Rooted in Wellness with Mona Sharma

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 what you have never realized is that your body is not breaking down but breaking open, asking you to finally stop running from the stories, the grief, and the generational weight you have been carrying for years. Your hormones and your emotions are not two separate conversations, and until you bridge that gap, no protocol, no supplement, and no wellness routine will ever be enough.

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sat down with naturopathic physician Dr. Sonya Jensen to explore how to close that gap. We also talk about why the trauma your mother and grandmother never processed may be showing up in your hormones today, and why perimenopause is not something to survive but one of the most powerful invitations of a woman's life.

Dr. Sonya Jensen is a naturopathic physician with over 15 years of experience specializing in women's hormonal health, the creator of the HER Method, and the author of Heal Your Hormones, Reclaim Yourself. With a background in cell biology and over a decade of clinical work at the intersection of hormones, emotions, and relationships, she is one of the most grounded voices in women's health today.

What's Discussed:

(2:30) The three daily non-negotiables that keep Dr. Sonya feeling rooted.

(5:02) What actually causes women to feel uprooted and why hormonal changes amplify it.

(8:29) What your hormones are really trying to tell you when you feel exhausted and disconnected.

(10:02) The grief that lives inside every stage of a woman's life that nobody talks about.

(17:45) Why your labs can look completely normal and you still feel terrible.

(24:22) How unprocessed stress and trauma biologically alter your hormonal landscape.

(26:43) Why you may be carrying your mother's and grandmother's hormonal patterns in your body.

(48:52) What anger, anxiety, and sadness are actually trying to tell you.

(50:53) The emotional root behind fibroids and why your body may be holding on.

(1:08:32) Three simple things you can start doing today to come back into alignment.

(1:09:33) The HER Method explained: Hormones, Emotions, Relationships.

Listen to this episode of Rooted in Wellness and walk away finally understanding why everything you have tried has not worked, what your body has actually been asking for all along, and how to start healing from the root instead of chasing the symptoms. 

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Learn more about Mona Sharma:

Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at https://monasharma.com/12tips. 

Visit Mona's website: https://monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma

Learn more about Dr. Sonya Jensen: 

Book: www.healyourhormonesbook.com 

Instagram: @drsonyajensen   

Website: www.drsonyajensen.com

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 to end up more exhausted, more inflamed, more frustrated, and no closer to feeling like yourself again. The problem was never your effort or your discipline. It was biology. And specifically, it was one hormone that most women were never told does far more in the female body than reproduction.

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with neuroscientist and mitochondrial health expert Dr. Siobhan Mitchell to finally give that biology a name, an explanation, and a path forward. After this conversation you will understand why the belly fat, the brain fog, the cravings, the burnout, and the sleepless nights are all connected, why no amount of discipline was ever going to fix them, and exactly what your body actually needs to start feeling like itself again.

Dr. Siobhan Mitchell is the Chief Scientific Officer of MitoQ, holds a PhD from SUNY Albany, and completed her post-doctoral fellowship on brain aging at the University of Washington. She has authored over 80 published papers, holds eight patents in aging, cognition, and mood, and has led research on brain nutrition, metabolism, cardiovascular health, and weight loss across multinational companies and institutions worldwide. With 25 years at the intersection of neuroscience, nutrition, and women's health, there is nobody better placed to have this conversation.

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What's Discussed:

(6:33) Why the symptoms women dismiss as stress in their 40s are actually their hormones talking.

(7:45) Why estrogen decline causes a 65% increase in binge eating and how it disrupts blood glucose.

(9:27) Why perimenopause is starting earlier than most women are told

(12:10) What is actually happening physiologically when a woman's body stops responding to the protocols that used to work.

(20:17) The real reason belly fat accumulates in midlife and why it has nothing to do with what you are eating.

(28:40) Phytoestrogens, what they are, and how they work on estrogen beta receptors in the brain, heart, and bones.

(31:57) What equol is, why only 20 to 30% of western women can produce it, and why it is a game changer for women's health.

(37:57) How the gut microbiome regulates estrogen through the estrobolome and why gut health and hormone health cannot be separated.

(42:49) How to eat for your estrobolome and the specific foods that support estrogen recycling and brain health.

