Inside Out Health

Here are the amazing 3 women's health experts on today's show:

Esther Blum is the bestselling author of Cavewomen Don't Get Fat, Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous, Secrets of Gorgeous, and The Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous Project. She is credentialed as a registered dietitian, a certified dietitian-nutritionist and a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), the certification from the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists (BCNS).

Dr. Maria Sophocles is as a board-certified gynecologist, sex therapist, leading menopause expert, and a popular TED talk speaker. She has taught clinicians this technology on five continents. Her Princeton clinic and virtual practice serves 30,000 women in the US and globally.

Dr. Lisa Pomeroy is a traditional naturopath with extensive training in functional medicine, lab test interpretation, and gut microbiome balancing through the Kalish Institute, The Microbiome Restoration Center, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN), and other organizations. In addition to being a graduate of the Kalish Institute Mentorship Program, Lisa is a Certified Microbiome Analyst.

In this episode, Esther Blum, Dr. Maria Sophocles and Dr. Lisa Pomeroy unpack perimenopause with practical insights on hormones, gut health, and HRT so women can make safer, more empowered choices in midlife.

RESOURCES:

• Learn more about Esther Blum here: http://www.estherblum.com/ | Instagram @gorgeousesther
• Learn more about Dr. Maria Sophocles here: https://mariasophoclesmd.com/ | Instagram: @mariasophoclesmd
• Learn more about Dr. Lisa Pomeroy here: https://www.pomeroyinstitute.com/
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Expert stack intro: 3 perimenopause powerhouses

01:45 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoes ad

03:30 – Alcohol, estrogen spikes and brutal perimenopause symptoms

05:55 – Caffeine, stress and finding calmer nervous system energy

06:55 – Gut, estrobolome and stomach acid in perimenopause

10:40 – PPIs, bone density and hot-flash relief

12:50 – Client story: healing H. pylori, bad breath, hot flashes and sleep

14:45 – HRT basics, "bio-identical" myths and finding a real menopause expert

23:00 – Why midlife hormone clinics, pellets and "optimization" can mislead

29:30 – Gut–hormone signatures, beta-glucuronidase and estrogen recirculation

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Kristin Weitzel is a force of nature: a master of both strategic brilliance and soulful transformation.

With two decades of experience building Fortune 500 brands—she's helmed multi-million-dollar campaigns and orchestrated world-class consumer experiences. But her deepest work began when she turned her experiential mastery inward, applying the same curiosity, drive, and devotion to the human experience.

Now, as an expert who speaks on global stages, the founder of SHERPA Breath & Cold, and host of the WELLPOWER Podcast, Kristin has become a trusted leader in health optimization, nervous system regulation, and biohacking.

She's certified hundreds of coaches and wellness professionals across North America through the SHERPA instructor program, while also coaching professional athletes, high-performers, and those seeking to reclaim power, peace, and physiological resilience.

What makes her rare is the fusion: science-backed expertise and somatic depth, tactical strategy and ritual, high-performance rigor and heart-centered presence. From boardrooms to saunas, sacred spaces to podcast studios, Kristin invites people to remember who they are and rise into the leader they came here to be.

In this episode, nervous system coach Kristen Whitsell joins to share how breathwork, cold exposure, psychedelic‑assisted therapy, and IFS/shadow work helped her transmute deep anxiety, grief, and trauma into resilience, self-love, and powerful tools for midlife women to regulate their nervous systems and reclaim their full, authentic power.

RESOURCES:

• Learn more about Kristin Weitzel here: http://sherpabreathandcold.com
• and here: https://www.wellpower.life/
• Instagram: @kristinweitzelofficial
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Kristen Whitsell intro & bio highlight

02:09 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoe ad

03:55 – Kristen's work & nervous system focus

06:02 – From dancer to nervous system coach & deep breakup grief

09:57 – Shadow work, IFS parts, and hypervigilance superpowers

16:00 – Psychedelic-assisted therapy, MDMA, and integration training

39:48 – Cold exposure, depression, and building resilience through discomfort

49:50 – IFS teaching, inner parts, and practical client exercises

60:53 – Practical cold plunge guidelines, temps, timing, and tools

01:02:00 – Sherpa Breath & Cold offerings, client success, and host sign‑off

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Dori Lewis is a licensed psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics.

She is also the owner of Reflective Healing Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, a psychotherapy group practice and licensed healing center specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapy, including ketamine and psilocybin, as well as integration therapy and transpersonal psychotherapy.

