Integrative You Radio

By Integrative You

The Leading Global Integrative Doctor Duo - Dr. Nick & Dr. Nicole get Real, Raw & Disruptive on IntegrativeYou Radio diving deep into the human’s mind and body potential. They share out-of-the... more

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January 15, 2026Why Your Goals Die by Week 2
Most people don’t “fail” at goals because they’re lazy or undisciplined—they fail because the goal is built on the wrong foundation. In this episode, we break down why goals fall apart (sometimes in a week), how to tell if your “vision” is actually your ego talking, and how to set a vision that’s rooted in your real values so your actions become natural—not forced. Health, success, money, the body… it’s all integrated. When you stop isolating your life into separate buckets and start building from alignment, you stop burning out and start compounding.

#IntegrativeYou #TheDoctorDuo #GoalSetting #NewYearGoals #ValuesBasedLiving #IdentityShift #MindsetWork #HighPerformanceHabits #BurnoutRecovery #EntrepreneurMindset #EntrepreneurLife #WomenInBusiness #LeadershipDevelopment #PersonalGrowthJourney #HolisticHealth #IntegrativeMedicine #LongevityLifestyle #NervousSystemRegulation #Biohacking #HealthOptimization #ConciergeMedicine #FamilyWellness #LegacyBuilding #WealthAndWellness #PurposeDrivenLife #VisionCasting #SelfMastery #DemartiniMethod #HigherSelf #BeDoHave

3 Key Takeaways:
Your goals only stick when they’re rooted in true values (not fear, ego, or “what you think you should want”). If the goal is built on proving something, it’ll collapse—or you’ll hate the process.
Health isn’t the end goal for most people—it’s the tool. When health supports what you actually value (family, impact, leadership, freedom), you stop needing motivation and start moving with consistency.
You need a vision beyond the vision + honesty about where you are (A) to map a real path to where you’re going (B). If you’re not honest about A—or your B is borrowed—you’ll burn out.

Quotes:
“What is your goal rooted in? Because ‘I want to be healthier’ and ‘I want to be thinner’ are two very different things.”
“Health is just a tool—it’s the tool that helps you get what you actually value.”

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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.
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We’re all about real relationships and lasting results. Our application process helps us get to know you and make sure we’re the right fit—because your health deserves a true partnership, not a quick fix.

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45min
January 08, 2026Are People Assholes? Or Just Unskilled?
In this episode, we go straight at the question everyone’s thinking but nobody wants to say out loud: Are people just assholes? And our answer is… usually, no. Most people aren’t out here trying to ruin your life—they’re operating with zero interpersonal skills, low self-awareness, and a whole lot of unhealed triggers.

We break down why labeling someone as “an asshole” is lazy (and honestly, it keeps you stuck), how conflict avoidance quietly destroys relationships and businesses, and why the real flex is learning to pause, collect data, and take radical responsibility—even when your ego wants to make someone else the villain.

#IntegrativeYouRadio #HumanBehavior #EmotionalIntelligence #HealthyCommunication #RelationshipSkills #ConflictResolution #RadicalResponsibility #PersonalGrowthJourney #MindsetWork #TraumaHealing #NervousSystemRegulation #Triggers #SelfAwareness #Boundaries #ConsciousRelationships #LeadershipMindset #FamilyDynamics #HighPerformanceHabits #ValuesDrivenLife #HealingWork #SelfMastery #IntegrativeHealth #MindBodyConnection #GrowthMindset #LegacyLiving

3 Key Takeaways:
Labels kill nuance (and keep you suffering). When you slap “asshole” on someone, your brain starts hunting for proof—and suddenly you can’t see anything else about them (or the situation).
Most “asshole behavior” is unskilled behavior. People avoid hard conversations, don’t know how to communicate compassionately, and don’t understand their own needs—so they act out, explode, ghost, betray, or sabotage.
The way out is radical responsibility + objective “data.” Don’t try to fix people while you’re triggered. Pause. Ask better questions. Create space for real check-ins (like a business would). That’s how you stop repeating the same painful patterns.

Quotes:
“Conflict avoided is conflict multiplied.”
“You’re not the villain in their story—you represent the parts of them that are unhealed.”

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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
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40min
January 01, 2026The Hidden Root of Random Food Sensitivities That Don't Make Sense
This episode is a short, spicy reframe on food allergies / sensitivities / intolerances—especially the ones that don’t “make a sense” (yes, we said it like that). We’re talking about those weird, random reactions that don’t match the whole “food family” (ex: you can’t drink milk but you can eat ice cream… what?).

