A lot of wellness advice assumes the problem lives inside the individual. Your stress. Your habits. Your discipline. Your food choices. Your ability to regulate. But what happens when you are already doing the things that are supposed to help and your life still feels strangely disconnected? You eat well, meditate, try to regulate your nervous system, maybe even spend money on wellness, but the second you return to your commute, your neighborhood, your apartment, or another day without real connection, something in your body still feels unsettled.

That is the health problem hiding in your zip code. In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Tony Cho, a purpose-driven entrepreneur and regenerative placemaking visionary, to talk about why loneliness is not always a personal failure, why modern cities can dysregulate the nervous system, and why the future of wellness has to include the places, communities, and systems we live inside. And until you start looking at the spaces around you, you may keep trying to fix symptoms that were never meant to be carried alone.

Tony Cho is a purpose-driven entrepreneur and visionary community builder helping cities evolve into living ecosystems that support human connection, creativity, and regeneration. His work bridges personal well-being, community design, and the future of the built environment in balance with nature and culture.

What’s Discussed:

(06:07) Smart cities vs. wise cities, and what modern development is getting wrong.

(10:02) How ashram life shaped Tony’s view of community, ritual, death, and belonging.

(21:13) Why regenerative placemaking starts with listening to the land, people, and culture.

(38:09) Why loneliness may be a design flaw, not a personal failure.

(1:07:16) What wellness spaces miss when they focus on biohacking instead of place and people.

(1:12:13) Why third places matter for connection, community, and everyday belonging.

(1:22:30) How ritual can bring people back to existence without dogma or rigid rules.

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Learn more about Tony Cho:

Website: ony-cho.com/generation-regeneration

Substack: tonycho1111.substack.com/

Instagram: @tonycho

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chotimelive/

YouTube: @RegenerativeLivingwithTonyCho

Press: tony-cho.com/press

Weight loss can feel exhausting when every plan gives you another reason to push harder. Eat less. Cut more. Fast longer. Ignore hunger. Be more disciplined. But for so many people, that only leads to the same cycle: trying harder, feeling stuck, blaming yourself, and wondering why your body still feels bloated, inflamed, tired, or out of rhythm.

In this solo episode of Rooted in Wellness, I’m looking at weight loss through an Ayurvedic lens, where the conversation is not only about calories, restriction, or willpower. It is also about the state your body is in while you are trying to change it.

Because if your digestion feels off, your cravings feel louder, your stress feels constant, or your body feels like it is holding on no matter what you do, the answer may not be another extreme reset. It may be learning how to support your body in a way that feels more grounded, nourishing, and sustainable.

What’s Discussed:

(02:47) Why the usual “eat less, move more” weight loss advice may not be the full story.

(05:53) How Ayurveda looks at digestion, Agni, and the body’s ability to process what it takes in.

(08:37) Why pushing through hunger can become part of the same cycle people are trying to escape.

(13:41) The role daily rhythm plays in cravings, energy, digestion, and feeling regulated.

(22:00) Why meal timing matters, especially when dinner becomes the biggest meal of the day.

(27:49) How warm meals, cooked foods, and digestive spices can change the way your body receives nourishment.

(42:43) Why stress, inflammation, and feeling overloaded can make the body feel stuck.

Listen to this episode if weight loss has started to feel like a fight with your body, and you want a more compassionate way to understand what your body may be asking for. 🎧

Learn more about Mona Sharma:

• Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at monasharma.com/12tips
• Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.
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There is a frustrating point a lot of people hit with cardio. You know it matters. You know heart health, stamina, and energy are important, especially as you think about aging well. But the version of cardio most of us were taught feels hard to keep up with: long workouts, more sweat, more time, and another thing on your schedule that can leave you feeling drained before the day has even started.

That is also why the “I do not have time” problem is not always as simple as it sounds. For many people, cardio feels like something that only counts if it takes a big chunk of time or proves itself through exhaustion. But what if the body does not need another hour-long workout to start adapting? What if the real question is whether the workout is giving your body the right signal in the first place?

