The Health Fix Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this solo episode of the Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause reflects on the lessons, challenges, and breakthroughs of 2025 and how they shape a more grounded, joyful, and empowered approach to health, wellness, and mental health heading into 2026.

Dr. Krause explores why being present is one of the most powerful tools for healing, how mental chatter directly impacts physical health, and why the current medical system often keeps people focused on problems instead of solutions. She shares practical insights on emotional awareness, mindfulness, and self-care, along with how tools like acupuncture and peptides can support mental clarity, nervous system regulation, and overall well-being.

This episode also highlights the importance of community, why healing doesn't happen in isolation, and how having the right support can make health goals feel achievable rather than overwhelming. If you're looking to reclaim joy, feel better in your body, and step into 2026 with intention, this episode is for you.

• Why being present is essential for mental and physical health

• How mental chatter can drive inflammation, stress, and burnout

• A behind-the-scenes look at the medical system's problem-focused model

• The role of joy in healing and long-term wellness

• Why community support is non-negotiable for sustainable health

• How peptides may support mental clarity and physical resilience plus pair well with East Asian Medicine principles

• How acupuncture and Chinese Medicine help regulate stress and emotions

• Simple self-care practices to calm the nervous system

• Why 2026 can be a powerful reset for your health and growth

• Dr. Jannine Krause's Website - https://doctorjkrausend.com/
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In this episode of the Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause sits down with Thoryn Stephens, founder of BRAIN.ONE and leading expert in neurotechnology, AI, longevity, and behavioral analytics, to explore how technology can help us optimize brain health, behavior change, and long-term cognitive performance.

With a background in molecular and cell biology, Thoryn shares his journey from biotech research into AI-driven health optimization and why behavior change is the hardest (and most important) part of improving health.

This conversation dives into how microhabits, supported by data, wearables, and AI, can strengthen the brain, improve HRV, support endurance training, and reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. Thoryn explains how BrainOne creates personalized health protocols by integrating scientific research, behavioral analytics, and real world data making brain health actionable instead of overwhelming.

What You'll Learn In This Episode: • How AI interprets wearable data like HRV
• The role of microhabits in long-term brain health
• Preventing cognitive decline through lifestyle optimization
• Wearables, accessibility, and cost in health tech
• Data privacy concerns in AI-powered healthcare
• Why women's health is a major frontier for innovation
• How to start optimizing your brain and biology in your 30s and 40s

Resources From The Show:

• Brain.one website
• Learn more about Thoryn: https://brain.one/profile/THORYN

This episode is for anyone interested in brain health, AI in healthcare, longevity, personalized medicine, wearable technology, and sustainable lifestyle change.

🎧 Listen now to learn how small, strategic habits guided by data can create massive improvements in cognitive health and overall performance.

Can your pelvic floor tell you something about your stress levels?
Is there a real connection between your heart, brain, gut, and hormones?

In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause sits down with Dr. Bhawna Malik, a pelvic floor physical therapist with over a decade of experience specializing in fertility and women's health, to explore the powerful link between pelvic health and heart-brain coherence.

Whether you're planning for pregnancy, navigating perimenopause, or simply wanting to age well this episode is packed with tools and insights for every woman at every stage of life.

💡 Key Topics Covered:

• The mind-body connection: Pelvic floor + Heart-Brain coherence
• How trauma and stress affect pelvic health
• The pelvic floor's cyclical changes throughout the menstrual cycle
• Why pelvic awareness is key at any age
• Supporting fertility naturally through breathwork and mindfulness
• The gut-heart-hormone connection and how it impacts your health
• Tools to regulate stress and balance hormones naturally
• Using HRV (Heart Rate Variability) as a wellness marker

🎯 Top Takeaways:

1. Stress and trauma are often stored in the pelvic floor, leading to dysfunction and imbalance.
2. Creating heart-brain coherence through breath and mindfulness helps reset the nervous system.
3. The pelvic floor changes with your cycle being aware of symptom shifts is key.
4. Fertility and hormonal balance are impacted by gut health, nervous system regulation, and movement.
5. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a powerful indicator of your nervous system and hormone health.

🔥 Power Quotes:

🗣️ "The nervous system, pelvic floor, and heart-brain coherence are deeply interconnected."

🗣️ "Mobility is essential for pelvic health and overall well-being."

🗣️ "You can't support your hormones without regulating your stress."

⏱️ Chapters / Timestamps:

0:00 – Welcome & Intro to Dr. Bhawna Malik
10:00 – How stress & trauma show up in the pelvic floor
20:00 – Movement, mobility & cycle-based pelvic awareness
30:00 – Gut health, nutrition & hormone support
40:00 – Heart coherence, HRV, and stress regulation tools
50:00 – What every woman should know about pelvic health

🌿 Connect with Dr. Bhawna Malik:

Website / IG 

👩‍⚕️ Connect with Dr. Jannine Krause:

🌐 Website
🎧 The Health Fix Podcast
📸 Instagram

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Know a woman trying to conceive, dealing with hormonal issues, or feeling disconnected from her body?

