The Dr. Terri Show

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Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? Do you desire to live a life of abundance in your health? On the Dr. Terri Show, we cut through all the hype and fads to bring you real, vulnerable conversations about health, faith and life. We're not holding anything back, and we are taking on topics you are asking and wondering about. Along the way, we'll laugh, share stories and challenge cultural norms to help you have the healthiest most abundant life you can. Terri DeNeui, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC is the Founder of EVEXIAS Health Solutions, Creator of the Evexipel Method and owner of EVEXIAS Medical Center and a board-certified nurse practitioner, nationally renowned speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Her new book, “Hormone Havoc,” is the essential guide for patients and practitioners seek ing to understand hormone health and achieve true hormone optimization, and truly know why ignoring our hormones has been a detriment to health and quality of life. Dr. DeNeui holds advanced certifications in Hormone Replacement Therapy, Preventive Wellness Medicine, and Functional Medicine. Dr. DeNeui earned her bachelor’ s degree in nursing from Texas Women’ s University in Denton, Texas , and achieved both her master’ s and doctorate degrees in nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas. This podcast is for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for the diagnosis, treatment, and advice of a qualified licensed professional. This podcast offers people medical information and tells them their alternative medical options, but in no way should anyone consider that this podcast represents the practice of medicine. This podcast assumes no responsibility for how this material is used. The statements regarding alternative treatments for cancer have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

  1. 13h ago

    Hashimoto’s, Autoimmunity, and the Triggers Behind It.

    Most women diagnosed with low thyroid are treated for a thyroid problem. Dr. Heather Stone says many of them actually have an immune problem. In Hashimoto’s, as she puts it, “the thyroid is the victim.” Dr. Terri sits down with Dr. Heather Stone, DC, a functional medicine practitioner who has spent more than twenty years helping women with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s. She is the author of The Thyroid Transformation Blueprint. Her path started with her own symptoms and a doctor who told her nothing was wrong. She joins from Italy to talk about what’s driving the immune system to attack the thyroid, and what changes when care looks past the thyroid numbers. They start with the TSH: what it measures, where it comes from, and what a fuller thyroid panel adds, including the antibody tests that point to Hashimoto’s. Then they work through the triggers Dr. Stone looks for in every autoimmune patient: blood sugar, stress, gut health, and toxic load. Along the way, she explains why having one autoimmune condition raises the risk of developing others. She also describes a diabetes pattern she catches by looking for autoimmunity, which she calls type 1.5. What you’ll discover What TSH actually measures, and why it comes from the pituitary instead of the thyroid The markers in a fuller thyroid panel, including the two antibody tests for Hashimoto’s Why Dr. Stone sees Hashimoto’s as an immune condition first and a thyroid condition second How blood sugar swings can keep the immune system in attack mode The role stress plays, even for people who say they aren’t stressed How the gut connects to autoimmunity, and why gluten matters for some Hashimoto’s patients How toxic load adds to the burden, and her phased approach to detox What type 1.5 diabetes is, and the clue that makes her look for it Your symptoms aren’t the problem. They’re the message. Presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutionshttps://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Connect with Dr. Heather Stone Website: https://reversemycondition.com/ Book: https://thyroidtransformationblueprint.com/ --- 00:00 Dr. Stone's story 04:00 Beyond the TSH: what a full thyroid panel shows 17:20 Hashimoto's and the triggers behind autoimmunity 26:00 Type 1.5 diabetes 35:00 Testing for root causes, optimal ranges, and detox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Oct 13

