Lizzie Ens Show

Why are my periods so painful? For most women, the answer is a root cause no one looked for, like dehydration, high estrogen, inflammation from sugar and seed oils, or missing vitamins and minerals. If you have been bent over in pain, stuck in bed for a day, bleeding for weeks, or not getting a period at all, you have probably been told this is just normal. Here's the thing. Common does not mean normal. And birth control can quiet heavy, painful, or irregular periods without ever fixing what is driving them.

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NOTE: This episode discusses sexual assault and abuse.

Speaking up about sexual assault means telling someone what happened to you, even when shame, fear, or the person who hurt you told you to keep quiet. If you have held it inside for years because you thought no one would believe you, you are not alone. Here's the thing. The freeze response, self-blame, and memories that surface years later are all normal ways your body handles trauma. They are not proof that it was your fault. And as the Cornell 7 case shows, victim blaming still keeps far too...

Peptides for beginners starts with one simple truth: not all peptides are GLP-1s, and your body already makes its own natural peptides. If you keep seeing peptides all over your feed and you still don’t know what they are, what they do, or whether they are safe, you are not alone. Here’s the thing. Jumping in without the right education, the right provider, or the basics in place can waste your money and cause real damage inside your body.

Lizzie Ens, functional nutrition coach, business owner, author, and speaker, gets real about the peptides that...

What causes Hashimoto's? Hashimoto's is an autoimmune condition where your immune system attacks your thyroid, and one of the most overlooked root causes is trauma you never got to speak about. If you feel exhausted all the time, your hair is thinning, foods that never bothered you now do, or you ride a roller coaster of good days and crash days, your thyroid antibodies could be the reason. Here's the thing: most doctors only check your TSH and maybe your free T4. They skip your antibodies, so you end up guessing instead of testing.

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Hypothyroidism symptoms with normal labs happen when your thyroid blood work falls inside standard lab ranges but is still far from optimal for your body. You feel exhausted, foggy, cold, and nothing like yourself. Your hair is falling out, your skin is dry, and your voice feels strained by the end of the day. Then your doctor tells you your thyroid is fine. Here's the thing: normal does not mean optimal, and that gap may be exactly why you feel dismissed.

On this episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie Ens, functional nutrition coach, business owner, author...

Signs of hyperthyroidism are easy to miss, especially when they show up as heart palpitations, unexplained heat, or exhaustion that will not go away. If your heart has started racing for no clear reason, you feel hot when everyone around you is comfortable, or you wake up from a full night of sleep still tired, an overactive thyroid could be the reason. Hyperthyroidism symptoms get mistaken for anxiety, perimenopause, or plain burnout more often than not, which is almost exactly what happened to Lizzie Ens.

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Still feel fat after losing weight? Lizzie Ens says the scale was never the problem, your relationship with yourself is. If you have done the six-week program, hit your protein goals, or even used a GLP-1 and the number finally moved, but you still see yourself as overweight, not enough, or stuck repeating old patterns, this episode explains why. Self-sabotage after weight loss, body image struggles after a real transformation, and the urge to keep chasing a smaller number all trace back to the same unfinished work: the relationship you have with yourself.

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Trauma and weight loss are more connected than most people realize, and if you have done everything right on paper, tracked your food, hit your steps, and cleaned up your diet, and the scale still will not move, unresolved trauma is often the reason your body will not let go.

Suppressed emotions, unspoken resentment, and old wounds do not just sit in your mind, they get trapped in your liver, your kidneys, your lungs, and even your fat cells, and your body holds onto weight for as long as it is holding onto pain. If you are...

Habit stacking is the simple, sustainable strategy that makes lasting weight loss possible without another restrictive diet. If you have started and quit more nutrition programs than you can count, habit stacking is the reason some women finally keep results while everyone else yo-yos back to square one.

In this episode, Lizzie breaks down why small, stacked habits like a daily walk, tracking your food, and hitting a protein goal beat any all-or-nothing plan, and why most people quit around week three simply because the process gets boring, not because it stopped working.

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How to keep kids healthy at school starts long before the first sniffle shows up in the classroom. If your kid comes home every fall with a cough that lingers for months, functional nutrition coach Lizzie Ens says the root cause usually traces back to what they eat every day, not just the germs going around. You cannot control every hand your kid touches at school, but you can control what fuels their gut and their immune system before they ever walk through the classroom door.

