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Dialed In Health

by Melissa Goodwin

Dialed In Health connects you with real providers answering the questions you're actually searching for: hormones, peptides, longevity, weight loss, end-of-life care, and more. Every episode is structured around high-search questions so when you're on Google, YouTube, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude, you find real expertise from practicing professionals. Hosted by Melissa Goodwin. With 20+ years in health and wellness innovation, Melissa has brought over 36 products to market for major U.S. health systems and emerging healthcare startups. She's watched regular, frustrated people take their health into their own hands - sometimes brilliantly, sometimes dangerously. This show exists to close that gap.Providers: apply to be a guest at https://www.vitalitygrowthlabs.com/the-dialed-in-health-podcast.Topic requests: [email protected]. Powered by Vitality Growth Labs.

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Episodes

  1. Healing With Horses: What a Horse Sees in You That You Miss

    Healing with horses: a horse reads what you are carrying and shows it back to you. Dr. Kimberly Ammerman, pharmacist and founder of Healing Hearts with Horses, explains what horses pick up on that people miss. Dr. Kimberly Ammerman is a practicing pharmacist, a lifelong horsewoman and a coach.…

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  2. Tantrum vs Meltdown: What to Do When Your Child Loses It

    Tantrum vs meltdown: a tantrum can be bargained with. A meltdown is an overwhelmed nervous system, and reasoning will not reach it. Pediatric occupational therapist Kristin Wittmayer explains the difference and what to do in the moment. Kristin Wittmayer, MS, OTR/L, is a pediatric occupational...

  3. Stuck in Survival Mode? How to Make Your Body Feel Safe Again

    Stuck in survival mode? Your body has to feel safe first. Spiritual director Jada Dobesh shares why, and a 30 second reset you can do anywhere. Jada Dobesh is a certified spiritual director and the owner of Selah Space, a holistic wellness cooperative for women in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Host...

  4. Your "High Protein" Food Probably Isn't, with Nutrition Coach Sydney St Clair

    Is your high protein food really high protein? Certified nutrition coach Sydney St Clair shares a 10 second label test: drop the last digit off the calories. If the grams of protein match or beat it, it is high protein. Sydney owns Let's Reach New Heights Nutrition (LRNH Nutrition) in Wagner…

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  5. 5 Things You Can Do Today to Heal Neuropathy At Home

    Peripheral neuropathy: here are the five things Dr. Jordan Stenzel, DC tells people to do at home every day. Movement, food, e-stem, PEMF and red light therapy, in that order. The first neuropathy episode passed 74,000 views and drew more than 200 comments. Almost all of them said the same thing....

  6. The Most Common Pelvic Floor Fix Is Making It Worse

    A tight pelvic floor is not a weak one. If yours is already tight, a hundred more Kegels can make your symptoms worse. Ember Smith, PT, DPT of Well Balanced Physical Therapy in Sioux Falls, South Dakota was a gymnast who leaked through high school and never told anyone. She now treats the problem...

  7. MTHFR: Your Methylated B Vitamin Could Be Making You Worse

    MTHFR is not a disease. It is a gene variant that slows your methylation cycle, and 40 to 50 percent of people carry a copy of it. Kristine Cassar, owner of BeeWell Functional Wellness in The Woodlands, Texas, carries two copies. So does her daughter. Host Melissa Goodwin asks the questions…

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  8. Ketamine Assisted Therapy, What a Session Actually Feels Like

    Ketamine is the only psychedelic available nationwide by prescription, and Jerry Cook explains exactly what a session feels like, start to finish. Jerry Cook is a trained psychedelic journey guide and integration consultant and the owner of Metanoia Journey Consulting in Sioux Falls, South…

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  9. $80 a Month, Unlimited Visits: Direct Primary Care Explained

    Direct primary care costs $80 a month for adults and $60 for children at Prairie Roots Health in Sioux Falls, and it buys unlimited visits, one-hour appointments, and your provider's cell number. Sam Niewenhuis is a family nurse practitioner and founder of Prairie Roots Health, a direct primary...

