Wellness: Maintenance Required

Dr. Summer Sanders PT DPT
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What actually keeps people healthy and functioning well in a demanding world? Wellness: Maintenance Required is a podcast about what it truly takes to maintain health, clarity, and resilience over time. Hosted by Dr. Summer Sanders, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Integrative Wellness Consultant, the show features conversations with professionals across the wellness industry, from physical health, medicine, and performance to lifestyle design, energy work, and the environments we live in. These conversations get into the things people in the wellness industry actually talk about behind the scenes — the things we know, the things we experiment with, and sometimes the things we wish someone had told us much earlier. No guarded secrets. No smoke and mirrors. Just honest conversations about how people inside the wellness industry actually stay well — and the kinds of insights most of us only learn after years of trial, error, and figuring things out the hard way. Because wellness isn’t magic. It’s maintenance!

  1. 3d ago

    The Truth About Korean Skincare 🧖‍♀️ Salmon DNA, Glass Skin, & Pimple Patches | w/ Mindy Kim

    If your bathroom counter looks like a Sephora exploded on it and your skin still isn't glowing, you aren't alone. 🧴 Between viral TikTok trends, 10-step routines, and smearing salmon DNA on our faces, are we losing the plot on basic skincare? In this episode, Dr. Summer Sanders, PT, DPT and Korean skincare expert Mindy Kim break down what's actually worth your money versus what might just be online hype. ✨ We unpack why wearing pimple patches while sweating at the gym is lowkey ruining your skin, the real truth behind glass skin trends, and how proper product layering turns your routine into a cheat code for a healthy skin barrier. Grab a matcha, press play, and let’s get your skincare routine back on track! 💆🏼‍♀️ Caring for your skin should feel like an intentional daily ritual, not a 45-minute chore or a pick-your-poison experiment. 🙌🏼 — 🔥 Key Takeaways Layering Like a Pro: Why the order of your products dictates whether they actually penetrate or sit uselessly on top of your skin barrier.The Prevention Playbook: Why daily, gentle barrier care will always beat waiting until you need aggressive, expensive procedures with weeks of downtime.Exposing Viral Trends: The unfiltered truth about salmon DNA and why trapping sweat and bacteria under trendy patches is secretly wrecking your barrier.Rethinking Glass Skin: Why true glass skin is about detoxing and properly clearing your pores, not just layering products to look shiny.Your Face on Stress: How cortisol, sleep deprivation, and internal burn-out age your skin faster than any topical cream can fix.— 👩‍⚕️ About Your Host, Dr. Summer Sanders, PT, DPT Summer is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Integrative Wellness Consultant with over 15 years of clinical expertise working with individuals across all ages, activity levels, and walks of life. She helps clients systematically identify and eliminate cumulative somatic stress and chronic physical bottlenecks that drain their energy and limit their daily capacity. Her signature virtual concierge programs integrate biomechanics, environment, and subtle energy into one targeted system—giving you back your physical capacity, mental clarity, and time. — ⚡ Connect with Summer Your wellness routine should give you energy, not take it. Ready for a simpler way? 🧩 Take the Free Wellness Quiz: Find the hidden patterns quietly draining your energy. 📞 Book a Discovery Call: Get fully virtual, concierge-level wellness built around your high-capacity life. 🌐 Start here: www.summersandersofficial.com 📱 Follow along: @summersanders_official — 🌟 About The Guest, Mindy Kim Mindy Kim is an experienced esthetician and Korean skincare specialist who brings over a decade of expertise in bridging South Korean aesthetic philosophies with daily skin health care. Specializing in scar-free extractions, barrier repair, acne management, and preventative skin routines, Mindy helps clients cut through social media noise and build routines tailored to their real skin needs. She is the founder of Mindy Kim Skincare, located in Midtown Miami, where she combines gentle, traditional techniques with advanced aesthetics. — 🔗 Connect with Mindy 🌐 Website: www.mindykimskincare.com 📱 Instagram: @mindykimskincare — 📌 Don't Keep This To Yourself! ✅ SEND THIS to someone who's tired of wasting money on viral skincare trends that didn't deliver for them!✅ SAVE THIS episode for the next time you're tempted to impulse buy a viral product!✅ LEAVE A REVIEW if you love zero gatekeeping, cutting through the wellness noise, and figuring out what actually works for you! ⭐️✅ FOLLOW Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.📱 Instagram: @wellness.maintenancerequired

