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Rooted in Wellness with Mona Sharma
by Mona Sharma
Welcome to "Rooted in Wellness" with me, Mona Sharma, your guide and celebrity holistic nutritionist. Embark on a transformative journey from imbalance to harmony, where ancient wisdom meets modern scientific insights. Growing up on an ashram, I embraced the philosophy that food is medicine and your kitchen is your health sanctuary. After navigating heart surgeries, anxiety, and weight challenges, I realized that common symptoms don't equate to normalcy. Join me as we unlock the power of our mind, body, and soul connection, and journey back to our roots to reclaim our authentic selves.
Episodes
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134. How the Pursuit of Health Can Leave You More Disconnected from Your Body with Justin Roethlingshoefer
For many people, taking care of their health has started to feel like a second job. There is always another number to track, habit to add, or routine to perfect. More discipline seems like the answer, but constantly trying to optimize the body can make it harder to hear what the body has been...
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133. The Heart Disease Your Cholesterol Test Cannot See with Dr. Abid Husain
A normal cholesterol result can feel like permission to stop worrying about your heart. You exercise, try to eat well, get your yearly blood work, and leave believing everything is fine. That is what makes heart disease so frightening. It can continue developing for years while the tests you have...
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132. The Hidden Code Behind the Patterns You Cannot Break with Manex Ibar
Have you ever caught yourself repeating a pattern you were sure you had already healed? The person or situation may change, but somehow you end up in the same kind of relationship, carrying the same fear, or reacting in the same way. You understand the pattern, so why does it still have so much...
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131. The Cellular Reason Burnout and Hormonal Chaos Keeps Coming Back with Dr. Scott Sherr
Most of us know when we are drifting away from ourselves. We feel it in the sleep that stops restoring us, the anxiety that starts to feel familiar, the energy that never fully comes back, the cravings that get louder, the workouts that drain us instead of building us, and the quiet sense that…
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130. Microdosing Functional Mushrooms: The Wellness “Trend” Humans Have Used for Thousands of Years with Alli Schaper
Mushrooms are suddenly everywhere, and honestly, I love seeing this ancient medicine finally getting the attention it deserves. But between lion’s mane lattes, mushroom gummies, fruiting bodies, mycelium, and microdosing, how do you know what is actually supportive and what is simply great...
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129. The Missing Layer in Healing: Why Chronic Pain Keeps Coming Back No Matter What You Try with Jason van Blerk
Most of us were taught to treat the body like something to fix. Pain shows up, so we chase the pain. Stress builds, so we try to calm the mind. Tension gets louder, so we stretch harder. But what if the body is not working against you? What if it has been communicating through the very signals we...
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128. The Brain Health Warning Signs That Start Before Memory Loss with Dr. David Perlmutter
There is a reason brain health feels so urgent right now. So many people are watching parents, grandparents, partners, and loved ones face Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia, depression, anxiety, or cognitive decline, while quietly wondering if the same future is waiting for them. With…
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127. Normal Labs, Real Symptoms: What Your Immune System May Be Trying to Tell You with Dr. Tania Dempsey
There is a point where “everything looks normal” stops feeling reassuring. You may be exhausted, bloated, itchy, inflamed, anxious, sensitive to foods, reacting to supplements, struggling with sleep, or feeling like your body is on high alert, yet the answers you keep getting are stress, aging,...
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126. The Self-Improvement Trap: Why More Healing Work Is Not Always the Answer with Panache Desai
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from spending years trying to heal yourself and still feeling like you have not arrived. You go to therapy, journal, regulate your nervous system, learn your patterns, and keep looking for the next thing that will finally help you feel peaceful....
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125. Peptides Are Not a Shortcut: Here’s What Your Body Needs First with Nathalie Niddam
Peptides are everywhere right now, and the promise is hard to ignore. When you are dealing with slow recovery, inflammation, low energy, gut issues, or the feeling that your body is no longer responding the way it used to, hearing that one compound could help, can make it feel like the answer you...
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124. The Attachment Wound Behind Your Relationship Patterns with Thais Gibson
Why do we sometimes pull away from the people we love most? Why can closeness feel comforting one moment and overwhelming the next? And why do certain patterns keep repeating even when we know we want something different? In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Thais Gibson to look...
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123: What “Normal” Labs Are Not Telling You About Your Thyroid with Dr. Amie Hornaman
Some seasons of health feel confusing because nothing looks dramatic on paper, but daily life tells a different story. You are exhausted in a way coffee cannot cover. Your weight is shifting even though your habits have not changed that much. Your hair feels thinner. Your brain feels foggy. And...
