You Cannot Heal in Survival Mode: Naturopathic Medicine with Dr. Elizabeth Wade
You cannot heal in survival mode. Your body will not prioritize creating life, balancing your hormones, or healing your gut when it thinks it's being chased by a tiger.
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Elizabeth Wade, naturopathic doctor, educator, and founder of Fertility Reclaimed, for a conversation about what root cause medicine actually looks like in practice, and what most of us are still missing when it comes to our health.
Elizabeth went from coordinating international exchange programs in Chicago to sitting on a beach in Costa Rica reading The Blue Zones, realizing her real passion had nothing to do with her career, and eventually becoming one of the most grounded practitioners in the fertility and hormonal health space. Her path led her to build the program she needed and couldn't find.
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Key insights:
What naturopathic medicine is and why the iceberg analogy explains everything
The dermatologist story that made Elizabeth genuinely frustrated at 20, and why it called her to medicine
How to quiet the wellness noise and actually hear what your own body is telling you
The lab trick that gets conventional doctors to run panels they'd otherwise refuse
The gut microbiome as the foundation and what happens when it's off
How scrolling your phone creates the same stress response as being chased by a predator
Why your body won't conceive — or heal — when it's in chronic survival mode
Preconception health and the Fertility Reclaimed program: what it covers and why it matters
Daily choices as self-love: sleep, hydration, self-talk, and reparenting yourself
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The conversations don’t end here, they ripple into real life.
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