Nicole shares a real-life example from Italy: a friend with postpartum gallbladder symptoms and a long-standing “milk issue.” The punchline? Sometimes the body links a food to a high-emotion moment that happened while you were eating/drinking it—especially in childhood—so the reaction isn’t just about the food… it’s about the stored stress pattern attached to it. We’re not dismissing gut/immune issues (those are real), but we are inviting you to ask a better question: When did this start, and what was happening in my life at that exact time?

#FoodAllergies #FoodSensitivity #GutHealth #MindBodyMedicine #PsychosomaticHealing #TraumaInTheBody #NervousSystemRegulation #FunctionalMedicine #IntegrativeMedicine #RootCauseHealing #EliminationDiet #HistamineIntolerance #AutoimmuneHealing #HolisticHealth #DemartiniMethod #EmotionalHealing #SubconsciousMind #FightOrFlight #HealingJourney #IntegrativeYouRadio

3 Key Takeaways:
If the allergy is random and inconsistent, look at the mind—not just the molecule. If you react to one specific food but not the whole category, there may be a stored emotional association driving the response.
Your body stores what your mind couldn’t process. Even if you don’t remember the event, it can still run in the background as anxiety, triggers, fight-or-flight, and “threat” responses—including around food.
The goal isn’t an elimination diet forever—it’s resolving the root. Instead of endlessly testing, restricting, and managing, this is an invitation to trace the onset and neutralize the original charge (sometimes with support like guided work, meditation, or hypnosis).

Quotes:
“If you have a couple of miscellaneous food allergies that do not make sense… this is your opportunity to really think about when did it start.”
“When it doesn't make sense. Look at the mind, don't look at the body, look at the mind.”

Find Integrative You Radio On:
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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
Apply to Work With Us
We’re all about real relationships and lasting results. Our application process helps us get to know you and make sure we’re the right fit—because your health deserves a true partnership, not a quick fix.

Apply now (no strings attached): integrativeyou.health/onboarding

Questions? Call or text 732-810-1084.
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21min
December 25, 2025The Hidden Root of Nasal Congestion & Even Sleep Apnea
In this episode, we go deep on sleep apnea + chronic nasal congestion—and we do it the Integrative You way: yes, there can be very real physical causes (strep colonies, mold, parasites, tonsils, lymph congestion, inflammation)… but if you’ve “done all the things” and nothing is shifting, we’re inviting you to look at the mind-body root.

Nicole shares her own journey with sinus issues and the moment it clicked: “subconscious suffocation.”We unpack how the body can mirror the feeling of being trapped, pressured, or unable to fully be you—and how that can show up as gasping, snoring, congestion, or full-blown apnea. Then we tie it together with practical nervous system tools (vagus nerve support, hypnosis/vasovagal reset), while still keeping the main point: if you don’t remove the stressor, you’re just managing symptoms.

#SleepApnea #NasalCongestion #SnoringSolutions #VagusNerve #PolyvagalTheory #NervousSystemRegulation #MindBodyMedicine #PsychosomaticHealing #HolisticHealth #FunctionalMedicine #IntegrativeMedicine #BreathworkHealing #TraumaInTheBody #HypnosisHealing #SomaticHealing #LymphaticDrainage #SinusHealth #InflammationHealing #RootCauseHealing #TheDoctorDuo

3 Key Takeaways:
Sleep apnea can mirror “I feel trapped” (literally or symbolically). Trapped in a job, relationship, role, pressure, injected values—your body can express that as not being able to breathe at night.
Physical protocols matter… but they’re not always the root. If you’ve tried sprays, red light, drainage, devices, supplements, etc. and nothing changes, it doesn’t mean the tools are bad—it means you may be treating the wrong cause.
The vagus nerve isn’t just something you “hack”—it’s something you heal at the source. Breathwork, humming, gargling, resets, hypnosis can help, but lasting change comes from identifying what’s chronically keeping your system in fight-or-flight (and asking better questions).

Quotes:
“If something you feel like really didn't even make the slightest bit of a change… it's not the root cause.”
“If you're constantly working on healing the body and it's not healing… the body's not the problem. The mind is.”

Find Integrative You Radio On:
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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
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December 18, 2025Nice People Aren’t Healthy (Hot Take)
This one is pure “Doctor Duo” improv: we start with a playful holiday question—are you naughty or nice?—and quickly turn it into a real conversation about duality, judgment, and why trying to be “good” all the time actually messes people up. The core message: you’re not here to be one-sided. Healing (mentally, emotionally, physically, and even relationally) comes from seeing both sides of yourself and other people—without the guilt, shame, or performative “niceness.”