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Ulrich Dempfle to talk about why the way we think about cardio, VO2 max, and longevity may need a serious update. Ulrich is the CEO and co-founder of CAROL, and he used his background in mechanical engineering to help develop the world’s only Reduced Exertion HIIT, or REHIT, bike alongside leading exercise researchers. He breaks down why short, precise effort can create a powerful cardiovascular response, and why improving your fitness may not require overhauling your entire life.

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What’s Discussed:

(06:37) Why sweating is not the only sign that a workout counted.

(08:29) The outdated “no pain, no gain” advice that keeps people chasing longer, harder workouts.

(14:40) Why the minimum effective dose may matter more than spending an hour on cardio.

(19:32) How breathwork helps your body recover after short, intense effort.

(37:04) Why more sprints or longer intervals do not always create better results.

(45:08) Why VO2 max matters for longevity, oxygen delivery, mitochondria, and energy for life.

(58:15) How Ulrich builds short cardio, strength training, and joyful movement into his own routine.

Listen to this episode if cardio has always felt like something you need to make more time for, push harder through, or recover from afterward. This conversation will help you understand why improving cardiovascular fitness may have less to do with doing more, and more to do with giving your body a signal it can actually use. 🎧

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Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

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You can be sleeping, exercising, taking supplements, trying to meditate, cutting back on caffeine, doing all the “right” things, and still feel like your body is bracing for something you cannot name. That is the part so many stress conversations miss, because anxiety is not always something you can mindset your way out of when your nervous system has learned that safety is not the default.

We dive deeper into this in Rooted in Wellness with Dr. Dave Rabin, and this conversation will change the way you understand stress, anxiety, trauma, and why everything you have tried has only ever scratched the surface of what actually needs to heal. 

Dr. Dave Rabin is a board certified psychiatrist and neuroscientist with over 12 years of post-college medical training specializing in chronic stress, trauma, and treatment resistant mental illness, one of the few psychiatrists in the United States trained in both ketamine and MDMA assisted therapy, and the co-founder of Apollo Neuroscience. With decades spent working with the most treatment resistant patients in psychiatry, the people who had tried everything and still could not find relief, he has dedicated his entire career to finding what actually works when nothing else does. 

What's Discussed:

(5:04) The four pillars of self trust and why restoring a sense of agency is the foundation of all healing.

(13:53) Why looking at your phone first thing in the morning is one of the most dysregulating things you can do to your nervous system.

(17:35) Why anxiety is not a disorder but a signal and what happens when we treat it like one.

(22:11) How chronic stress diverts up to 80% of your blood flow away from every system in your body responsible for healing.

(34:03) Why perfectionism is a biological trap and what it is actually doing to your nervous system.

(39:20) How trauma changes your gene expression and what epigenetics tells us about the possibility of healing.

(1:03:59) Why the source of all healing comes from within and how psychedelic assisted therapy is proving it.

(1:23:54) Why optimizing from a place of fear is actually shortening your life and what to do instead.

Listen to this episode of Rooted in Wellness and walk away with a completely different understanding of your body, your nervous system, and why feeling safe is not a luxury but the foundation of every single thing your body needs to heal.

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Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma

Learn more about Dr. Dave Rabin:

Instagram: @drdavidrabin 

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There is a specific kind of frustration that happens when you are trying to take care of your body, but something still feels off. You are eating better, taking supplements, trying to manage stress, maybe even getting your labs checked, but your energy still feels low, your brain feels foggy, your digestion feels sluggish, or your hormones feel harder to understand than they used to.

But what if the answer is not another extreme cleanse, another supplement, or another reason to blame yourself? What if your body has been sending quieter signals through the organ most people only think about when they hear the word “detox,” and understanding that organ could change the way you look at your energy, mood, hormones, digestion, and daily health? In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Dr. Josh Levitt to talk about why the liver is so much more than a filter, why detox trends often miss the point, and how to support your body’s built-in detox process in a way that feels practical and sustainable. 

