In this episode, I’m sharing the whirlwind story of my labor, from being told I had hours to spare after my water broke… to giving birth just three minutes later. It was fast, intense, and nothing like I expected. I’m also opening up about the postpartum challenges that followed, including dealing with mastitis, and the practical tips that helped me recover. Whether you're preparing for birth or navigating new motherhood, this episode is raw, real, and full of encouragement.

Additional Links & Resources:

➡️ Book your FREE consult call: https://link.healthmsgsender.com/widget/booking/bRa7dic05dThvnu4RxRz

➡️ (FREE TRAINING) Learn the 3 secrets to balancing your hormones naturally: https://freehormonetraining.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=podcast

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⏺ Get your personalized hormone balance protocol:

https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/mineral-magic

⏺ Learn more about my 6-month hormone reset program: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/hormone-reset-program

⏺ Sign up for my coaching program (limited access): https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/private-coaching

⏺ Explore all of my favorite products here: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

Let’s connect:

📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/

🙋🏻‍♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/

🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

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The recommendations presented in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice from a qualified doctor. Before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle, please consult with your healthcare provider.

Some of these links contain affiliate links.

Can you ever truly heal if you don’t address your stress—and the toll it’s taking on your nervous system?

There is a deep connection between your nervous system and chronic health issues such as Lyme disease, mold illness, and hormonal imbalances.

And as long as your nervous system stays out of whack, so will your body.

So how can we deal with this?

To answer this question, I’ve brought in the amazing Cara Barone.

Together, Cara and I will be discussing how chronic stress can worsen health problems, how mindset can make or break your healing, why the root cause of many health issues is an unregulated nervous system, and a lot more.

Tune in now to take control of your health.

Key Takeaways:

Audio:

Introduction (00:00)

Meet Cara (00:44)

The nervous system theory (02:42)

What about societal stress? (12:14)

How to support your nervous system (28:35)

How to work with Cara (40:08)

Additional Links & Resources:

➡️ Book your FREE consult call: https://link.healthmsgsender.com/widget/booking/bRa7dic05dThvnu4RxRz

➡️ (FREE TRAINING) Learn the 3 secrets to balancing your hormones naturally: https://freehormonetraining.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=podcast

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⏺ Get your personalized hormone balance protocol:

https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/mineral-magic

⏺ Learn more about my 6-month hormone reset program: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/hormone-reset-program

⏺ Sign up for my coaching program (limited access): https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/private-coaching

⏺ Explore all of my favorite products here: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

Let’s connect:

📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/

🙋🏻‍♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/

🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

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The recommendations presented in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice from a qualified doctor. Before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle, please consult with your healthcare provider.

Some of these links contain affiliate links.

The connection between your sleep, your hormones, your mental health, and weight loss is intricate… and crucial to your well-being.

Your sleep quality affects everything, from your cortisol levels to your gut health, your hunger hormones, and everything in between.

And so, when you don’t sleep well, your whole body doesn’t feel well.

What can you do about this?

This is exactly the question I answer in this week’s episode of the Balancing Hormones Naturally podcast.

Listen in and learn how sleep (and lack of it) affects your hormones, what causes sleep disturbances during perimenopause and menopause, how stress impacts your sleep hygiene, the best tips to improve your sleep, and so much more.

Ready to get your sleep and hormones back on track?

Then run, don’t walk, and tune in now!

Key Takeaways:

🙏 Thank you to Paleovalley for sponsoring this episode!

👉 Go here or enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.

Additional Links & Resources:

➡️ Book your FREE consult call:

➡️ (FREE TRAINING) Learn the 3 secrets to balancing your hormones naturally:

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⏺ Get your personalized hormone balance protocol:

https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/mineral-magic

⏺ Learn more about my 6-month hormone reset program: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/hormone-reset-program

⏺ Sign up for my coaching program (limited access): https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/private-coaching

⏺ Explore all of my favorite products here: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

Let’s connect:

📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/

🙋🏻‍♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/

🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

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The recommendations presented in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice from a qualified doctor. Before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle, please consult with your healthcare provider.

Some of these links contain affiliate links.

