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Rooted in Wellness with Mona Sharma
30 episodes
127. Normal Labs, Real Symptoms: What Your Immune System May Be Trying to Tell You with Dr. Tania Dempsey
Ep 127 · Aug 12, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
There is a point where “everything looks normal” stops feeling reassuring. You may be exhausted, bloated, itchy, inflamed, anxious, sensitive to foods, reacting to supplements, struggling with sleep, or feeling like your body is on high alert, yet the answers you keep getting are stress, aging, hormones, or nothing to worry about. Most people do not start searching for deeper answers because of one symptom. It is usually the way the symptoms keep stacking, shifting, and refusing to make sense. I…
126. The Self-Improvement Trap: Why More Healing Work Is Not Always the Answer with Panache Desai
Ep 126 · Aug 5, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from spending years trying to heal yourself and still feeling like you have not arrived. You go to therapy, journal, regulate your nervous system, learn your patterns, and keep looking for the next thing that will finally help you feel peaceful. Then an old emotion returns or you find yourself in a familiar pattern, and it can feel like proof that there is still something wrong with you. The part we rarely question is what all that effort may be…
125. Peptides Are Not a Shortcut: Here’s What Your Body Needs First with Nathalie Niddam
Ep 125 · Jul 29, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Peptides are everywhere right now, and the promise is hard to ignore. When you are dealing with slow recovery, inflammation, low energy, gut issues, or the feeling that your body is no longer responding the way it used to, hearing that one compound could help, can make it feel like the answer you have been waiting for. The excitement around peptides is real, but so is the confusion. With so many compounds, protocols, and promises circulating online, it can be difficult to know what your body may…
124. The Attachment Wound Behind Your Relationship Patterns with Thais Gibson
Ep 124 · Jul 22, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Why do we sometimes pull away from the people we love most? Why can closeness feel comforting one moment and overwhelming the next? And why do certain patterns keep repeating even when we know we want something different? In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Thais Gibson to look at the patterns underneath how we love, cope, shut down, chase, self-soothe, and respond when our nervous system does not feel fully safe. We talk about attachment styles, core wounds, subconscious beli…
123: What “Normal” Labs Are Not Telling You About Your Thyroid with Dr. Amie Hornaman
Jul 15, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
Some seasons of health feel confusing because nothing looks dramatic on paper, but daily life tells a different story. You are exhausted in a way coffee cannot cover. Your weight is shifting even though your habits have not changed that much. Your hair feels thinner. Your brain feels foggy. And when you finally ask for help, the labs come back “normal,” and suddenly the conversation ends before anyone really explains why you still do not feel like yourself. That is where so many women get stuck.…
122: The Cellular Reason Your Body Feels Different After 30 with Jennifer Scheinman
Jul 8, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
There is a frustrating moment that can happen in your thirties or forties when your body starts to feel different, but you cannot quite explain why. Your energy dips in a way that coffee does not really fix. Your recovery takes longer. Your focus feels hazier. Your body feels less responsive, even when you are eating well, moving, taking supplements, and trying to do the things that are supposed to help. And the hardest part is how easy it is to dismiss all of it. You start wondering if this is…
121. The Health Problem Hiding in Your Zip Code with Tony Cho
Jul 3, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min
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 conn…
The Ayurvedic Way to Lose Weight Without Hunger, Shame, or Punishment
Jul 1, 2026 · 50 min
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, re…
120. What Most People Get Wrong About Cardio with Ulrich Dempfle
Jun 24, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
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 pe…
114: Why Nothing You’ve Tried for Anxiety and Stress Is Actually Working with Dr. Dave Rabin
Jun 17, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
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…
118: The Detox Mistake That Keeps Your Body Feeling Off with Dr. Josh Levitt
Ep 118 · Jun 10, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
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? W…
117. The Fitness Mistake That Keeps You Starting Over with Stan Browney
Jun 3, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