  2. Sep 25

    Your Evenings Are Wrecking Your Sleep 🌙 Ayurveda, Food As Medicine & Circadian Rhythm | w/ Dr. Sin Lai

    You’re running a high-capacity life, but is your body paying a hidden tax? 🧠⚡ When you're running a company, a career, or a household full of moving parts (or people), your own needs and priorities are the first things to get bumped. And the wellness advice out there is typically another 12-step routine that feels like one more job. In this episode, Dr. Summer sits down with Dr. Sin Lai to break down the ancient Ayurvedic habits taking over your feed, like tongue scraping and oil pulling. They also cover why your circadian rhythm is the real key to deep sleep and steady energy, and how screens, EMF, and evening light are likely sabotaging your recovery. Save this one for your next 3 p.m. crash.🪫 Your morning routine gets all the glory…it’s time your evening routine had its moment. ✨ ⸻ 🔥 What We Uncover In This Episode Beyond the Grocery List: Why ‘how’ and ‘when’ you eat matters just as much as what you buy, and how simple preparation shifts unlock better metabolic energy. 🍲Mastering Your Internal Clock: What happens when your daily habits operate on a different time zone than your biology, and how aligning with your circadian rhythm restores true rest. ⏰Your Dosha Isn't a Lifetime Sentence: Why your physical needs naturally evolve across life stages, seasons, and stress levels, and why rigid routines don't serve you long-term. 🌿Ancient Rituals vs. Modern Supplements: Looking at why foundational habits like warm water, tongue scraping, and oil pulling have stood the test of time. ☕Sanctuary & Environment: Exploring how screen habits, EMF exposure, and evening light quietly impact your sleep depth and overall recovery. 🌙⸻ 🧑‍⚕️ About Your Host, Dr. Summer Sanders, PT, DPT Summer is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Integrative Wellness Consultant with over 15 years of clinical expertise working with individuals across all ages, activity levels, and walks of life. She helps clients systematically identify and eliminate cumulative somatic stress and chronic physical bottlenecks that drain their energy and limit their daily capacity. Her signature virtual concierge programs integrate biomechanics, environment, and subtle energy into one targeted system—giving you back your physical capacity, mental clarity, and time. ⸻ ⚡ Stop Running on Empty Your wellness routine should give you energy, not take it. Ready for a simpler way? 🧩 Take the Free Wellness Quiz: Find the hidden patterns quietly draining your energy. 📞 Book a Discovery Call: Get fully virtual, concierge-level wellness built around your high-capacity life. 🌐 Start here: www.summersandersofficial.com 📲 Follow along: @summersanders_official ⸻ 🌟 About The Guest, Dr. Sin Lai, AD Dr. Sin Lai is a Doctor of Ayurveda, Integrative Health & Longevity Specialist, and Tao Tantra Facilitator with over two decades of experience in pranic healing, energy work, and energy alignment. Dedicated to guiding women in aging with grace, vitality, and radiance, she bridges physical health, internal awareness, and ancient medicine for whole-body transformation. She is the founder of Timeless Radiance, an integrative health practice, and Celestial Treasures, a spiritual wellness retail store. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Dr. Sin Lai 🌐 Website: www.timelessradiancebysinlai.com 🌐 Website: www.celestial-treasures.com 📲 Instagram: @Sin_Lai_Tjauw ⸻ 📌 Don't Keep This To Yourself! ✅ SEND THIS to someone who keeps "drinking more water" and wondering why nothing is changing—or whose wellness routine feels like a second job.✅ SAVE THIS one for the next time you reach for ice water mid-crash or feel tempted to buy another supplement instead of looking at your daily habits.✅ LEAVE A REVIEW if you've officially retired "it's just stress" and are ready to approach your health with fresh eyes.✅ FOLLOW Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.📲 Instagram: @wellness.maintenancerequired

  3. Sep 11

    When Bloating Becomes Background Noise 💩 Leaky Gut, Cold Plunges & Why Water Isn’t Enough | w/ Allison Christiani

