Simply Healthy Hormones

Kacey Kane, MS, IHP2, CHN
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Simply Healthy Hormones is the podcast for high-functioning women who are tired of DIY-ing their hormone health from a graveyard of half-empty supplement bottles. Host Kacey Kane brings together a Master's in Psychology, Holistic Nutrition certification, and dual Integrative Health Practitioner certifications to do something most of the wellness industry doesn't — address your hormones, your nutrition, your lifestyle, your mental health, and your relationship with your body all at once, so you fix the chaos at the root and build the foundation that keeps you off the rollercoaster for good. Expect nuance, not rules. Science, not vibes. And zero interest in taking away your coffee or your glass of wine — because you're a grown ass adult and you get to decide what you do with the information. If you've been waiting for someone to explain what's actually happening in your body and treat you like the smart, capable person you are, you're in the right place.  Because the science matters, and so does the woman doing the work. New episodes drop weekly. Pour the coffee. Eat first. Let's get into it.

  1. 3d ago

    Is It Really Perimenopause? Why Everything Gets Blamed on Your Hormones After 35

    Send us Fan Mail Is everything perimenopause now? If you're a woman over 35 dealing with fatigue, anxiety, weight gain, brain fog, or sleep problems, you've probably been told that perimenopause could be responsible. And sometimes it absolutely is. But what happens when we start blaming every symptom on changing hormones without looking at the rest of a woman's health? In this episode of Simply Healthy Hormones, integrative health practitioner Kacey Kane challenges the idea that feeling miserable is simply part of getting older. We're talking about how years of dieting, inadequate nutrition, stress, poor sleep, pregnancies, and other health concerns can overlap with the menopausal transition—and why perimenopause shouldn't become the end of the conversation. Because perimenopause may be the transition that makes existing problems more noticeable, rather than the original cause of every problem you're experiencing. You'll hear why some symptoms deserve additional medical evaluation, why women's experiences during perimenopause vary, and why getting older doesn't mean giving up on feeling good. Ready to look at the bigger picture? Find Kacey on Instagram at @simplyhealthywellness and send a DM about what you've been experiencing. And if you know a woman who's been told everything she's experiencing is just perimenopause, share this episode with her. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

  2. Oct 20

    Why I Told My Clients NOT to Eat Healthier

    Send us Fan Mail Why would a hormone health practitioner tell her clients NOT to eat healthier? In this episode of Simply Healthy Hormones, Kacey Kane explains how food tracking, nutrition assessment, and behavioral psychology help identify what's actually worth changing before creating an individualized plan for hormone health. Because before you can figure out what needs to change, you need to understand what's actually happening. We're talking about: Why food tracking can change the very behaviors you're trying to evaluate.The psychology behind wanting to be the "perfect" client.What a nutritionist actually looks for in a food log beyond calories and protein.Why your real-life eating habits matter more than your healthiest week.How changing everything at once can make it harder to know what's helping.Why individualized nutrition and hormone support start with understanding your actual life. If you've spent years trying to eat healthier, follow the right protocols, and do everything you're supposed to do without getting the results you want, this episode offers a different perspective. Ready to talk about what's actually happening with your health? Find Kacey on Instagram at @simplyhealthywellness and send her a DM. Tell her what you've been struggling with and start a conversation about what makes sense for you. Know a woman who needs to hear that she doesn't have to get everything right before asking for help? Share this episode with her. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

  3. Sep 8

    Your Hormones Aren't the Problem (You Have a Blind Spot)

    Send us Fan Mail On Monday, September 21st at 6:30pm Eastern, Kacey is running a live masterclass she's been building for months. It's called The Hormone Blind Spot — and today's episode is a preview of exactly why she built it and what you'll walk out understanding. The blind spot is this: you've been told your problem is your hormones, so you've aimed every intervention at your hormones. But your hormones are almost never the actual root cause of what you're experiencing. They're the last thing in a chain — and when you keep trying to fix them directly while everything upstream stays unaddressed, your results are always going to be temporary, partial, or nonexistent. In this preview episode, Kacey walks through the shape of what the masterclass will unpack: the four things actually driving your symptoms, the order of operations your body needs healing to happen in, why healthcare — conventional AND functional — has been failing women like you, and what it actually takes to heal without making health a full-time job. The Hormone Blind Spot Masterclass Monday, September 21st | 6:30pm ET Live with Q&A | Replay available for those who can't attend Registration opens Thursday. Follow @simplyhealthywellness on Instagram to get the link the moment it goes live. If you're on Kacey's email list, you'll be the first to know. Know a woman who needs to be in this room? Send her this episode. New episodes weekly. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

  4. Sep 1

    Hormone Healing Was Never Supposed to Be Your Full-Time Job

    Send us Fan Mail For two weeks Kacey has been building toward this episode. Episode 8: your symptoms are a pattern, not a random list. Episode 9: both conventional medicine and functional medicine have failed you — you've been dismissed or drowned, and neither one is care. Today: the third way. In this episode, Kacey fully articulates the philosophy behind her entire practice — the 85/15 rule, the "healing was never supposed to be your full-time job" positioning, and what it actually feels like to work with her. Not the pitch version. The real version. With client stories that prove it. The client on Orange Theory six days a week that most practitioners would have told to quit — and what Kacey did instead. The client on twenty-plus supplements who left with a handful of targeted ones that actually worked. The alcohol conversations that don't end in "quit drinking" — they end in real information and adult decisions. Because you're a grown ass woman. You don't need another practitioner to be your permission slip or your prohibition list. You need real care that respects the life you actually live. Something is coming. In about a week, Kacey is opening cart for something new — a much more concrete look at how this all works and what it could look like for you specifically. Keep your eyes on the podcast feed, Instagram, and your email inbox. This week's Kick Rocks: to every plan built for a woman who doesn't exist. New episodes weekly. Follow the show. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