#IntegrativeMedicine #MindBodyConnection #EmotionalHealing #DemartiniMethod #Duality #ShadowWork #PersonalGrowthJourney #ConsciousParenting #HealthyRelationships #CommunicationSkills #NervousSystemHealing #TraumaHealing #HolisticHealth #FunctionalMedicine #SelfAwareness #HighPerformanceLiving #LegacyHealth #ValuesDrivenLiving #ConciergeMedicine #TheDoctorDuo

3 Key Takeaways:
You’re not one thing—ever. Trying to live as “only nice” or “only good” is a half-truth, and it creates internal stress. Real growth comes from integrating both sides (kind/firm, confident/humble, etc.).
Judgment is a mirror. The traits you judge hardest in others are usually the traits you carry too—just expressed differently. That’s why resentment can be such a powerful (and uncomfortable) teacher.
Guilt + shame kill connection. Whether it’s desires, fantasies, spending habits, or preferences—shaming your partner (or your kids) for what’s real for them creates separation. Communication + curiosity creates closeness.

Quotes:
“It’s impossible to live a one sided life. You know, you’re not just nice, you’re mean too.”
“When you judge someone else, when you see something in someone else, it’s only because you have that same trait—different form usually—but you have the same trait.”

Find Integrative You Radio On:
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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
Apply to Work With Us
We’re all about real relationships and lasting results. Our application process helps us get to know you and make sure we’re the right fit—because your health deserves a true partnership, not a quick fix.

Apply now (no strings attached): integrativeyou.health/onboarding

Questions? Call or text 732-810-1084.
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30min
December 11, 2025The Truth About Fevers: What Your Kids’ Symptoms Are Really Telling You
This episode dives into the misunderstood world of childhood fevers and recurring illnesses, busting conventional myths and exploring the deeper emotional and psychological layers behind kids’ symptoms. Dr. Nick and Dr. Nicole get real about their own family’s experiences, the power of self-reflection, and why being a conscious parent is the ultimate medicine. Expect truth bombs, practical wisdom, and a call to see illness as a feedback mechanism—not just a problem to fix.

#FeverFacts #MindBodyParenting #HolisticHealth #EmotionalHealing #ParentingWisdom #IntegrativeMedicine #ChildHealth #ConsciousParenting #FamilyWellness #SelfReflection #BeyondTheSymptoms #TruthBombs #IntegrativeYouRadio

3 Key Takeaways:
Fever Isn’t the Enemy: Most of us were taught to fear fevers, but the real story is that fever is often a sign the body is entering healing mode—not just “getting sick.” It’s the body’s way of burning off what doesn’t serve it and moving towards balance.
Emotional Roots Matter: Recurring symptoms like sinus congestion, sore throats, coughs, and ear infections often have emotional or psychological catalysts (like territorial conflicts, unprocessed anger, or feeling unheard). Kids’ symptoms can reflect family dynamics, not just viruses.
Parent Reflection = Family Healing: How parents respond to conflict and stress directly shapes kids’ health outcomes. Self-reflection, asking better questions, and being open to seeing your own role in the “problem” is key to breaking cycles and supporting true healing.

Quotes:
“The quality of your life is dictated by the quality of the questions you ask.”

Find Integrative You Radio On:
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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
Apply to Work With Us
We’re all about real relationships and lasting results. Our application process helps us get to know you and make sure we’re the right fit—because your health deserves a true partnership, not a quick fix.

Apply now (no strings attached): integrativeyou.health/onboarding

Questions? Call or text 732-810-1084.
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41min
December 04, 2025The Real Reason You’re Struggling After Baby: It’s Not Just Hormones
This raw, unfiltered episode dives straight into the real challenges of postpartum life—beyond the hormone talk and clinical labels. Dr. Nicole lays it out: bringing a baby into the world doesn’t just shake up your body, it shakes up your entire life, surfacing old wounds, unresolved traumas, and deep-seated beliefs. She breaks down how physical symptoms can be signals from your subconscious, not just medical issues, and offers a powerful invitation to see postpartum as a chance for deep self-reflection and generational healing. This is for every mom (and dad) who’s ever wondered, “Is this just hormones, or is there something deeper going on?”