Dr. Joshua Levitt, ND, is a naturopathic physician, author, educator, and Co-Founder and Medical Director at UpWellness, with over 20 years of hands-on clinical experience helping people understand their bodies through a grounded, integrative lens.

What’s Discussed:

(04:19) Why Mona’s healing journey inspired Rooted in Wellness and the bridge between Eastern and Western medicine.

(10:28) Why balance is not about staying perfectly steady, but learning how to manage the moments that pull you off center.

(20:30) The subtle signs your liver may need support before anything obvious shows up on labs.

(21:26) Why the liver is not just a filter, and how that misunderstanding can keep people from connecting their symptoms.

(23:58) What standard liver labs can tell you, and why “normal” results may not always explain why you still feel off.

(42:06) What people should know before trying detox teas, juice cleanses, liver flushes, or viral detox trends.

(57:09) Why liver health belongs in the conversation around hormones, HRT, perimenopause, stress, and how your body processes what it carries.

Listen to this episode to understand why supporting your liver may not be about doing a harder detox, and why feeling sluggish, foggy, hormonally off, or disconnected from your body may have more to do with daily support than another extreme reset. 🎧

Thank You to Our Sponsor:

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Learn more about Mona Sharma:

• Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at monasharma.com/12tips
• Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.
• Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma

Learn more about Dr. Josh Levitt & UpWellness:

Website: upwellness.com

UpWellness LTV: drinkLTV.com

Instagram: @drjoshlevitt

TikTok: @drjoshlevitt

There is a very specific kind of frustration that happens when you genuinely want to get healthier, but every attempt starts to feel like the same cycle. You get motivated, you clean up your food, you promise yourself this time will be different, and then one missed workout, one busy week, or one moment of “I already messed up” makes you feel like you are back at the beginning again.

But what if the problem is not that you lack discipline? What if the real problem is that you were taught to make fitness too extreme to actually become your life?

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Stan Browney to talk about the part of fitness that most people overlook. We get into why motivation is not always the thing that creates change, why so many people make getting healthy harder than it needs to be, and why the way you approach food, movement, routine, and progress can either keep you stuck in the start-over cycle or help you finally move forward.

Stan Browney is a fitness creator, YouTuber, and founder of the 90 Day Challenge app. Through his challenge-based content, bodyweight training, and transformation series, he has helped millions of people see fitness as something they can start, enjoy, and keep going with without needing perfection, expensive equipment, or extreme routines.

What’s Discussed:

(07:10) The fitness myth about carbs that still refuses to go away.

(08:07) Why motivation may not be what actually gets people fit.

(10:39) Why starting can feel like the biggest roadblock.

(13:08) What is really happening when the scale stops moving.

(15:43) The difference between wanting fast results and wanting real change.

(30:39) Why missing one day can feel like failure, and what to do with that moment.

(52:59) The small habit Stan recommends when someone wants to begin.

Listen to this episode to understand why getting healthy may not be about finding a harder plan, and why the reason you keep starting over may have less to do with your body and more to do with the way fitness has been presented to you. 🎧 

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• Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.
• Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma

Learn more about Stan Browney: 

Instagram: @stanbrowney 

YouTube: @Browney 

So many people spend years chasing answers. Doctor after doctor, test after test, protocol after protocol, and still their body feels like it is stuck in something it cannot find its way out of. They may be eating better, taking supplements, trying to lower stress, testing for Lyme, mold, viruses, or toxins, and still wondering why they do not feel better.

If you are also feeling that same frustration, this episode is for you. In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Dr. Bill Rawls to talk about why chronic illness is so rarely about one single diagnosis, pathogen, or protocol. Because when the body has been under years of stress, toxicity, depletion, and cellular strain, healing cannot only be about attacking what showed up on a test. It has to be about understanding why the body became vulnerable in the first place, what your cells need to rebuild resilience, and how to create the conditions for your body to actually recover.