  5. Aug 25

    Why Your Last Hormone or Gut Protocol Failed You (And Why the Next One Probably Will Too)

    Send us Fan Mail You've been given two options for how to address what's happening in your body, and both of them have failed you. Conventional medicine told you nothing was wrong. Functional medicine told you everything was wrong and handed you a $2,000 lab panel, a fourteen-supplement stack, and a protocol you couldn't sustain. And somewhere in the middle you've been quietly wondering if you're the problem. You're not. Both models are broken — and not because you haven't found the right practitioner. The entire framework of how they approach your body is wrong. In this episode, Kacey dismantles both models honestly. Where conventional medicine is genuinely good, where it fails you, and why. What "good" functional medicine as currently practiced actually is — aggressive protocols and expensive supplements delivered without follow-through. Two composite client stories that name the exact patterns of failure you might recognize. And a deeper look at order of operations — why so many "good" protocols by well-intentioned practitioners don't work, and what needs to happen instead. Plus: a first look at the third way. The care model that isn't another protocol — that respects the life you actually have and builds something you can actually live with. Come back next week for the full picture of what that looks like. This week's Kick Rocks: to the "run labs, email PDF, disappear for three months" model of functional medicine. New episodes weekly. Follow the show. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

  6. Aug 18

    The Real Reason Your Hormone Symptoms Keep Coming Back

    Send us Fan Mail If I asked you to list every weird thing your body's done in the last three months, you'd probably rattle off eight or ten different symptoms. You've been treating them as eight or ten different problems. They almost certainly aren't. They're one pattern showing up in eight or ten outfits. In this episode, Kacey unpacks why "hormone whack-a-mole" — the game most women get stuck playing for years — is a game the game is designed to make you lose. Your hormones aren't chaotic. They're rhythmic. And once you can read the rhythm underneath, the symptoms stop looking like separate emergencies and start looking like the very consistent story your body has been trying to tell you. Plus: a client who thought she was in perimenopause and wasn't. A first look at why the order you address things in matters more than any single protocol. And a homework assignment that will change how you see your own body. This week's Kick Rocks: to the entire symptom-by-symptom content industrial complex. New episodes weekly. Follow the show. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

  7. Aug 11

    The Blood Sugar Conversation Nobody's Having Right (PCOS, Insulin, and Why You Don't Need a CGM)

    Send us Fan Mail Everybody's talking about blood sugar. Everybody's wearing a CGM. Everybody's afraid of a piece of fruit. And most of what you're hearing is oversimplified at best, and making healthy women sicker at worst. In this episode, Kacey takes a real position: you probably don't need a continuous glucose monitor. Your blood sugar is supposed to go up when you eat. The metric that actually matters is what comes next — how fast it comes down and how stable it stays. And the fear-driven low-carb, no-fruit, food-terror movement is doing real damage to women whose blood sugar could have been regulated with more plants, not fewer. Plus: the piece of nuance nobody explains — why your CGM can't tell the difference between a glucose spike from food and one from a cortisol dump. Why saturated fat is actually a bigger driver of insulin resistance than most people realize. What actually causes PCOS/PMOS and why it's more workable than you've been told. The plant-forward nutrition framework Kacey teaches. And how meal timing and short-term tracking fit in — without turning your life into a spreadsheet. This week's Kick Rocks: the CGM affiliate industrial complex. New episodes weekly. Follow the show. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

  8. Aug 3

    The Real Cost of Waiting to Fix Your Hormones

    Send us Fan Mail The sentence you have said to yourself a thousand times: I'll deal with it after this quarter closes. Once the kids are back in school. When things calm down. In this episode, Kacey names what "waiting" actually costs — not in a scare-tactic way, but in the honest way somebody who has watched high-functioning women wait "one more year" for a decade owes you. The perimenopause symptoms at 38 that should not be happening yet and what they're actually telling you. The libido that has quietly rearranged your marriage while you were waiting to get to it. The business owner who thought she was fine right up until her body forced her to hire her way out of her own company. Plus: the costs nobody adds to the ledger — the years of parenting at 60%, the version of your partner who gave up waiting, the ceiling on your career built by dysfunction. Those don't come back even after your labs do. And here's the news: almost all of this is reversible. But it does not happen by accident. It happens because at some point, you decide to do something. If this episode landed: do the smallest concrete action this week. Whatever it is. Book something. DM someone. Order the labs. Have the honest conversation with your partner. Kacey is not asking you to hire her. She is asking you to break the pattern of waiting. This week's Kick Rocks: to everybody telling a symptomatic woman she's "just doing too much." New episodes weekly. Follow the show. Follow on Instagram @simplyhealthywellnesshttps://simplyhealthyintegrativewellness.com/

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Simply Healthy Hormones is the podcast for high-functioning women who are tired of DIY-ing their hormone health from a graveyard of half-empty supplement bottles. Host Kacey Kane brings together a Master's in Psychology, Holistic Nutrition certification, and dual Integrative Health Practitioner certifications to do something most of the wellness industry doesn't — address your hormones, your nutrition, your lifestyle, your mental health, and your relationship with your body all at once, so you fix the chaos at the root and build the foundation that keeps you off the rollercoaster for good. Expect nuance, not rules. Science, not vibes. And zero interest in taking away your coffee or your glass of wine — because you're a grown ass adult and you get to decide what you do with the information. If you've been waiting for someone to explain what's actually happening in your body and treat you like the smart, capable person you are, you're in the right place.  Because the science matters, and so does the woman doing the work. New episodes drop weekly. Pour the coffee. Eat first. Let's get into it.

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  • Creator
    Kacey Kane, MS, IHP2, CHN
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Simply Healthy Hormones
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