(53:53) The science behind MitoQ, and what makes mitochondrial targeted antioxidants different.

(1:05:01) The two biggest drivers of mitochondrial oxidative stress in women and what to do about them.

Thank you to our sponsor: 

Cozy Earth: Head to cozyearth.com and use my code ROOTED for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Rooted in Wellness. 

Learn more about Mona Sharma:

Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at https://monasharma.com/12tips. 

Visit Mona's website: https://monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma

Learn more about Dr. Siobhan Mitchell: 

Instagram: @esiobhanmitchell

Website: https://global.mitoq.com/

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 the most powerful wellness protocol on the planet does not come in a bottle and it never did.

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Caroline Howell for one of the most grounding conversations I have had on this show. And honestly, if you have ever felt like you are throwing money at your health and still not feeling the way you hoped, this episode is going to be the permission slip you did not know you needed, to finally stop chasing the fix and start returning to what actually works.

Caroline Howell is the founder of Canopy Panama, a regenerative sanctuary located in one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet, who has spent years restoring endangered tropical dry forests, regenerating seasonal river systems, and protecting critically endangered wildlife in Central America. She has built her entire life around understanding what happens when humans return to living in true alignment with the natural world, and there is truly nobody better positioned to have this conversation.

What's Discussed:

(6:06) Why modern living has pulled us so far from our natural environment and how that drift is showing up as symptoms in the body.

(21:01) The concept of nature deficiency and why biodiversity loss in our environment is directly causing biodiversity loss inside the human body.

(23:27) How the health of our soil connects directly to the health of our gut microbiome and why this matters more than most people realize.

(38:29) The truth about glyphosate, our water, and what is actually happening to the food system that is quietly undermining our health.

(50:40) Why water quality and how water moves through a landscape could be one of the greatest untapped sources of healing and resilience.

(1:02:14) What regenerative living actually means beyond the buzzword and how to know if what you are supporting is real.

(1:16:14) Three meaningful things you can do today to reconnect with nature and support the health of the planet even if you cannot get to Panama.

Learn more about Mona Sharma:

Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at https://monasharma.com/12tips. 

Visit Mona's website: https://monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at @monasharma.

Learn more about Caroline Howell: 

Visit www.canopyvenao.com to learn about Caroline's regenerative sanctuary and how to experience immersive nature-based healing firsthand.

Visit www.proecoazuero.org to learn about the conservation work behind restoring one of the world's most endangered ecosystems and how you can support it.

Visit www.cocobolovenao.com to learn about Coco Bolo, Caroline's sister development and another opportunity to experience regenerative living in Panama.

Thank you to our sponsors: 

Timeline: Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you go to timeline.com/MONA 

Cozy Earth: Head to cozyearth.com and use my code ROOTED for an exclusive 20% off, and if you see a post-purchase survey, be sure to mention you heard about Cozy Earth right here on Rooted in Wellness.

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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 the mineral content of our food supply has been quietly declining for decades, leaving even the healthiest eaters chronically depleted at a cellular level.

In this episode of Rooted in Wellness, I sit down with Caroline Alan to uncover the one foundation that every health protocol is missing and why without it nothing else can work the way it was designed to. If you have ever felt like you are doing everything right and still not getting there, this conversation is where that finally starts to make sense.

Caroline Alan is the co-founder and CEO of BEAM Minerals, one of the only companies in the world specializing in plant-based fulvic and humic mineral supplementation, and the author of The Mineral Reset. After spending over two decades in the technology industry and experiencing a complete health collapse that conventional medicine could not explain or resolve, she discovered the foundational role of minerals in cellular function and rebuilt her health entirely through mineral replenishment. That combination of lived experience, deep research, and years of helping thousands of people resolve chronic symptoms makes her one of the most credible and trustworthy voices on this topic.

What’s discussed: 

(11:11) The biggest mineral myth keeping people depleted: believing food alone is enough.

(12:04) Why electrolyte drinks may be making mineral imbalance worse.

(14:55) Caroline’s own story of hidden mineral deficiency and the symptoms it created.

(17:48) How modern food and water leave even “healthy” people depleted.