#PostpartumTruth #GenerationalHealing #ConsciousParenting #IntegrativeYou #MindBodyConnection #BreakTheCycle #MomLifeUnfiltered #HealingJourney #EmotionalWellness #ParentingRealTalk

3 Key Takeaways:
Postpartum is a Mirror: Having a baby brings unresolved emotional wounds and subconscious patterns to the surface—don’t ignore what’s coming up, it’s feedback for growth.
Symptoms Are Signals: Physical issues (from thyroid to gut to heart) often reflect deeper emotional conflicts or misalignments, not just “bad luck” or “bad genes.”
Healing is Generational: Processing your own stuff isn’t just for you—it breaks cycles so your kids don’t inherit your unhealed trauma. Invest in yourself, and you invest in your family’s future.

Quotes:
“When you bring a baby into the world, everything shows its face. All the shit that you haven’t processed, all the shit that you brushed under the rug… everything shows its face.”
“Your kid is literally a little mirror of all your shit that you haven’t dealt with. So if you can fix yourself as a parent, your kids will be way better off.”

Find Integrative You Radio On:
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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
Apply to Work With Us
We’re all about real relationships and lasting results. Our application process helps us get to know you and make sure we’re the right fit—because your health deserves a true partnership, not a quick fix.

Apply now (no strings attached): integrativeyou.health/onboarding

Questions? Call or text 732-810-1084.
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29min
November 27, 2025Comfort or Growth? Choose Your Challenge Wisely
In this episode, Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick unpack what it really means to “choose your challenge wisely” in your health, family, and business. They share a real-life story of a family navigating a child’s “incurable” diagnosis and contrast the challenge of doing deep, integrative work with the hidden challenge of staying in the conventional, band-aid model. They call out how distraction culture, social media, and living by everyone else’s “shoulds” pull you away from your true values, your family, and your unique mission—and how reflection, aligned challenge, and inspiration (not desperation) are the real path to a life you actually love.
#ChooseYourChallengeWisely #IntegrativeYou #IntegrativeMedicine #FunctionalMedicine #ConsciousParenting #GenerationalHealth #ValuesDrivenLife #MindBodySpirit #HolisticHealing #HealingJourney #QuantumHealing #NeuroscienceAndHealing #HealthIsWealth #LegacyLiving #IntentionalLiving #InspirationOverDesperation #DistractionDetox #FamilyFirstLeadership #HighPerformanceMoms #EntrepreneurHealth

3 Key Takeaways:
You can’t escape challenge—only choose which one you’re willing to live with.
Medication and band-aids come with their own set of challenges: behavior issues, neurological inflammation, family disruption, more diagnoses down the line. Doing the deeper integrative work is also a challenge—but it’s the one that actually moves you toward a healthy child, a healthy body, and a healthy family dynamic.
Life expands when your challenge is connected to your highest values.
When the pain and effort are tied to what matters most—your kids, your health, your mission, your freedom—the challenge becomes inspiring instead of draining. If you’re constantly complaining, procrastinating, and feeling “over it,” you’re probably working on the wrong challenge or you haven’t connected it to what’s truly important to you.
Distraction is stealing your clarity, your presence, and your legacy.
Living on social media, comparing your life, your business, or your family to everyone else keeps you out of touch with your own values. Reflection time, stillness, and honest self-inquiry are non-negotiable if you want to stop living by “I should / I have to / I need to” and start curating a life rooted in inspiration instead of desperation.

Quotes:
“You don’t get to opt out of challenge—you only get to choose the one that leads you closer to the life you actually want.”
“Life isn’t happening to you; every challenge is a feedback mechanism redirecting you from desperation to a life rooted in inspiration and your true values.”

Find Integrative You Radio On:
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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
Apply to Work With Us
We’re all about real relationships and lasting results. Our application process helps us get to know you and make sure we’re the right fit—because your health deserves a true partnership, not a quick fix.

Apply now (no strings attached): integrativeyou.health/onboarding

Questions? Call or text 732-810-1084.
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22min
November 20, 2025Why You Hit a Healing Plateau: The Truth About the “All In” Strategy
In this episode of Integrative You Radio, Dr. Nicole breaks down why most people hit a plateau around the six-week mark in their healing journey—and why that’s not a “failure,” it’s feedback. She explains the physiological reasons protocols stop working as powerfully, how pathogens and organs adapt, and why your strategy must evolve as your body changes. Then she goes straight for the mindset: the cost of living in “service to everyone but yourself,” the illusion of getting “back to normal,” and how to start making decisions from inspiration instead of desperation so your health, family, and life actually move in the direction you say you want.