    You’ve probably stopped clocking the bloating… The stomach that never quite feels settled, the energy crash every afternoon like clockwork. At some point, it just all became normal. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Allison Christiani, Director of Nutrition at Centner Wellness, joins me to connect some surprisingly related dots between gut health, digestion, circadian rhythms and hydration: how you start your morning, why your ice water might be the villain of your afternoon slump 🧊, and why your bowel movements have to do with way more than just digestion. We talk holistic, whole-body wellness paired with actual lab work, and what happens when you stop looking at every symptom, habit, and system in isolation. 🧩 Cold plunging gets a rebrand from “hot girl trend” to nervous system boot camp, two gut issues take priority before another supplement, and “drink more water” isn’t wrong, it’s just missing the rest of the instructions. This one’s for you if you have a tendency to pile on the wellness habits. Your body’s been signaling you for a while. It’s time to listen. 🙌🏼 Everyone poops. 💩 We might as well learn something from it! ⸻ 🔑 Key Takeaways Your gut is the foundation, not a side quest. Daily, well-formed bowel movements aren’t a bonus round, they’re the whole game. Everything else you’re doing means nothing if this isn’t handled.Rhythm beats willpower every time. Morning sunlight and warm fluids will likely do more for your nervous system than the supplement you just bought.Bloating isn’t random, it’s a broken seal. Your gut lining springs a leak and suddenly everything feels inflamed. Fix the seal, not just the symptom.Cold plunges and movement are training, not magic. 🥶 They build resilience. They won't save you if you’re skipping everything else that matters.More water isn’t the same as more hydration. 🧂 Without electrolytes, water might be passing right through you. But all electrolytes are not created equal.Your symptoms are data, not drama. Stop collecting random wellness trends off the internet and start reading what your own body is telling you.⸻ ⭐ About Dr. Summer Sanders Dr. Summer Sanders is an Integrative Wellness Consultant and Doctor of Physical Therapy helping people elevate how they live, not just how they feel. Her work bridges the body, mind, lifestyle, and environment to help people function at their next level. Fully virtual, concierge-style programs designed to work with your life, not disrupt it. Her programs integrate clinical science with lifestyle, environmental, subconscious, and energetic wellness, connecting the dots between symptoms, patterns, and the way we live. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Dr. Summer Sanders If you’re trying to figure out what’s actually driving the pattern, not just collect another thing to try, start here. 🧩 Take the Wellness Quiz 📲 Instagram: @summersanders_official 🌐 Website: summersandersofficial.com 📞 Book a Discovery Call ⸻ ⭐ About Allison Christiani Certified Nutrition Specialist | Functional Medicine Practitioner Allison is a holistic nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner specializing in root-cause, whole-body wellness, with a focus on gut health, metabolic function, and longevity. As Director of Nutrition at Centner Wellness, she blends evidence-based nutrition with functional and integrative approaches to help people better understand their bodies and create meaningful, sustainable change. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Allison 📲 Instagram: @allisunskitchen ⸻ Follow the Podcast New episodes drop every other week. ✅ Send this to someone who keeps “drinking more water” and wondering why nothing’s changing. 💧 ✅ Save this one for the next time you reach for ice water mid-crash. 🧊 ✅ Leave a review if you’ve officially retired “it’s just stress” as your excuse. ⭐ ✅ Follow Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, or wherever you listen. 📲 Instagram: @wellness.maintenancerequired

  4. Aug 28

    Why You Keep Hitting the Same Ceiling:🪞Identity Shifts, Playing Small & Self-Sabotage | w/ Heidy Caminero

