Hormones, Stem Cells, Microplastics & Building the Foundation Before Disease | Dr. Brenden Cochran, NMD

In this episode of WILD Conversations®️ Fee Drummond sits down with Dr Brenden Cochran, NMD, a naturopathic physician with 16 years of clinical experience training doctors across the US, Mexico, Taiwan and London in functional, root-cause medicine. Most of us were taught a simple equation. Symptom appears, take pill, symptom goes, move on. Dr Cochran has spent his career proving how badly that equation fails, and what happens when you flip it. After losing his father to melanoma at 12, he walked away from a pharmacy career and into a medicine that treats the body as a system, not a checklist. What he has learned in the years since is the kind of information most patients never get access to until something has already broken. Recorded live at the ZENOS Biohacking Summit in Saudi Arabia, this conversation moves between the scientific and the deeply human. Together, Fee and Dr Cochran unpack the Terrain 10, the foundation that has to be in place before any biohacking intervention will actually deliver. They go into the toxicity load nobody is talking about, polyester releasing 700,000 microplastics per wash, PFAS in women's bras and hygiene products, the tap water database that maps your zip code against decades of chemical exposure, and the 6,500 microplastics in every standard IV bag. They get into IV therapy done well versus IV therapy done dangerously, AI as the doctor's assistant that is rewriting how clinical decisions get made, and the future of outcome-based medicine. They explore women's hormones in a way most women have never been offered, perimenopause, the 2 to 4am wake-up, the belly fat that will not move, the difference between blood, saliva and urine metabolite testing, and why bioidentical hormones in a properly supported body do not carry the risks women have been told for decades. They cover men's hormones, testosterone, the firefighter on antidepressants, and the chronic disease patients whose unspoken trauma turns out to be the missing piece. This episode is for anyone who has been handed a prescription and a five-minute appointment and known there had to be more. For anyone tired of being managed instead of understood. For anyone ready to find a provider who is a coach and a partner, not a dictator. WILD Conversations®️ is brought to you by WILDING TRIBE®️, a digital universe grounded in the philosophy of Nutrient Dense Living®️. Subscribe and become a member at WILDINGTRIBE.COM to explore a full range of programs, events, and retreats across the pillars of Food, Flow, and Tribe. Unlock your true potential and Re-WILD®️ your mind and body today.