Ladies, are you always tired, sleepy, and dealing with a plethora of gut issues—with no idea where all of this is coming from?

Well, I might have the answer for you, and it’s one that will surprise you: it might be coming from… your teeth.

Yes, you read that right, your teeth.

You see, dental health can profoundly impact chronic health issues like fatigue and gut problems.

No one knows this better than this week’s guest on the Balancing Hormones Naturally podcast, the brilliant Amber Macdonald, a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner specializing in HTMA.

Amber has personal experience overcoming Lyme disease and severe dental issues, and today, she’s here to share her findings with us.

Listen in now and learn how your dental issues mean more than just bad teeth, why biological dentistry could change everything, how root canals and dental infections may act as hidden reservoirs for chronic infections, and a lot more.

Are you ready?

Let’s dive in.

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

Meet Amber (00:55)

Why you need a biological dentist (05:06)

How root canals are affecting your health (13:47)

Recommendations from Amber (22:40)

Additional Links & Resources:

➡️ Book your FREE consult call: https://link.healthmsgsender.com/widget/booking/bRa7dic05dThvnu4RxRz

➡️ (FREE TRAINING) Learn the 3 secrets to balancing your hormones naturally: https://freehormonetraining.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=podcast

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🙏 Thank you to Eversio Wellness for sponsoring this episode!

👉 Go to https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/LEAH or enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.

🙏 Thank you to Pique for sponsoring this episode!

👉 Go to https://piquelife.com/BHN for 20% off and a FREE starter kit.

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⏺ Get your personalized hormone balance protocol:

https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/mineral-magic

⏺ Learn more about my 6-month hormone reset program: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/hormone-reset-program

⏺ Sign up for my coaching program (limited access): https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/private-coaching

⏺ Explore all of my favorite products here: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites

—

I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

Let’s connect:

📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/

🙋🏻‍♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/

🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

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The recommendations presented in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice from a qualified doctor. Before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle, please consult with your healthcare provider.

Some of these links contain affiliate links.

Have you ever wondered if “clean” makeup is actually clean or just another marketing trick?

I’ve been there too and this episode is for every woman who’s tried to switch to cleaner makeup, only to be overwhelmed by ingredient lists, disappointed by performance, or just left wondering what’s actually safe.

This week, I’m walking you through my personal (and slightly chaotic) journey of testing a ton of clean beauty brands—from the fails to the holy grails.

I’m not a makeup artist, just someone who really cares about what goes on my skin and how it actually wears throughout the day.

I’ll be sharing my honest reviews on brands like RMS Beauty, PiperBlue, Crunchi, Kosas, and so many more.

You’ll hear which ones passed the ingredient test, which ones totally blew me away performance-wise, and which ones... well, didn’t make the cut.

We’re talking texture, blendability, wear time, and—because you know I care—fragrance, parabens, talc, and all the sneaky toxins I won’t touch.

So if you’ve ever stood in the beauty aisle thinking, ‘what do I even buy?’ this one’s for you.

Tune in now to learn more!

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

Why clean makeup is important (00:49)

My brand reviews (05:50)

Additional Links & Resources:

➡️ Download my Switch & Ditch Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F3j5tcpetVh6kkmherCQRVYHUG6ugBnZtbx8lVkljP0/edit?tab=t.0

➡️ Book your FREE consult call: https://link.healthmsgsender.com/widget/booking/bRa7dic05dThvnu4RxRz

➡️ (FREE TRAINING) Learn the 3 secrets to balancing your hormones naturally: https://freehormonetraining.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=podcast

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🙏 Thank you to Paleovalley for sponsoring this episode!

👉 Go to https://paleovalley.com/promos/balancing-hormones-naturally-multi-product-page or enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.

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⏺ Get your personalized hormone balance protocol:

https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/mineral-magic

⏺ Learn more about my 6-month hormone reset program: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/hormone-reset-program

⏺ Sign up for my coaching program (limited access): https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/private-coaching

⏺ Explore all of my favorite products here: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

Let’s connect:

📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/

🙋🏻‍♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/

🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

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The recommendations presented in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice from a qualified doctor. Before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle, please consult with your healthcare provider.