  10. Why You Can't Sleep and How to Fix It on Any Shift

    Why can't you sleep? Dr. Jerome Puryear, MD, an obesity medicine physician who diagnosed his own sleep apnea, explains what is actually going wrong at night and how to fix it no matter what shift you work. Dr. Jerome Puryear, MD, Dipl. ABOM, is an obesity medicine physician and interventional...

  11. Can AirPods Work as Hearing Aids? An Audiologist Explains

    Can AirPods work as hearing aids? Only barely. They top out around 25 decibels, which fits a mild loss and nothing past it. Audiologist Dr. Mandy Rounseville-Norgaard, owner of Sioux Falls Audiology Associates in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, joins host Melissa Goodwin to answer the question people...

  12. THC Drinks Explained: What's In Your Can and How to Drink Less

    What is actually in your THC or functional drink? Hightail founder Anna Baskin decodes THC, CBD, CBG, adaptogens, and how to drink less without giving up the ritual. Host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Anna Baskin, founder of Hightail (siphightail.com), a Chicago based line of low dose functional...

  13. The Areola Tattoo Insurance Has to Cover, With Nurse Krissy Dykhouse

    A 3D nipple and areola tattoo is the final step of breast reconstruction, and under a 1998 federal law your insurance often has to cover it. Almost no one tells women it exists. Host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Krissy Dykhouse, a Registered Nurse and Certified Paramedical and Cosmetic Tattoo...

  14. Esthetician of 17 Years: Your Skincare Isn't the Problem

    Your skincare might not be the problem. The way you layer it is. Esthetician Kaila Meier, owner of KJ Relaxin Medical Spa in Sioux Falls, explains the correct order to apply your skincare, what medical grade really means, and the trends worth skipping. On this episode of Dialed In Health, host...

  15. Metabolic Health After 40: The 5 Numbers That Matter with Jessica Morrell, NP

    Metabolic health is how well your body turns food into steady energy, and in midlife it shifts when estrogen drops. Functional medicine nurse practitioner Jessica Morrell, CNP, IFMCP, MSN, founder of Radiant Health and Hormone Therapy in Sioux Falls, explains what metabolic health actually is…

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  16. POTS Isn't Anxiety, and Salt Won't Fix It | Dr. Cooper Dykstra

    POTS is not anxiety, and salt is not the fix. If you stand up and your heart takes off while every scan comes back normal, this episode names what is happening. Host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Dr. Cooper Dykstra, DC, FIBFN-FN, CFMP, founder of Brain Health and Chiropractic in Sioux Falls and…

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  17. Two Pastors Reveal What Real Spiritual Health Looks Like

    What is spiritual health? It is the condition of your inner life, and two pastors say it shapes your mental health, your relationships, and your whole wellbeing. In this episode, Rev. Sara Nelson, Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls, SD, and Pastor Brandon Dunham of...

  18. The Menopause–Hearing–Dementia Link No One Told You About

    Does menopause cause hearing loss — and can untreated hearing loss raise your risk of dementia? Audiologist Dr. Mandy Rounseville-Norgaard, who has worn hearing aids since age 3, says yes to both, and almost no one is connecting the dots. On this episode of Dialed In Health, host Melissa Goodwin...

  19. Everybody Wants It Until the Alarm Goes Off: MegaStrong Fitness

    You don't need motivation to work out. You need discipline. Megan and Dirk Kool of Mega Strong Fitness explain why everybody wants it until the alarm goes off, and what actually keeps people training for years. Around 90% of people who join a gym quit within 90 days. Megan Kool started Mega…

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  20. Addiction Recovery and the 12 Steps, You Don't Have to Hit Rock Bottom

    You do not have to hit rock bottom to get sober. Jon Sommervold runs a 30 night, 12 step immersion program in Sioux Falls with roughly a 50 percent success rate, when the national average is closer to 10 percent. In this episode he explains how recovery actually starts. Jon Sommervold is the...