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How to get healthy without money is the real question behind the excuse you keep telling yourself. Functional nutrition coach Lizzie Ens is done letting "I'll get healthy when I'm rich" slide as an excuse. If you have ever put off eating better or moving your body because you think you cannot afford it, this episode is the wake up call you need. Lizzie breaks down why your health, not your bank account, is your actual wealth, and why waiting for more money is quietly costing you your life.

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How to age well after 40 starts with a simple question. What are you actually afraid of? On this episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, host Lizzie Ens sits down with Dr. Kyle Hulsebus, a third-generation chiropractor and the creator of the 40 Over 40 framework, to unpack why most people wait until their 40s to finally take their health seriously. If you feel anxious, glued to your phone, or stuck wondering whether it is too late to change your life, this conversation is the reset you need.

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An evening routine for better sleep starts hours before your head hits the pillow, not at bedtime itself. If you call yourself a night owl, functional nutrition coach Lizzie Ens says your circadian rhythm has just been trained wrong, not broken. You guys, this is the difference between waking up foggy and waking up ready to go, and it affects way more than how tired you feel.

Lizzie Ens, functional nutrition coach, business owner, author, and speaker, walks you through exactly why sleep hygiene, cortisol timing, and your circadian rhythm decide how well you sleep and how...

Invest in yourself is the mindset shift Lizzie Ens says keeps women stuck or sets them free. If you keep telling yourself you're not worthy of spending money, time, or energy on your own growth, you are choosing to stay in the gap between the life you have and the life you actually want. Comfort zones feel safe, but they are also where dreams quietly die.

Lizzie Ens, functional nutrition coach, business owner, author, and speaker, breaks down the exact shift that took her from leaving the Amish community at nineteen with twenty dollars in her pocket...

Why can't you orgasm? Here's the thing, it's rarely about your body. It's about your nervous system, your nerve endings, and whether you feel safe enough to let go. If you've spent years wondering what an orgasm even is, or you shut down the second someone touches you, you are not broken. You were never taught.

On this episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie sits down with Milica Jelenic, a holistic health practitioner with over 20 years of experience in somatic body work and sexual health education, and author of The Pleasure Zone, a number one Amazon...

People pleasing and autoimmune disease are more connected than most doctors will ever tell you. If you have been diagnosed with Hashimoto's, thyroid issues, or unexplained autoimmune symptoms, and you have already cleaned up your diet and exercise, the missing piece might be trapped emotions, not your fork. You guys, this is the conversation nobody has with you at the doctor's office.

Lizzie Ens, functional nutrition coach, business owner, author, and speaker, shows you how trapped emotions like anger, fear, and grief settle into your liver, kidneys, and gut until you deal with them.

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How to build your dream life starts with one question: do you believe you're worthy of it? If you've spent years staying comfortable instead of dreaming, this episode is your wake up call. You'll hear why comfort zones kill dreams, why so many women stop dreaming without even realizing it, and what changes when you finally trust yourself and God with the life you actually want.

Lizzie Ens, functional nutrition coach, business owner, author, and speaker, walks you through the exact process she used to manifest her new home and a ten day dream trip to Europe...

Holiday eating tips that actually work start with one mindset shift: one bad bite doesn't blow the whole day.

If you've ever eaten a muffin at breakfast and then decided the rest of the day was a total write-off, you already know the all-or-nothing trap. It derails progress fast, and it has nothing to do with willpower.

In this solo episode, functional nutrition coach Lizzie Ens breaks down her real strategy for navigating Fourth of July parties, summer cookouts, and any event where the food isn't exactly on your plan.

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Gut health and hormone balance are not two separate conversations. They are the same one. If you are dealing with bloating, irregular cycles, stubborn weight, fatigue, or the skin issues that nothing seems to fix, your gut microbiome may be the root cause.

There is a specific subset of gut bacteria called the estrobolome, and it controls how your body processes and clears estrogen. When it is out of balance, estrogen builds up, symptoms pile on, and no supplement in the world will move the needle until the gut is addressed first.

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Emotional blocks to weight loss are the real reason so many women stay stuck no matter how clean they eat or how hard they train.

If you are sick and tired of doing everything right and still not seeing results, your body is not broken. The block is underneath the surface, and it is wrapped around your heart.

In this solo episode, functional nutrition coach, business owner, author, and speaker Lizzie Ens introduces The Onion Framework, her powerful framework for understanding how unhealed trauma, childhood conditioning, and emotional shutdown silently sabotage physical healing.

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What if the reason you cannot lose weight, you are always tired, and your labs keep coming back "normal" is a condition affecting up to 40% of adults that most doctors are not even testing for?