Dr. Bill Rawls is a medical doctor whose personal battle with chronic Lyme disease brought him face to face with the limits of conventional medicine and led him toward a deeper understanding of cellular health, herbal medicine, and true recovery. Through his RESTORE180™ framework and his work in herbal and cellular wellness, he has become one of the most trusted voices helping people move beyond symptom management and understand what the body truly needs to heal.

Use code MONA at https://vitalplan.com/  to get 25% off the Vital Plan order, including the first month of RESTORE180. 

What’s Discussed:

(09:00) Why chronic illness keeps rising despite advanced medicine.

(15:46) Why people can do everything “right” and still feel stuck.

(19:33) How stress, toxicity, and cellular breakdown create vulnerability.

(30:00) Why Lyme, mold, and viruses are rarely the whole story.

(47:09) How herbs work differently from pharmaceuticals.

(56:00) Why herbal healing works on a different timeline.

(01:06:14) The trap of more supplements, testing, and protocols.

(01:11:49) Simple first steps to reduce cellular stress.

Listen now and learn why your body may not need another extreme protocol, but the right support to rebuild resilience from the cellular level.

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Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma

Learn more about Dr. Bill Rawls

Website: https://rawlsmd.com/

Instagram: @rawlsmd 

Facebook: @rawlsmd 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RawlsMD 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bill-rawls-md/ 

Hormone health has become one of the most confusing conversations in wellness, and that confusion can change the way you care for your body. Some people avoid HRT completely because they are afraid of it, while others get placed on one-size-fits-all protocols that never fully consider their stress, sleep, lifestyle, labs, symptoms, or what their body is actually asking for.

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Dr. Nayan Patel to help you understand how to approach hormone health with more clarity and confidence. We talk about where the fear around hormone therapy comes from, why “normal” is not always the same as optimal, how custom compounding can support more personalized care, and why your doctor, pharmacist, lifestyle, and daily habits all need to work together if you want the treatment to actually support your body.

Dr. Nayan Patel is a sought-after pharmacist, wellness expert, and author of The Glutathione Revolution: Fight Disease, Slow Aging, and Increase Energy with the Master Antioxidant. Since 1999, he has worked with physicians to custom-develop patient-specific medication, hormone, and nutrition protocols for celebrities, CEOs, physicians, and high-performing clients. After 11 years of clinical research on glutathione, he developed patented topical glutathione delivery technology, making him one of the most trusted voices on personalized medicine, hormone therapy, and antioxidant support.

What's Discussed:

(00:00) Why so many people feel “off” even when their labs come back normal.

(04:12) The early signs your hormones are shifting before it becomes a bigger issue.

(08:30) Where the fear around hormone therapy actually comes from and why it’s still so strong.

(12:45) Why one-size-fits-all hormone protocols leave so many people stuck.

(17:10) What gets missed in standard hormone testing and appointments.

(21:36) The difference between “normal” and “optimal” and why it matters for how you feel.

(26:50) Breaking down bioidentical, natural, and synthetic hormones in a way that actually makes sense.

(32:18) Why personalized, compounded hormone therapy can change outcomes.

(38:40) The lifestyle factors that can block hormone therapy from working properly.

(54:10) The biggest mistakes people make when trying to fix their hormones.

If you’ve been feeling off, dismissed, or confused about your hormones, this episode will help you understand what might actually be missing and how to approach your hormone health in a way that finally makes sense.

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• Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.
• Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma
  

Learn more about Auro Wellness: 

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Instagram: @aurowellness 

Facebook: @aurowellness 

TikTok: @auro.wellness 

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When we talk about health, healing, and performance, we usually focus on the things we have been taught to look at first. We talk about hormones, gut health, sleep, stress, inflammation, nutrition, movement, and nervous system regulation. But most of us never think to ask whether there is another system quietly shaping how we focus, learn, move, process stress, and feel in our bodies.

That system is vision.

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Dr. Bryce Appelbaum to explore why vision is one of the most overlooked foundations of whole-body health. We talk about why 20/20 eyesight does not mean your vision is fully healthy, how the eye-brain connection affects focus, stress, learning, screen fatigue, concussion recovery, aging, and performance, and why standard eye exams can miss functional vision problems that may be affecting your daily life.

