The Health Revival Show
Are you tired of having your gut health out of balance and hormones all over the place? We’ve got you covered. Every week, we’re dishing out the real deal on building a healthy gut microbiome and optimizing your hormones. No fluff, just straight talk and real solutions. We’ll bring you cutting-edge tips, expert interviews, and stories from folks who’ve turned their health around. It’s time to kick those health issues to the curb and live your best life.
#1030: Is Your Wi-Fi Making You Sick? What the Research Says
Is your Wi-Fi making you sick? Liz Roman and Becca Chilczenkowski go through the biggest EMF studies on sleep, oxidative stress, mold, and cancer, and explain why almost none of them included women with Hashimoto's, SIBO, or mold illness.
You'll learn what really wrecks your sleep, why unplugging your router isn't mold remediation, and the free bedroom setup they use at home.
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#1029: Why Is My Blood Sugar Still High? With Dr. Staci Whitman
Blood sugar still high even though you eat healthy? Functional pediatric dentist Dr. Staci Whitman explains how chronic gum inflammation drives insulin resistance, why the mouth is the first part of your gut, and how hidden infections show up without pain.
Plus: the mouthwash–blood pressure link, the real cavity culprit in kids' snacks, and how mouth breathing can mimic ADHD and cause bedwetting. If your gut protocol stalled, start here.
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#1028: Snappy, Wired and Craving Sugar?
Snapping at your husband over nothing is usually burnout, not your marriage. Liz Roman and Becca Chilczenkowski break down high-functioning burnout in women: why it looks like productivity, the signs you keep calling a busy season (cravings, gut issues, poor sleep, no joy), why cortisol and the days before your period shorten your fuse, and the exact boundaries they use to get their evenings back.
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#1027: Can Your Tears Detect Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer screening with your tears is real. Liz and Becca sit down with Omid Moghadam, founder of Namida Lab, the engineer behind Auria, the first at-home tear test for breast cancer.
What it measures (inflammation proteins, not the tumor), how accurate it is, why false positives are built in on purpose, why it doesn't replace your mammogram, and why dense breasts can hide cancer on an X-ray. If "it runs in my family" lives rent-free in your head, start here.
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Why is your cholesterol going up in perimenopause when you haven't changed anything?
Liz & Becca explain how falling estrogen, a slowing thyroid and a leaky gut drive LDL up after 40 — and why one red number on your labs doesn't tell you your real heart risk.
You'll learn the markers worth asking for (ApoB, Lp(a), LDL particle count, calcium score) before anyone decides on a statin for you.
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#1025: Why Progesterone Makes You Feel Worse
Progesterone making you anxious, sleepless, or bloated? Liz and Becca break down why so many women are told they're "intolerant" when the real problem is usually the dose, the form, or the body it's going into.
Prometrium's 100mg-only capsules, the first sign of falling progesterone in perimenopause, cycling vs. daily, progesterone vs. progestins and breast cancer risk, and the questions to ask before you write it off for good.
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#1024: Cortisol, Blood Sugar and Your 3AM Alarm
Waking up at 3am every night is your body sounding an alarm, not a sign you're getting older. Liz & Becca of FitMom explain how cortisol and overnight blood sugar crashes jolt you awake, why night sweats aren't always an estrogen problem, why progesterone doesn't fix sleep for everyone, and why belly fat shows up in perimenopause even when the scale doesn't move. Then the fixes you can start tonight: light, a bedtime snack, the right magnesium, and the phone rule.
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#1023: It's Boring, But This Is Why You're Not Losing Weight
Not losing weight even though you're eating clean? Liz and Becca break down why the scale is the worst judge of a new plan, why two days or even six weeks isn't enough data, and what to track instead. Becca shares her program-hopping years and why she doesn't truly know a client until a couple of months in. Liz gets honest about the 30-day calendar test and why you should expect the dips. If you've hit a weight loss plateau or keep restarting, start here.
