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TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z

Welcome to TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z—where we are redefining health and empowering change. Hosted by Dr. Z, creator of the T.R.U.E. Wellness Framework, this podcast is your gateway to unlocking true health and vitality.Each episode explores the foundational components of TRUE Wellness, including personalized health protocols, connecting with your body, balancing hormones, managing stress, and cultivating emotional well-being and self-growth. Through thought-provoking interviews with leading experts,

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24:07

PERIMENOPAUSE: THE ROOT-CAUSE EXPLANATION NO ONE GAVE...

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2026/10/08

Perimenopause symptoms can start 8 to 10 years before your last period, while your cycles are still regular and your labs come back "fine." If you're in your 40s and something has clearly changed but nobody will name it, this is the root-cause explanation most women never get. Dr. Z walks through six of the most overlooked signs of perimenopause: sudden rage, anxiety that appeared out of nowhere, waking at 3am, brain fog, weight gain around the middle, and aching joints. Underneath all six s...

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34:38

Why You're Exhausted, Foggy, Gaining Weight, and...

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2026/10/01

You're exhausted in a way sleep doesn't fix. You've gained weight that won't come off. You lose your words mid-sentence, you snap at people you love, and your labs keep coming back fine. Those aren't separate problems. They're one thing showing up in seven different places, and it's why everything you've tried works for a few weeks and then stops. This is the full explanation of survival mode: what it is, what it does to cortisol, blood sugar, and your nervous system, and why your body is doi...

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22:30

3 Signs Your Body Is Stuck in Survival Mode (And Why...

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2026/09/24

Tired all day, then wide awake the second you get into bed? That's not two problems. That's one — and it means your body is stuck in survival mode. Survival mode is a real physical state. Your nervous system has a gear for handling danger. It's built to switch on for a moment and then switch off. But when you've been carrying everything for years, your body stops treating that gear as an emergency setting and starts treating it as normal. It isn't malfunctioning — it's protecting you. It just...

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28:05

Why Your Body Won't Let Go of the Weight (And It's...

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2026/09/17

Day nine. She's standing in the kitchen at four in the afternoon, eating crackers out of the sleeve, and the sentence in her head isn't "I'm hungry." It's "what is wrong with me." She'd been perfect for nine days. That's the fourth diet this year. She's fifty-one. In this episode I want to explain what was actually happening in that kitchen — because it was not a failure of character, and it wasn't close to one. A body that doesn't believe conditions are safe holds on. That's not a malfunc...

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57:41

Stop Performing 'Fine': Breaking Automatic Habits and...

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2026/09/10

Dr. Z sits down with leadership coach and former RAF pilot Will Steel to unpack a claim that stops most people in their tracks: that we're not authentic at all — we're pretending, and pretending that we're not pretending, without ever realizing it. The conversation moves from the "I'm fine" performance so many high-achieving women live inside, to why willpower is the wrong tool for lasting change, to the real fix — building external structures (calendars, accountability, promises to yourself)...

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48:47

The Breathwork Study That Beat Medication for Anxiety...

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2026/09/03

Ever been told to "just breathe and relax" when you're running on empty and it didn't work? In this episode of TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z, Dr. Danielle Zanzarov sits down with breathwork and meditation teacher Andrew Keaveney (Art of Living Foundation) to unpack why meditation feels so hard at first, how breathwork physically shifts your nervous system out of "go mode," and why rest not more hustle is the missing piece for burned-out, high-achieving women. Andrew spent 4 years living in an ash...

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45:20

Why Women's Sleep Apnea Gets Misdiagnosed as...

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2026/08/27

Stress. Hormones. Perimenopause. Anxiety. Thyroid. For a lot of women, those five labels are really one missed diagnosis — sleep apnea — screened by a test built around how it shows up in men. In this episode, Dr. Z sits down with dental sleep medicine expert Dr. Layne Martin to talk about the eight hours nobody's been looking at: the airway you breathe through while you sleep, and what it's quietly doing to your energy, hormones, brain, and long-term health. If you're doing all the "right" ...

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23:44

"It Sounds Like Anxiety" — 5 Labels in 6 Years

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2026/08/13

She went in because her heart was racing at 3am and she was too exhausted to get out of the car after work. Fourteen minutes later she left with a prescription and a word. The word was anxiety. She believed it for six years. In this episode I walk through five labels women get handed — anxiety, depression, insomnia, health anxiety, and the last one that isn't a diagnosis at all: "this is just where you are right now." For each one: what believing it cost her, and the question nobody in that a...

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24:14

I've Tried Everything — Why Nothing Has Worked Yet

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2026/08/13

She said it flat, like a weather report: "I did every diet you could possibly think of. And it would all come back." Twelve diets. A hundred miles a week on a bike. Six years of specialists and a folder of results that all came back the same way: everything's fine. This episode walks through the five things she tried, in order — diets, exercise, medical testing, supplements, and finally sitting up at 11pm doing her own research because nobody else would. And with each one, the thing nobody ...

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64:05

Why Probiotics Fail: The Gut-Brain Truth About...

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2026/07/27

Your gut isn't just influencing your mood, your stress, and your sleep. According to today's guest, it's running the show. On this episode of TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z, Dr. Z sits down with nutritional scientist Dr. Oscar Coetzee, who holds master's degrees in both psychology and nutrition plus a PhD and a doctorate in clinical nutrition, for a clear, genuinely eye-opening conversation about the gut-brain connection. If you've eaten clean, taken the probiotic everyone swears by, and still fe...

