Dr. Brooke Show

Dr. Brooke Show episodes:

• 04.18.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #393 Should You Be Taking NAD Supplements?

  For more info on how I can help you, visit BetterByDrBrooke.com. NAD supplements are all the rage in the anti-aging and longevity community, but just how effective are they? As well, if you compare various products there are a variety...

  
• 04.11.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #392 What Causes Perimenopause + Menopause Weight Gain

  For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. You may have heard lately that it’s not a “lower metabolism” that causes weight gain and more body fat around the middle during midlife. While this may be...

  
• 04.01.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #391 Understanding Iodine for Thyroid + Breast Health

  Encore Episode! This is a dicey subject for sure and I’m certain it will have a lot of you rethinking your supplement regimen. Iodine is most often used to improve thyroid or breast health but it’s important to understand the...

  
• 03.24.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #390 Managing Fibroids with Functional Medicine

  For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.   Fibroids can create a host of symptoms from pain and heavy bleeding to both digestive and urinary issues. In this episode I talk about what fibroids are,...

  
• 03.18.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #389 Hormone Q&A: PCOS Types, Low Progesterone Symptoms, Immune System Support & Weight Gain When Lifting

  For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. Covered a whole lot of ground on this episode! I love these Q&A; shows because I can get into so many topics. On this one I talk...

  
• 03.13.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #388 The Power of Amino Acids For Women with KION Founder Angelo Keely

  For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.   I am thrilled to have KION founder Angelo Keely back on the Dr. Brooke Show to discuss some powerful new research on amino acids. It’s kinda funny...

  
• 02.29.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #387 Eat Smarter As A Family with Shawn Stevenson

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. He’s back! Best selling author, host of The Model Health Show and all around great human: Shawn Stevenson. In this episode we talk all about his new...

  
• 02.21.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #386 Hormone Q&A: Sleep, Blood Sugar Crashes, HRT & Family

  For more information about how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.    I cover a lot of ground in this episode! Answering questions from my Facebook group I talk about blood sugar crashes (what they are and how they...

  
• 02.15.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #385 Women & Heart Health

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.  Finally, an episode about heart health screening and risk factors just for women! In this show I cover simple blood tests that can help you understand your risk...

  
• 02.08.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #384 All About Methylene Blue

  For more information about how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.    Question from the Facebook group! What is this hot new wellness hack for better energy, disease prevention and a better mood? Actually, methylene blue is not new...

  
• 01.31.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #383 Alcohol & Your Microbiome with Zack Abbot, PhD & Founder of ZBiotics

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. Encore for this amazing episode because even if you never have a sip of wine this interview is fascinating! Zack is a wealth of knowledge about the...

  
• 01.29.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #382 Alcohol and Your Hormones

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. In this encore episode I dig into the nitty gritty of the specific ways alcohol impacts your sleep, the nuances of how we metabolize alcohol and how...

  
• 01.25.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #381 Four Key Aspects For Exercise For Women (Especially After 40)

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.  WHIP: walking, heavy weights, intensity and plyometrics. That’s my system for the four things we need to have covered with our training program as women. This system becomes...

  
• 01.20.2024

  Dr Brooke #380 Functional Dentistry with Dr. Staci Whitman

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.  The delightful and brilliant Dr. Staci Whitman joins us today to talk about how we can improve the health of our teeth through both better topical ingredients...

  
• 01.15.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #379 Revisiting the Five Habits From Hangry: 5 Simple Steps To Balance Your Hormones & Restore Your Joy

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.  Can we all believe it’s been 5 years since this book came out??? I can’t! She was a labor of love and years of experience that we...

  
• 01.11.2024

  Dr Brooke Show #378 New Year, New You - Not So Fast

  For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.   It’s that time again, where you’re bombarded with the notion that you need to abruptly leave your old self and create something totally new. While there is...

  
• 12.31.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #377 Another Year Over….

  For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.  Happy New Year! In this episode I go back, way back, and share some of the journey I’ve been on as a functional medicine doc, part of...

  
• 12.28.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #377 How To Get More Accountability In the Gym

  For more info about how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. Meet your new personal trainer: CoPilot! Strength training is ALWAYS a part of the treatment plan in my office but if you aren’t working with me directly it...