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122: The Cellular Reason Your Body Feels Different After 30 with Jennifer Scheinman
There is a frustrating moment that can happen in your thirties or forties when your body starts to feel different, but you cannot quite explain why. Your energy dips in a way that coffee does not really fix. Your recovery takes longer. Your focus feels hazier. Your body feels less responsive…
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121. The Health Problem Hiding in Your Zip Code with Tony Cho
A lot of wellness advice assumes the problem lives inside the individual. Your stress. Your habits. Your discipline. Your food choices. Your ability to regulate. But what happens when you are already doing the things that are supposed to help and your life still feels strangely disconnected? You...
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The Ayurvedic Way to Lose Weight Without Hunger, Shame, or Punishment
Weight loss can feel exhausting when every plan gives you another reason to push harder. Eat less. Cut more. Fast longer. Ignore hunger. Be more disciplined. But for so many people, that only leads to the same cycle: trying harder, feeling stuck, blaming yourself, and wondering why your body…
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120. What Most People Get Wrong About Cardio with Ulrich Dempfle
There is a frustrating point a lot of people hit with cardio. You know it matters. You know heart health, stamina, and energy are important, especially as you think about aging well. But the version of cardio most of us were taught feels hard to keep up with: long workouts, more sweat, more time,...
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114: Why Nothing You’ve Tried for Anxiety and Stress Is Actually Working with Dr. Dave Rabin
You can be sleeping, exercising, taking supplements, trying to meditate, cutting back on caffeine, doing all the “right” things, and still feel like your body is bracing for something you cannot name. That is the part so many stress conversations miss, because anxiety is not always something you...
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118: The Detox Mistake That Keeps Your Body Feeling Off with Dr. Josh Levitt
There is a specific kind of frustration that happens when you are trying to take care of your body, but something still feels off. You are eating better, taking supplements, trying to manage stress, maybe even getting your labs checked, but your energy still feels low, your brain feels foggy…
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117. The Fitness Mistake That Keeps You Starting Over with Stan Browney
There is a very specific kind of frustration that happens when you genuinely want to get healthier, but every attempt starts to feel like the same cycle. You get motivated, you clean up your food, you promise yourself this time will be different, and then one missed workout, one busy week, or one...
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116. Cellular Health: How to Rebuild the Body’s Ability to Heal with Dr. Bill Rawls
So many people spend years chasing answers. Doctor after doctor, test after test, protocol after protocol, and still their body feels like it is stuck in something it cannot find its way out of. They may be eating better, taking supplements, trying to lower stress, testing for Lyme, mold…
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115. The Missing Piece in Hormone Therapy No One Is Talking About with Dr. Nayan Patel
Hormone health has become one of the most confusing conversations in wellness, and that confusion can change the way you care for your body. Some people avoid HRT completely because they are afraid of it, while others get placed on one-size-fits-all protocols that never fully consider their…
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114. The Eye-Brain Connection Behind Focus, Fatigue, and Screen Stress with Dr. Bryce Appelbaum
When we talk about health, healing, and performance, we usually focus on the things we have been taught to look at first. We talk about hormones, gut health, sleep, stress, inflammation, nutrition, movement, and nervous system regulation. But most of us never think to ask whether there is another...
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113. The Hormones and Emotions Connection - Why Healing Your Hormones Means Healing Your Story with Dr. Sonya Jensen
What if your mood swings, your anxiety, your exhaustion, and even your physical symptoms aren't problems to be fixed but messages waiting to be heard? You have probably tried to silence them anyway, pushed through the fatigue, tightened up your routine, added another practice to your morning. But...
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112. Beyond Reproduction - The Shocking Truth About What Estrogen Actually Does In Your Body with Dr. Siobhan Mitchell
Have you ever done everything right, the clean eating, the morning rituals, the consistent workouts, and still felt like your body was working against you in ways you could not explain? Probably, you cleaned up your diet even more, added another wellness protocol, pushed harder in the gym, only…
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111. What Makes Nature The Most Powerful Healing Protocol with Caroline Howell
We have been sold the idea that healing comes from the right supplement, the right protocol, the right biohack, and so we keep consuming more, optimizing more, spending more, and still wondering why we feel so depleted, anxious, and disconnected from ourselves. What nobody is telling us is that…
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110. The Deficiency Behind Your Brain Fog, Poor Sleep, and Chronic Fatigue with Caroline Alan
Eating well, exercising regularly, and taking a cabinet full of supplements, yet still feeling exhausted, foggy, anxious, and like something fundamental is missing — that experience has a name. The World Health Organization calls it the hidden hunger, and the reason it is so widespread is that…
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109. The Missing Piece in Every Longevity Conversation: Why Your Mouth Is the Gateway to Your Overall Health with Dr. Jonathan Levine
When it comes to health and longevity, we obsess over what we eat, how we move, how we sleep, and how we manage stress, never realizing that one of the most powerful indicators of how well our body is functioning has been hiding in plain sight all along - our mouth. Most people brush twice a day,...