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67:16

How to Love Someone Who Is Gone | The Heart of Grief...

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2026/07/23

Everyone knows the five stages of grief. The man who has spent fifty years studying grief says they were never about grieving at all. Dr. Z sits down with Thomas Attig, PhD — applied philosopher, co-founder of the world’s first PhD program in applied philosophy, and one of the most decorated voices in grief studies. His new Oxford University Press collection, Seeking Wisdom in Death’s Shadows, distills a lifetime of listening to mourners, caregivers, and counselors. Together they trace what l...

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62:30

Why You Eat When You're Not Hungry: Ending Emotional...

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2026/07/16

You can know exactly what to eat and still find yourself standing at the pantry at 9 PM. That is not a willpower problem, and treating it like one is why the cycle keeps repeating. Emotional eating, food noise, and the diet-binge cycle are the focus of this conversation between Dr. Z and Tricia Nelson, an emotional eating expert who lost 50 pounds by identifying and healing the root causes of her own eating patterns. Tricia has spent 30 years researching the hidden drivers of the addict...

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62:56

She Died, Met God & Came Back to Change How You Heal...

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2026/07/09

What if the endless healing journey — the next protocol, the next program, the next thing to fix — was never the point? In 2012, Rev. HoniB Borden's heart stopped. She says she crossed fully into the afterlife, met the presence of God and Yeshua, and was sent back three days later with one message: stop healing, and start remembering who you already are. It's one of the most extraordinary conversations we've ever had on TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z — and whether or not you share her faith, what...

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51:21

Why Your Unresolved Arguments Are Keeping Your...

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2026/07/02

The fight that won't close isn't behind you — it's inside you. Every unresolved argument stays in the body as a low-grade stressor. It shows up as 3 AM wake-ups, tight chest, and exhaustion with no clear source. In this conversation, Dr. Danielle Zanzarov, PhD, sits with conflict resolution coach Rod Jeter — creator of YBAngry — to talk about what unfinished conflict actually costs the nervous system, and how his structured game helps couples resolve decades of disagreements in under an hour....

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32:05

The Real Reason You Wake Up at 3 AM (It's Not Insomnia)

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2026/06/25

Why do you wake up at 3 AM every night and struggle to fall back asleep? It's not insomnia the way you've been told — and it's not a character flaw. Your body is doing something specific in the early morning hours, on a clock. If you fall asleep fine but snap awake at 3 or 4 AM with a racing mind — the to-do list, the worry, the thing you said years ago — this episode is for you. Dr. Z walks through what's actually happening: the early-morning cortisol rise, the overnight blood sugar di...

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34:17

Why 80% of Menopausal Women Get Dismissed (And It's...

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2026/06/18

More than 80% of women in perimenopause and menopause never get adequate care — and the most common explanation for that number is almost entirely wrong. The story we tell is that these women didn't advocate for themselves. That they stayed quiet, put everyone else first, didn't make the appointment. Dr. Z has sat across from thousands of these women over nearly 20 years in practice. Most of them did go. They made the appointment. They sat in the chair and said the hard thing out loud. They j...

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29:13

Why You Keep Quitting Your Health Goals (It's Not...

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2026/06/11

Most people have tried to change something about their health and watched it quietly fall apart by day nine — or day two. Not from a dramatic failure. Just a slow fade. The common conclusion? You don't have enough discipline. You're not motivated enough. Something's wrong with you. Dr. Z is here to correct the record. In this episode, Dr. Z breaks down the actual mechanism behind follow-through — and it has nothing to do with willpower. Using the most boring example possible (brushing your te...

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40:47

Foundayo™, Ozempic, and the Question No One Is Asking

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2026/05/21

Foundayo just got FDA approval. Which means a lot of women who never thought about a GLP-1 medication — because the needle was a hard no — are now thinking about one. The conversation in midlife wellness changed overnight. In this solo episode, Dr. Z is not here to tell you whether to take a GLP-1. She's here to give you what she has not seen anyone else give you: a clinical, body-led framework for how to think about this decision before you make it. Not after. What you'll discover in this ep...

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40:59

Why Your Body Won't Heal (Even When You're Doing...

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2026/05/14

Energy healing, emotional blocks, and nervous system release — what if the reason nothing is working isn't a strategy problem? What if you are not stuck — you are just blocked? In this conversation, Dr. Z sits down with Stu Weintraub — shamanic and Reiki energy healer, TEDx speaker, founder of Waves of Love Wellness, and the creator of the Center for Child-Safe Divorce. Stu's work lives at the exact intersection of everything True Wellness explores: the body, the nervous system, emotional pat...

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60:31

Done Pretending: How to Reclaim Your Identity in...

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2026/05/07

Limiting beliefs, midlife reinvention, self-sabotage, and inherited fears — what if the voice telling you to stay small was never even yours to begin with? In this episode of TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z, Dr. Z sits down with Susan Houston — TEDx speaker, podcast host of Done Pretending, and the woman who walked away from a 19-year career to finally stop living under someone else's ceiling. Susan's work focuses on one of the most invisible forms of self-sabotage women experience: the secondhand b...

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