  
• 12.21.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #376 Cortisol & Anxiety

  For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com.   Anxiety is a complicated issue and in various episodes I’ve discussed how the gut plays into mood, stress and anxiety as well as different types of stress...

  
• 12.13.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #375 All About DHEA & Pregnenolone

  For more information about how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. When it comes to taking hormones, attention often goes to estrogen, progesterone and testosterone but there are two other hormones to consider: dhea and pregnenolone. These are...

  
• 12.10.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #374 Breast Health: Beyond Mammograms

  For more info on how I can help you visit BetterByDrBrooke.com.   Unlike most health conditions for women which have multiple layers of screening and various tests to assess risks and progression, breast health is generally a yearly screening mammogram with...

  
• 12.06.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #373 All About Akkermansia: Hope or Hype?

  To learn more about how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.com. The probiotic Akkermansia is the golden child of the supplement world right now and I get asked almost daily if we should all be taking it. Marketing sounds...

  
• 12.01.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #372 Transformation, Grief & Going Onward with Dr Karin Louise, PhD

  For more about how I can help you, visit BetterByDrBrooke.com.   In this episode I have an amazing conversation with Dr. Karin Luise an expert in change and transformation. We talk a lot about becoming better after loss including after losing...

  
• 11.21.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #370 Are We Getting Gratitude Wrong?

  For more about how I can help you, visit BetterByDrBrooke.com.   It’s the annual Thanksgiving episode! In this episode I talk about all the “big feelings” that can come up during this holidays that can not only derail our enjoyment but...

  
• 11.19.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #369 Holiday Survival Guide Q&A with Dr Brooke

  For more about how I can help you, visit BetterByDrBrooke.com.   Tackling how to recover from an evening of festivities, should you worry about balancing sugar with protein or fat during a holiday indulgence, how to handle being the one who...

  
• 11.15.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #369 Turning Teen with Dr. Lisa Klein, MD

  For more about how I can help you, visit BetterByDrBrooke.com.   Changing moods, bodies and relationships - growing up is not for the faint of heart! As my “baby” is now entering the teen years, I was thrilled to have the...

  
• 11.08.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #368 Using a CGM with Carlee Hayes of Nutrisense

  For more info about how I can help you visit my site: BetterByDrBrooke   It’s all rage right now, but do you really need a CGM? And you may be thinking, why would I adopt a new health device during this...

  
• 10.30.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #367 5 Ways To Think About Halloween Candy & Holiday Treats

  It’s that time of year when most of us are about to be staring down a bowl of our kid’s candy or co-worker’s Holiday M&M; stash at the office. What can feel like months of sugary treats to navigate, this...

  
• 10.26.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #366 Metabolism & Mindset for Moms with Steph Gruenke, RD

  My friend and colleague Steph Gruenke, formerly with Whole30 and WholeMamas joins me to talk about a more sane way to approach getting back to your health and fitness during postpartum. As my OB said to me once, “Our bodies...

  
• 10.21.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #365 Cortisol & Your Sleep

  Sleep is a complex process that is regulated by your hormones and immune system, it’s no wonder when you're stressed and inflamed how quickly your sleep goes downhill. Sleep supplements abound and most of you have had hit and miss...

  
• 10.19.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #364 Dr Brooke’s Advice For New Moms & Mamas To Be

  In most ways, I still feel like a new mom - although I’ve been a mom for a dozen years somehow. I’ve been in the hopeful and new mom phase personally but also this is a huge part of my...

  
• 10.15.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #362 How To Know If You Need A Higher Force Intervention

  We’ve all been there: I can’t take this anymore, I’m ready to pull out the big guns! Whether you’re considering plastic surgery, weight loss medications, HRT or other higher force interventions beyond diet, supplements, exercise and lifestyle this episode will...

  
• 10.11.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #363 Hormone Q&A Part II: Endometriosis, Building Muscle, DEXA Scans, Hormone Testing & Gut Health

  Answering more of your hormone questions on this episode and I cover a lot of ground! The nitty gritty on endometriosis and hormones, should you focus on building muscle and training heavier in phases or all the time and best...

  
• 10.07.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #361 Hormone Q&A Part 1: Coffee, Hysterectomy, Heart Health & HRT

  Is coffee really all that bad for your hormones? What is best for hormone replacement after a hysterectomy - especially if you are younger? Also, what does and doesn’t get fixed with a hysterectomy? Heart palpitations and hormones - all...

