Vibing Well with Dr. Stacy (A Foundational Approach to Healing the LIFESTYLE)
Dr. Stacy, a traditional Naturopath who specializes in Functional (Foundational/Lifestlye) Medicine, is answering your questions in regards to health and healing. From hormones to gut healing and everything in between - listen in as she shares stories of her own healing journey, what she sees clinically, and what she has researched to give you the most up to date answers when it comes to healing holistically.
*This information is not meant to be taken as medical advice, or to replace the advice of your practitioner or primary care. It is also not meant to diagnose, treat, or cure diseases.
Episodes
70 episodes
#070 When Your Healing Protocol Isn't Working: The Metabolism-Gut Connection and When To Rethink Your Routine (But Still Stay Consistent)
Ever feel like you're going through the motions with your health routines, but seeing diminishing returns? This episode dives deep into two game-changing concepts that might revolutionize your healing journey.First, Dr. Stacy tackles th...
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#069 Why Hormones Go LOW and What The Body Is Telling You When They Do (Including Thyroid and Cortisol!)
Your body isn't failing you—it's responding logically to the conditions you've created. When hormones plummet, whether sex hormones or thyroid, it's a sign your body is prioritizing survival over optimization.The hierarchy of hormones e...
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#068 The Differences (and Causes) of Insatiable Hunger Versus Cravings, and Why Weight Loss is a Different Mindset and Stragedy Than Keeping Weight Off
Dr. Stacy explores the critical differences between food cravings and insatiable hunger, revealing how our biochemistry—not willpower—drives these powerful urges and impacts sustainable weight management.• Cravings are the body's commun...
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#067 The Truth About Fat Storage (Rethinking Metabolic Health) and Top Causes of Frequent Urination
Fat distribution matters more than weight alone for metabolic health, with invisible fat deposits in the liver, visceral area, and muscles driving inflammation before subcutaneous fat accumulates. These hidden fat stores can cause metabolic dys...
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#066 Stress and it's Behavioral Impact, Finding What Your Body Deems as a Stressor, Routine, and Over-information
In today's episode I unpack ALL things STRESS (what it does to our body long term and how it impacts everything from our behavior, to our thoughts and perceptions, and how to find what OUR bodies in particular are tagging as a threat (Hint, it ...
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#065 How Added Sugar and Processed Foods Are Ruining Your Health, Your Mitochondria, and Your Ability to Heal
In today's episode, I discuss how added sugar and refined/processed foods (yes, even organic, dairy-free, and gluten-free processed foods are STILL processed and refined), still unrecognizable to the mitochondria, still void of nutrients that o...
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#064 Your Questions Answered; (Calorie Defecits, Fasted Workouts, Histamine, Sugar Substitutes, Hypoglycemia, Anxiety and So Much More!
In today's episode, I answer all of your questions from IG, and we dive into all things calorie defecit (and why I don't start there!), fasted workouts, navigating anxiety symptoms while working on foundational needs, navigating the social scen...
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#063 Muscle As An Encodrine Organ, Immune System Modulator, Metabolic Organ and So Much More!
In today's episode, I chat about how to bring in protein, strength training, and building muscle in a supportive and intentional way (And WHY we need to always be making this our eventual goal along any healing journey).I talk about the ...
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#062 Long Term Versus Strategic Ketosis and All About LUX To Support Circadian Health
In this episode, I delve into all things ketosis, benefits of getting into it, differences among sexes, the healing benefits of achieving not only ketosis, but metabolic flexibility, and how I use it intermittently for its healing powers, but c...
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#061 How The Body Attempts To Heal Itself and How to Look At Food As Information Versus Calories
In today's episode, I talk about how the body works to heal itself (and how it compensates to do so), what systems the body enlists to try and maintain this "balance," and how symptoms start to pop up when these systems become overwhelmed. ...
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#060 A New Perspective on Histamine Issues & Hot and Cold Therapies; the WHY, HOW, and WHAT When Bringing Them Into Your Routine
In today's episode, we shift the perspective on histamine issues, why we have them, what triggers them, and how we clear them - as we have to take ALL of these into consideration when treating them in a sustainable way!We also talked abo...