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#1022: Leaky Gut Starts Way Earlier Than You Think
Leaky gut doesn't start where you've been told. Liz & Becca of FitMom explain why barrier breakdown is the last stage, not the first, and why L-glutamine, IgG food tests and endless elimination diets keep women stuck.
They cover the four layers of the gut wall, how stress and sleep suppress secretory IgA, what LPS does to your liver and mood, why keto can backfire, and what each layer needs to rebuild.
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#1021: Why Don't My Hormone Tests Match How I Feel? (It's Not You)
Hormone testing confusing you? Your blood work, DUTCH test and symptoms can all disagree and all be right. Liz & Becca break down blood vs. saliva vs. DUTCH vs. Mira: why one perimenopause blood draw can read high estrogen while you feel low, why oral HRT inflates urine results, why saliva fails with hormone creams, and why high cortisol can still leave you exhausted. Match the test to the question.
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#1020: Jawline Acne & Chin Breakouts - What They Really Mean
Acne that keeps coming back is rarely a skin problem. Liz & Becca break down the gut, liver, and hormone drivers behind stubborn breakouts — why you can poop daily and still be backed up, what jawline, cheek, and forehead acne usually point to, why acne returns in perimenopause, fungal vs. hormonal acne, dairy, and the labs that find the real cause.
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#1019: High Ferritin? Low Blood Sugar? Confused About HRT? Your Q’s Answered
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#1018: Don't Start HRT Until You Do This
HRT side effects like bloating, weight gain, reflux and insomnia usually aren't caused by the hormone — they're caused by what the hormone exposes. Liz & Becca walk through the 3 A's of HRT: the labs to run first (SHBG, thyroid, A1c, fasting insulin, iron panel), how your gut, liver and gallbladder clear estrogen, why insulin resistance blocks hormones, and why low-and-slow beats pellets. Listen before you start.
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#1017: Testosterone, Mold & Lab-Grown Meat - The Life-Altering Health News
Mold exposure symptoms get blamed on flu season every September: headaches, cough, sinus congestion, throat-clearing, fatigue, even nosebleeds.
Liz and Becca break down the HHS mold roundtable, the classroom where teachers got sick every year until black mold turned up, the FDA's public workshop on testosterone for women (and the dosing catch), and why Texas banned lab-grown meat. If your family is fine all summer and sick all school year, start here.
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#1016: Lindsay Perry - Why Am I Working Out More and Getting Puffier?
Is your workout wrecking your hormones? Live in Miami, Liz Roman & Becca sit down with Lindsay Perry of My Gut Feeling to unpack why exercise is the most intentional stress on your body. Fasted 5 a.m. workouts, no rest days, cortisol belly, missed periods, bloating vs. fullness, cycle syncing, rest periods, water weight and how long building muscle really takes. If you're training hard and going backwards, start here.
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#1015: Why Travel Wrecks Your Gut
You rebuilt your gut. Then you travelled, and by day three nothing was happening. Travel constipation is almost never about what you ate.
Liz Roman (@thepoopqueen) and Becca Chilczenkowski (@thehormonequeen) walk through what actually slows motility on a travel day: cabin-air dehydration, a sympathetic nervous system that switches off rest-and-digest, and a broken circadian rhythm that your bowels run on just like your sleep does.
They cover the difference between osmotic and stimulant constipation support, how to reset to a new time zone (and when to stay on your own), why the migrating motor complex...
#1014: Mast Cells, Histamine & Why Everything Triggers You Now
Long Covid isn't one condition — it's one receptor causing damage in several systems at once. Liz & Becca explain how ACE2 puts mast cells, blood vessels and nerve tissue in the crossfire, and why that produces hives, racing heart on standing, bloating, histamine food reactions and brain fog in the same woman.
They cover why standard bloodwork misses all of it, how estrogen amplifies histamine during perimenopause, and what actually comes first when you start calming the system down.
