The Dr. Terri Show

Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? Do you desire to live a life of abundance in your health? On the Dr. Terri Show, we cut through all the hype and fads to bring you real, vulnerable conversations about health, faith and life. We're not holding anything back, and we are taking on topics you are asking and wondering about. Along the way, we'll laugh, share stories and challenge cultural norms to help you have the healthiest most abundant life you can. Terri DeNeui, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC is the Founder of EVEXIAS Health Solutions, Creator of the Evexipel Method and owner of EVEXIAS Medical Center and a board-certified nurse practitioner, nationally renowned speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Her new book, “Hormone Havoc,” is the essential guide for patients and practitioners seek ing to understand hormone health and achieve true hormone optimization, and truly know why ignoring our hormones has been a detriment to health and quality of life. Dr. DeNeui hol

The Dr. Terri Show is a health podcast hosted by Dr. Terri DeNeui, DNP, with 115 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Hormones, Thyroid, and Vitamins: A Closer Look at Postpartum Depression

  Sep 15, 202633 min

  Nobody Has an SSRI Deficiency: Rethinking Postpartum Depression A new mother comes in for one visit, gets a diagnosis, leaves with a prescription, and comes back in a month. In a lot of practices that is first-line care for postpartum depression. The problem is that nothing on the list of things that actually crashed after delivery is an antidepressant. Dr. Terri welcomes back Dr. Johnny J. Peet, MD, a gynecologist with nearly three decades in private practice, for a conversation about what is really happening in a woman's body after a baby, and why he treats postpartum depression almost nothing like he did twenty years ago. Progesterone and estrogen fall off a cliff. Thyroid drops at the same time. Vitamin levels that were fine before pregnancy quietly slip. Add a physical recovery, real anxiety, and no sleep, and his take is that the surprising thing is how many women come through it fine. They open with the trend Dr. Terri is seeing in her own practice, young premenopausal women asking for estrogen because it is trending online, at the same time patches are getting hard to fill. If you have been handed a prescription and told that is the answer, this is the conversation nobody had with you. What you'll discover: What the removal of the estrogen and testosterone black box warnings actually changed, and where the fear came from [03:23] Why an empty hormone receptor in the brain produces symptoms [05:45] The decade-long decline in testosterone and thyroid that happens long before menopause gets the credit [07:25] The full list of what crashes after delivery, and why no single item explains it [09:30] The reason your brain lowers testosterone after the second baby on purpose [13:54] The questions a clinician has to ask before treating anyone's postpartum mood [15:55] What a partner, a grandmother, and four consecutive hours of sleep are actually worth [17:01] The treatment order most practices skip entirely [20:09] Thyroid, TSH, and why a normal-looking panel misses it [22:23] The symptom triad that points to low testosterone in women [26:57] Postpartum depression is common, it is treatable, and it is almost never one problem. Find a provider trained in what we discussed: evexias.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Specific doses, lab targets, and treatment decisions discussed here are clinician-to-clinician and should not be applied without your own provider. **If you or someone you know is having suicidal or harmful thoughts, please immediately reach out to someone or call 1-833-TLC-MAMA** 00:00 Introduction 00:44 A Real Shift in Women's Health This Year 02:21 Estrogen Trending Online and the Patch Shortage 03:23 What the Black Box Removals Actually Changed 05:45 Receptors, Deficiency, and Mood 07:25 The Four Hormonal Stages of a Woman's Life 09:30 What Actually Causes Postpartum Depression 13:54 Testosterone After the Second Baby 15:55 Screening First, Then Treating 17:01 Partners, Family, and the Village 18:51 An SSRI Is Not First Line 20:09 Progesterone, Estrogen, and Thyroid 22:23 Thyroid, TSH, and the Depression Link 24:05 B Vitamins, Vitamin D, and the Gut 26:57 Testosterone in Women: Mood, Energy, Sex 29:05 Injectable Progesterone and Follow-Up 30:12 Why Women Don't Talk About It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  We Are Our Hormones: What Birth Control Does to the Female Brain