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#059 Why Your Body Needs To Know The Time of Day to Heal (And How To Support This!)
Today, we discuss a foundational pillar when it comes to our healing potential and that is connecting to our body's biological or circadian clock.There is nothing more stressful to the body and its healing potential than not knowing w...
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#058 All Things THYROID (Hypo, Hyper, Autoimmune), Answering All of Your Questions!
In today's episode, we uncover how thyroid problems are never "just" the thyroid- we always need to be thinking of supporting thyroid hormones as a system. This involves the singalling that starts in the brain, the conversion areas (gut and liv...
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#057 The MOLD Episode - Answering All Of Your Questions About Mold!
In this episode, I address ALL of the questions I get about mold, including:Can you get better living in it?Do you need all of the supplements?How to detox without symptoms?HLA/DR and geneticsAnd so much more!...
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#056 "Adrenal Fatigue", Sources of High Cortisol, and Trouble Conceiving/Infertility
In today's episode, I reiterate the myth of "adrenal fatigue" and how to start looking at it from a new lens. WHAT is draining your adrenals so much in the first place? What is causing stress hormones to be so high that is contrbuting to that d...
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#055 Part 2 of Starting Over In January, Extremes In Dieting, and Current Thoughts On Functional Medicine (Why I am DROPPING My Functional Practitioner Title)
In the second part of my "New Year" Episode, I speak my current thoughts on Functional Medicine, where it started versus how it's going and why I have decided to forego my title of Functional Medicine Practitioner (and what I am doing instead!)...
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#054 Why So Many Have To Start Over On Jan. 1st, Extremes in Dieting, and Current Thoughts On Functional Medicine (Part 1)
In today's episode, I dive into the why behind so many people have to start over on Jan. 1st, why we feel like we need to, what is required to truly elicit change in our lives, and my exact process for implementing change in my own life.
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#053 Why 93% of the Population is Metabolically Inflexible (and How to Fix It!)
In this episode, I go over what metabolic flexibility is, how we got here, and of course, how to start fixing it!It is ALWAYS important to know the HOW and the WHY of what we are supporting so that the mind body connection is made (as w...
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#052 Supporting Circadian Health in Winter and Healing Tools - Helping or Harming?
In this newest episode, I answer all of the questions that I have been receiving about supporting circadian health as we transition into the colder and darker months for some. We will talk about hydration, lighting, food, and everything...
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#051 Q&A Part 2 : Eczema, Hormones and Fertility, CFS, Healing Tools and So Much More!
In this second part of our Q&A session, I answer the most common questions including root causes of Eczema, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, How to support coming off of hormone therapy, how to support hormones in regard to fertility, favortie boo...
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#050 Q&A Pt. 1 (Leptin, Oura Ring, Overinformation, HRT/Perimenopause, Thyroid, and So Much More!
This was so fun and thank you SO much for all of your questions! I am going to have to do a part 2 of them since I didn't want to rush through them!Today, I started out discussing Leptin, how to test, how to support, etc.I also go m...
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#049 All Things Mitochondria; What Tanks Them, What Supports Them, And Why You Should Care!
On today's episode, I spend some time laying the ground work for the next few episodes by talking all things mitochondria (SO MUCH MORE than just the powerhouse of the cell) as you will learn about today!We tallk about things to avoid, ...
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#048 Supporting Hormones in the "Right" Order, How to End The Hormone "Balancing" Act For Good
In this episode, I talk about ALL things hormones, how we are often supporting them in a superficial way by not supporting the hierarchy that sex hormones and thyroid are responding to.I go into all the things that impact hormones inclu...
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#047 All Things Anxiety and Depression (Panic, Health Anxiety, Recirculating Thoughts, and So Much More!)
In this episode, I talk about ALL things anxiety and depression, everything from our gut, our lighting, our modern environment, our food, blood sugar, hormones, living in survival, and SO much more.Looking at mood disorders requires loo...
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#046 Water, Structured Water, Cellular Hydration and Maintaining a Proper "Charge" In The Body
In today's episode - we go into ALL things water; the water we drink, the water in our food, the water in our cells, and how to stay cellularly hydrated in today's modern environment. (And of course, the things that cause cellular dehydration!)...
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