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#1013: Why Do I Feel Insane The Week Before My Period? (It's Not PMS)
Histamine intolerance spikes in the four to seven days before your period, because progesterone and estrogen drop together and you lose DAO support and GABA buffering at the same time.
Liz & Becca break down why perimenopause makes it worse, whether ox bile and digestive enzymes are safe with a gallbladder, and why a normal hs-CRP doesn't rule out inflammation. Hives, migraines, insomnia, bloating, constipation, anovulatory cycles and mast cells — the hormone drop is the trigger, not the cause.
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#1012: Why Is My Ferritin Low? The 5 Patterns Doctors Miss
Low ferritin is rarely a simple iron shortage. Liz & Becca break down the five anemia patterns they see on an iron panel — true deficiency, a conversion problem, anemia of chronic disease, B12/folate anemia, and iron overload — and why only one of them is fixed by taking iron.
Covers the functional ranges they use, hepcidin and iron sequestration, why low ferritin drives heavier periods, when in your cycle to test, and the mitochondrial reason you can be exhausted with a perfectly normal CBC.
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#1011: Dr. Tabatha Barber - Why Isn't My Body Healing? The Variable Nobody Tests
Why isn't my body healing? Dr. Tabatha Barber — a triple board-certified OBGYN and robotic surgeon who walked away from the operating room — says the variable nobody tests for is the story running in your head. Liz and Becca get into negative self-talk and inflammation, why an emotion only lasts 90 seconds, what happens when a doctor tells a 24-year-old with PCOS she'll never conceive, and why your genes load the gun but don't fire it. If your labs are "normal" and you're still exhausted, start here.
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#1010: Losing The Weight Was The Easy Part
You can't build muscle while your body is fighting something. Liz &Becca break down why body recomposition takes years instead of a 12-week cycle, how gut dysfunction, autoimmunity, and high cortisol shut down muscle building entirely, and why under-eating is the most common reason women train hard and stay soft. Plus what a calorie deficit — and a GLP-1 — actually costs your lean mass, why "bulky" isn't what you think, and how to train for the season of life you're actually in. Blunt, clinical, and not what the fitness industry sells you.
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#1009: The Real Reason Your Gut Won't Heal (And It's Not Food)
Gut health doesn't stall on food quality — it stalls on the four things around the food. Liz & Becca cover why a daily probiotic works against diversity, how much fiber and how many different plant foods you actually need, what daily elimination should look and feel like, why volume of water without minerals leaves you more dehydrated, and why digestion shuts down in fight-or-flight. Includes the FUT2 gene, estrogen recirculation, and a salivation test you can run at your next meal.
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#1008: Erin Trier - She Started With Hormones. That Was The Real Mistake.
Hormone protocols fail when the gut and immune system are still inflamed — and functional health coach Erin Trier learned it the expensive way. She spent years with good functional practitioners who all started with hormones while her body stayed stuck: 40 pounds gained with no habit change, fatigue she describes as a weighted blanket, libido gone, skin flaring. Nobody had run gut testing. Liz Roman and Becca Chilczenkowski walk through what changed when the sequence changed — MRT results, MCAS, immune over-activation, and how a mom of four with a medically complex child actually adheres to a hard protocol.
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#1007: Why 55% Of Women Under 35 Are Post-Menopausal
Low testosterone in women starts far earlier than anyone tells you — 25% gone by the mid-20s, half by the mid-30s. Liz & Becca break down why testosterone, not estrogen, is the first hormone to go, what oral birth control does to free testosterone and SHBG, why 80% of autoimmune disease shows up in women, and what "normal range" actually means when the reference population is post-menopausal. Both hosts share their own labs, including a total testosterone of 8.
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#1006: NAD Made You Feel Worse? Here's The Real Reason
NAD supplements, IVs, and patches are everywhere — and for a lot of women they do nothing or make things worse. Liz Roman and Becca Chilczenkowski explain why: an enzyme called CD38 consumes NAD and gets more active the more inflamed you are, so a big IV dose in an inflamed body can drive inflammation, anxiety, and autoimmune flares instead of energy. Inside: what NAD actually does, the three mitochondrial genes that decide if it works, NR vs NMN, and the 663-Dalton reason patches don't absorb.