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…
116. Cellular Health: How to Rebuild the Body’s Ability to Heal with Dr. Bill Rawls
May 27, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min
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…
115. The Missing Piece in Hormone Therapy No One Is Talking About with Dr. Nayan Patel
Ep 115 · May 20, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min
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 healt…
114. The Eye-Brain Connection Behind Focus, Fatigue, and Screen Stress with Dr. Bryce Appelbaum
Ep 114 · May 13, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min
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…
113. The Hormones and Emotions Connection - Why Healing Your Hormones Means Healing Your Story with Dr. Sonya Jensen
Ep 113 · May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min
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…
112. Beyond Reproduction - The Shocking Truth About What Estrogen Actually Does In Your Body with Dr. Siobhan Mitchell
Ep 112 · Apr 29, 2026 · 1 hr 46 min
Have you ever done everything right, the clean eating, the morning rituals, the consistent workouts, and still felt like your body was working against you in ways you could not explain? Probably, you cleaned up your diet even more, added another wellness protocol, pushed harder in the gym, only to end up more exhausted, more inflamed, more frustrated, and no closer to feeling like yourself again. The problem was never your effort or your discipline. It was biology. And specifically, it was one h…
111. What Makes Nature The Most Powerful Healing Protocol with Caroline Howell
Ep 111 · Apr 22, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
We have been sold the idea that healing comes from the right supplement, the right protocol, the right biohack, and so we keep consuming more, optimizing more, spending more, and still wondering why we feel so depleted, anxious, and disconnected from ourselves. What nobody is telling us is that the most powerful wellness protocol on the planet does not come in a bottle and it never did. In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Caroline Howell for one of the most grounding conversat…
110. The Deficiency Behind Your Brain Fog, Poor Sleep, and Chronic Fatigue with Caroline Alan
Apr 15, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
Eating well, exercising regularly, and taking a cabinet full of supplements, yet still feeling exhausted, foggy, anxious, and like something fundamental is missing — that experience has a name. The World Health Organization calls it the hidden hunger, and the reason it is so widespread is that the mineral content of our food supply has been quietly declining for decades, leaving even the healthiest eaters chronically depleted at a cellular level. In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down…
109. The Missing Piece in Every Longevity Conversation: Why Your Mouth Is the Gateway to Your Overall Health with Dr. Jonathan Levine
Apr 7, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
When it comes to health and longevity, we obsess over what we eat, how we move, how we sleep, and how we manage stress, never realizing that one of the most powerful indicators of how well our body is functioning has been hiding in plain sight all along - our mouth. Most people brush twice a day, see their dentist once or twice a year, and assume their mouth is fine, not realizing that the mouth may be one of the clearest entry points into understanding inflammation, airway health, the gut, and…
108. What Makes Sprouts The $1 Superfood That Outperforms Most Supplements with Doug Evans
Ep 108 · Apr 1, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min
Despite spending more on groceries and supplements than any generation before us, chronic fatigue, brain fog, stubborn weight, and inflammation are more common than ever. The uncomfortable truth is that the vegetables most people are eating today contain a fraction of the nutrients they did in the 1950s due to soil depletion, which means eating clean is no longer enough on its own. But there is a food that has been used as medicine for thousands of years, backed by over 2000 peer reviewed studie…
107. Food Noise Isn’t a Willpower Problem: Ashley Koff, RD on The Nutrition Mistake Almost Everyone Makes
Ep 107 · Mar 25, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min
You wake up determined to do everything right, eat clean, stay on track, and by mid-afternoon you are still foggy, bloated, and oddly hungry, like your body never got the memo. The frustrating part is you assume it must be you, so you tighten the rules, cut more foods, buy another supplement, and end up right back in the same loop. In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with registered dietitian Ashley Koff to break down what is actually driving that loop and what to focus on first so…
106. Dave Watumull on Inflammaging: The Thing Speeding Up Aging That No ‘Healthy Habit’ Fixes
Mar 18, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min