Dori is a licensed Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator in Colorado and serves as a clinical consultant in mushroom medicine work.

With over a decade of clinical experience, Dori integrates transpersonal psychology, depth-oriented therapy, and psychedelic-assisted modalities within a relational framework that centers the therapeutic alliance. She has facilitated more than 100 ketamine sessions, over 200 psilocybin sessions, and numerous group ceremonies, bringing both clinical rigor and experiential depth to her work.

In this episode, Tara and psychedelic therapist Dori Lewis explore psilocybin and MDMA for trauma and PTSD, unpacking Trump's new executive order, iboga vs. ibogaine, and how to approach mushroom medicine safely and integratively.

RESOURCES:

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Dori's bio (psychedelic therapist)

01:49 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoe ad & discount code

03:35 – Why this is a timely mushrooms episode: Trump executive order and future of psychedelic medicine (MDMA, psilocybin, ibogaine, LSD)

05:25 – Host's family trauma, PTSD, and how MDMA helped her deepest wounds

08:18 – MDMA trials for veterans, attachment trauma, and why "inner healing intelligence" matters

12:01 – Iboga vs ibogaine, risks, medical oversight, and whole‑plant vs extracts (cannabis, synthetic psilocybin)

24:38 – Dori's personal history with mushrooms, early bad trip, MDMA/LSD, and learning to work safely with psilocybin

42:09 – Mushrooms as "clarity": onion‑layer healing, trusting the medicine, and mindset shifts over many journeys

51:30 – Client success & how to work with Dori

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Mikel Anderson's father was a chiropractor, stress analyst, acupuncturist, and formulator who treated high-profile clients across Europe and the United States.

As a child, Mikel traveled country to country, watching customized formulas built for each individual — athletes, political figures, business leaders. No two solutions were ever the same. That early exposure shaped his worldview: health isn't generic. It's personal.

By his early teens, he was already helping friends in the lab. And he never stopped. Over the next five decades, Mikel would go on to create thousands of formulas and hold the largest portfolio of patents in the world on dosing apparatus systems — designing mechanisms that activate nutrients at the moment of use rather than destroying them during mass production

His work didn't just serve consumer brands. When asked to help address malaria and diarrheal disease in remote African villages — where refrigeration and stable supply chains didn't exist — he engineered a "Pharma Blast" delivery system that kept lifesaving medications stable until injection, eliminating the need for cold storage. It was a logistical solution to a humanitarian problem.

NanoXtreme was born from something even closer to home. When his teenage son qualified for a professional tennis tournament and suffered an injury days before competition, Mikel did what he had watched his father do his entire life: he built a formula for the person in front of him. That moment — not a market study — became the foundation of his current work in nano-delivery pain relief.

In this episode, Mikel shares how growing up in his father's lab, watching custom formulations for elite clients, inspired his belief that health must be personal, not generic, and led to a lifetime developing thousands of targeted delivery systems — from "Pharma Blast" injections that kept medicines stable in remote African villages without refrigeration to NanoXtreme, a nano-delivery pain cream originally created overnight to help his injured son compete in a professional tennis event, alongside a broader conversation on supplements, gut health, nanotechnology, and the evolving legacy he is now passing to his own son.

RESOURCES:

• Learn more about Mikel here: http://nanoxtreme.com
• Get 10% off NanoXtreme here: https://www.nanoxtreme.com/?ref=TARAGARRISON
• Instagram: @nanoxtreme_
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 — Intro/guest bio begins 02:32 — Peluva ad 04:57 — Supplement industry overview / active ingredients 11:50 — Micro-encapsulation & nanotechnology explained 19:00 — Behind the scenes: cosmetics/luxury brand markup story 24:00 — NanoXtreme: how the pain cream works 28:13 — Mikel's background: growing up in the lab 30:50 — What supplements should people take? (host asks) 34:22 — Importance of gut cleansing before supplementing 34:50 — The son's tennis injury & NanoXtreme's origin 36:49 — Son following in footsteps + Mikel's legacy 37:36 — Deep dive into nanotechnology 42:09 — Pet (dog) pain relief line coming soon 44:29 — Success stories: menopause, insect bites, various uses 46:38 — Where to find NanoXtreme

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John La Puma, MD, ChefMD™ is a two-time New York Times bestselling author, board-certified internist, and professionally trained chef who pioneered Culinary Medicine.

