Faith Over Pharma | Holistic Health, Longevity, Hormones & Fertility

Susan Gladstein | Holistic Health & Longevity Practitioner
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TOP 2.5% GLOBALLY RANKED HOLISTIC HEALTH PODCAST What if taking care of your health wasn’t about adding more rules to your life—but about creating a life you want more years of? Faith Over Pharma is a faith-led holistic health and longevity podcast for women who want to feel strong, capable, energized, and fully engaged in their lives for decades to come. I’m Susan Gladstein — Holistic Health Practitioner, Functional Nutrition Specialist, creator of Rooted Fertility™ and Rooted Reset™, retreat host, and mom of two vasectomy reversal babies born in my 40s. My own fertility journey taught me to look at the body differently. Hormones, metabolism, inflammation, sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, nervous system health, fertility, and aging aren’t separate conversations. They’re interconnected pieces of how well we function now—and how well we’re able to keep living later. On this show, we ask better questions about what helps the body thrive rather than simply accepting symptoms, declining energy, or feeling worse with age as inevitable. You’ll hear conversations about longevity, healthy aging, hormone and metabolic health, fertility, strength, blood sugar, inflammation, mitochondria, sleep, nervous system regulation, natural healing, nutrition, and the foundational pieces of health conventional conversations often overlook. But this show isn’t just about optimizing your body. Because what’s the point of more years if you’re not actually living them? We talk about the things that make those years worth having too: travel, adventure, meaningful relationships, faith, purpose, community, Blue Zone-inspired living, gathering around a table, trying new things, getting outside, staying strong enough to participate, and always having something on the calendar you’re genuinely excited about. That same philosophy is at the heart of the Rooted Community and Rooted Reset™ retreats and experiences: health should give you more freedom to live your life—not become your full-time job. The goal isn’t perfect wellness. It’s enough health to travel. Hike. Dance. Carry your grandkids. Explore somewhere new. Say yes to the adventure. Sit around the table with people you love. And keep participating in your life for as long as God gives you one to live. If you believe God designed the body with wisdom and you want a more holistic, grounded approach to longevity, hormones, fertility, and living well, you’re in the right place. Next Steps Join the Rooted Community www.susangladstein.com/community Experience Rooted Reset™ Costa Rica: www.susangladstein.com/retreat Arizona: www.susangladstein.com/arizona Explore Rooted Fertility™ www.susangladstein.com/fertility Connect on Instagram @susangladstein.co @rootedresetretreat

  1. 1d ago

    123. Fertility After 40: Rejecting Fear, Supporting the Body & Trusting God’s Design with Dr. Tiffany Flock

    If you’re trying to conceive after vasectomy reversal and you feel like every conversation keeps coming back to numbers, age, timelines, or fear, this episode is going to breathe fresh hope into your journey. In this conversation, I’m joined by Dr. Tiffany Flock, a Doctor of Naturopathy, biohacker, wife, and mom of four who had babies in her 40s and understands what it’s like to reject fear-based messaging around fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood. We talk about why fertility is not separate from the rest of the body, why “normal” labs do not always mean optimal health, and how stress, digestion, detox pathways, environmental toxins, inflammation, emotional wellness, and the words we speak over our bodies can all impact how the body functions. Dr. Tiffany shares her own story of walking through health struggles, miscarriage, pregnancy in her 40s, placenta previa, and how LifeWave patches became part of her personal wellness story. We also talk about root-cause healing, why the body’s symptoms are often clues instead of failures, and how supporting the body’s God-designed ability to heal can look very different from chasing the next medication, supplement, or quick fix. If you’ve been told to just wait, retest, move to IUI or IVF, or accept that age is the problem, this episode is a reminder that your body is not broken, your story is not over, and fertility deserves to be looked at through the lens of whole-body health, faith, and deeper support. Connect with Dr. Tiffany Podcast: Original Intent Lifestyle https://linktr.ee/naturopathtiffany  naturopathtiffanyf@gmail.com    Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community for faith-based conversations, classes, and resources on hormones, metabolism, inflammation, fertility, longevity, and building a life you actually want more years of: www.susangladstein.com/community Want to experience Rooted Reset™ in person? Learn more about Arizona at www.susangladstein.com/arizona or Costa Rica at www.susangladstein.com/retreat. Connect with me on Instagram at @susangladstein.co and follow the retreat side of Rooted Reset™ at @rootedresetretreat.