    What keeps highly capable people hitting the same ceiling? Sometimes your next move is hiding in a place you never thought to look: the mirror.🪞 In Part 1, Wealth Embodiment Coach Heidy Caminero and I took apart the self-improvement toolbox: mindset, manifestation, subconscious work, nervous system regulation, hypnosis, NLP, EFT. This time, we’re putting the toolbox to work. 👷🏻‍♀️ We take three client scenarios and look at what gets missed when highly capable people keep hitting the same ceiling. Sometimes the fastest way forward isn’t digging harder in the same place. Money and self-worth through mindset, yes, but also posture, tension, pain, and how confidently you physically take up space. Identity shifts that reach from the subconscious into your habits, routines, and even your home. Playing small, upper limits, Feng Shui, receiving more, and what happens when part of you is ready to move forward and another part hasn’t gotten the memo. We also take a couple of swings at “protect your peace” and “stay in alignment,” phrases that sound great until you’re the one trying to live inside them. 😏 Part 1 handed you the tools one at a time. Part 2 is what happens when you finally look in the mirror and use all of them at once. ⸻ 🔑 Key Takeaways Your patterns don’t only live in your thoughts. 🧠 Posture, tension, pain, habits, and environment carry information too. Confidence has a physical expression. How you carry yourself can reinforce how you feel about yourself. Your environment can keep an old identity alive. 🏠 Feng Shui isn’t just where the furniture goes; your space can anchor an identity you’re trying to outgrow. Familiarity can be incredibly persuasive. Even wanting more consciously doesn’t stop the unfamiliarity of having it from creating resistance. 🌊 Playing small doesn’t always look like playing small. Perfectionism and endless “preparation” can be very convincing ways to stay safe. Growth isn’t always supposed to feel peaceful. 🕊️ “Protect your peace” is only useful until it becomes an excuse to avoid necessary discomfort. Progress gets easier when you zoom out. 🔭 A stuck problem can look different once you consider mind, body, behavior, and environment together. ⸻ ⭐ About Dr. Summer Sanders Dr. Summer Sanders is an Integrative Wellness Consultant and Doctor of Physical Therapy helping people elevate how they live, not just how they feel. Her work bridges the body, mind, lifestyle, and environment to help people function at their next level. Fully virtual, concierge-style programs designed to work with your life, not disrupt it. Her programs integrate clinical science with lifestyle, environmental, subconscious, and energetic wellness, connecting the dots between symptoms, patterns, and the way we live.  ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Dr. Summer Sanders If you’re trying to figure out what’s actually driving the pattern, not just collect another thing to try, start here. 🧩 Take the Wellness Quiz 📲 Instagram: @summersanders_official 🌐 Website: summersandersofficial.com 📞 Book a Discovery Call ⸻ ⭐ About Heidy Caminero Heidy Caminero is a Wealth Embodiment Coach, Breathwork & Hypnosis Practitioner, and host of the Confident, Magnetic & Wealthy podcast. She helps high-achieving women break through upper limits around income and success using neuroscience-backed modalities, so they can become the woman who not only earns more money, but feels safe, confident, and worthy of keeping it. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Heidy 🌐 Website: heidycaminero.com 📲 Instagram: @heidy.caminero 🎙️ Podcast: Confident, Magnetic & Wealthy ⸻ 🎙️ Follow the Podcast Tag the friend who has done enough self-reflection to know there’s probably something else to unpack. 🙌🏻 New episodes drop every other week. ✅ Follow Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, or wherever you listen. 🎧 ✅ Haven’t heard Part 1 yet? Go back to Money Mindset, Manifestation & Nervous System Regulation: What Actually Moves the Needle? for the conversation that put the individual tools on the table before we started connecting them here. ✅ If something clicked, made you rethink a pattern, or gave you something worth keeping, leave a quick review. ⭐ It’s one of the easiest ways to help more people find the show. ✅ Catch up on previous episodes of Wellness: Maintenance Required 🎙️ 📲 Instagram: @wellness.maintenancerequired

  5. Aug 14

    Money Mindset, Manifestation & Nervous System Regulation: What Actually Moves the Needle? | w/ Heidy Caminero