He now pioneers EcoMedicine from his small regenerative teaching farm. His upcoming book, Indoor Epidemic, reveals how spending 93% of life indoors steals sleep, focus, and years, and how reclaiming just 7% outdoors can restore them using the evidence-based Outdoor Rx framework.

This is clinically validated intervention, presenting nature as foundational medicine, an essential component of health and the missing pillar in optimizing longevity and healthspan.

In this episode, Dr. John La Puma shares how our "indoor epidemic" of spending 93% of life inside harms sleep, mood, metabolism, and longevity—and how a small, intentional daily dose of nature, light, air, and movement can reset our biology and regenerate our health.

RESOURCES:

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• Get his book Inside Epidemic here: https://www.drjohnlapuma.com/shop-drlapuma/
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Intro

01:27 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoe ad

03:13 – Dr. John La Puma on Indoor Epidemic

06:07 – How indoor life drives inflammation and chronic disease

08:20 – Screen time, eye strain, and the myopia explosion

11:10 – Nature as medicine: light, air, movement, digital obesity

15:40 – Outdoor Rx: 17–43 minutes of intentional nature time

26:23 – Real‑world stories: factories, offices, ADHD and burnout

36:52 – Regenerative teaching farm and rethinking "environment"

41:30 – Nature as original GLP‑1 & where to learn more

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Margaret Cullen is a licensed psychotherapist and a pioneer in bringing contemplative practices into mainstream settings. She was one of the first ten people to be certified as an MBSR instructor and has taught around the world.

As a therapist, she facilitated psycho-social support groups for cancer patients and their loved ones for over 30 years. She is the author of Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive, and Love Boundlessly Through the Power of Equanimity.

In this episode, Tara and psychotherapist Margaret Cullen unpack equanimity, emotional intelligence, and how to fully feel your emotions without getting hijacked by reactivity, toxic positivity, or social media outrage.

RESOURCES:

• Learn more about Margaret Cullen here: https://margaretcullen.com/
• Instagram: @margaretcullen.1
• Get her book Quiet Strength here: https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Strength-Boundlessly-Through-Equanimity/dp/B0FD515HHF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WJICOJNIQZLA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JLF2O2S_hIjrziQ781C9BfAxXa5AGvdaR5bD9VPArauBFrLjbBk5VMEVXMTQXF-atc0WnD1ceYKyIRWcwQju-VP6BqaT93fFzSM1b122gSS1N53NApgCNrQaaicBK
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Intro 01:29 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoe ad 03:14 – Redefining equanimity 05:58 – It's okay to feel "negative" emotions 09:58 – Feeling emotions fully vs fixing them 14:20 – Social media outrage, algorithms, and your nervous system 20:12 – Breaking the outrage trance and finding refuge 26:03 – Reality, uncertainty, and resting in what is 31:19 – Refuge, faith, and trusting in difficult times 32:01 – Anger, self-judgment, and letting emotions move through 59:00 – Where to find Margaret

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Dr. Dan Pardi is the Chief Health Officer at Qualia Life Sciences, where he leads education to advance healthspan and peak performance. He's the founder of humanOS.me and host of humanOS Radio, the official podcast of the Sleep Research Society.

In this episode, Tara and Dr. Dan Pardi bust creatine myths while diving into its science-backed benefits for muscle, brain, sleep, women's hormones, and long-term health.

RESOURCES:

• Learn more about Dan here: http://www.qualialife.com
• Instagram: @qualialife
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Dan Pardi intro 01:40 – Qualia Creatine+ offer 03:25 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoes ad ​03:28 – Why creatine is "the gift that keeps giving" ​05:36 – What creatine actually is, how phosphocreatine fuels ATP and muscles ​06:52 – From "gym bro" myth to Olympic sprinters and explosive performance 13:50 – Brain gains: cognition, sleep pressure, vegans, and dosing strategies ​27:49 – Creatine, adenosine, sleep pressure, and afternoon energy dips 46:00 – Safety, kidneys, long‑term use, and who might not be a fit ​56:51 – Closing wisdom, Dan's upcoming book

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In this episode, Tara curates expert insights from top running experts Zach Bitter, Brad Kearns, and Cynthia Monteleone on low-carb ultra-endurance, why chronic cardio backfires, and how sprinting can better support strength, longevity, and injury prevention.