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108. What Makes Sprouts The $1 Superfood That Outperforms Most Supplements with Doug Evans
Despite spending more on groceries and supplements than any generation before us, chronic fatigue, brain fog, stubborn weight, and inflammation are more common than ever. The uncomfortable truth is that the vegetables most people are eating today contain a fraction of the nutrients they did in…
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107. Food Noise Isn’t a Willpower Problem: Ashley Koff, RD on The Nutrition Mistake Almost Everyone Makes
You wake up determined to do everything right, eat clean, stay on track, and by mid-afternoon you are still foggy, bloated, and oddly hungry, like your body never got the memo. The frustrating part is you assume it must be you, so you tighten the rules, cut more foods, buy another supplement, and...
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106. Dave Watumull on Inflammaging: The Thing Speeding Up Aging That No ‘Healthy Habit’ Fixes
Most people blame “getting older” when they wake up foggy, achy, and running on fumes—but the real issue is usually inflammaging: low-grade inflammation + oxidative stress quietly stacking up while you’re busy doing “all the right things.” And the wild part is the longevity world keeps selling...
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105. Age Like a Girl: Why Metabolic Health Comes First with Dr. Mindy Peltz
Today’s conversation is a return to what women’s wellness was always meant to feel like: intuitive, rooted, and responsive to the rhythms of the female body. When midlife shifts begin, sleep changes, mood fluctuates, and energy feels unpredictable, it can feel destabilizing. But what if these...
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104. How Light Shapes Hormones with Sarah Kleiner
Perimenopause can feel like your body is sending mixed signals. Appetite shifts. Sleep changes. Stress tolerance shrinks. And when labs come back “normal,” it can leave you feeling unheard in your own experience. In this episode, I sit down with Sarah Kleiner to explore circadian rhythm as a...
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103. The Endocrine Web: How Everything Connects in Midlife with Dr. Deanna Minich
Perimenopause can feel like your body is speaking a new language. Sleep shifts. Energy fluctuates. Mood feels unfamiliar. And when you are told everything looks “normal,” it can leave you feeling disconnected from your own experience. In today’s episode, I sit down with Dr. Deanna Minich to…
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102. Why Modern Wellness Is Leaving Women Burned Out with Kate Prince and Jo Woodhurst
Feeling tired, wired, or overwhelmed has become so common that many women stop questioning it. When wellness starts to feel like another full-time job, it is often a sign that the body is asking for something simpler, steadier, and more supportive. In today’s episode, I sit down with Kate Prince...
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101. Why Your Body Feels Overstimulated All the Time with Todd Shipman
Feeling tired, wired, or out of balance has become so normalized that many people stop questioning it. If your nervous system feels constantly “on,” your sleep feels light, or your body struggles to fully settle, this conversation offers a new way of understanding what may be happening beneath…
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100. The Wellness Industry Wasn’t Built for Women and Here’s What Needs to Change
What if the symptoms you’ve learned to live with were actually your body asking for deeper support? In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I’m sharing reflections from a powerful panel I was honored to be part of at the 1 Billion Followers Summit, alongside Samantha Prabhu and Shayun, and hosted…
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99. The Great Cholesterol Myth: What Your Doctor Isn’t Testing with Jonny Bowden
Cholesterol is one of the most fear-charged topics I hear about from clients, and the conversation often starts with a lab result that feels alarming without much context. If you’ve ever been told your cholesterol is “high” and left feeling confused, anxious, or unsure what actually matters, this...
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The Ancient Blueprint for Healing Inflammation in a Modern World with Dr. Shivani Gupta, PhD
Inflammation is one of the most common words I hear from clients, yet so few people truly understand what it means or how it shows up in the body. If you have been dealing with joint pain, fatigue, digestive issues, brain fog, or a sense that your body feels constantly dysregulated, this...