Can taking control of your diet, lifestyle and your thought process really help you overcome an autoimmune condition?  Because a condition is considered uncurable - is it really?  Autumn Mclees is a coach, doula, mentor and host of the Know Better Do Better podcast for women seeking alternative methods to overcome their health conditions. Through her own experience of overcoming vaginal lichen sclerosus and now hepatitis C Autumn is passionate about raising awareness and empowering individuals to explore holistic and alternative medicine approaches to health care. In this episode Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Autumn McLees on what it takes to pioneer your own health treatment, the alternative therapies she's tried and what's worked for lichen sclerosus as well as hepatitis C.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• How MSG is hidden in food labels
• Why food choices matter in vaginal lichen sclerosus
• Advanced therapy for Hepatitis C using UV light and Ozone
• The possibility of using radio frequencies to destroy infections in your body
• How Bowen therapy impacts fascia to relieve pain and changed Amber's  bloodwork
• Why some bodies are prone to take on illness versus others

Resources From The Show:

• Autumn's Podcast: Know better do better Podcast
• autumnmclees.com
• IG and TikTok -@autumn.mclees
• Facebook
• Autumn's "Know Better Do Better" Consulting mentorship
• Autumn's Clean Swap Guide 

Feeling like you've lost the ability to play and dream?  Questioning who you really are and where that fun younger version of you went?  From single Mom to published author who's navigating modern life by embracing stillness and introspection, Elaine Glass is using the ancient tool of the labyrinth to get quiet.  Elaine has answered the question of "how do I find myself and what do I ask myself when I do?" with her 7 simple paths to the truth of who you are. In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Elaine Glass on what it takes to find our true selves using the walking meditative powers of labyrinths. 

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• Getting quiet to hear what your body truly has to say
• The power of surrendering to what can be vs what is
• How being in a calm state allows creativity to come forth
• Using a body scan to determine what you need each day
• Allowing the magic in your life to enter when you embrace uncertainty 

Resources From The Show:

• Elaine's book - Get Quiet - 7 Simple Steps To The Truth of Who You Are - get quiet.com - Purchase from the "get quiet" site & receive the bonus - 6 minute guided visualization with Elaine
• More on Elaine Glass at elaine glass.net
• Labyrinth Locator 

What happens when three friends enter perimenopause and can't find products they resonate with and take care of their symptoms?  They create their own brand!  Manpreet, Sadya and Eva of Menopriva are all about inspiring women to love their transition and what comes next.  By partnering with the top European essential oil formulator to teaming up with a tea company that's been making teas since 1790 and sourcing handmade silk products from Poland the ladies of Menopriva have created a luxurious product line to support women through perimenopause and beyond. In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast Dr. Jannine Krause Interviews Sadya Barletta from Menopriva on her menopause journey and how Menopriva's products benefit women in perimenopause and beyond. 

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• Why discreet easy to use products for anxiety and hot flashes are crucial
• How silk pillows cases and hair scrunches protect hair from breaking
• Strategic paring of essential oils and tea for hot flashes, calming and relaxing
• Key ingredients in oil blends and teas to help with the perimenopause and beyond transition

Resources From The Show: 

• menopriva.com
• office@menopriva.com for inquires
• Menopriva Instagram

The gut is one of the foundations to optimal health. If it's not healthy it's hard to have all day energy, keep your weight in check and have balanced hormones. Juanique Grover is the founder of Provo Health Clinic, host of the Gutsy Health Podcast and dedicated health advocate.  She's  overcome Graves' disease naturally as well as triumphed over challenges such as losing her husband to colon cancer, mold toxicity, chronic inflammatory response syndrome, long COVID, and a spectrum of autoimmune issues. A while back Juanique interviewed Dr. Jannine on The Gutsty Health Podcast episode 79 where they talk all about the gut and neuro-inflammation - check it out HERE. In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Juanique Grover on what she's found to be the order of healing to restore your health and why hormones are close to last on the list!

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• Why it's so important to become your own self-healing advocate
• How your body self sabotages your healing when you're in fight or flight mode
• The order of healing the body during a health crisis
• Why healthy hormones start with mindset, cell and gut health
• How parasites mess with your gut, hormones and total health

Resources From The Show:

• Digestion Restoration Course, $50 off with code Healthfix, excluding early bird pricing. 