  2. Sep 7

    122. What Sugar Is Stealing from Your Life: How Blood Sugar, Cravings & Metabolism Impact Your Hormones, Energy, and Ability to Live Fully with Christine Trimpe

    Have you ever felt like sugar had more control over your life than you wanted to admit? In this episode, I’m joined by Christine Trimpe, founder of The SugarFreed® Method, certified Christian health coach, SUGAR® Licensed Practitioner, speaker, and author of SugarFreed: Stop Losing the Weight Loss Battle, Start Gaining the Victory. Christine shares her powerful story of breaking free from sugar dependency, losing 100 pounds, and realizing that sugar, processed carbs, cravings, blood sugar crashes, inflammation, and insulin resistance were affecting far more than her weight. They were impacting her energy, hormones, metabolism, mood, peace, confidence, and ability to fully live the life God had given her. We talk about the all-or-nothing cycle so many women feel trapped in: doing “good” for a while, falling back into cravings, feeling ashamed, and then trying to fix it with stricter rules, detoxes, cleanses, or another round of willpower. Christine shares why those extremes rarely lead to lasting freedom and why true change often begins with nourishment, blood sugar stability, renewed thinking, and a different relationship with food. If you feel stuck in food guilt, sugar cravings, binge-restrict patterns, blood sugar crashes, low energy, hormone symptoms, or frustration with your metabolism, this episode will help you look at sugar, faith, health, and freedom in a deeper way. Connect with Christine: Website: https://christinetrimpe.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristineTrimpeLLC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachchristinetrimpe/ Twitter: https://x.com/TrimpeChristine YouTube: @ChristineTrimpe Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/coachchristinetrimpe/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-trimpe-07123299/   Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community for faith-based conversations, classes, and resources on hormones, metabolism, inflammation, fertility, longevity, and building a life you actually want more years of: www.susangladstein.com/community Want to experience Rooted Reset™ in person? Learn more about Arizona at www.susangladstein.com/arizona or Costa Rica at www.susangladstein.com/retreat. Connect with me on Instagram at @susangladstein.co and follow the retreat side of Rooted Reset™ at @rootedresetretreat.

  3. Aug 31

    121. Doing All the Things but Still Not Pregnant? Nervous System Healing for Inflammation, Hormones & Fertility with Miriam Gallifant

    If you’re trying to conceive and feel like you’re doing everything right but your body still feels stuck, this conversation will help you look at fertility and healing through a different lens. In this episode, I’m joined by Miriam Gallifant, a holistic occupational therapist, to talk about the connection between nervous system stress, inflammation, hormone health, and fertility. So many women are tracking ovulation, watching symptoms, taking supplements, researching protocols, and praying for answers, yet their bodies may still be living in survival mode. We talk about how chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation can impact hormones, thyroid function, blood sugar, metabolism, inflammation, sleep, digestion, and emotional well-being. Miriam also shares simple daily rhythms that can help support the body’s ability to feel safe, regulate, and heal without adding another overwhelming protocol to your life. If you’ve been told everything looks “normal,” but you still feel tired, anxious, inflamed, foggy, hormonally off, or discouraged in your fertility journey, this episode is a reminder that your body is not broken. There may simply be deeper pieces that have not been addressed yet.   Connect with Miriam: Podcast: Soulistic Hope Website: www.restoreholistics.com Instagram: @simply_holistic777 Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community: https://susangladstein.com/community Ready to look at the full fertility picture? Get your Rooted Fertility Audit: https://susangladstein.com/fertility Connect with me on Instagram: @susangladstein.co

  4. Aug 24

    120. Trying to Conceive Without Losing Your Peace: Fertility Optimization & Learning to Trust the Body God Designed with Dr. Brook Sheehan

    If you are trying to conceive and your fertility journey has started consuming your peace, this conversation is for you. Maybe you began this season feeling hopeful and proactive, but now the ovulation tracking, supplement research, semen analysis results, lab work, cycle apps, symptom spotting, and timing all feel like a full-time job. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Brook Sheehan, a licensed chiropractor, functional health practitioner, and creator of the BodyOS Framework, to talk about fertility optimization, body trust, surrender, and learning to trust the body God designed. Brook shares her own journey of going from complete disconnection from her body to full-on health optimization mode, and how she discovered that real healing was not found in chasing more protocols, but in learning to understand what her body was communicating. We talk about the difference between supporting your fertility and trying to control your fertility, why more supplements are not always the answer, how fear can disguise itself as wisdom, and what it looks like to pursue healing without losing your peace in the process. If you have been trying to optimize your fertility but feel exhausted, anxious, disconnected, or afraid your body is working against you, this episode will help you remember that your body is not the enemy. God did not make a mistake when He created your body, and sometimes healing begins with learning to listen, trust, and surrender. Connect with Dr. Brook: Body Signal Decoder: https://os.drbrooksheehan.com/decoder Talk to Me, Body Cards: https://drbrooksheehan.com/talk-to-me-body/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbrooksheehan Podcast: Beyond Wellness Culture Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community: https://susangladstein.com/community Ready to look at the full fertility picture? Get your Rooted Fertility Audit: https://susangladstein.com/fertility Connect with me on Instagram: @susangladstein.co