  Sep 8, 20261h 4m

  If you are a woman, there is a good chance someone handed you a prescription at 15 or 16 and told you almost nothing. Maybe it was for acne. Maybe it was for cramps. Nobody sat you down and explained that it does not only turn off your ability to get pregnant, it turns off the hormones that were building your brain. We have never followed a generation of women long enough to find out what happens when you start at 13 and stay on it until you are 35. We just did it, and we called it health care. Dr. Terri sits down with Dr. Sarah Hill, a research psychologist and professor at Texas Christian University who has spent more than 20 years studying women's hormones and neuroendocrinology. She is the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control and The Period Brain. Her interest in the subject started personally. After more than a decade on the pill, she went off it and, within three months, felt like parts of herself were coming back online. She went to the research literature to find out why, and found a body of evidence almost nobody was talking about. This conversation covers what hormonal contraception actually shuts down, why the alternatives are less studied than most women are led to believe, and what a generation of young women walking away from it are walking toward instead. What you'll discover: What Dr. Hill noticed within three months of going off the pill, and why she went straight to the research [15:03] Why ovulation is not just about releasing an egg, and what stops when it stops [18:23] The cultural hypothesis about hormones, femininity, and how young women dress today [23:18] Why there is no such thing as a locally acting hormone, and what that means for the hormonal IUD [24:47] How synthetic progestins interact with androgen and cortisol receptors differently than your own progesterone does [30:49] The calming compound your body makes from progesterone that synthetic progestins never produce [34:19] What the research actually says about long-term birth control and fertility, including the caveat most women never hear [40:55] Dr. Hill's take on the growing number of premenopausal women being put on estrogen therapy [47:08] The percentage of healthy, regularly cycling college-age women in her lab's studies who are not ovulating, and the reason why [55:13] What we know, and mostly do not know, about starting hormonal contraception while the brain is still developing [1:01:47] The bottom line: We cannot make good decisions without good information. For an entire generation of women, the information was never on the table. The Dr. Terri Show is presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutions. For more, visit: https://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Connect with Dr. Sarah Hill: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahehillphd/ Website: https://www.sarahehill.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Eating Less and Moving More with No Results? It Might be Lipedema.

  Sep 1, 202638 min

  Lipedema: The Painful Fat Disorder Doctors Keep Calling Obesity You've done the diets. You've done the exercise. Maybe you've done hormone therapy, and maybe you've even tried GLP-1 medications. And the weight in your legs will not move. It hurts to be touched. It bruises for no reason. And every doctor you've asked has looked at you and told you to eat less and move your body more. There's a name for what might be happening, and it is not obesity and it is not your willpower. Erika Schlick spent nearly a decade being told the same thing. She had already survived a two-year fight to get diagnosed with Lyme disease. Then, after stem cell therapy, she gained more than 50 pounds that no diet, no workout, and no medication would touch. It took eight more years to get an answer: lipedema, a connective tissue and adipose disorder that affects an estimated 1 in 9 women, was first described in 1940, and is still barely taught in medical school. In this episode she walks Dr. Terri through the hallmark signs most doctors miss, why lipedema fat behaves nothing like ordinary fat, how surgical treatment differs from cosmetic liposuction, and what it actually takes to manage the condition long term. What you'll discover: 04:35 — The tick bite in 2012 that started a fourteen-year health journey 05:27 — Lyme remission, and the weight gain that started right after stem cell therapy 06:18 — Eight more years, and why a second undiagnosable condition felt like a Rubik's Cube 07:16 — Four lipedema removal surgeries in 2024, and what recovery actually looked like 08:30 — What lipedema is, why researchers now suspect a connective tissue disorder, and why it resists diet and exercise 09:39 — The hallmark signs: disproportionate fat distribution, swelling, easy bruising, and hands and feet that are spared 10:52 — The nodular texture that gets dismissed as cellulite, and the blame patients absorb instead of a diagnosis 12:54 — Why lipedema surgery is circumferential and lymphatic-sparing, and why a cosmetic surgeon is the wrong choice 15:07 — Post-surgical management: compression, lymphatic drainage, pneumatic pumps, and an anti-inflammatory diet 17:16 — Hormones as the trigger, starting at puberty, and why the condition tracks life stage changes 18:53 — Mold, environmental toxins, and why men carry the gene but rarely express the condition 20:11 — The mast cell and Ehlers-Danlos overlap that keeps showing up in lipedema patients 22:36 — The gut as another layer of connective tissue 25:53 — Building muscle after surgery, identifying trigger foods, and a hotel room in Mexico that caused five pounds of swelling in 24 hours 27:36 — Why diagnosis is still clinical, and what a specialist actually looks for 28:39 — How to find a provider who can diagnose, operate, and manage aftercare 29:22 — Lipedema versus lymphedema, and why the distinction matters when choosing a doctor 35:24 — You know your body best. Why self-advocacy is still the deciding factor. If you have spent years being told your legs are a discipline problem, this episode gives you the language to ask a different question. The Dr. Terri Show is presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutions. For more, visit: https://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Connect with Erika Schlick: Website: https://thetrailtohealth.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetrailtohealth/ ️ Lipedema Summit: https://event.lipedemasummit.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Cortisol Isn't the Problem. It's the Response.