• Gutsy Health Podcast
• Gutsy Health Website
• Provo Health Clinic

Keep trying to lose weight, restore your energy or regain your health but nothing is working?  It could be how you're thinking about your success that's holding you back.  Nathalie Botezatu is a first generation Romanian-American International Mindset Coach. She helps leaders and entrepreneurs around the world heal their minds and shift limiting beliefs about what is possible within their lives and their businesses. Nathalie spent her entire life pursuing the dream she thought she wanted: to become a doctor. Two years into medical school, she found herself disappointed by the lack of mental health advocacy and dropped out to pursue helping others through her own coaching business.  Nathalie has been the head mindset coach within an internationally renowned mastermind for over five years, alongside growing her own mindset coaching business, HealthNat LLC, for over six years. With over 2,000+ hours of coaching experience, Nathalie has coached clients on all continents (except Antarctica, but she's trying to book her first penguin) and has been featured on the Money Bare, Storypreneur, A Pawdcast, Geta's Digest, Grateful Show, Joyfully You, and the Dropset Gorgeous Radio podcasts. She has also been interviewed by FOX 2 Detroit, ShoutOut LA, VoyageLA, and published in the Journal of Scientific Reports and the Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution for her mental health research.  In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Nathalie Botezatu on what it takes to align your mindset with your goals, how to tackle procrastination and more!

What You'll Learn In This Episode: 

• How thoughts and feelings contrary to your desires, doubt,  & fear all keep you from results
• The power of getting your thoughts aligned with your goals before you take action
• Why procrastination is your body keeping you in your "safe" comfort zone
• The benefit of training your body that where you want to go is more wonderful than where you are at now!
• Why it's key to ask yourself why you're staying with something familiar vs trying something new
• The importance of reassuring the body it's safe and teaching yourself you can override your false safety stories 
• The power of creating your own internal safety system with the daily mental foundation of affirmations & breath work to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system 

Resources From The Show:

• Activating Success Community - 2x a month complimentary teachings for business minded folks
• IG: @nathaliebotezatu
• Nathalie Botezatu's website 
• Freebie: The Mindset Kickstart

History suggests the Olmecs of Southern Mexico were likely the first culture to use cacao as a divine food as early as 1500 BC.  Chocolate has long been an expression of love, an antidote to a breakup or a rough day.  So is it possible chocolate could be a powerful health food?  Sage Dammers believes so!  Sage is the co-founder, CEO, product formulator, and master chocolatier of Addictive Wellness.  He's dedicated his life to the pursuit of holistic wellness and nutrition. Beginning his journey as a curious teenager, Sage ventured beyond conventional education to immerse himself in the ancient herbal systems and nutritional practices of indigenous cultures, especially Taoist tonic herbalism.  In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Sage Dammers on how he's created chocolates with herbs to nourish your nervous system, gut, cells and soul.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• Why you can now truly say chocolate is your medicine
• The powerful minerals and neuro-chemicals in dark chocolate
• Benefits of heirloom wild grown cacao 
• Risk of mycotoxin exposure with chocolate
• Why adaptogenic herbs and dark chocolate are a perfect pair
• Little known intricacies of the chocolate trade that matter for your health
• How to acquire herbs from the most potent sources

Resources From The Show:

• Addictive Wellness Chocolate

Humans harbor more potential energy than a lightning bolt yet, you aren't taught how this energy amplifies your health or impedes it. Quantum medicine is the exploration of using your own energy to restore balance in the body to prevent or eliminate illness. Doctors Joe Dispenza and Bruce Lipton are the modern pioneers in this field however there's data to suggest that quantum energy fields and medicine have been studied for thousands of years.  More and more health practitioners like Hope Pedraza are incorporating quantum medicine into their practices as they see the vast benefits using your own energy to achieve balance.  If Hope's name sounds familiar to you - she's been on the podcast before - Episodes 307 and 308.

Hope Pedraza is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Reiki Practitioner, Human Design guide, as well as the founder of inBalance, a pilates based fitness franchise and the host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast. She helps female entrepreneurs heal chronic symptoms, create balance and ease within the body using a combination of functional and energy medicine.  In this episode of The Health Fix Podcast, Dr. Jannine Krause interviews Hope Pedraza on how she's incorporating quantum medicine into her retreats and work with clients.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• How knowing your human design shows where you're predisposed to storing trauma in your body
• Why the throat, root center, sacral center & solar plexus chakra regions are common areas to have symptoms
• Releasing symptoms by tapping into the subconscious mind to find areas of stuck energy
• The connections between suppressed desires and pelvic floor symptoms of incontinence, low back pain, constipation and more

Resources From The Show:

Hopeful and Wholesome Website - https://www.hopefulandwholesome.com/

Hopeful and Wholesome Instagram: @hopefulandwholesome & @hopefulandwholeretreats

Hope's Podcast: Hopeful and Wholesome