(25:16) Why stress may be starting at the cellular level, not just from your schedule.

(31:04) Why absorption is not the same as assimilation.

(49:25) Why more supplements are not always better.

(1:01:47) Why minerals may be the true foundation of healing.

Listen to this episode of Rooted in Wellness and learn why doing all the “right” things still may not be enough if the foundation is missing. 

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Learn more about Mona Sharma:

Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at https://monasharma.com/12tips. 

Visit Mona's website: https://monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at https://instagram.com/monasharma.

Learn more about Caroline Alan: 

Website:  https://www.carolinealan.com

The Mineral Reset Book: https://www.mineralresetbook.com

Instagram: @carolinealan.official/

Learn more about BEAM Minerals: 

Website: https://www.beamminerals.com

Instagram: @beamminerals

Tiktok:  @beamminerals

YouTube: @beamminerals

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, see their dentist once or twice a year, and assume their mouth is fine, not realizing that the mouth may be one of the clearest entry points into understanding inflammation, airway health, the gut, and long-term disease risk.

We dive deeper into this in Rooted in Wellness with Dr. Jonathan Levine. We also chat about the connection between gum inflammation and chronic disease, what mouth breathing may be doing to children and adults, and how oral health habits, diagnostics, and daily tools may be shaping far more than just your teeth. 

Dr. Jonathan Levine is a prosthodontist with over 35 years of experience, holds nearly 30 patents on medical device delivery systems, and runs a clinical program at NYU. He is the founder of Smile House in New York City, a dental wellness center integrating advanced diagnostics and modern science, and the founder of the Glow Good Foundation, which brings dental education and care to underserved communities around the world. With decades of clinical practice, academic leadership, and innovation at the intersection of dentistry and medicine, he is one of the most qualified voices in the world to be having this conversation, and everything he shares in this episode is worth paying close attention to.

What's Discussed:

(05:32) Why the mouth “seeds the gut” and why the oral microbiome matters so much.

(09:38) How gum inflammation may be linked to heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and systemic inflammation.

(09:38) “Leaky gums” and why the mouth may be working the way people talk about leaky gut.

(23:10) Saliva testing, oral biomarkers, and how dentistry may help catch chronic disease risk earlier.

(27:30) Why periodontal disease is often silent and how to spot the early signs.

(34:24) Why oral health may deserve a permanent place on your preventative care team.

(35:35) Oil pulling, oral bacteria, and what it really takes to support the oral microbiome.

(47:15) The truth about fluoride, dosage, and what most people misunderstand.

(52:54) Mouth breathing, facial development, and why this matters so much for children.

(1:00:48) Charcoal toothpaste, hydroxyapatite, whitening products, and enamel damage.

(1:10:55) Coffee, apple cider vinegar, acidity, and how pH affects the mouth.

(1:12:41) Pregnancy, perimenopause, dry mouth, and how hormone shifts show up in oral health.

(1:18:57) Dr. Levine’s ideal oral microbiome routine and how to build a stronger oral health game.

Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and discover the one part of your health routine that could change everything else.

Thank you to our Sponsor: 

Timeline: Timeline’s clinically proven formula is now available at a new, lower price. Mitopure now starts at $79, when you go to timeline.com/MONA

Learn more about Mona Sharma:

Download Your FREE Guide - 12 Wellness Tips to Unlock Your Best Health Now: Ready to reclaim your vitality? Download Mona’s 12 Wellness Tips and take actionable steps to transform your health, energy, and mindset. Get started now at https://monasharma.com/12tips. 

Visit Mona's website: https://monasharma.com – Unlock powerful tools and wisdom rooted in wellness to elevate your health, energy, and clarity. Mona blends ancient healing practices with modern science to help you achieve lasting transformation.

Follow Mona on Instagram: Stay connected with Mona for daily inspiration, holistic health tips, and personal growth. Join the conversation on Instagram at https://instagram.com/monasharma.

Learn more about Dr. Jonathan Levine: 

Website / Smile House: Smile House

Instagram: @drjonlevine

Smile House Instagram: @smilehousetribeca

LinkedIn: Jonathan Levine

GLO Good Foundation: GLO Good