  5. Aug 17

    119. When Pain Becomes Your Prison: Supernatural Healing, Chronic Pain & the Root-Cause Bodywork Most People Haven’t Heard Of with Dr. Chad Zaabadick PT, DPT

    What if the pain, symptoms, tension, hormone changes, digestive issues, or physical limitations you’ve been told to “just manage” are not random at all? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Chad Zaabadick, a Doctor of Physical Therapy who specializes in visceral manipulation, neural manipulation, and root-cause bodywork most people have never heard of. Chad shares his powerful testimony of walking through nearly a decade of chronic pain, injuries, nerve symptoms, and physical limitations, and how God began restoring his body, renewing his faith, and leading him into the work he now uses to help others. We talk about what happens when pain becomes a prison, why the body does not heal in isolated boxes, and how the standard approach can sometimes miss the deeper connections between the organs, nerves, fascia, scar tissue, blood flow, mobility, and nervous system. Chad explains how visceral manipulation and neural manipulation may help support the body by addressing restrictions and tension patterns that can affect movement, pain, digestion, circulation, stress response, pelvic function, and overall quality of life. This conversation is about more than chronic pain. It is about learning to see the body as connected, intelligent, and capable of healing in ways many people have never been taught to consider. We talk about faith, perseverance, supernatural healing, root-cause bodywork, and what it can look like to keep asking better questions when the usual answers have not been enough. If you have ever felt dismissed, stuck, limited by symptoms, or told there is nothing else to do, this episode will remind you that pain does not have to be the final word. Connect with Dr. Chad: Website: www.drzab.com IG : @drzab_dpt Email: chad@drzab.com   Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community: https://susangladstein.com/community Ready to look at the full fertility picture? Get your Rooted Fertility Audit: https://susangladstein.com/fertility Connect with me on Instagram: @susangladstein.co

  6. Aug 10

    118. Food Noise, Fertility & Ozempic: What Your Gut Is Trying to Tell You with Shirley Billigmeier

    If you’ve ever felt trapped in the cycle of dieting, calorie counting, emotional eating, or constantly thinking about food, this episode is going to challenge everything you thought you knew about hunger, weight loss, and lasting health. Many women—especially those navigating hormone imbalance, inflammation, weight gain, or fertility struggles—are told to “just lose weight.” But what if the real issue isn’t a lack of discipline or willpower? What if your body already has built-in wisdom around hunger, fullness, and nourishment, but years of dieting, stress, food rules, and restriction have disconnected you from it? In this conversation with Shirley Billigmeier, we dive into food noise, the gut-brain connection, emotional eating, Ozempic, and why so many people feel stuck in an exhausting cycle of guilt, cravings, restriction, and shame. Shirley has spent more than 50 years helping people rebuild a healthy relationship with food by reconnecting them to what she calls their natural eating boundaries. Long before gut health and GLP-1 medications became mainstream, she was teaching that the body already knows what it needs when we learn how to listen. We talk about why food can feel so emotionally powerful, how chronic dieting disrupts the body’s natural signals, and why medications like Ozempic may quiet food noise without addressing the deeper root cause. We also explore why not all emotional eating is actually emotional, how inflammation and stress can keep you feeling stuck, and why true healing often starts with rebuilding trust in your body instead of fighting against it. If you’ve spent years obsessing over food, feeling frustrated with weight loss, or wondering why nothing seems to work long term, this episode offers a completely different perspective. There is freedom on the other side of food obsession—and it starts with learning to listen to the body God designed.   Connect with Shirley: Website: www.innergetics.com Email: shirley@innergetics.com http://linktr.ee/shirley418 Instagram: @innergeticsmethod Facebook: www.facebook.com/learn.innergetics linkedin.com/in/shirleybilligmeier linkedin.com/company/innergetics  Download a free copy of Inner Eating: https://www.innergetics.com/book Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community: https://susangladstein.com/community Ready to look at the full fertility picture? Get your Rooted Fertility Audit: https://susangladstein.com/fertility Connect with me on Instagram: @susangladstein.co

  7. Aug 3

    117. When Parents Stop Outsourcing: Homeschooling, Vaccines, Medical Freedom, and Trusting Your God-Given Discernment with Cheryl Daley

