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Is Estrogen Sabotaging Your Thyroid Health? Discover the Truth with an Award-Winning Physician
Estrogen's Role in Thyroid Function: Learn why estradiol is vital for thyroid health and how imbalances can disrupt its function. The Impact of Birth Control & Toxins: Discover how synthetic hormones and environmental disruptors can lead to thyroid issues. Chronic Inflammation & PCOS: Understand the connection between low estrogen, inflammation, and thyroid dysfunction in women with PCOS.
The Missing Piece in ADHD, Anxiety, and Chronic Symptoms with Dr. Stephanie Rimka
On this episode of Vitality Radio, Jared welcomes Dr. Stephanie Rimka, a clinician and educator with nearly 30 years of experience exploring brain function, nervous system regulation, mitochondrial health, and emotional well-being. They challenge the tendency to let labels like ADHD, anxiety, and depression become part of our identity and discuss why symptoms may offer clues about what the body and brain need. Dr. Rimka shares her perspective on nutrition, physiology, mindset, visualization, and the importance of looking at the whole person rather than simply focusing on a diagnosis. She also offers a powerful exercise for developing greater self-compassion by reconnecting with younger versions of yourself. This conversation is a passionate exploration of hope, resilience, brain health, and learning to work with your body rather than against it.
Why TSH Can Read Normal While Cells Run Low (Part 1 of 3)
The pituitary plays by different rules. Stress, illness, dieting, and aging push most of the body's cells toward making less active T3 and more reverse T3, while the pituitary keeps its own T3 high. That is why I argue a TSH in a chronically ill patient can look reassuring when the tissues are running low. Chronic illness often begins with an immune shift. In the patients I see, stress, toxins, infections, and age tilt the immune system away from TH1 and toward TH2 and TH17. As the thymus shrinks with age, that balance gets harder to maintain, and I use the CD4-to-CD8 ratio as a rough read on where a patient sits. Hashimoto's can hide behind normal labs. I walk through studies suggesting thyroid inflammation can be present when antibodies and TSH look unremarkable, and that symptoms track with immune activity. My view is that these patients need the immune picture treated alongside the thyroid.
Why It Was Never Just Strep: Dr. Richard Horowitz On Neuroinflammation
Dr. Horowitz groups the drivers of chronic inflammation into six sources, which are infections, environmental toxins, the microbiome, intestinal permeability, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and sleep, and then ten downstream effects those six feed. Pulling one nail out and sending the patient home is where he thinks most of medicine still stops. When a family tells me testing is out of reach, I point them at his questionnaire. It costs nothing, and he says that in validation across three medical practices it held up against the standard two-tiered Lyme test. Brain inflammation now shows up in blood. Markers that once needed a spinal tap are blood tests now, and one of Dr. Horowitz's Lyme patients saw hers return to normal on his Dapsone protocol. One case, and he wants a trial.
How Cold Should a Cold Plunge Be for Women?
Temperature is the setting that matters most for women. Josh keeps the water between 55–60°F, which he says raises cortisol a little without the hard stress of very cold water. He also pays attention to the time of the month and to how recovered someone feels that week. On a training day, the order matters. Josh plunges first, warms up and trains, then finishes in the sauna. On days without a workout, he says you can start with either one, as long as you finish with cold. Sauna heat has a ceiling too. Josh keeps infrared saunas in the 140s and a traditional hot sauna between 180–200°F, and he warns against going past 200°F. Start slowly, and check with your practitioner first if you have a health condition.
Dr. Peter McCullough on Spike Protein, Recovery and the Vaccine Schedule
Antibody levels guide his treatment decisions. Dr. McCullough uses the COVID-19 spike antibody test as a stand-in for spike protein exposure. In his practice, levels below about 1,000 rarely call for treatment, while higher levels, especially above 5,000, lead him to recommend a clearance protocol. His detox base is two oral enzymes plus curcumin. The protocol he has published pairs nattokinase and bromelain with curcumin, taken on an empty stomach. Because nattokinase and bromelain affect clotting, he tells patients to tell their doctors, especially before any surgery. He wants vaccines matched to clinical needs. Dr. McCullough argues that vaccines should follow individual risk, such as hepatitis B for babies born to infected mothers or pneumococcal vaccines for people without a spleen, and that parents' decisions about their children should be respected.
Is It ADHD or Something Else?
Is it really ADHD, or is something else going on? If you've been told your child's focus problems are ADHD, or that your own anxiety, brain fog and poor sleep are "just stress," this conversation offers another way to look at it. In this episode, Dr. Jaban Moore talks with Dr. Stephanie Rimka, DC, BCN, a chiropractor board certified in neurofeedback who practices in Atlanta. She explains brain waves in plain English, shares what she looks for before assuming a diagnosis, and describes why she believes the brain needs the right foundation before neurofeedback can work. Dr. Jaban also shares how gentle brain-calming tools have fit into his work with highly sensitive, complex chronic illness. In this episode, you'll learn: → What neurofeedback is and how brain waves relate to focus, anxiety and sleep → Why Dr. Rimka says ADHD can look like other things, from sleep loss to nutrient and environmental factors → What she has observed on live brain scans of children watching screens → Why she starts with sleep, food and nutrition, and sometimes pauses neurofeedback while the body catches up → Why Dr. Jaban calls neurofeedback "physical therapy for the brain" → How in-person and remote neurofeedback can differ, and how to find a qualified provider → How the brain can build a new "road" when it's stuck in an old pattern
Reset Invitation
Join me and a supportive group of people this October to Reset your gut health, boost your mood, shed some toxins (and the weight that goes with them), and feel AMAZING in your body. Get grounded and connected to your body's needs before the craziness of the holidays and the cold months ahead. Go now to reset.nourishtogether.com to register. Doors close on September 30th.
Normal Labs, But You Feel Terrible? Menopause Symptoms | RoxAnne Eli
Your labs came back “normal,” but you still can’t sleep, focus, or feel like yourself? In this Practitioners Palooza clip, I explain why a result inside a reference range may not tell the whole story of how you feel in midlife. I’m RoxAnne Eli, MS, FDN-P, HHP, founder of Apex Executive Wellness. I help high-performing women navigate menopause and other midlife health challenges. Book a complimentary Symptom Relief Strategy Session: https://schedule.apexexecutivewellness.com/symptom-relief-strategy-session Educational information only. Discuss your symptoms and lab results with your healthcare professional. #Menopause #Perimenopause #MidlifeHealth
Will AI Replace Your Doctor? I Asked an AI Version of Myself
AI could become a powerful healthcare tool, but it is not infallible. Dr. Park discusses how AI can process vast amounts of medical information, generate differential diagnoses, identify potential drug interactions, and assist clinicians and patients—but it can still hallucinate, make mistakes, and produce incorrect information. Human context and oversight remain essential. AI may have enormous amounts of medical knowledge and an impressive ability to recognize patterns, but Dr. Park questions whether it can truly replicate human empathy, lived experience, intuition, and the ability to understand the deeper behavioral and emotional context behind a patient's health. The biggest questions may be about safety, privacy, and ethics. The episode raises unresolved concerns about ownership of medical data, portability between AI systems, responsibility when AI causes harm, access to increasingly expensive models, and how AI should handle complex ethical decisions in healthcare.
Beyond Medication Stacking: A Psychiatrist’s Look at Autism Care
Discover why relying only on psychiatric medications can miss deeper drivers of behavior, inflammation, brain fog, and metabolic health. Understand how medication side effects, drug stacking, and limited communication can complicate care for children with autism or ADHD. Learn why root-cause tools, lifestyle support, informed consent, and safe medication tapering can help families pursue better quality of life.