    You can vision board it, affirm it, tap it, meditate on it, regulate your nervous system into next Tuesday… and still be broke, stuck, or repeating the same pattern for the fortieth time. So what’s actually working? This week I’m sitting down with Wealth Embodiment Coach Heidy Caminero, and we’re taking a microscope to the self-improvement buzzwords everyone’s throwing around right now: money mindset, scarcity, manifestation, subconscious reprogramming, hypnosis, NLP, EFT, nervous system regulation. All of it! 🧠 We get into why your “money problem” is rarely actually about the number in your account, the sneaky, boring places scarcity hides that have nothing to do with money, and why knowing your pattern by heart still doesn’t stop you from running it again. Manifestation gets yanked out of “think it, receive it” fantasyland. Hypnosis, NLP, and EFT get demystified without the woo. And nervous system regulation gets the reality check it needs: feeling stressed is not the same as failing at regulation. If your self-improvement toolbox has quietly turned into a junk drawer, this episode’s for you. 🧰 ⸻ 🔑 Key Takeaways Your “money problem” probably isn’t about money. 💸 Scarcity loves to hide in tiny, everyday choices. It’s usually about what money represents, not the number itself. Manifestation doesn’t get you off the hook. A vision board can clarify where you’re headed. It cannot make your choices for you. Knowing your pattern and breaking your pattern are not the same skill. 🔄 You can name exactly what you do, why you do it, and where it came from, and still run the same play. Hypnosis, NLP, and EFT are not interchangeable TikTok hacks. Each one is built for something different, and we break down what actually fits where. Regulated doesn’t mean permanently zen. A healthy nervous system flexes. It responds when something demands energy, then comes back down when it doesn’t. Stress isn’t a malfunction. You don’t need every wellness tool in your feed. The point isn’t collecting more tools. It’s knowing what actually works for you and when to use it. ⸻ ⭐ About Dr. Summer Sanders Dr. Summer Sanders is an Integrative Wellness Consultant and Doctor of Physical Therapy helping people elevate how they live, not just how they feel. Her work bridges the body, mind, lifestyle, and environment to help people function at their next level. Fully virtual, concierge-style programs designed to work with your life, not disrupt it. Her programs integrate clinical science with lifestyle, environmental, subconscious, and energetic wellness, connecting the dots between symptoms, patterns, and the way we live. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Dr. Summer Sanders If you’re trying to figure out what’s actually driving the pattern, not just collect another thing to try, start here. 🧩 Take the Wellness Quiz 📲 Instagram: @summersanders_official 🌐 Website: summersandersofficial.com 📞 Book a Discovery Call ⸻ ⭐ About Heidy Caminero Heidy Caminero is a Wealth Embodiment Coach, Breathwork & Hypnosis Practitioner, and host of the Confident, Magnetic & Wealthy podcast. She helps high-achieving women break through upper limits around income and success using neuroscience-backed modalities, so they can become the woman who not only earns more money, but feels safe, confident, and worthy of keeping it. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Heidy 🌐 Website: heidycaminero.com 📲 Instagram: @heidy.caminero 🎙️ Podcast: Confident, Magnetic & Wealthy ⸻ 🎙️ Follow the Podcast Tag the friend who’s in this self-improvement mess with you. Misery loves company, growth loves witnesses. 🙌🏼 New episodes drop every other week. ✅ Follow Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, or wherever you listen. ✅ Bookmark this one for your next 11pm wellness spiral. You know the one. 😉 ✅ If something clicked, made you rethink a pattern, or gave you something worth keeping, leave a quick review. It’s one of the easiest ways to help more people find the show. ✅ Catch up on previous episodes of Wellness: Maintenance Required 🎙️ 📲 Instagram: @wellness.maintenancerequired

  6. Jul 31

    Your Labs Are Normal… So Why Do You Still Feel Like Garbage? | Gut Health, Chronic Pain & Peptides | w/ Dr. Bryan Deloney

    You did the labs. They came back “normal.” So why do you still feel like a stranger in your own body? 🤔 This episode is for everyone stuck in that maddening gap between “your bloodwork looks fine” and “then why do I feel like garbage.” I sat down with Chiropractor and Functional Medicine Provider Dr. Bryan Deloney to talk about what happens when you stop treating the body like a junk drawer of unrelated parts and start connecting the dots instead. We get into chronic pain, gut health, nutrient absorption, peptides, GLP-1's, environmental toxins, and why “food quality” is doing a lot more heavy lifting in your health than you’ve been told. We also clear up some of the biggest misconceptions about chiropractic care and functional medicine—the kind that leave people either fully skeptical or fully obsessed—and talk about what real, collaborative healthcare looks like when providers stop competing for your loyalty and start actually working together. 💪🏼 My favorite part of this conversation? Dr. Bryan’s take on how differently people show up—mood, patience, presence, all of it—once their bodies are finally working the way they’re supposed to. A good reminder that how you feel physically has a way of running the rest of your life too. If you’ve been collecting diagnoses instead of answers, this one’s for you!  ⸻ 🔑 Key Takeaways Why “normal” lab work doesn’t always mean you’re actually healthy—and why it might just be the starting point. 🔍 Why your gut keeps getting blamed last… when it probably should’ve been questioned first. Why functional medicine isn’t about chasing trendy supplements—it’s about asking better questions. 😌 The surprisingly important conversation about peptides, GLP-1 medications, and why where you get them matters just as much as whether you take them. Chronic pain usually isn’t your body betraying you—it’s your body trying (and failing) to get your attention. 🧩 Why your chiropractor, PT, and functional medicine provider should be in a group chat, not a turf war. 🤝 ⸻ ⭐ About Dr. Summer Sanders Dr. Summer Sanders is an Integrative Wellness Consultant and Doctor of Physical Therapy helping people elevate how they live—not just how they feel. Her work bridges the body, mind, lifestyle, and environment to help people function at their next level. Fully virtual, concierge-style programs designed to work with your life—not disrupt it. Her programs integrate clinical science with lifestyle, environmental, subconscious, and energetic wellness—connecting the dots between symptoms, patterns, and the way we live. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Summer Website: www.summersandersofficial.com Instagram: @summersanders_official Book a Call ⸻ ⭐ About Dr. Bryan Deloney Dr. Bryan Deloney is a Chiropractor and Functional Medicine Provider helping patients look beyond isolated symptoms to better understand the bigger picture of their health. His work combines chiropractic care, nutrition, functional medicine, and metabolic health to identify contributing factors and create practical, personalized treatment plans that support long-term wellness—not just temporary symptom relief. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Dr. Bryan Deloney Website: www.simplyhealthintegrated.com Instagram: @simplyhealth_mo ⸻ ✨ Follow the Podcast If “normal labs” have never actually made you feel normal, send this to a friend who’s been told the same thing for years. 😉 New episodes every other week! ✅ Follow Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, or wherever you get your podcasts. ✅ Send this to the friend who’s been “getting bloodwork done” since 2019 and still doesn’t have an answer. ✅ Left a little shook by how much makes sense now? A quick review helps someone else have that same moment. ✅ Catch up on previous episodes of Wellness: Maintenance Required 🎙️ Instagram: @wellness.maintenancerequired

