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This Decides If Your Hormones Work | Dr John Kim

September 17, 2026

You've  cleaned up your diet, optimized your sleep, taken all the right supplements. Maybe you're on hormone therapy or working with a functional medicine provider.  But you still have fatigue and brain fog, can't lose the extra weight, and your microbiome isn't improving. What's keeping your hormones from working properly? I brought fellow pharmacist Dr John Kim, PharmD to share his perspective on cell mitochondria and how it governs hormone production, metabolism and receptor function. He's...

The Fiber–Depression Connection No One Talks About w/ Dr. Oscar Coetzee (Part 2)

September 10, 2026

If nutrition can affect anxiety and depression, what should we actually measure, change, and investigate before reaching for another prescription? Knowing that mental health can have nutritional and biological drivers is one thing. Knowing what to do with that information is another. Should we start with fiber, test vitamin D and iron, examine thyroid function, or investigate what is happening inside the cells? Without a clear approach, nutrition can easily become another world of guesswork, ...

Before You Increase Your SSRI, Check Your Nutrient Levels w/ Dr. Oscar Coetzee

September 03, 2026

What if the antidepressant isn't failing because it's the wrong medication, but because the body doesn't have enough of what it needs to make serotonin in the first place? As a pharmacist, I've filled thousands of antidepressant prescriptions. But there is a question we rarely stop to ask before increasing a dose or trying another medication: Where does serotonin actually come from? An SSRI can help the brain reuse the serotonin that is already available, but the production of neurotransmitte...