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#1005: Hunter Williams - 35% More Weight Loss On The Exact Same Dose
Your GLP-1 stopped working — and it probably isn't the drug. Peptide educator Hunter Williams joins Liz and Becca to explain why tirzepatide plateaus look identical to starvation, why post-menopausal women on HRT lost 35% more weight at the same dose, and why Retatrutide is the wrong first choice for a stressed nervous system.
Plus: the five buckets to fix before stacking anything, low-dose naltrexone as a tolerance reset, thyroid shutdown from chronic dieting, and how to actually vet a peptide vendor.
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#1004: Your Anxiety Isn't In Your Head — It's 3 Genes
Anxiety in perimenopause isn't a mood problem — it's a clearance problem. Liz Roman and Becca Chilczenkowski break down COMT, GAD1 and FUT2: the three genes that decide how fast you clear adrenaline, whether you can build GABA, and whether your gut can grow the bacteria that make it. Plus why L-glutamine can make anxiety worse, why oral GABA mostly doesn't work, the lab markers hiding in plain sight on your standard panel, and why "your genes didn't change — your estrogen did."
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#1003: The BRCA Gene Lie - Why They Only Cut Out Women's Organs
The BRCA gene doesn't cause breast cancer — it removes one of your body's safeguards, and your metabolic terrain decides whether that ever matters. Liz & Becca break down where the 72% lifetime risk number actually comes from, why autopsies find cancer cells in women who died of something else, what tamoxifen does to your bones, thyroid and uterus, whether you can take HRT as a carrier, and the exact labs to run before anyone mentions surgery. Blunt, sourced, and not designed to make you comfortable.
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#1002: Dr. Bill Rawls - Why Everything Fell Apart in Perimenopause (It's Not Hormones)
Perimenopause didn't give you a new disease — it exposed one you've been carrying. Dr. Bill Rawls, MD, spent 20 years in OB/GYN, crashed, and couldn't get an answer from his own colleagues.
He explains the "boiling point" where cellular damage and dormant microbe reactivation start feeding each other, why chronic infection testing fails, why only some people get sick from mold in the same building, and why your insomnia, constipation, and stalled detox are one problem instead of three. If your labs are normal and you are not, start here.
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#1001: VJ Hamilton - Hair Loss, Ferritin, and the 25-Year "Normal" Panel
Hair loss in women almost never shows up on a standard lab panel — and that's the problem. Autoimmune nutritionist VJ Hamilton, diagnosed with alopecia areata at seven, breaks down what she actually tests: ferritin and iron storage, thyroid conversion, and gut immune tolerance.
Liz and Becca get into heme vs. non-heme iron, why excess zinc turns regrowth white, what rosemary oil and onion juice really do, and how long regrowth honestly takes. If you've been told your bloodwork is normal while your part keeps widening, start here.
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#1000: The Five Lessons That Cost Us Six Years
This is episode 1,000 of The Health Revival Show, and it's not a victory lap — it's the five things Liz Roman (@thepoopqueen) and Becca Chilczenkowski (@thehormonequeen) got wrong about gut health, hormones and weight resistance across six years of practice. Inside: why five days a week of CrossFit plus Whole30 plus a calorie deficit made women worse, why no single diet is the answer, why nothing real gets fixed in six weeks regardless of who's promising it, and why the information you've already read isn't the thing standing between you and feeling better.
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#999: Listener Q&A — Iodine, Eczema, Histamine, Post-Surgery & Leg Swelling
Kill phases take weeks. Rebuild phases take months. Almost nobody does the second part — which is why so many SIBO, H. pylori and parasite protocols end with the same histamine symptoms they started with. Liz Roman and Becca Chilczenkowski answer five listener questions: iodine as a growth regulator behind cysts, fibroids and thyroid nodules; estrogen dominance with normal labs; a child's eczema through the gut; post-surgery constipation; and telling venous insufficiency apart from lymphedema and a Baker's cyst.