  7. Jul 17

    No Pain, No Gain? 🤔 The Fitness Advice That Isn’t Aging Well | w/ James Gee

    When did “no pain, no gain” become a personality trait? 🤔 If your relationship with exercise feels a little toxic… this one’s for you. Because nobody accidentally ends up with an overtrained nervous system. Somewhere along the way, exhaustion became a badge of honor, soreness became proof we did something right, and rest days became something we had to earn. In this episode, I sit down with Performance Coach and former professional soccer player James Gee to challenge some of fitness’s favorite clichés. From competing professionally overseas to redefining life beyond the game, we explore why “doing more” isn’t always the flex we think it is. 🙃  We also unpack why your nervous system deserves a seat at the table and what it really means to train for life—not just the next workout. 🙌 Expect practical takeaways, plenty of laughs, and a conversation that connects movement, mindset, lifestyle, health maintenance, and energetic wellness in a way that might completely change how you think about performance. Whether you’re chasing a PR, getting back into a routine, or simply trying to feel better in your own body, this episode is a reminder that progress isn’t built by punishing yourself—it’s built by understanding yourself. 💪 ⸻ 🔑 Key Takeaways Why “no pain, no gain” might deserve an early retirement. How to tell the difference between productive discomfort and your body screaming, “Absolutely not.” 🚩 Why your nervous system might be running the show more than your workout plan. The mindset shift that makes consistency easier—without waiting to “feel motivated” every Monday… or negotiating with yourself every Tuesday. 😅 Why movement should fit your lifestyle—not become your entire personality. (Yes, we’re looking at you, people who feel guilty taking a rest day.) 😏 ⸻ ⭐ About Dr. Summer Sanders Dr. Summer Sanders is an Integrative Wellness Consultant and Doctor of Physical Therapy helping people elevate how they live—not just how they feel. Her work bridges the body, mind, lifestyle, and environment to help people function at their next level. Fully virtual, concierge-style programs designed to work with your life—not disrupt it. Her programs integrate clinical science with lifestyle, environmental, subconscious, and energetic wellness—connecting the dots between symptoms, patterns, and the way we live. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Summer Website: www.summersandersofficial.com Instagram: @summersanders_official Book a Call ⸻ ⭐ About the Guest James Gee is a Performance Coach, former professional soccer player, and founder of EVOLVE MVMT. After competing professionally overseas, he transitioned into coaching with a philosophy that extends far beyond workouts. His approach blends strength, endurance, movement quality, and sustainable performance with the mindset, accountability, and lifestyle habits that support long-term health. Whether he’s working with first-time runners or experienced athletes, James helps people train with purpose—not punishment. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With James Gee Website: www.evolve-mvmt.com Instagram: @olayjames ⸻ ✨ Follow the Podcast If this episode made you question your workout routine…or your entire personality…😅 send it to the friend who still thinks every workout has to leave them crawling to the car. New episodes every other week! ✅ Follow Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, or wherever you listen. ✅ Know someone who proudly says, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”? Send them this episode. They probably won’t appreciate it…which probably means they need it. 😉 ✅ If you laughed, learned something, or questioned your entire workout routine…a quick review helps us keep these conversations going. ✅ Catch up on previous episodes of Wellness: Maintenance Required 🎙️ IG: @wellness.maintenancerequired _____ Because wellness isn’t magic, it’s maintenance!