    Have you ever started questioning one system and realized it made you question everything? For many couples trying to conceive after vasectomy reversal, that moment often starts in the fertility world. You’re told your labs are “normal,” IVF or IUI is the next step, or there’s nothing else to look at, but deep down, you know your family deserves more than a one-size-fits-all answer. In this episode, I’m joined by Cheryl Daley, host of The Homeschool How To Podcast, for a powerful conversation about homeschooling, vaccines, medical freedom, parental rights, informed consent, and learning to trust your God-given discernment as a parent. Cheryl shares how COVID opened her eyes to the traditional school system, why she chose to homeschool her children, and how asking better questions about education led her family to think more deeply about childhood health, vaccine requirements, and the medical decisions parents are often pressured to make without full informed consent. Whether you’re questioning vaccine schedules, considering homeschooling, or simply learning to advocate for your family with more wisdom and confidence, this conversation will remind you that you are allowed to ask questions, do your own research, and make decisions that align with your faith, values, and the children God entrusted to you. Connect with Cheryl: Podcast: The Homeschool How To Website: https://thehomeschoolhowto.com/   Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community: https://susangladstein.com/community Ready to look at the full fertility picture? Get your Rooted Fertility Audit: https://susangladstein.com/fertility Connect with me on Instagram: @susangladstein.co

  8. Jul 27

    116. IVF, Donor Eggs & Adoption: The Fertility Decisions No One Prepared Us For with Kristen Mayer

    What happens when IVF finally gives you embryos, but also leaves you carrying questions no one prepared you to answer? In this episode, I’m joined by Kristen Mayer for an honest conversation about infertility, IVF, donor eggs, adoption, miscarriage, embryo decisions, and faith. Kristen shares how her fertility journey began, what it felt like to be told donor eggs were her only option, and the heartbreak of finding out on Mother’s Day that none of their embryos had made it to blast. After their first failed IVF cycle, Kristen and her husband chose adoption and welcomed their daughter in 2019. Years later, they returned to fertility treatment, walked through more failed rounds and loss, and eventually used donor eggs to welcome their son through IVF. But this conversation goes deeper than the outcome. We talk about the questions many couples are never fully prepared for before fertility treatment, including what to do with remaining embryos, the emotional and spiritual weight of IVF decisions, and why “just do IVF” is not always as simple as it sounds. Kristen also shares how infertility impacted her marriage, her faith, her body, and the way she now sees motherhood, adoption, and trusting God in the middle of a story that did not unfold the way she expected. Connect with Kristen: Instagram: @riseandrootmethod Next Steps: Join the Rooted Community: https://susangladstein.com/community Ready to look at the full fertility picture? Get your Rooted Fertility Audit: https://susangladstein.com/fertility Connect with me on Instagram: @susangladstein.co

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TOP 2.5% GLOBALLY RANKED HOLISTIC HEALTH PODCAST What if taking care of your health wasn’t about adding more rules to your life—but about creating a life you want more years of? Faith Over Pharma is a faith-led holistic health and longevity podcast for women who want to feel strong, capable, energized, and fully engaged in their lives for decades to come. I’m Susan Gladstein — Holistic Health Practitioner, Functional Nutrition Specialist, creator of Rooted Fertility™ and Rooted Reset™, retreat host, and mom of two vasectomy reversal babies born in my 40s. My own fertility journey taught me to look at the body differently. Hormones, metabolism, inflammation, sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, nervous system health, fertility, and aging aren’t separate conversations. They’re interconnected pieces of how well we function now—and how well we’re able to keep living later. On this show, we ask better questions about what helps the body thrive rather than simply accepting symptoms, declining energy, or feeling worse with age as inevitable. You’ll hear conversations about longevity, healthy aging, hormone and metabolic health, fertility, strength, blood sugar, inflammation, mitochondria, sleep, nervous system regulation, natural healing, nutrition, and the foundational pieces of health conventional conversations often overlook. But this show isn’t just about optimizing your body. Because what’s the point of more years if you’re not actually living them? We talk about the things that make those years worth having too: travel, adventure, meaningful relationships, faith, purpose, community, Blue Zone-inspired living, gathering around a table, trying new things, getting outside, staying strong enough to participate, and always having something on the calendar you’re genuinely excited about. That same philosophy is at the heart of the Rooted Community and Rooted Reset™ retreats and experiences: health should give you more freedom to live your life—not become your full-time job. The goal isn’t perfect wellness. It’s enough health to travel. Hike. Dance. Carry your grandkids. Explore somewhere new. Say yes to the adventure. Sit around the table with people you love. And keep participating in your life for as long as God gives you one to live. If you believe God designed the body with wisdom and you want a more holistic, grounded approach to longevity, hormones, fertility, and living well, you’re in the right place. Next Steps Join the Rooted Community www.susangladstein.com/community Experience Rooted Reset™ Costa Rica: www.susangladstein.com/retreat Arizona: www.susangladstein.com/arizona Explore Rooted Fertility™ www.susangladstein.com/fertility Connect on Instagram @susangladstein.co @rootedresetretreat

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