing is not about perfection, timing everything down to the day, or doing “one more thing” to fix your hormones. It’s about listening, responding, and giving your body the support it’s asking for in each phase. This episode will help you simplify cycle syncing, feel more grounded in your body, and use mushrooms as a tool to support hormones, energy, mood, and resilience, without turning your wellness routine into another source of stress.
Leah’s Favorite Things: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites
🙏 Thank you to Paleovalley for sponsoring this episode!
👉 Go to https://paleovalley.com/leah and enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.
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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
Let’s connect:
📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/
🙋🏻♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/
🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/
📧 Email: [email protected]
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Boost your energy, balance hormones naturally, and heal holistically all without uprooting your entire life! Learn the secrets to balancing your hormones at: freehormonetraining.com.
Have you ever tried to Google your symptoms only to slam the laptop shut in frustration? Do you want natural, holistic solutions that actually work? Are you tired of being told that everything is normal, when you know it’s not? Are you ready to take back your health to live your best life?
In this podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results that allow you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.
If you're ready to reclaim your energy, learn how to listen to your body, and holistically improve your overall health, you're in the right place! I’ll be sharing my tried and true methods for blood sugar balance, improved sleep quality, weight loss, and increased energy levels so you can live your healthiest life all without unreasonable lifestyle shifts, like restrictive dieting or excessive supplementing.
I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.
Five years ago, I found out I had fibroadenomas (benign breast tumors), which 90% of the time return after surgical removal. I decided not to undergo the operation and instead found a way to heal the underlying cause. After years of extreme pain, irregular cycles, and ovarian cysts, I finally learned how to balance my hormones which healed my fibroadenomas and led me to regular, pain-free periods.
I learned how to make lifestyle shifts, remove toxins from my environment, and give my body what it actually needs to function optimally and heal on a cellular level. After my experience, I became a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner so that I can empower women in their own holistic health journey.
Even if you’ve been told your labs are normal or that your symptoms aren’t a cause for concern - YOU are the expert of your body and your experience. You deserve to feel AMAZING, not just “normal”. I’m here to help you achieve optimal overall health through simple, straightforward lifestyle changes that you can start to implement today.
Balancing Hormones Naturally isn’t just the name of the podcast, it’s the way forward to a happier, healthier life and I can’t wait to join you on the journey!
Connect with Leah:
📧 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: leahbrueggemann.com
📷 IG: @leah_brueg and @balancinghormonesnaturally
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