    Too Old to Start? She Won Her First Fitness Competition at 64

    What if your strongest years are still ahead of you?At 64, Mary Ann Butler entered her first fitness competition... and won. But her story didn't begin on a bodybuilding stage. It started years earlier, with a career in pain management, a growing curiosity about hormone health, and a personal experience that changed the direction of her medical practice.In this episode of The Dr. Terri Show, Dr. Terri sits down with Mary Ann Butler, ANP-C, a board-certified nurse practitioner with more than two decades of experience in medicine. From her wellness practice in Lumberton, Texas, to her role training and mentoring clinicians with EVEXIAS, Mary Ann has dedicated much of her career to exploring approaches to hormone health, pain management, and longevity.Together, they discuss how recognizing symptoms of testosterone deficiency in her husband—and hearing unexpected stories from pain patients receiving hormone therapy—led Mary Ann to rethink conventional approaches to care.They explore the often-overlooked role of testosterone in women's health, the relationship between hormones and pain, and how peptide therapies became part of Mary Ann's clinical practice. They also discuss why peptide therapy requires knowledgeable medical oversight rather than a do-it-yourself approach.Then the conversation turns personal.After a decade of consistent strength training alongside her husband, Mary Ann decided to challenge herself in an entirely new way. With just 16 weeks of competition preparation, she stepped onto the stage at 64 and won her first fitness competition.Her message? Age doesn't have to determine what you're capable of achieving.---- What you’ll discover:How the opioid crisis and a pain conference pointed her toward hormones (00;03;50)Her husband’s testosterone story, and what supplements can hide (00;04;19)Why testosterone in women was the missing puzzle piece (00;07;48)Why creams fell short for so many of their patients (00;08;29)How hormones play into pain and inflammation (00;09;37)How peptides entered her practice (00;12;13)Why peptide therapy is a medical specialty, not a DIY project (00;13;33)How peptides that support growth hormone signaling can help with sleep, recovery, and aging well (00;16;25)Deciding to compete, and what actually changed in her diet (00;19;40)What a 16-week contest prep looked like (00;25;24)“Muscle is currency,” and how to start where you are, even with injuries (00;27;08)It's never too late to set a new goal, build strength, or discover what your body is capable of.Join Dr. Terri and Mary Ann Butler for a conversation about hormones, peptides, longevity, and challenging the expectations that often come with aging. Presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutions https://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Oct 6

    Getting Off the Hormone Roller Coaster

    Pellets, shots, creams, patches, pills, troches. If you're starting hormone therapy, or you're already on it and something still feels off, the number of options can be hard to sort through. It's one of the questions Dr. Terri hears most, from patients and from the clinicians she trains. In this solo episode, Dr. Terri goes through each delivery method for testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone, drawing on 17 years of working with all of them. Her favorite is hormone pellets, and she explains her reasoning. She compares steady hormone levels with the peaks and drops of shots, creams, and tablets. She covers why the path a hormone takes through the body matters. She also explains where patches, vaginal estrogen, and oral progesterone still fit. What you'll discover How few testosterone options exist for women, and how long pellets have been around (00;01;30) Why individualized dosing matters for testosterone (00;02;29) The lollipop analogy for how pellets release hormones (00;03;24) What the "roller coaster" of testosterone shots feels like, and how split dosing helps (00;04;47) Dr. Terri's least favorite modality (00;05;52) How troches and rapid dissolve tablets compare (00;07;54) What first pass metabolism means for oral hormones (00;09;23) Estrogen options for women, from pellets to patches to pills (00;10;40) Oral estradiol and blood clot risk (00;12;26) What an FSH lab can show about whether your estrogen dose is enough (00;14;54) Treating symptoms versus optimizing hormones (00;15;17) When vaginal estrogen is the right choice (00;16;50) Progesterone versus progestin, and why the difference matters (00;17;12) A clear map of your options to take to your next appointment. Presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutionshttps://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Sep 29