  
• 09.30.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #360 All About Melatonin

  You know melatonin as the sleep hormone but it does so very much more than that. In this episode I’ll cover the many actions of melatonin because it’s a very interesting hormone and antioxidant. While it’s so powerful and has...

  
• 09.26.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #359 How To Get Better At Stress, Part II

  In this follow up episode to #358, I dive more into identifying your core values to create your inner compass. This guide will help make all the daily decisions you need to make with so much more clarity and thus,...

  
• 09.23.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #358 How To Get Better At Stress, Part I

  In this episode I tackle a few very big questions from you all when it comes to stress. The bulk of all of our concerns come down to something along the lines of: how do I find the time, money...

  
• 09.20.2023

  Dr. Brooke Show #357 All About HCL, Pro, Pre and Antibiotics

  Grab your notebooks, this episode is jam packed with information that will help you make sense of when to use prebiotics vs. probiotics, how antibiotics and probiotics differ in efficacy of treating common gut infections like H.Pylori and if you...

  
• 09.18.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #356 Omics, Root Causes & Branches of Health with Andrea Nakayama

  Root cause medicine is all the rage if you follow any functional medicine experts and while that is an important part of treating you as a whole, root causes are not the only thing we need to think about.  My...

  
• 09.14.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #355 Better Pre and Postnatal Care is NEEDED with Julie Sawaya

  Did you know that 95% of women taking a prenatal are still nutrient deficient? The founders of Needed saw this as a big problem and I couldn’t agree more! But Needed quickly became a bigger solution to a bigger problem...

  
• 09.10.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #354 How To Get Started or Hit Restart

  Fall is in the air and often with a change of season or the end of summer fun we feel the need to “get back on track” or hit restart. Some of you may also be feeling like you’ve been...

  
• 08.30.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #353 Stresses You Can’t Avoid & Stresses You Can

  Focusing on simply “reducing your stress” can end up leaving us feeling more stressed out because the truth is, there are some stresses you can’t just opt out of, stop or reduce. I talk a lot about those in various...

  
• 08.23.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #352 Stop Trying to Find Work-Life Balance & Do This Instead

  I try not to play favorites with my episodes, but this is going down as one of my favorite episodes to record because I have found this framework so profoundly helpful. On this show I talk about letting go of...

  
• 08.16.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #351 Healing Low Back Pain with Megan Dahlman, CSCS

  Low back pain can be so disruptive to your training, your sleep and your hormones given that inflammation from nagging injuries can impact hormones across the board. One of the key aspects of treating this condition is knowing where you...

  
• 08.12.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #350 Encore replay: Perimenopause & Menopause Q&A

  A follow up podcast to episode #349 where I answer questions from you about perimenopause and menopause. This episode covers a range of symptom questions, how to know if what’s happening with your cycle is perimenopause or something else, when...

  
• 08.09.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #349 Encore Replay: ALL About Perimenopause & Menopause

  In this episode, I go over all aspects of this dicey hormonal time, the symptoms that can arise, when to see your doc and of course what you can do to feel better! This time in a woman’s life can...

  
• 08.02.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #348 Alcohol & Your Microbiome Zack Abbot, PhD & Founder of ZBiotics

  Even if you never have a sip of wine this interview is fascinating! Zack is a wealth of knowledge about the microbiome as well as how to “teach” a favorable, safe bacteria that’s already in our gut how to metabolize...

  
• 07.29.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #347  Get Better Sleep with Dr. Valerie Cacho Integrative MD and Sleep Specialist

  I often say if you can’t fix sleep problems, you can’t fix any hormone problems. Sleep comes up in a lot of my podcast episodes for that reason! However on this episode I’m joined by Dr. Valerie Cacho to talk...

  
• 07.25.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #346 All About Amino Acids with KION’s Angelo Keely

  This episode is a Dr. Brooke Show Greatest Hits! It was one of the most downloaded episodes of 2023 so if you missed it, now's your chance. If you loved it, enjoy all the new nuggest of wisdom you'll catch...

  
• 07.19.2023

  Dr Brooke Show #345 Q&A on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy)

  I put a call out for podcast questions in my free Facebook group (join us here) and there were so many on HRT specifically that I did an entire episode on it. I cover delivery methods, what bioidentical HRT actually means...