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97. Supporting Natural Detox Pathways for Gut, Liver and Hormones with Meghan Swidler
If you have tried cleanses, protocols, or lifestyle changes and still feel bloated, fatigued, hormonally off, or stuck in recurring symptoms, this episode offers a clearer way to understand what your body is asking for. In today’s episode, I sit down with Meghan Swidler to explore detoxification…
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96. Creating Health Before the Diagnosis with Dr. Chris Renna, DO
Before anything shows up on a lab report, the body often signals imbalance through lived symptoms. Sleep becomes less restorative, emotional regulation takes more effort, focus shifts, and the nervous system feels less steady, even while test results still appear normal. We dive deeper into this…
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95. Trauma, Nervous System Dysregulation, and Chronic Stress with Britt Piper
You can eat well, journal daily, go to therapy, and still feel stuck in a body that won’t settle. When healing stays cognitive and skips the nervous system, regulation never fully happens and symptoms keep looping. We dive deeper into this in the latest Rooted in Wellness episode with Britt…
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94. The Root Causes of Brain Fog, Anxiety, and Burnout with Dr. Eboni Cornish
If you have been dealing with brain fog, anxiety, chronic fatigue, mood changes, or symptoms that feel real but keep coming back with “normal” labs, this episode will help you understand what your brain and body are signaling beneath the surface. In today’s episode, I sat down with Dr. Eboni...
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93. Staying Well When Life Gets Full: A Holiday Q&A (Part 3)
What if the holidays become a space where you stay connected to yourself instead of feeling depleted by January? In Part 3 of the holiday solos, I bring together everything we have been exploring so you can support your body with clarity and steadiness. I share how alcohol affects digestion…
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92. The Hidden Markers of Stress, Inflammation, and Longevity with Dr. Ara Suppiah
If you have been feeling inflamed, fatigued, overly stressed, or unsure why your body is not responding the way it used to, this episode will help you understand what your physiology is trying to communicate. In today’s episode, I sat down with Dr. Ara Suppiah, a functional sports medicine...
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91. The Real Path to Better Digestion and Gut Health with Dr. Karan Rajan
If you have been dealing with bloating, irregular digestion, sensitivities, or feeling off after meals, this episode will help you understand what your gut is trying to communicate. In today's episode, I sat down with Dr. Rajan Karan, a gastrointestinal surgeon and gut-health researcher who makes...
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90. Staying Well When Life Gets Full: A Holiday Q&A (Part 2)
What if the holidays become a time to return to your natural rhythm instead of something you have to recover from? In Part 2 of the holiday solos, I answer your top questions about how to stay grounded, nourished, and supported through a season that often disrupts our routines. I share how I...
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89. The Hidden Messages Behind Your Symptoms with Dr. Jason Yuan
What if the symptoms you feel every day were actually gentle messages from your energy body asking you to slow down, reconnect, and listen a little more closely? In today’s episode, I sat down with Dr. Jason Yuan, a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist whose work blends functional medicine with...
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88. Aging Backwards? The Truth About NAD, Energy, and Biological Age with Dr. Nichola Conlon
What if aging wasn’t something that simply “happens,” but a reflection of how well your cells are able to repair, restore, and keep you in balance? Today on Rooted in Wellness, I’m joined by Dr. Nichola Conlon, scientist and founder of Nuchido, to explore how NAD, cellular repair, and lifestyle...
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87. Why Infrared Saunas Work (When Some Traditional Ones Don’t) with Connie Zack
What if healing didn’t mean doing more, but simply returning your body to its natural rhythm? Today on Rooted in Wellness, I’m joined by Connie Zack, co-founder and co-CEO of Sunlighten, to explore how infrared and light therapy support the body’s innate ability to restore, repair, and regulate...
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86. Staying Well When Life Gets Full: A Holiday Q&A (Part 1)
What if the holidays weren’t something you had to recover from, but a chance to return to your natural rhythm? Today on Rooted in Wellness, I’m answering your top questions about how to feel grounded, nourished, and supported through a season that often disrupts our routines. I break down how to...
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Welcome to "Rooted in Wellness" with me, Mona Sharma, your guide and celebrity holistic nutritionist. Embark on a transformative journey from imbalance to harmony, where ancient wisdom meets modern scientific insights. Growing up on an ashram, I embraced the philosophy that food is medicine and your kitchen is your health sanctuary. After navigating heart surgeries, anxiety, and weight challenges, I realized that common symptoms don't equate to normalcy. Join me as we unlock the power of our mind, body, and soul connection, and journey back to our roots to reclaim our authentic selves.
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