In this solo episode, Lizzie breaks down everything you need to know about insulin resistance: what it is, why it is quietly behind so much of the weight gain, fatigue, inflammation, and metabolic chaos she sees in her clients every day, and most importantly, what you can actually do about it without going straight for medication.

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What if the fear that has kept you off hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is built on a study the researchers themselves have walked back?

In this episode, Lizzie sits down with Certified Hormone Specialist Karen Martel to unpack the most common HRT mistakes women make and why the window to act is years earlier than most doctors will tell you.

Karen breaks down why 100% of women are affected by the loss of their hormones even when the symptoms are invisible, why estrogen is protective rather than dangerous, and how one misreported study created decades of...

What if the number your doctor is watching most closely is not the one that matters most?

In this solo episode, Lizzie breaks down what your cholesterol panel is actually trying to tell you, why triglycerides are the number to watch, and why LDL is more of a signal than a problem. She unpacks how statins work, why they are hard to get off, and what has driven the shift in prescribing thresholds over the years. She also gets into the gut-cholesterol connection, the role of parasites, heavy metals, and mold in elevated LDL, and why the...

What if the reason you are still struggling with your health has nothing to do with what you are eating and everything to do with the invisible forces your body is swimming in every single day?

In this episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie sits down with Dr. Catherine Clinton, a licensed naturopathic physician and founder of the Quantum Biology Health Institute, to explore one of the most fascinating and underutilized frameworks in modern health. Quantum biology.

Dr. Clinton was not always the expert in the room. She came to this work because she...

What if every diet you have ever tried was never actually designed to teach you how to heal?

In this deeply personal solo episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie pulls back the curtain on the journey that built Undiet You from the ground up. She takes you all the way back to growing up in the Amish community in Ohio, navigating relentless body comparison as a twin, developing an eating disorder as a teenager, cycling through fad diets in her early twenties, and ultimately finding her calling as a board-certified functional practitioner helping women break free...

What if feeling worse on a detox is not a sign that it's failing but a sign your body was never properly prepared to handle it in the first place?

In this solo episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie breaks down everything you need to know before you ever start a detox: why the lymphatic system has to be open and flowing first, what die-off symptoms are actually telling you, and why so many women make themselves sicker by detoxing before their gut, liver, kidneys, and colon are ready.

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What if everything you have been told about getting healthy in your forties is actually what is making you feel worse?

In this solo episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie gets completely real about what her day-to-day health routine actually looks like at 40, from sleep and nutrition to supplements, sauna, nervous system regulation, and the mindset shift that ties it all together.

This is not a highlight reel. It is the honest, practical breakdown of the habits, non-negotiables, and hard-won lessons that keep Lizzie energized, lean, and genuinely loving her life, and what she...

What if the reason you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure… isn’t because you don’t know what to do, but because you’ve been trained to stop listening to yourself?

In this solo episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie breaks down the real reason so many people feel disconnected from their decisions, constantly second-guessing, overthinking, and seeking validation from everyone except the one voice that matters most, their own.

Through real client stories and powerful mindset shifts, this episode explores how fear, lack of trust, and outside noise keep you stuck in cycles of confu...

What if the reason you feel stuck… isn’t because nothing is working, but because you’re caught in a cycle you haven’t broken yet?

In this solo episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie gets real about the moment so many people hit in their health, growth, or life journey, the point where progress feels slow, motivation fades, and the thought creeps in, “maybe I should just take a break.”

But what if that “break” is actually the very thing keeping you stuck?

This episode is a direct, honest conversation about why you keep sta...

What happens when the life you built no longer feels like the life you’re meant to live?

In this episode, Lizzie sits down with Elizabeth Miller to share a story that is as confronting as it is freeing. From the outside, Elizabeth had everything, a thriving business, a family, a respected place in her Amish community. But internally, something didn’t feel right.

That quiet knowing became impossible to ignore.

What followed was a decision that would cost her nearly everything, her business, her home, her community, and her sense of identity. Beca...

Have you spent years keeping the peace, saying yes when you meant no, and putting everyone else first… only to feel invisible, exhausted, and completely disconnected from who you actually are?

In this episode, Lizzie gets honest about her own journey out of people pleasing. She breaks down why so many people – especially women – struggle to speak up, why speaking up feels so threatening when you weren't taught how, and what it actually takes to use your voice in a way that earns you respect instead of just approval.

Because here is the truth: staying silent...