  Aug 25, 20261h 2m

  How Long Does It Take You to Wake Up? The Cortisol Cheater Question You hit snooze six times. You need two cups of coffee before you can hold a conversation. Or the opposite: your eyes open at a level ten, heart already going, anxiety already running. There is a name for what is happening, and there is a test for it. Dr. Terri sits down with Carrie Jones, ND, FABNE, MPH, MSCP, the naturopathic physician known as the Queen of Hormones, for a conversation about the hormone testing almost nobody is ordering. Not blood. Not saliva. Urine metabolites, which show you not just how much of a hormone you have, but where it goes after your body is finished with it. Because that turns out to be the part that matters. Estrogen can travel down three different pathways, and one of them is protective while another is genotoxic. Testosterone can convert into something far more potent, which is why some women get hair loss and jawline acne on a dose that works beautifully for someone else. Progesterone can knock one woman out in ten minutes and do almost nothing for the woman next to her on an identical dose. None of that shows up on a standard panel. They also spend real time on cortisol, which has become the most misunderstood hormone on the internet. Dr. Carrie makes the case that we are doing to cortisol exactly what we did to estrogen after the Women's Health Initiative: blaming the messenger, missing the message, and reaching for supplements to suppress something the body is doing on purpose. This one is for anyone who has been told their hormones are fine, or who has tried hormone therapy and quit because of side effects nobody could explain. What you'll discover: What urine metabolite testing actually measures, and why hormones have to go somewhere (02:03) The three estrogen pathways, and which one you want to push toward (04:45) The pathway that explains breast tenderness, spotting, and estrogen sensitivity (07:58) Why testosterone causes acne and hair loss in some women and not others (09:23) Alpha versus beta: why two women on the same progesterone dose have completely different nights (11:16) Whether the route you take progesterone changes the effect (14:20) What cortisol metabolites reveal about your thyroid that a TSH will not (19:39) Free T3, reverse T3, and reference ranges that are normal but not optimal (21:39) Poor, poor cortisol: what it is actually doing for you, and why we get it backward (26:29) The everyday medications quietly suppressing your cortisol results (30:11) Serum, saliva, or urine: which cortisol test answers which question (34:57) The cortisol awakening response, and the cheater question you can answer yourself (36:24) When a urine metabolite panel is worth the money, and when it is not (40:22) Cruciferous vegetables, DIM, and the caution nobody gives you before you start (42:39) Supplements that support the DHT pathway, and why sourcing decides whether they work (47:01) Alcohol as a bully: how the liver decides what gets detoxified first (52:55) You are not stuck with the hormone you were dealt. You are working with a pathway, and pathways are modifiable. The Dr. Terri Show is presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutions. For more, visit: https://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  The New Name for PCOS, and the Six Types Most Doctors Never Diagnose

  Aug 18, 202635 min

  PCOS Is Now PMOS. What the New Name Changes About How You Get Treated For decades, the diagnosis pointed at your ovaries. Cysts. Fertility. Birth control to regulate the cycle, and a shrug for everything else. This year, that changed. Polycystic ovary syndrome was formally renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS, in a global consensus published in The Lancet. The point was not cosmetic. It was an admission that this was never really a gynecological problem. Dr. Terri sits down with Dr. Cassie Smith, MD, dual board-certified endocrinologist, founder of Modern Endocrine, and author of Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones, recorded on location at the EVEXIAS provider training. Dr. Smith has been making this argument for years, long before the literature caught up: the insulin, the inflammation, and the gut come first. The hormones are downstream. And if you only treat the hormones, you never actually fix anything. The conversation runs from the patient who was thin, had no cysts, had one symptom, and whose insulin nobody ever checked, all the way to what is happening right now with GLP-1s, the telehealth prescribing free-for-all, and the muscle loss almost nobody is monitoring. If you have been told your cycles are irregular and handed a prescription, if you are thin but feel metabolically off, or if you are on a GLP-1 and wondering whether you are doing it right, this one is for you. What you'll discover: 00:00 PCOS is officially renamed PMOS, and why the shift moves the focus off the ovaries entirely 00:59 The six different presentations of PCOS, including lean patients with no cysts and normal testosterone 01:42 The thin patient with one symptom, an irregular cycle, and an insulin level nobody ever ordered 03:33 The metabolic dumpster fire: how gut dysfunction drives estrogen, progesterone, insulin, and cortisol out of balance 04:08 What actually happens when you come off birth control after years of symptom suppression 05:36 The lab panel Dr. Smith runs first, including Free T3, insulin, cortisol, and a gut study 06:28 The unsexy basics: sleep, real food, sunlight, walking, and getting off the phone at midnight 07:29 Delayed childbearing, coming off the pill at 33, and the fertility math nobody explains 09:29 Treating PMOS in perimenopause when fertility is no longer the goal 10:50 Low serum testosterone with high free testosterone, and what low SHBG is telling you 11:50 The estrobolome: the gut bacteria responsible for recycling your estrogen 13:39 Why endocrinology and gynecology both missed this for so long 15:32 Fat cells as a full endocrine organ, and the signals they send when they are overfull 17:29 Ten thousand smoke signals: how inflammatory cytokines confuse your immune system 19:51 Skinny fat explained, and how you can be thin with the metabolic profile of someone who isn't 22:09 GLP-1s: what they do well, and how they are being prescribed badly 22:53 There is no magic bullet, and why your health is rent, not something you own 24:34 Telehealth vial-and-titration prescribing, the gray market, and patients with no follow-up 26:52 Doing it correctly: body composition scans, protein, resistance training, realistic timelines 29:44 GLP-1s slow gut motility. What Dr. Smith does to protect the gut long term 30:05 Fiber, hydration, and the two steps that changed one patient's life before she lost a pound The rename was the easy part. Now somebody has to start treating the whole system. The Dr. Terri Show is presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutions. For more, visit: https://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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