    Muscle Is the Currency of Aging

    Somewhere around 40, the workouts that always worked stop working. The belly shows up, the energy drops, and the instinct is to do more. Dr. Terri sits down with Dr. Eric Fete to hear his case for the opposite: lift a little, walk a lot, eat enough, and build muscle. Dr. Fete, DO, is a former emergency physician and the founder of Prime-X in Zanesville, Ohio. He trained at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, is certified in Age Management Medicine, and now sees patients in person and by telemedicine. He calls his approach muscle medicine. Together they get into what myokines are and why he treats muscle as more than looks. They cover the simple routine he starts most patients on, how he talks to women about testosterone, and why he puts sleep and stress ahead of peptides and other add-ons. They also talk about the difference between sex drive and erectile function, and why touch and oxytocin belong in the conversation. What you'll discover How a career in the ER pushed him toward prevention, 10:44 Why he treats muscle as an organ of longevity, 13:36 What myokines are and what he says they do, 20:01 A starter routine: short strength sessions plus daily walking, 23:10 How he explains testosterone to women who worry about how it will change them, 31:16 Why lifestyle is the foundation and peptides come last, 35:02 The "double red S": sleep and stress, 43:30 Why sleep medication is not the same as restorative sleep, 45:33 How cystatin C can add context when creatinine looks high, 48:56 Fertility questions to settle before starting testosterone, 51:01 Sex drive, erectile function, and the oxytocin piece, 54:27 Less heroic training, more sleep, and a foundation worth building on. Presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutionshttps://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Connect with Dr. Eric Fete Website: https://www.drericprimex.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.eric-primexthefitnessph6601 Podcast, Dr. Eric's Relentless Vitality: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-erics-relentless-vitality/id1484876926 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Sep 22

    Can't Find Your Estrogen Patch? Don't Just Stop.

    Estrogen patches have gotten hard to find, and a lot of women are being told to just wait it out. That may be the riskiest option on the table. Dr. Terri sat down with Dr. Carrie Jones, ND, FABNE, MPH, MSCP, at a national clinician conference the same week the FDA held its public meeting on testosterone in women. Dr. Jones is a naturopathic physician and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner known as the Queen of Hormones. She was the first medical director for the DUTCH test and the first head of medical education at Rupa Health, and she now hosts the Hello Hormones podcast. Together they cover what's really behind the patch problem, why stopping hormones suddenly carries real risk, and how many more options exist than most women (and most prescribers) realize. They take on the reputation of compounding pharmacies: what compounding actually is, where the bad press came from, and why it keeps stepping in when supply runs short. They also get practical about quality, from "research only" peptides to supplements that don't match their labels. And they explain why estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone matter for your heart, brain, and bones long after the hot flashes are handled. What you'll discover Why so few clinicians feel ready to prescribe testosterone for women: 00:03:02 The lipstick rule for finding the hormone option that fits you: 00:04:56 What happened at an HHS roundtable on the estrogen patch problem: 00:06:50 What compounding pharmacies actually do, and what they don't: 00:09:37 How one contaminated batch reshaped the compounding industry: 00:14:25 How compounding filled the gap during the semaglutide shortage: 00:16:20 The price red flag on peptides you find online: 00:19:11 What "research only" on a label really means: 00:20:40 How to vet a supplement company before you buy: 00:24:06 The fish oil smell test: 00:26:08 What to do if you can't fill your estrogen patch: 00:26:25 The four long-term risks your hormones help protect against: 00:30:52 Why testing and replacing all three sex hormones matters: 00:36:25 Why waiting for more studies isn't good enough: 00:38:08 Presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutionshttps://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Sep 20

