TRUE Wellness with Dr. Z

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

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 episode: 1. Why the shift from injectable GLP-1s to an oral pill is changing who considers them, and why convenience is not a framework. 2. What these medications actually do in the body, what they cannot do, and why a quieter appetite is not the same thing as a healed system. 3. The numbers no one is putting in the marketing — including how much weight returns within a year of stopping, and what portion of what you lost was muscle. 4. Why midlife weight gain is rarely just about weight, and what a body-led conversation about it actually sounds like. 5. The five questions Dr. Z wants every woman to sit with before she makes a decision about a GLP-1 — so that whatever she decides, she decides it clearly. Download The GLP-1 Conversation — Dr. Z's full briefing on the research, the lawsuits, what these medications do in the body, and what your body already knows how to do on its own: https://go.southbaywellness.com/glp [https://go.southbaywellness.com/glp] Download your FREE TRUE Wellness Checklist here: https://go.drdee.com/checklist [https://go.drdee.com/checklist] A Gift for You The 21-Day Nervous System Calibration is designed to help you begin shifting out of survival mode and back into a state of regulation. https://go.southbaywellness.com/calibrationregistration Schedule a FREE discovery call with Dr. Z and our team: https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call [https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call] Thanks for listening to T.R.U.E. Wellness with Dr .Z, where we’re redefining health and empowering change. Hosted by Dr. Z, creator of the T.R.U.E. Wellness Framework, this podcast brings you expert insights, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies to help you thrive. Follow us on social media for more wellness inspiration. Instagram: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.instagram.com/drztruewellness] Facebook: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.facebook.com/drztruewellness] YouTube: @DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@drzTRUEWellnes] LinkedIn: drztruewellness [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drztruewellness/] TikTok: @drztruewellness [https://www.tiktok.com/@drztruewellness] Website: www.SouthBayWellness.com [https://www.southbaywellness.com] Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@dr.deephd] ...

Why Your Body Won't Heal (Even When You're Doing Everything Right)

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 patterns, relationships, and the deeper question of what it actually means to live from the heart. His message is simple and profound: you are not broken. You are not stuck. You are blocked. And when those blocks are cleared — everything else the functional medicine, the supplements, the strategies — can finally work. This is one of those episodes that meets you exactly where you are. WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER • Why unresolved emotion — grief, resentment, fear, heartbreak — can block physical healing even when you are doing everything else right • What energy healing actually is, why the body is an electrical being, and how emotional splinters get embedded in the system over years of unprocessed experience • Why self-love cannot be the starting point — and what has to come first before it can take root • The hidden cost of identity collapse: what happens to high achievers when the title, the role, and the relationship are suddenly gone • Why disconnection — from source, from each other, from the earth — is the root of most modern suffering, and what Stu's Waves of Love method does to restore it ABOUT STU WEINTRAUB STU WEINTRAUB is a shamanic / master reiki energy healer, social impact entrepreneur and TEDx speaker. In addition to being a “Warrior Peace-Advocate for Kids Caught in the Crossfire, Stu is the Founder of Waves of Love Wellness, The Center for Child-Safe Divorce and Waves of Love, International. His mission is to help people live, love and lead from their hearts.  Download your FREE TRUE Wellness Checklist here: https://go.drdee.com/checklist [https://go.drdee.com/checklist] A Gift for You The 21-Day Nervous System Calibration is designed to help you begin shifting out of survival mode and back into a state of regulation. https://go.southbaywellness.com/calibrationregistration Schedule a FREE discovery call with Dr. Z and our team: https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call [https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call] Thanks for listening to T.R.U.E. Wellness with Dr .Z, where we’re redefining health and empowering change. Hosted by Dr. Z, creator of the T.R.U.E. Wellness Framework, this podcast brings you expert insights, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies to help you thrive. Follow us on social media for more wellness inspiration. Instagram: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.instagram.com/drztruewellness] Facebook: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.facebook.com/drztruewellness] YouTube: @DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@drzTRUEWellnes] LinkedIn: drztruewellness [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drztruewellness/] TikTok: @drztruewellness [https://www.tiktok.com/@drztruewellness] Website: www.SouthBayWellness.com [https://www.southbaywellness.com] Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@dr.deephd] ...