  8. Jul 3

    Hormones, Brain Fog, Low Libido & Why “Normal” Labs Aren’t Always Normal | w/ Kristy Gonzalez

    Nobody wakes up one day and says...👇 “You know what sounds fun? Learning about hormones.” Usually the interest starts after the third cup of coffee stops working, your sleep evaporates into thin air, your sex drive files for divorce, or you find yourself standing in a room wondering why you even walked in there. 🤔 ‼️ Spoiler: hormones don’t check ID. Men, this means you too! 🙌 If you have a body, this one’s for you. In this episode, I sit down with Nurse Practitioner Kristy Gonzalez to talk about the tiny chemical messengers that somehow manage to run your energy, sleep, motivation, memory, and ability to tolerate other human beings all together. 😉 We get into why so many people spend years being told they’re “fine” while feeling decidedly not fine, why normal lab work doesn’t always tell the whole story, and why “it’s just part of getting older” is doing a lot of heavy lifting it doesn’t deserve. From testosterone and libido to brain fog, inflammation, and hormone replacement therapy, we explore what happens when healthcare starts looking for causes instead of just collecting symptoms. So if you’ve been blaming aging, your schedule, Mercury retrograde, or your spouse for everything lately… this episode might be worth a listen. 👀 ⸻ 🔑 Key Takeaways The 3am wake-up call nobody ordered. What your doctor means by “normal” versus what you mean by “normal.” The symptom that has people convinced they’re losing their minds. Why your supplement cabinet might not be helping. Why your libido ghosted you and your spouse suddenly got less attractive. 😅 Why cortisol became the scapegoat for everything. ⸻ ⭐ About Dr. Summer Sanders Dr. Summer Sanders is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Integrative Wellness Consultant exploring the systems beneath health, performance, recovery, and wellbeing. Fully virtual, concierge-style programs designed to work with your life—not disrupt it. An integration of clinical science, environmental hygiene, subconscious reprogramming, and Reiki energy-healing practices—delivered as one cohesive system. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Summer Website: www.summersandersofficial.com Instagram: @summersanders_official Book a Call ⸻ ⭐ About the Guest Kristy Gonzalez is a Nurse Practitioner specializing in Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) and regenerative health. She helps patients optimize their wellness by addressing hormonal imbalances, improving vitality, and supporting healthy aging. Her practice combines advanced hormone therapy, regenerative medicine, and lifestyle interventions to enhance energy, performance, recovery, and overall quality of life. ⸻ 🔗 Connect With Kristy Gonzalez Website: simplyhealthintegrated.com Instagram: @simplyhealth_mo ⸻ ✨ Follow the Podcast If this episode made you reconsider whether you’ve completely lost your edge, or one minor inconvenience away from punching something in the office parking lot… send it to someone who needs to hear it. 😅 New episodes every other week. ✅ Follow Wellness: Maintenance Required on Apple + Spotify, or wherever you listen. ✅ Share this episode with the person who’s been surviving on caffeine, stubbornness, and vibes. 😉 ✅ If you enjoyed the conversation, we’d love a quick review. ✅ Catch up on previous episodes of Wellness: Maintenance Required 🎙️ IG: @wellness.maintenancerequired — Because wellness isn’t magic. It’s maintenance!

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What actually keeps people healthy and functioning well in a demanding world? Wellness: Maintenance Required is a podcast about what it truly takes to maintain health, clarity, and resilience over time. Hosted by Dr. Summer Sanders, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Integrative Wellness Consultant, the show features conversations with professionals across the wellness industry, from physical health, medicine, and performance to lifestyle design, energy work, and the environments we live in. These conversations get into the things people in the wellness industry actually talk about behind the scenes — the things we know, the things we experiment with, and sometimes the things we wish someone had told us much earlier. No guarded secrets. No smoke and mirrors. Just honest conversations about how people inside the wellness industry actually stay well — and the kinds of insights most of us only learn after years of trial, error, and figuring things out the hard way. Because wellness isn’t magic. It’s maintenance!

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