Most people blame “getting older” when they wake up foggy, achy, and running on fumes—but the real issue is usually inflammaging: low-grade inflammation + oxidative stress quietly stacking up while you’re busy doing “all the right things.” And the wild part is the longevity world keeps selling “more hacks,” when what you actually need is to fix what’s driving the burnout inside your system first. We dive deeper into this in the Rooted in Wellness with Mona Sharma with Dave Watumull. We also chat…
105. Age Like a Girl: Why Metabolic Health Comes First with Dr. Mindy Peltz
Mar 11, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min
Today’s conversation is a return to what women’s wellness was always meant to feel like: intuitive, rooted, and responsive to the rhythms of the female body. When midlife shifts begin, sleep changes, mood fluctuates, and energy feels unpredictable, it can feel destabilizing. But what if these changes are not a breakdown, but an awakening? I’m joined by Dr. Mindy Peltz to explore menopause as transformation rather than decline. We discuss nervous system regulation, the hormone hierarchy of oxytoc…
104. How Light Shapes Hormones with Sarah Kleiner
Mar 4, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Perimenopause can feel like your body is sending mixed signals. Appetite shifts. Sleep changes. Stress tolerance shrinks. And when labs come back “normal,” it can leave you feeling unheard in your own experience. In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Kleiner to explore circadian rhythm as a foundational regulator of women’s hormones. We unpack leptin as a master safety signal that influences thyroid function, reproductive hormones, metabolism, and appetite. We also discuss how artificial light,…
103. The Endocrine Web: How Everything Connects in Midlife with Dr. Deanna Minich
Feb 25, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min
Perimenopause can feel like your body is speaking a new language. Sleep shifts. Energy fluctuates. Mood feels unfamiliar. And when you are told everything looks “normal,” it can leave you feeling disconnected from your own experience. In today’s episode, I sit down with Dr. Deanna Minich to explore a more rooted, systems-based understanding of women’s hormones. We talk about the HPTAO axis and why stress, gut health, detox pathways, circadian rhythm, and nutrient diversity all influence how horm…
102. Why Modern Wellness Is Leaving Women Burned Out with Kate Prince and Jo Woodhurst
Feb 18, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Feeling tired, wired, or overwhelmed has become so common that many women stop questioning it. When wellness starts to feel like another full-time job, it is often a sign that the body is asking for something simpler, steadier, and more supportive. In today’s episode, I sit down with Kate Prince and Jo Woodhurst of Ancient + Brave to explore why modern wellness has become so complicated, and how we can return to practices that actually help us feel well. We talk about ritual over routine, blendi…
101. Why Your Body Feels Overstimulated All the Time with Todd Shipman
Ep 101 · Feb 11, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
Feeling tired, wired, or out of balance has become so normalized that many people stop questioning it. If your nervous system feels constantly “on,” your sleep feels light, or your body struggles to fully settle, this conversation offers a new way of understanding what may be happening beneath the surface. In today’s episode, I sit down with Todd Shipman to explore the invisible influences shaping our health in modern life. We talk about quantum energy, electromagnetic exposure, and the human bi…
100. The Wellness Industry Wasn’t Built for Women and Here’s What Needs to Change
Feb 6, 2026 · 31 min
What if the symptoms you’ve learned to live with were actually your body asking for deeper support? In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I’m sharing reflections from a powerful panel I was honored to be part of at the 1 Billion Followers Summit, alongside Samantha Prabhu and Shayun, and hosted by Abdul Karim Hanif and Dr. Iman. Together, we explored how women can reclaim agency over their health, voices, and bodies. Being on that stage reinforced something I see every day in my work: women are…
99. The Great Cholesterol Myth: What Your Doctor Isn’t Testing with Jonny Bowden
Ep 99 · Feb 4, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min
Cholesterol is one of the most fear-charged topics I hear about from clients, and the conversation often starts with a lab result that feels alarming without much context. If you’ve ever been told your cholesterol is “high” and left feeling confused, anxious, or unsure what actually matters, this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, I sat down with Jonny Bowden to unpack what cholesterol really tells us, and where the standard approach often falls short. We talk about why total cholester…
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