Done Pretending: How to Reclaim Your Identity in Midlife | Susan Houston & Dr. Z

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 beliefs, inherited judgments, and borrowed fears absorbed from parents, partners, and authority figures — mistaken for personal truth and carried for decades.  The perfectionism that started with a B+ on a third-grade report card. The identity swallowed by years of people-pleasing and caregiving. The inner critic that says you are too old, too much, or not ready — that belief was never yours to carry.This episode is for every woman in midlife, perimenopause, or menopause who feels that quiet inner nudge saying there is more — and has not yet given herself permission to go after it.   What You'll Discover: 1. What secondhand beliefs are — and how to tell the difference between an inherited limiting belief and an actual personal truth 2. Why the most dangerous inner critic is the one that sounds exactly like your own voice — and how to trace it back to its real source 3. How women in midlife are uniquely positioned to break free from self-imposed ceilings, reclaim their identity, and stop outsourcing their self-worth 4. Susan Houston's Four Truths framework for women who are done pretending — and what each truth reveals about where you actually are in your reinvention 5. Why fear is not a stop sign — it is often the clearest signal that you are walking directly toward your real purpose   Connect with Susan Houston: Done Pretending Podcast — available on all major platformsMasterclass  + 60-Day Cohort: thesusanhouston.com [http://thesusanhouston.com] Download your FREE TRUE Wellness Checklist here: https://go.drdee.com/checklist [https://go.drdee.com/checklist] A Gift for You The 21-Day Nervous System Calibration is designed to help you begin shifting out of survival mode and back into a state of regulation. https://go.southbaywellness.com/calibrationregistration Schedule a FREE discovery call with Dr. Z and our team: https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call [https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call] Thanks for listening to T.R.U.E. Wellness with Dr .Z, where we’re redefining health and empowering change. Hosted by Dr. Z, creator of the T.R.U.E. Wellness Framework, this podcast brings you expert insights, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies to help you thrive. Follow us on social media for more wellness inspiration. Instagram: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.instagram.com/drztruewellness] Facebook: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.facebook.com/drztruewellness] YouTube: @DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@drzTRUEWellnes] LinkedIn: drztruewellness [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drztruewellness/] TikTok: @drztruewellness [https://www.tiktok.com/@drztruewellness] Website: www.SouthBayWellness.com [https://www.southbaywellness.com] Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@dr.deephd] ...

Why Your Diet Isn't Working — Your Genes Have the Answer

Personalized nutrition, DNA testing, and nutrigenomics — the science that finally explains why the same diet, supplement, or caffeine habit works beautifully for one person and completely backfires for another. Dr. Z sits down with the researcher behind it all. If you have ever followed all the right advice, eaten clean, taken the supplements, and still not gotten the results you were promised, this episode is the explanation you have been waiting for. Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy, Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto and Founder of Nutrigenomix Inc., breaks down the science of nutrigenomics in plain language: how genetic testing is changing the way practitioners personalize care.   WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER    * What nutrigenomics actually is — and why it finally explains the maddening inconsistency of nutrition research * The caffeine gene: why coffee increases heart attack risk in 50% of the population and lowers it in the other 50%  * MTHFR demystified: what this overhyped gene actually means, what it does not mean, and why folate intake can completely eliminate its risk * Why your genes are not your destiny — and how the right dietary information can abolish even significant genetic vulnerabilities * The micronutrients most people never test for — vitamin C, D, B12, choline — and why not knowing your genetic risk for deficiency is silently affecting your long-term health ABOUT DR. AHMED EL-SOHEMY With over 200 peer-reviewed publications and more than 400 invited talks delivered worldwide, Dr. El-Sohemy is one of the world's leading researchers in identifying genetic markers that predict individual response to dietary factors. He has served on Health Canada's Scientific Advisory Board and multiple international expert panels, and is the recipient of awards for research excellence from the Canadian Nutrition Society, the American College of Nutrition, and the American Nutrition Association.  Check out nutrigenomix.com [http://nutrigenomix.com] You can order your Nutrigenomix genetic test here: https://go.southbaywellness.com/geneticstest [https://go.southbaywellness.com/geneticstest] Use coupon code TRUEWELLNESS at checkout to get $50 off your test. Download your FREE TRUE Wellness Checklist here: https://go.drdee.com/checklist [https://go.drdee.com/checklist] A Gift for You The 21-Day Nervous System Calibration is designed to help you begin shifting out of survival mode and back into a state of regulation. https://go.southbaywellness.com/calibrationregistration Schedule a FREE discovery call with Dr. Z and our team: https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call [https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call] Thanks for listening to T.R.U.E. Wellness with Dr .Z, where we’re redefining health and empowering change. Hosted by Dr. Z, creator of the T.R.U.E. Wellness Framework, this podcast brings you expert insights, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies to help you thrive. Follow us on social media for more wellness inspiration. Instagram: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.instagram.com/drztruewellness] Facebook: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.facebook.com/drztruewellness] YouTube: @DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@drzTRUEWellnes] LinkedIn: drztruewellness [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drztruewellness/] TikTok: @drztruewellness [https://www.tiktok.com/@drztruewellness] Website: www.SouthBayWellness.com [https://www.southbaywellness.com] Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@dr.deephd] ...

