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Dr. Brooke Show

Amidst polarizing, conflicting, and often alarming health and hormone information, The Dr Brooke Show is a voice of sanity where a sensible and nuanced take is honored. Black-and-white thinking, complex daily routines, and hormone advice that get you lost in minutia are not welcome here, but you are. With your host Dr Brooke Kalanick, functional medicine doctor and female hormone expert, you"ll sift through the nonsense and get to what matters most for your hormones and your happiness. Deep dive

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01:05:48

Dr. Brooke Show #449 New Year's Magic with Mallory Leone

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/12/31

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Join me and my friend Mallory Leone, founder of Four Corners Studio, as we move into the end of 2025 (the year of the snake), Mallory and I talk about shedding the old skin that doesn't fit anymore, the power of folk magic, and the art of reality creation. From leaving behind old identities to embracing new beginnings, this episode is for all of us looking who are for clarity on what to create in the New Year. And I finally share

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44:53

Dr Brooke Show #448 Pros + Cons of Pellet Therapy for...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/12/13

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke.I've long shared my grievances about testosterone pellets, but as always, I want to give you a balanced and fair take on all things women's hormones. In this episode, I cover some advantages to pellets (there are a few!) as well as going into more detail on the downsides, including some irreversible side effects. As mentioned in the episode, if you missed the emails about our annual GRATITUDE sale, with 15% off our

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50:41

Dr Brooke Show #447 10th Annual Gratitude Episode!

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/11/24

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. The holidays are here, and it's time for the 10th annual Thanksgiving episode! Can you believe it? Gratitude is a powerful and it is tricky. I'll share some new research on the science of gratitude and how it can be an important tool for resilience due to how it triggers a potent feel-good hormone cocktail in our nervous system. I'll also cover a few places where it's easy to get gratitude quite wrong. AND the annual 15% off sale

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52:44

Dr Brooke Show #446 What Women Need To Know About...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/11/13

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Testosterone for women is among the most over AND under prescribed hormones out there. Women in their 40s and 50s are suffering and struggling to get treatment OR they are being given dosages high enough to cause potentially irreversible side effects. On the other hand, women in their 20s and 30s are prescribed testosterone with little to no attention paid to diet, stress and exercise first. I cover the importance of thorough

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49:25

Dr Brooke Show #445 A Nervous System Approach To...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/10/30

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. It's that time of year when things can get a little chaotic - in a festive way, but still. Your social feed is about to be filled with healthier swaps for holiday treats, experts telling you how horrible sugar is and others telling you: it's only once a year! In this episode, I cover my tried and true tips and perspectives for navigating how this advice can fit for you (or not), where to have grace, where to have grit, and how I'm

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42:59

Dr Brooke Show #444 Should You Be Cycling Your HRT?

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/10/26

In this episode, I am asking a question I get daily in my practice from women taking HRT: do I need to be cycling my progesterone? Or is OK to just take it every day? How about estrogen, does that need to be cycled too? It’s a good question and one that experts do not agree on. As I always say though, HRT can’t be one size fits all and it’s worth understanding why cycling might be better for you - or at least another option! I’m sure you have a friend with this same question, so be sure to forward

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49:09

Dr. Brooke Show #443 Do You Really Need A Weighted Vest?

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/10/18

Trend alert: weighted vests. These low-weight vests are all the rage in the midlife/perimenopause space right now. The menopause experts say to wear these babies every day, all day, and for every exercise. The fitness experts say there is a whole lot of problems with wearing a weighted vest for long durations and with certain exercises. I break it all down and go over the most commonly touted studies on bone density and fat loss. I cover some times they definitely aren't a good idea and how to avoid

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Dr Brooke Show #442 Histamine, MCAS and Your Nervous...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/09/30

Nervous system regulation is all the rage and it is so important to so many symptoms and health conditions. When you have an overactive and highly sensitive system, it might not be enough to take a deep breath or trigger your vagus nerve with singing or cold water. Those tools are powerful and you should know how to use them but for many of us the ultimate root cause of mast cell activation, autoimmunity, chronic issues like long covid, POTS, etc. is deeper trauma that created a lack of safety and

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47:09

Dr Brooke Show #441 Why Your Progesterone to Estrogen...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/09/19

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Whether you are cycling and have symptoms or are on HRT and having issues, the ratio of these two hormones can be a real indicator of issues like low progesterone, estrogen dominance or estrogen metabolism issues. You can calculate this ratio from values on your serum testing or urine testing such as the DUTCH test. I talk about what this ratio should be, how to calculate it (units matter!), what you can glean from various types of