RESOURCES:

• Learn more about Zach and watch the full episode here: https://www.taragarrison.com/blog/zachbitter
• Learn more about Brad and watch the full episode here: https://www.taragarrison.com/blog/bradkearns4
• Learn more about Cynthia and watch the full episode here: https://www.taragarrison.com/blog/cynthiamonteleone
• Instagram: @zachbitter @bradkearns1 @fastover40
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Expert Stack intro: sprinting vs endurance running 01:18 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoe ad 03:04 – Interview begins: Tara and Zach on ultra distance fears 03:56 – Managing injuries, cross-training, and smart rest 05:18 – Low-carb for 14 years and ultra success 07:00 – Weekly mileage, 0–200 mile weeks, diminishing returns 09:59 – Common mistakes in marathon and ultra training 11:59 – Pacing, race-day execution, and realistic goals 13:03 – Hydration, sweat testing, and electrolyte strategy 14:53 – World-record fueling: carbs per hour and fat oxidation 29:16 – Brad Kearns on chronic cardio and real sprinting 30:55 – Why most "easy runs" should actually be walking 48:40 – Cynthia on endurance damage and overuse injuries 50:29 – Why she quit marathons and moved to sprinting 58:10 – How to start sprinting safely without getting hurt 01:08:41 – Sample sprint workouts, rest periods, and progressions 01:10:00 – Final sprint protocol tips, encouragement, and sign-off ​

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Toni Filipone is an international, multi-certified Grief Expert, Author, Speaker, and the Founder of MasterGrief, a global platform helping people heal after loss in 82 countries.

With over 30 years of experience in personal development alongside leaders like Tony Robbins, she teaches people how to understand grief, manage emotions, and rebuild their lives. Her accredited MasterGrief™ Certification Program trains coaches, practitioners, and organizations to support people experiencing grief in both personal and professional settings.

She is the author of In the Trenches: A Coach's Walk Through Grief, which shares her own story of loss and the tools that helped her move forward.

In this episode, grief expert Toni Filippone shares her partner's suicide story, dismantles common grief myths, explains the difference between grief and trauma, and teaches how to find purpose and emotional mastery after profound loss.

RESOURCES:

• Learn more about Toni here: https://mastergrief.com
• Instagram: @mastergrief_t
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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Toni Filippone intro & Master Grief 02:20 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoe ad 04:06 – Why grief work chose Toni 05:01 – Partner's suicide and shock of traumatic loss 07:27 – The support group that sparked her mission 11:51 – Anticipatory grief and why you're never "ready" 14:53 – Grief vs trauma and why you must split them 33:49 – Feeling stuck in grief and loss of identity 35:00 – Creating a new vision and purpose after loss 55:54 – Helping kids and families process grief together 59:30 – How to learn more about Toni and Master Grief 61:00 – Final reflections

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Gabriela Rosa, DrPH (Candidate, Harvard), is a Harvard-awarded fertility specialist, founder of The Rosa Institute, and author of Fertility Breakthrough: Overcoming Infertility and Recurrent Miscarriage When Other Treatments Have Failed. She pioneered telehealth-based, integrative fertility care, making evidence-based solutions accessible worldwide.

Gabriela also created and hosts The Fertility Challenge, a free online program that reaches tens of thousands globally each year. Her F.E.R.T.I.L.E. Method® has supported more than 204,000 people across 111 countries, with published research demonstrating a 78.8% live birth rate among patients in her signature program—even after years of infertility, recurrent miscarriage, and failed treatments.

In this episode, Dr. Gabriela Rosa exposes why standard fertility pathways and IVF-first strategies miss root causes—like incomplete diagnostics, lifestyle, and environmental drivers—and explains how deeper, integrative work dramatically improves live birth outcomes.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Intro ​01:49 – Sponsor: Peluva barefoot shoes ​03:35 – Dr. Gabriela's journey and Harvard research validation ​09:00 – 20 failed IVF cycles, "unexplained" infertility, and what IVF stats hide ​15:59 – Why standard fertility workups are so limited (only four tests) ​27:40 – Real root causes: lifestyle, environment, and upstream fertility factors ​38:36 – Treating fertility as a team sport and looking far upstream in both partners ​43:49 – Broken lab testing: insulin, glucose tolerance, and lazy "unexplained" labels ​45:21 – Common hidden issues: thyroid, insulin resistance, and missed diagnoses ​52:30 – Success stories, and where to find Dr. Gabriela's work

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