Why High Performers Burn Out & How to Come Back Stronger | Stacey Kulongowski, Former Google Director

Burnout, executive coaching, and high-performance leadership — this conversation with former Google Director Stacey Kulongowski is for every woman who has built something impressive and still felt completely disconnected from herself. Stacey Kulongowski spent 13 years at Google, built a team of nearly 200 people, oversaw a $2 billion revenue imprint — and ended up under her desk, crying, after a revenue call went sideways. She also went through breast cancer twice, the first time without telling a single soul at work, doing radiation every morning before going in to lead her team. What she built out of those two intensity points became the framework she now uses to help high-performing leaders and professionals find their way back to themselves. In this conversation with Dr. Z, Stacey breaks down what it really means to Bring Your Big Energy — and why it has nothing to do with being the loudest person in the room.   WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER    * What intensity points are — and why burnout, disruption, cancer, and career pivots all qualify as the same kind of wake-up call  * Why high-performing women are the last to hear the whispers their body and life are sending them — and what happens when those whispers become screams  * The SPARK Process: Stacey's five-step framework for rebuilding after burnout, career transition, or any major life inflection point  * What Stacey learned going through breast cancer twice — and why she treated them completely differently, with radically different outcomes  ABOUT STACEY KULONGOWSKI   Stacey Kulongowski is a PCC-certified executive coach, former Director at Google, and author of Bring Your Big Energy. After 13 years at Google — where she built a team of nearly 200 people and a $2 billion revenue imprint — Stacey took a six-month health leave after burnout and two rounds of breast cancer. Out of that journey, she built the SPARK Process: a framework for helping high-performing leaders and professionals navigate burnout, career transitions, and major life inflection points.   Find her at bringyourbigenergy.com and on Instagram @bringyourbigenergy.  Download your FREE TRUE Wellness Checklist here: https://go.drdee.com/checklist [https://go.drdee.com/checklist] A Gift for You The 21-Day Nervous System Calibration is designed to help you begin shifting out of survival mode and back into a state of regulation. https://go.southbaywellness.com/calibrationregistration Schedule a FREE discovery call with Dr. Z and our team: https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call [https://go.southbaywellness.com/schedule-call] Thanks for listening to T.R.U.E. Wellness with Dr .Z, where we’re redefining health and empowering change. Hosted by Dr. Z, creator of the T.R.U.E. Wellness Framework, this podcast brings you expert insights, inspiring stories, and actionable strategies to help you thrive. Follow us on social media for more wellness inspiration. Instagram: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.instagram.com/drztruewellness] Facebook: DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.facebook.com/drztruewellness] YouTube: @DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@drzTRUEWellnes] LinkedIn: drztruewellness [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drztruewellness/] TikTok: @drztruewellness [https://www.tiktok.com/@drztruewellness] Website: www.SouthBayWellness.com [https://www.southbaywellness.com] Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/@DrZTRUEWellness [https://www.youtube.com/@dr.deephd] ...