#IntegrativeYou #IntegrativeYouRadio #HealingJourney #HealthPlateau #FunctionalMedicine #IntegrativeMedicine #RootCauseHealing #MindBodyConnection #WomensHealth #HighAchievingWomen #HolisticHealth #SelfPrioritization #BurnoutRecovery #HealthMindset #InspirationOverDesperation

3 Key Takeaways:
A six-week plateau is not a problem, it’s a signal. Your body and the pathogens you’re clearing adapt. What got you from A to B won’t get you from B to C—your protocol, supplements, and therapies should evolve every 6–12 weeks, not stay static.
If your life is built on self-neglect, your “normal” is the problem. When you finally prioritize your own health, you feel empowered—until old programming creeps in: “This isn’t realistic, I have to get back to normal.” But that “normal” is usually burnout, overcommitting, and living for everyone else.
Sustainable healing requires both strategy and mindset. Going all-in, “perfect” for six weeks, then crashing is not mastery. Micro changes, mindset upgrades, and asking “Is this decision rooted in inspiration or desperation?” create real, long-term transformation.

Quotes:
“A plateau isn’t good or bad—it’s just your body saying, ‘Hey, change the strategy.’ If what you’re doing is working, you’re changing. So why would your protocol stay the same?”
“If you’re the burnt out, tired, exhausted, unhealthy version of yourself, you’re not actually serving anyone. Everybody getting the glass-half-empty version of you is not helping your kids, your spouse, or your clients.”

Find Integrative You Radio On:
Website
Youtube
Apple
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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

Links:
Website: Integrative You
Instagram: Dr. Nicole Rivera & Integrative You
Apply to Work With Us
We’re all about real relationships and lasting results. Our application process helps us get to know you and make sure we’re the right fit—because your health deserves a true partnership, not a quick fix.

Apply now (no strings attached): integrativeyou.health/onboarding

Questions? Call or text 732-810-1084.
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25min
November 13, 2025Hookworm, Hemorrhoids, & Hidden Root Causes of Chronic Gut Issues
This episode of Integrative You Radio dives deep into the misunderstood world of parasites, specifically hookworm, and their role in chronic gut issues like Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and mysterious symptoms like anemia, muscle wasting, and hemorrhoids. Dr. Nicole Rivera breaks down the difference between classic diagnoses and the often-overlooked root causes, sharing real client stories and practical advice for anyone feeling stuck or misdiagnosed. The conversation is honest, a little gritty, and designed to empower listeners to ask better questions, seek out more precise testing, and challenge the status quo in conventional and functional medicine.

#IntegrativeYouRadio #RootCauseMedicine #ParasiteAwareness #CrohnsHealing #UlcerativeColitis #FunctionalMedicine #GutHealth #HookwormTruth #HealthEmpowerment #TestDontGuess #WellnessPodcast #RealRawHealing

3 Key Takeaways:
Root Cause Over Labels: Many chronic gut issues (Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis, anemia, muscle wasting) may actually be linked to parasites like hookworm—not just the standard diagnoses. Investigating root causes, not just treating symptoms, is essential for true healing.
Testing Matters: Conventional stool tests often miss parasites due to how quickly they break down after leaving the body. Blood, urine, and DNA testing can be more reliable for uncovering hidden infections.
Empowerment Through Knowledge: Understanding the difference between hemorrhoids and deeper inflammatory issues—and knowing what to look for—arms you with the right questions and helps you advocate for your own health journey.

Quotes:
“You have to get rid of that more foundational issue before you’re going to be successful with getting rid of the rest.”
“I’m not telling you that hookworm is the only cause of Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis, but I am telling you that it is worth it to investigate if that is the foundational reason why you have that condition in the first place.”

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2 Doctors Committed to Innovating the Healthcare Experience.
Integrative You Radio is hosted by husband-and-wife duo, Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers. With their voracious curiosity for Integrative Medicine, the Human Mind, Aligned Parenting, and Entrepreneurship, they bring a fresh perspective to the table. They aim to debunk the BS that is holding you back in your health, your relationships, and your life.
Each episode is designed to challenge your thinking, push boundaries, and inspire you to see your life through a new lens. Dr. Nicole and Dr. Nick share transformative insights that have revolutionized their lives and the lives of their clients at Integrative You.
This is raw. This is real. This is Integrative You Radio— where we blow shit up for the sake of human innovation.

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