Dr. Bryce Appelbaum is a pioneer in neuro-optometry, an international TEDx speaker, and the creator of Vision Performance Training, a transformative approach that rewires the eye-brain connection, supports post-concussion vision issues, and builds long-term visual resilience. As the founder and CEO of MyVisionFirst and ScreenFit™, he has become one of the most trusted voices in functional vision, helping people understand why 20/20 eyesight is not the whole story. 

If you want to start supporting their visual system beyond today’s conversation, Dr. Appelbaum is offering exclusive discounts on ScreenFit™ and Digital Performance Lenses: 

$200 off ScreenFit™ https://checkout.screenfit.com/screenfit-vision-foundations/ using code MONA at screenfit.com/enroll 

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What's Discussed:

(05:43) Why 20/20 eyesight is not the full picture.

(07:20) What standard eye exams often miss.

(18:05) The difference between eyesight and vision.

(25:20) How vision connects to stress and regulation.

(28:06) What screens do to the eyes and brain.

(30:21) How vision issues can affect children’s learning and focus.

(35:56) Everyday signs of functional vision problems.

(49:35) How Vision Performance Training rewires the eye-brain connection.

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Learn more about Mona Sharma:

• Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at monasharma.com/12tips 
• Visit Mona's website: monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.
• Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma
  

Learn more about Dr. Bryce Applebaum and MyVisionFirst: 

Instagram: @drbryceappelbaum 

Website: https://myvisionfirst.com/ 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5moFndYRU 

What if your mood swings, your anxiety, your exhaustion, and even your physical symptoms aren't problems to be fixed but messages waiting to be heard? You have probably tried to silence them anyway, pushed through the fatigue, tightened up your routine, added another practice to your morning. But what you have never realized is that your body is not breaking down but breaking open, asking you to finally stop running from the stories, the grief, and the generational weight you have been carrying for years. Your hormones and your emotions are not two separate conversations, and until you bridge that gap, no protocol, no supplement, and no wellness routine will ever be enough.

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sat down with naturopathic physician Dr. Sonya Jensen to explore how to close that gap. We also talk about why the trauma your mother and grandmother never processed may be showing up in your hormones today, and why perimenopause is not something to survive but one of the most powerful invitations of a woman's life.

Dr. Sonya Jensen is a naturopathic physician with over 15 years of experience specializing in women's hormonal health, the creator of the HER Method, and the author of Heal Your Hormones, Reclaim Yourself. With a background in cell biology and over a decade of clinical work at the intersection of hormones, emotions, and relationships, she is one of the most grounded voices in women's health today.

What's Discussed:

(2:30) The three daily non-negotiables that keep Dr. Sonya feeling rooted.

(5:02) What actually causes women to feel uprooted and why hormonal changes amplify it.

(8:29) What your hormones are really trying to tell you when you feel exhausted and disconnected.

(10:02) The grief that lives inside every stage of a woman's life that nobody talks about.

(17:45) Why your labs can look completely normal and you still feel terrible.

(24:22) How unprocessed stress and trauma biologically alter your hormonal landscape.

(26:43) Why you may be carrying your mother's and grandmother's hormonal patterns in your body.

(48:52) What anger, anxiety, and sadness are actually trying to tell you.

(50:53) The emotional root behind fibroids and why your body may be holding on.

(1:08:32) Three simple things you can start doing today to come back into alignment.

(1:09:33) The HER Method explained: Hormones, Emotions, Relationships.

Listen to this episode of Rooted in Wellness and walk away finally understanding why everything you have tried has not worked, what your body has actually been asking for all along, and how to start healing from the root instead of chasing the symptoms. 

Thank you to our Sponsors: 

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Learn more about Mona Sharma:

• Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at https://monasharma.com/12tips. 
• Visit Mona's website: https://monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.
• Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma

Learn more about Dr. Sonya Jensen: 

• Book: www.healyourhormonesbook.com 
• Instagram: @drsonyajensen   
• Website: www.drsonyajensen.com