  21. Why You Don't Need to Sweat to Get Stronger After 40

    Functional fitness over 40 is training your body for how you actually live, not how a 25-year-old lifts. Will Sturgeon explains why. Will Sturgeon is the owner of MB (Mind Body) Wellness in Sioux Falls, SD, a licensed massage therapist and exercise scientist who built his entire practice around…

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  22. Why Pregnancy Rewires Your Brain More Than Puberty

    Pregnancy and the year after birth change your brain more than any time since puberty. Postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, intrusive thoughts, and perinatal psychosis are biological, not a sign that something is wrong with you. Allison Steinwand, a licensed perinatal counselor in Sioux Falls,...

  23. 55 Years in Supplements: The 5 We Take Daily and the Magnesium Mistake Everyone Makes

    Standing in front of a supplement wall, googling reviews on your phone? Here is what to actually take daily and the magnesium mistake almost everyone makes. After 55 years running Wayne & Mary's Nutrition Center, Andrew & Rosanne Reinartz walk through the 5 supplements most adults need every day,...

  24. When Is a Facial More Than a Facial? HydraFacial, Oxygen, and Nervous System Skin

    You have been Googling the wrong question. "Are facials worth it" is the wrong question. The right one is the one almost nobody asks: when is a facial more than a facial? Two people can lay down for the same treatment and walk out with completely different skin. The machine is not the difference....

  25. Reverse Peripheral Neuropathy: 6 Things Your Nerves Need to Heal (That Gabapentin Misses)

    If you wake up at 3 a.m. with burning feet, if your legs do not answer when you stand up, if a doctor handed you a script for gabapentin and told you this is just diabetic neuropathy and there is nothing more to do, this episode is for you. Dr. Jordan Stenzel, DC is the founder of Stenzel...

  26. Hearing Loss in Pregnancy, Tinnitus, Otosclerosis, and the Brain Side of Hearing | Baker Audiology

    I can hear, I just can't understand." If that sentence sounds familiar, this episode is for you. Most people walk into an audiology clinic thinking hearing care is about hearing aids. Melissa Baker and Dr. Libby Benson of Baker Audiology in Sioux Falls explain why hearing is a brain, body, and...

  27. Why Your GLP-1 Stops Working: Muscle Loss, Ozempic Butt, and the Fix

    Your GLP-1 stopped working, your labs came back "fine," and your body still feels like it is fighting you. Jennifer Oknin, CIHP, explains why and what to do about it. In Episode 15 of Dialed In Health, Melissa Goodwin sits down with Jennifer Oknin, a Certified Integrative Health Practitioner and...

  28. Dry Needling, Root Cause PT, and Why Your Pain Keeps Coming Back

    Most physical therapy stops at "pain gone." That's also where the next round of pain quietly starts to build. In this episode, Nathan LeMaster, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, founder of Empower U in Sioux Falls (with locations in Omaha, NE and Austin, TX) walks through what performance physical therapy...

  29. The Men's Nutrition Playbook for Midlife: How to Lose Belly Fat Without TRT or GLP-1s

    Most men in midlife think the answer is TRT, peptides, or a GLP 1. The answer is usually protein, sleep, strength training, and real food. In that order. In this episode, host Melissa Goodwin sits down with Dr. Joe Moen, DC, CCSP, owner of Origin Health, Origin Strength, and Origin Nutrition in...

  30. What Most People Get Wrong About Homelessness (From a Doctor on the Streets)

    Most healthcare waits for people to walk in the door. Midwest Street Medicine walks out to find them. In this episode, host Melissa Goodwin spends a morning in the field with Dr. Melissa Dittberner, PhD, executive director and co founder of Midwest Street Medicine, and Dr. Bob Santella, MD, a...

  31. Is ChatGPT Actually Therapy? What a Clinical Therapist Says AI Gets Wrong

    Is ChatGPT a real therapist? Can AI replace therapy? Is it safe to use ChatGPT for mental health? Millions of people are asking these questions — and increasingly, they're asking ChatGPT itself. Over 230 million people ask ChatGPT health questions every week, and a growing number have decided AI…

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  32. Your Couch, Perfume, and Makeup Are Sabotaging Your Hormones

    By the time the average woman walks out the door in the morning, she has already applied 150 different chemicals to her body. Most of them are talking to her hormones. In this episode, Jessica Morrell, NP, owner of Radiant Health and Hormone Therapy in Sioux Falls, SD, sits down with Melissa...