Some of these links contain affiliate links.

Do you ever feel like your own body isn’t listening to you—you’re wiped out and it’s refusing to cooperate?

If so, you’re not alone. I’ve been there, and so has my guest on the podcast this week, Julie Fawcett.

Julie is an old client of mine turned friend, and in this episode, she’s here to share her health and wellness journey with us.

Together, she and I will be discussing how simple changes, like cutting out certain foods and learning to manage stress, helped her get her energy and balance back. It’s a reminder that hormone health isn’t just about food—it’s about feeling safe and setting boundaries too.

We’ll also be talking about the importance of breaking people-pleasing habits and slowing down, as well as her latest endeavor… a book about her story!

Ready to learn more about Julie?

Then tune in now.

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

Julie’s health journey (01:42)

Dietary and lifestyle changes (05:22)

How to regulate your nervous system (10:13)

The shift (18:30)

Julie’s latest endeavor (23:30)

Additional Links & Resources:

➡️ Book your FREE consult call: https://link.healthmsgsender.com/widget/booking/bRa7dic05dThvnu4RxRz

➡️ (FREE TRAINING) Learn the 3 secrets to balancing your hormones naturally: https://freehormonetraining.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=podcast

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🙏 Thank you to Eversio Wellness for sponsoring this episode!

👉 Go to https://www.eversiowellness.com/discount/LEAH or enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.

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⏺ Get your personalized hormone balance protocol:

https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/mineral-magic

⏺ Learn more about my 6-month hormone reset program: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/hormone-reset-program

⏺ Sign up for my coaching program (limited access): https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/private-coaching

⏺ Explore all of my favorite products here: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

Let’s connect:

📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/

🙋🏻‍♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/

🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

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The recommendations presented in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice from a qualified doctor. Before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle, please consult with your healthcare provider.

Some of these links contain affiliate links.

Ladies, today, I’m here to… complain—or at least, say one thing: I’m tired of being told my salad is killing me; and I bet, so are you!

Health advice can be so overwhelming, especially with the vast amount of information available on the internet, coming from doctors, fitness influencers, wellness gurus, and everyone else in between.

And what’s worse is that a lot of the advice we read often contradicts itself: eat meat, don’t eat meat, dairy is bad for you, dairy is good for you, oat milk is the way to go, oat milk will raise your blood sugar and give you diabetes, etc…

So it’s no surprise that we’re all so tired of keeping track of all the things we should and shouldn’t use or consume.

This is why, in this episode, I’ll be addressing the overload of conflicting health advice that leaves many of us confused and overwhelmed. From keto to carnivore to fearing vegetables for their oxalates, I will be unpacking how trends dominate the wellness space and distract us from sustainable, common-sense approaches to health.

If you've ever felt paralyzed by the contradictions in wellness advice, this episode is your permission slip to simplify.

Tune in now to learn more.

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

Navigating conflicting health advice (00:49)

Where to seek balance? (05:01)

How to avoid information overload (08:15)

Keep an eye for these red flags (17:31)

Additional Links & Resources:

➡️ (FREE TRAINING) Learn the 3 secrets to balancing your hormones naturally: https://freehormonetraining.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=podcast

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🙏 Thank you to Paleovalley for sponsoring this episode!

👉 Go to https://paleovalley.com/promos/balancing-hormones-naturally-multi-product-page or enter code LEAH at checkout for 15% off.

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⏺ Get your personalized hormone balance protocol:

https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/mineral-magic

⏺ Learn more about my 6-month hormone reset program: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/hormone-reset-program

⏺ Sign up for my coaching program (limited access): https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/private-coaching

⏺ Explore all of my favorite products here: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/favorites

—

I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

Let’s connect:

📷 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/balancinghormonesnaturally/

🙋🏻‍♀️ Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leah_brueg/

🌐 Website: https://www.leahbrueggemann.com/

📧 Email: leahbcoaching@gmail.com

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The recommendations presented in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice from a qualified doctor. Before making any changes to your diet and lifestyle, please consult with your healthcare provider.

Some of these links contain affiliate links.