    The FDA Is Finally Talking About Testosterone in Women

    [Special bonus episode in reaction to the FDA addressing testosterone use in women.] For eighty years, clinicians have been using testosterone to treat women. There is still no FDA-approved testosterone product for women in the United States. In September, the FDA convened a public workshop to examine that gap. In this conversation, recorded in the days beforehand, Dr. Terri sits down with Dr. Cassie Smith, MD, a dual board-certified endocrinologist and the founder of Modern Endocrine in Oklahoma City. Dr. Cassie trained at the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center and spent years running pharmaceutical clinical trials before building a telehealth practice that now serves patients across 45 states. She has seen the approval process from the inside, and she has opinions about it. Together they take on what the hearing might actually accomplish, why the approval gap has persisted this long, and what it costs the women sitting in their exam rooms. They get into the money: why a hormone that pulls patients off statins, blood pressure medication, and antidepressants is not an attractive product to develop. They get into the paperwork: why testosterone sits on the controlled-substance schedule alongside opioids, what that does to access, and why a patient who forgets her prescription on vacation simply goes without. And they get into the part neither of them can let go of — that the people writing these rules have never spent a day in a clinic watching what happens when you get a woman's hormones right. What you'll discover Why 2026 became the year women's health finally got regulatory attention — 00;06;17 What the absence of an FDA-approved product actually does to patients and prescribers — 00;07;21 What clinicians were already doing with testosterone in the 1940s — 00;12;18 How a lab "reference range" gets set, and why normal and healthy are not the same thing — 00;16;53 The risk that a badly dosed product sets the whole conversation back a decade — 00;18;34 Where medical freedom ends and regulatory overreach begins — 00;24;41 How testosterone ended up on the controlled-substance schedule in the first place — 00;31;10 What a DEA license, 46 state databases, and one forgotten prescription look like from the prescriber's side — 00;34;47 The symptoms of testosterone deficiency that start showing up as early as 30 — 00;47;04 Whether either of them is actually optimistic about change — 00;49;10 Two clinicians, one hormone, and a regulatory system that has not caught up to its own evidence. Presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutions https://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ -- 00:00 Cold open and welcome 00:05:34 The approval gap 00:16:53 Reference ranges, dosing, and the risk of a bad rollout 00:24:41 Medical freedom and how testosterone became a controlled substance 00:39:24 Who's making these decisions, and who they're hearing from Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Sep 15

    Hormones, Thyroid, and Vitamins: A Closer Look at Postpartum Depression

    Nobody Has an SSRI Deficiency: Rethinking Postpartum Depression A new mother comes in for one visit, gets a diagnosis, leaves with a prescription, and comes back in a month. In a lot of practices that is first-line care for postpartum depression. The problem is that nothing on the list of things that actually crashed after delivery is an antidepressant. Dr. Terri welcomes back Dr. Johnny J. Peet, MD, a gynecologist with nearly three decades in private practice, for a conversation about what is really happening in a woman's body after a baby, and why he treats postpartum depression almost nothing like he did twenty years ago. Progesterone and estrogen fall off a cliff. Thyroid drops at the same time. Vitamin levels that were fine before pregnancy quietly slip. Add a physical recovery, real anxiety, and no sleep, and his take is that the surprising thing is how many women come through it fine. They open with the trend Dr. Terri is seeing in her own practice, young premenopausal women asking for estrogen because it is trending online, at the same time patches are getting hard to fill. If you have been handed a prescription and told that is the answer, this is the conversation nobody had with you. What you'll discover: What the removal of the estrogen and testosterone black box warnings actually changed, and where the fear came from [03:23] Why an empty hormone receptor in the brain produces symptoms [05:45] The decade-long decline in testosterone and thyroid that happens long before menopause gets the credit [07:25] The full list of what crashes after delivery, and why no single item explains it [09:30] The reason your brain lowers testosterone after the second baby on purpose [13:54] The questions a clinician has to ask before treating anyone's postpartum mood [15:55] What a partner, a grandmother, and four consecutive hours of sleep are actually worth [17:01] The treatment order most practices skip entirely [20:09] Thyroid, TSH, and why a normal-looking panel misses it [22:23] The symptom triad that points to low testosterone in women [26:57] Postpartum depression is common, it is treatable, and it is almost never one problem. 🔗 Find a provider trained in what we discussed: evexias.com 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ 📱 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui 💻 Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ This episode is for educational purposes and is not medical advice. Specific doses, lab targets, and treatment decisions discussed here are clinician-to-clinician and should not be applied without your own provider. **If you or someone you know is having suicidal or harmful thoughts, please immediately reach out to someone or call 1-833-TLC-MAMA** 00:00 Introduction 00:44 A Real Shift in Women's Health This Year 02:21 Estrogen Trending Online and the Patch Shortage 03:23 What the Black Box Removals Actually Changed 05:45 Receptors, Deficiency, and Mood 07:25 The Four Hormonal Stages of a Woman's Life 09:30 What Actually Causes Postpartum Depression 13:54 Testosterone After the Second Baby 15:55 Screening First, Then Treating 17:01 Partners, Family, and the Village 18:51 An SSRI Is Not First Line 20:09 Progesterone, Estrogen, and Thyroid 22:23 Thyroid, TSH, and the Depression Link 24:05 B Vitamins, Vitamin D, and the Gut 26:57 Testosterone in Women: Mood, Energy, Sex 29:05 Injectable Progesterone and Follow-Up 30:12 Why Women Don't Talk About It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Sep 8