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32:28

Dr. Brooke Show #440 - Understanding Oxytocin

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/08/15

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. The love hormone, the cuddle hormone, the hormone of bonding. Not much bad to say about oxytocin! However, with so many new, compounded hormones easily available on the internet, you may be wondering if you should be taking oxytocin. I cover challenges with oxytocin delivery methods and how to naturally raise it on your own, including common recommendations like hugging but also how the interplay with cortisol might be your biggest

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43:06

Dr. Brooke Show #439 Midlife is More Than HRT, Part II

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/07/24

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Part II of this two-part episode series on the "other stuff" about midlife. In this episode, I get into the tangible system I created to tackle the stuff that HRT doesn't fix — my 3G + 4R Perimenopause Process. There is both perspective and habits as part of this system to help you know what to do - and actually be able to do it! If you missed Part I, where I shared more of the somewhat ugly background of how hard this transition

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Dr Brooke Show #438 Midlife Is More Than HRT, Part I

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/07/17

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Personal episode alert….this one is a bit different than most. It’s not science based and there is no tangible system taught - BUT there is next week so stay tuned! This episode is simply me sharing the nitty-gritty, personal, exhausting, ugly, humbling, guilt ridden, heartbreaking experience that has been perimenopause for me the past 5 years. From this though something new and powerful was born and I wanted to be totally

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55:24

Dr Brooke Show #436 The Truth About Compounding...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/06/26

For more info on how I can help you visit my site, BetterByDrBrooke. There is a huge divide on using compounded pharmacies vs. your standard local pharmacy. On one hand many things compounding is the only way you can get bioidentical hormone therapy and on the other hand there’s a ton of fear around using these seemingly “unregulated” facilities and formulas. As always, the truth is in the middle and I cover the myths about regulation, what the role of these types of formulas are and much more in

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54:52

Dr Brooke Show #436 A New Holistic Approach to...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/06/19

For more info on how I can help you visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Endometriosis can be debilitating for women and not only is treatment somewhat hit and miss, many women go undiagnosed for years. In this episode I cover some new areas of research and potential root causes of endometriosis. As well, when it comes to hormones there is a shift away from focusing only on estrogen dominance towards local estrogen activity in endometriomas and progesterone resistance. This episode will give women a

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r Brooke Show #435 Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) For Women

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/06/14

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. HIgh doses of naltrexone are used for certain addiction treatments, but lower and mid range doses have been shown to have hormonal, anti-inflammatory and weight loss benefits - with relatively few side effects for most women. In this episode I talk about using naltrexone with conditions such as Hashimoto’s and other autoimmune and how it can play into cravings and weight loss success. With all that in mind, it has uses in a variety

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Dr Brooke Show #434 How To Think About Supplements...

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/05/31

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke! Oh, juicy one, right? While there are some that say they are all garbage and others that say they are the same as taking hormones, it's no wonder it’s a confusing topic. In this episode, I share how to think about most female hormone balance supplements: what the ingredients do, is there enough of anything to produce that effect in your product, and how to know what products may or may not help you. I also created this FREE

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55:44

Dr Brooke Show #433 Tools To Reset Your Nervous System

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/05/22

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Stressful moments happen to the best of us and we need actionable tools to complete the stress response, get back to baseline and reset our nervous system. Some of us are hardwired to be more reactive and dysregulated on an ongoing basis, so we may want to employ some of these tools as a daily habit and not just as a reactive response to a stressor. Either way, this episode will give you some easy, tangible ways to get yourself out

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59:54

Dr Brooke Show #432 PCOS + Perimenopause Q&A

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/05/15

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Follow up to episode #431 where I laid out how hormones change in perimenopause for women with PCOS, this episode answers questions from my listeners specific to these two conditions. I cover testing, worsening insulin resistance and weight gain, new understanding of the hormonal landscape of PCOS, breakouts and more. Items mentioned in the show: Dr Brooke’s FREE Guide to PCOS + Perimenopause PCOS Kit bundled price for PCOS

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Dr Brooke Show #431 PCOS & Perimenopause

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/05/14

For more info on how I can help you, visit my site BetterByDrBrooke. Have you heard that menopause cures or fixes PCOS? There is so much misunderstanding around PCOS leaving many women without answers and much misinformation about what this condition looks like as hormones decline in perimenopause and menopause. In this episode I cover how PCOS looks as we enter midlife, what gets better, what gets worse and your best strategies to manage it. Items mentioned in the show: Dr Brooke’s FREE Guide

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Dr Brooke Show #430 Is Candida Causing Your Symptoms?

Dr. Brooke Show ·

2025/04/30

Candida is probably the thing women come most often with thinking that they have. Part of the reason is that the symptoms like bloating, fatigue, and sugar cravings are so common. In this episode, I cover sussing out if this is really behind your symptoms, testing (pros and cons) and how to work with both supplements and the candida diet. As well as the most important part: why do you have this opportunistic infection in the first place? Is it the microbiome, hormone shifts, blood sugar, etc? We

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