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#998: Constipated Every Vacation? Here's What's Actually Happening
Constipated every vacation? Liz & Becca explain why travel constipation is a motility problem, not a food problem — stress flips you into a sympathetic state and digestion only runs on the parasympathetic side.
#997: Ben Azadi - Eating 1,200 Calories And Still Not Losing?
Insulin resistance — not willpower — is why you can eat 1,200 calories, train, and still not lose weight. Metabolic-health author Ben Azadi joins Liz Roman to explain sugar burning vs. fat adaptation, how to do keto without a gallbladder, why seed oils sabotage "keto" diets, and the reframe that changes everything: you get healthy to lose weight, not the other way around. Real root-cause answers for women who've been told their labs are "normal."
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#996: 10 Traits of Women Who Actually Follow Through
Why can't you stay consistent with your health, even when you want it? Because you're waiting for motivation — and it's almost never there. Liz and Becca break down the 10 traits behind people who actually follow through: willpower over motivation, non-negotiables, protecting your energy, and why "normal" labs and a 15-years-behind medical system keep you stuck. Real talk for high-performing women who are done starting over.
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#995: Chronic Pain, Brain Fog, IBS — One Cause Nobody Tests
A calcium shell is what happens when calcium leaves your bones and hardens into your joints, muscles, fascia, and brain — and blood calcium reads normal the whole time. Becca and Liz break down the symptom cluster it drives (chronic pain, stiffness, IBS, brain fog, kidney stones, anxiety), what actually causes it, and why mineral balancing on its own can make you worse. Plus: the real order of operations for mold and mycotoxin detox, how to survive an environment you can't leave, why bleach multiplies spores, what actually works for hot flashes at night — and whether vaginal estrogen belongs on your face...
#994: Why PPIs Don’t Fix Some Heartburn
In this episode of The Health Revival Show, I dive deep into the often-overlooked issue of bile acid reflux—a condition that can mimic typical acid reflux but is driven by very different mechanisms. I share insights from my clinical experiences and discuss the importance of recognizing the signs that differentiate bile reflux from acid reflux, especially in patients who have had their gallbladders removed. Listeners will learn about the complex interactions between gut health, the vagus nerve, and digestive function. I emphasize the necessity of a comprehensive approach, including identifying underlying infections and addressing vagal tone to restore digestive ba...
#993: Ryan Monohan - The Tiny Nutrients & Lifestyle Hacks That Could Reverse Hashimoto’s
In this episode, Ryan Monahan shares his inspiring story of battling undiagnosed Hashimoto’s, navigating the medical system, and turning his personal health crisis into a mission to help others. Discover actionable insights on thyroid health, immune tolerance, and environmental factors like mold.
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#992: 700+ Cases of ‘Explosive’ Diarrhea Linked to Parasite Outbreak
Infections with cyclospora, a parasite that spreads through raw produce and causes severe “explosive” diarrhea, are on the rise in multiple states. Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, Texas and Illinois are among the hardest-hit states by the stomach bug, which usually increases during the warmer months in the United States. What is cyclosporiasis? It’s caused by a parasite and spreads through contaminated fresh produce. The most common symptom of cyclosporiasis is sudden, watery explosive diarrhea, severe stomach cramps, vomiting, nausea, loss of appetite, and fatigue.
#991: Lyme Disease Is Exploding in 2026 - What to Know
Lyme disease is surging in 2026 — and the sign everyone watches for, the bullseye rash, shows up in only about 20% of cases. Liz and Becca break down the real numbers (89,000 reported vs. ~476,000 a year), why ticks are now in backyards and school fields, the new Lyme vaccine, exactly what to do the second you find a tick, the removal mistakes that make it worse, why standard testing fails, and how your gut terrain decides your recovery.
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