  33. What Does In-Home Care Actually Cover? A Real Caregiver Answers Your Questions

    When families call Kore Cares, it is usually because something has already happened. A fall. A stroke. A hospital stay. Gabrielle Hoing spent more than two decades in geriatric care and helped build 11 private duty agencies across 8 states before founding Kore Cares in South Dakota 10 years ago.…

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  34. Why Your Nervous System Is Running the Show and How to Reset It

    Wellness is not just physical. Your nervous system, your energy, and the way you breathe are running the show under everything else. In this episode of Dialed In Health, Melissa Goodwin sits down at Alchemy House in Sioux Falls with founders Megan Randall and Jillian Gunlicks to talk about what...

  35. What's Really in Your Water: Chlorine, PFAS & Shower Toxins with Kinetico

    Most of us filter our drinking water and never think twice about the shower. But your skin and lungs absorb chlorine, chloramines, and disinfection byproducts every time you turn on the hot water — and for many municipalities, that's just the beginning. In this episode, Alyssa sits down with the...

  36. Is Cortisol Making You Gain Weight? What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You

    What if the reason you can't lose weight has nothing to do with your diet? Dr. Jessica Pearson is a physician, Air Force veteran, and functional medicine provider at Prairie Roots Health in Sioux Falls. In this episode, she breaks down why cortisol is the hormone most people overlook and why...

  37. The Missing Hormone Most Women Never Get Tested For

    Most women will see six providers before they get a real hormone diagnosis. Mary Jordan, NP, saw five herself before figuring it out on her own. In this episode, Mary Jordan from Encompass Wellness in Sioux Falls, SD sits down with Melissa Goodwin to break down what most providers miss when it...

  38. Peptide Therapy Explained by a Nurse Practitioner: Weight Loss, Stacking, and Sourcing

    Peptides are everywhere right now. But most of what people are reading comes from influencers with discount codes, not from the practitioners who actually prescribe them. Ashley Wagner is a nurse practitioner and the owner of Vitalis MVMT in Harrisburg, South Dakota. She answers the questions...

  39. What Does a Doula Do? Birth, Postpartum and End of Life Support

    Most people hire a birth doula the first time because they want support. Most partners call for one a second time because they saw what it did. Kelsie Thomas and Renee Forred of Transitions Doula Services in Sioux Falls join Melissa Goodwin to answer the questions people are actually searching:...

  40. 22 Surgeries Later, This Marine Asked for Help | Dialed In Health

    What happens when a US Marine and professional MMA fighter with 22 surgeries finally admits he needs help? Clark Bevens served in the Marine Corps from 1993 to 2001, fought 24 professional fights, won world titles in jiu jitsu, and spent decades ignoring injuries because asking for help felt like...

  41. Can Oxygen Heal You? Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Explained | Dialed In Health

    Can your body heal faster just by breathing? Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has been used in hospitals for decades — but now it's showing up in wellness clinics for brain health, chronic pain, hearing loss, anxiety, addiction recovery, and more. In this episode, Melissa Goodwin sits down with…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Dialed In Health connects you with real providers answering the questions you're actually searching for: hormones, peptides, longevity, weight loss, end-of-life care, and more. Every episode is structured around high-search questions so when you're on Google, YouTube, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude, you find real expertise from practicing professionals. Hosted by Melissa Goodwin. With 20+ years in health and wellness innovation, Melissa has brought over 36 products to market for major U.S. health systems and emerging healthcare startups. She's watched regular, frustrated people take their health into their own hands - sometimes brilliantly, sometimes dangerously. This show exists to close that gap.Providers: apply to be a guest at https://www.vitalitygrowthlabs.com/the-dialed-in-health-podcast.Topic requests: [email protected]. Powered by Vitality Growth Labs.

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Dialed In Health connects you with real providers answering the questions you're actually searching for: hormones, peptides, longevity, weight loss, end-of-life care, and more. Every episode is structured around high-search questions so when you're on Google, YouTube, ChatGPT, Perplexity, or...

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