What if your weight loss struggles have nothing to do with discipline, and everything to do with what’s happening beneath the surface?

In this powerful episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie sits down with client Kelli Roberts to unpack what real, sustainable transformation actually looks like. After years of dieting, stalled progress, and a damaged relationship with food, Kelli shares how she finally broke through, not with another quick fix, but by addressing her metabolism, gut health, hormones, and emotional patterns.

This is not a story about losing 50+ pounds. It’s a story abou...

What if the symptoms you have been chasing for years are actually coming from your gut?

In this episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie Ens breaks down one of the most powerful functional health tools available today, the GI Map test. This advanced stool test provides a detailed snapshot of what is actually happening inside your digestive system, including bacteria, parasites, yeast, inflammation markers, and how well your gut is functioning overall.

Many people struggle with symptoms like bloating, fatigue, hormone imbalance, brain fog, skin issues, anxiety, and stubborn weight changes without realizing that...

What if the real measure of success isn’t how much money you make, but how well your body actually functions?

In this episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie explores a powerful idea that many high performers overlook. You can have all the wealth in the world, but without your health, what do you really have?

Lizzie unpacks why prioritizing health is not a luxury or a “when I have time” goal. It is the foundation that allows everything else in your life to work. Your energy, focus, sleep, confidence, mental clarity, and emotional resili...

If you are struggling with poor sleep, hormone imbalance, perimenopause symptoms, brain fog, anxiety, or stubborn fatigue, this conversation may change how you think about health.

In Episode 130, Lizzie sits down with Heidi Sime and Thaddeus Owen, founders of Dream Walkers, to unpack the science behind blue light exposure, circadian rhythm disruption, melatonin suppression, and cortisol overload.

Thaddeus shares how 16 years of insomnia and anxiety led him from pharmaceutical engineering into studying light as a biological signal. What he discovered is simple but powerful. Artificial light at night, especially blue light from LED bulbs, phones...

If you’ve been asking yourself, “Can you actually lose weight with intuitive eating?” this episode breaks down what most women are missing.

The truth is, intuitive eating only works when you understand calories, macronutrients, metabolism, and your body’s actual energy needs. Without that foundation, intuitive eating can easily turn into undereating, overeating, hormone imbalance, or stalled fat loss.

In this episode, Lizzie breaks down what intuitive eating actually means and why so many women are misapplying it. If you’ve been told to “just listen to your body” but you’ve never learned calories, macron...

What actually happens during a 40 day water fast?

In this episode, Lizzie sits down with Reggie Mckiver after he completed a 40 day water fast and lost 47 pounds. But this conversation is not about weight loss alone.

It’s about what surfaced when food was removed.

During the fast, anger resurfaced. Generational trauma surfaced. Fear surfaced. And something unexpected happened. Every time deep emotional release occurred, the scale moved.

This episode explores the connection between weight loss resistance and unresolved emotional patterns. It challenges the idea that fat loss is purely physical an...

If you’re eating well, moving your body, prioritizing sleep, managing stress, and still watching the scale refuse to move, this episode is for you.

Lizzie breaks down why weight loss resistance is rarely about willpower or calories, and almost always about what’s happening beneath the surface. From chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation to inflammation, insulin resistance, gut health, and emotional identity tied to the scale, Lizzie explains why your body may not feel safe enough to release weight.

You’ll learn how living in constant fight-or-flight blocks fat loss, why parasympathetic healing is ess...

If you’re struggling to get pregnant, have experienced miscarriages, or feel like fertility treatment keeps skipping over the real issues, this episode will change how you understand fertility.

In this conversation on The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie sits down with Dr. Marina, a board-certified OB-GYN with over 30 years of experience who transitioned into functional and root-cause medicine after witnessing the limitations of conventional fertility care.

Dr. Marina explains why fertility is often treated as a checklist of tests and procedures, while the most important factors, egg quality, sperm health, lifestyle, nutrition, toxin exposure, stress, an...

If you rarely sweat (even in a hot sauna), feel puffy despite “eating clean,” or deal with stubborn inflammation, fatigue, cellulite, brain fog, and hormone chaos, this episode connects the dots to one overlooked system: your lymphatic system.

In this solo episode of The Lizzie Ens Show, Lizzie explains why a sluggish lymphatic system can look like weight gain (but is often fluid retention), why your body can feel “stuck” even when you’re doing all the right things, and how lymph stagnation can contribute to estrogen recycling, cortisol-related puffiness, and detox symptoms that get worse when you try to...