    We Are Our Hormones: What Birth Control Does to the Female Brain

    If you are a woman, there is a good chance someone handed you a prescription at 15 or 16 and told you almost nothing. Maybe it was for acne. Maybe it was for cramps. Nobody sat you down and explained that it does not only turn off your ability to get pregnant, it turns off the hormones that were building your brain. We have never followed a generation of women long enough to find out what happens when you start at 13 and stay on it until you are 35. We just did it, and we called it health care. Dr. Terri sits down with Dr. Sarah Hill, a research psychologist and professor at Texas Christian University who has spent more than 20 years studying women's hormones and neuroendocrinology. She is the author of This Is Your Brain on Birth Control and The Period Brain. Her interest in the subject started personally. After more than a decade on the pill, she went off it and, within three months, felt like parts of herself were coming back online. She went to the research literature to find out why, and found a body of evidence almost nobody was talking about. This conversation covers what hormonal contraception actually shuts down, why the alternatives are less studied than most women are led to believe, and what a generation of young women walking away from it are walking toward instead. What you'll discover: What Dr. Hill noticed within three months of going off the pill, and why she went straight to the research [15:03] Why ovulation is not just about releasing an egg, and what stops when it stops [18:23] The cultural hypothesis about hormones, femininity, and how young women dress today [23:18] Why there is no such thing as a locally acting hormone, and what that means for the hormonal IUD [24:47] How synthetic progestins interact with androgen and cortisol receptors differently than your own progesterone does [30:49] The calming compound your body makes from progesterone that synthetic progestins never produce [34:19] What the research actually says about long-term birth control and fertility, including the caveat most women never hear [40:55] Dr. Hill's take on the growing number of premenopausal women being put on estrogen therapy [47:08] The percentage of healthy, regularly cycling college-age women in her lab's studies who are not ovulating, and the reason why [55:13] What we know, and mostly do not know, about starting hormonal contraception while the brain is still developing [1:01:47] The bottom line: We cannot make good decisions without good information. For an entire generation of women, the information was never on the table. The Dr. Terri Show is presented by EVEXIAS Health Solutions. For more, visit: https://www.evexias.com Connect with Dr. Terri: 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drterrideneui/ 📱 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrTerriDeNeui 💻 Website: https://hormonehavoc.com/ Connect with Dr. Sarah Hill: 📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahehillphd/ 💻 Website: https://www.sarahehill.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? Do you desire to live a life of abundance in your health? On the Dr. Terri Show, we cut through all the hype and fads to bring you real, vulnerable conversations about health, faith and life. We're not holding anything back, and we are taking on topics you are asking and wondering about. Along the way, we'll laugh, share stories and challenge cultural norms to help you have the healthiest most abundant life you can. Terri DeNeui, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC is the Founder of EVEXIAS Health Solutions, Creator of the Evexipel Method and owner of EVEXIAS Medical Center and a board-certified nurse practitioner, nationally renowned speaker, author, and entrepreneur. Her new book, “Hormone Havoc,” is the essential guide for patients and practitioners seek ing to understand hormone health and achieve true hormone optimization, and truly know why ignoring our hormones has been a detriment to health and quality of life. Dr. DeNeui holds advanced certifications in Hormone Replacement Therapy, Preventive Wellness Medicine, and Functional Medicine. Dr. DeNeui earned her bachelor’ s degree in nursing from Texas Women’ s University in Denton, Texas , and achieved both her master’ s and doctorate degrees in nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas. This podcast is for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for the diagnosis, treatment, and advice of a qualified licensed professional. This podcast offers people medical information and tells them their alternative medical options, but in no way should anyone consider that this podcast represents the practice of medicine. This podcast assumes no responsibility for how this material is used. The statements regarding alternative treatments for cancer have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

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