Medical Disruptor™ by Dr. E
by Dr. Efrat LaMandre PhD, FNP-C
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Encore: Your Thyroid Isn't Fine: Why TSH Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
Encore: Your Thyroid Isn't Fine: Why TSH Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
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The Medical Disruptor™ Podcast was made for people who want to take their health to the next level. Dr. E’s mission is to give you reliable, science-based health information through a unique lens, using functional medicine to help you get the answers you’ve been looking for. In our episodes, Dr. E explains the root cause of your symptoms so you can take control, stop suffering and start living. Dr. E wants to empower you to realize your symptoms are NOT in your head while giving you the tools to take control of your health.
Episodes
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- Encore: Your Thyroid Isn't Fine: Why TSH Doesn't Tell the Whole Story · 46 minYou were told your thyroid is fine because one number came back normal. Meanwhile you’re exhausted, foggy, and fairly sure something is off. Both of those things are true at the…
- Encore: Struggling With Hashimoto’s? Why Your Thyroid Needs More Than Medication · 36 minMy voice decided to take the week off due to a fun side effect of my treatment, so this is a pre-filmed, pre-hair loss me. Enjoy the encore episode. This week on The Medical…
- Your Anxiety Might Be A Nutrient Imbalance, Not A Brain Problem ft. Dr. Courtney Snyder · 37 minYou’ve been on something for your anxiety for a while now. It helps… but nobody ever told you where the anxiety came from in the first place. Some diagnoses explain what’s…
- Why More Estrogen Is Not Always Better In Perimenopause ft. Dr. Jen Pfleghaar · 37 minEveryone is telling you to get on hormones right now, which could be great advice for some, the thing is perimenopause is where that advice gets complicated. Dr. Jen Pfleghaar…
- Your Genes Are Affected By How You Live Every Single Day ft. Dr. Kien Vuu · 40 minEveryone in your family has diabetes, so you figure you are going to get diabetes next. That is not actually how it works. Dr. Kien Vuu was chief of interventional radiology…
- Autoimmune Disease Is Not Bad Genetics or Bad Luck ft. Dr. Aly Cohen · 41 minAutoimmune disease is showing up in people with no family history, at ages nobody expected, and most people say that it's bad luck or bad genes. Dr. Aly Cohen stopped accepting…
- Hormone Testing In Perimenopause And Why You Should Ask For It ft. Dr. Tara Scott · 42 minPerimenopause does not always start with hot flashes. Sometimes it starts with anxiety out of nowhere, or sleep that falls apart, or ringing in your ears, or just the sense that…
- Why You Have Never Felt The Same Since You Had COVID ft. Dr. Robin Rose · 40 minYour fatigue never lifted. Your brain fog never cleared. You had COVID, you technically recovered, and you have not been the same person since. Dr. Robin Rose is double board…
- What Dairy Is Doing To Your Child's Gut And Skin ft. Dr. Sheila Kilbane · 43 minIf your child has eczema that keeps coming back, gets constipated for days at a time, or has had one ear infection after another, this episode is for you. These usually get…
- The Menopause Symptoms Your HRT Is Never Going To Reach ft. Dr. Anna Cabeca · 45 minIf you are on hormone therapy and still dealing with dryness, painful sex, or leaking when you laugh, this episode is for you. Estrogen and progesterone do a lot of good work…
- Your High Cholesterol Could Actually Be A Thyroid Problem ft. McCall McPherson · 43 minHigh cholesterol does not always start in your diet. When your thyroid is slow, everything in your body slows down with it, including how you clear cholesterol. So you can eat…
- Why Your Sleep Never Went Back To Normal ft. Dr. Daniella Marchetti · 39 minIf you have not slept properly in years this episode is for you. You lie down exhausted and your brain goes a million miles an hour. You wake at 3am for no reason and you are…
- What Your Mitochondria Have To Do With Brain Fog And Chronic Fatigue ft. Dr. Benjamin Busch · 41 minHave you been exhausted, carrying weight you cannot lose, losing your words mid sentence, feeling older than you are? Those are not four separate problems. They are energy…
- The Real Driver Behind Most Heart Attacks Is Not Cholesterol ft. Dr. Philip Ovadia · 41 minHalf of the people who show up with a heart attack have completely normal cholesterol. That statistic is exactly why I brought back Dr. Philip Ovadia, a board certified cardiac…
- The Thyroid Hormone Behind Your Metabolism ft. Dr. Amie Hornaman · 44 minYour thyroid does not make one hormone. It makes five. Your last panel probably only tested one. That gap is exactly why I brought Dr. Amie Hornaman onto the show. In this…
- What Is Actually Living in Your Gut That Is Making Every Other Symptom Worse ft. Izabella Wentz · 41 minWhat Is Actually Living in Your Gut That Is Making Every Other Symptom Worse ft. Izabella Wentz Your gut symptoms have a cause. Finding it just requires someone willing to look…
- What Your TSH Number Isn't Telling You ft. Dr. Brittany Henderson · 43 minWhat Your TSH Number Isn't Telling You ft. Dr. Brittany Henderson Your TSH can look "perfectly normal" and you can still feel exhausted, foggy, cold, and stuck at a weight that…
- How to Help Your Gallbladder Heal Before It Turns Into a Problem · 17 minCan you heal your gallbladder instead of removing it? Maybe. In this episode I break down what's really behind gallstones, gallbladder sludge, and gallbladder pain, and what you…
- The Hormone Myth Everyone Needs to Stop Believing ft. Dr. Cassie Smith · 40 minEstrogen is the hormone women are told to fear, and never told it is actually the one they need most. In this episode of The Medical Disruptor, I sit down with endocrinologist…
- Perimenopause & Menopause: Why Balancing Hormones in the Right Order Changes Everything · 19 minMenopause doesn't have to be miserable. Yes, we're going to age, and yes, our hormones are going to change, but we do not have to feel old, exhausted, foggy, and brushed off. In…
- Why Your Brain Is Starving Even When You Eat ft. Dr. Matt Bernstein · 40 minWhy Your Brain Is Starving Even When You Eat ft. Dr. Matt Bernstein What if the symptoms we call "mental illness" aren't really about brain chemistry at all, but about a brain…
- Why You Can't Get All Your Nutrients From Food Anymore · 17 minYou can eat all the "right" foods and still be starving your body of what it actually needs. Healthy and well-nourished are NOT the same thing, and that gap is wider in 2026 than…
- What Is Biological Dentistry? Are Mercury Fillings Toxic? ft. Drs. Ben & Shawn Javid · 41 minWhat if the source of your chronic symptoms has been hiding in your mouth this whole time? In this episode of the Medical Disruptor I sit down with Drs. Ben and Shawn Javid…
- IBS Symptoms Explained: Why Your Gut Is Bloated and Irritated · 19 minIf you've been diagnosed with IBS, or you have ongoing belly issues that testing keeps coming back "clear" on, this episode is for you. IBS is often given as a label once the…
- Hormones or Anxiety? How to Tell What's Really Going On ft. Dr. Ellen Vora · 43 minAnxious in your 40s for the first time ever? Before you assume it's anxiety, let’s figure out what is actually happening. In this episode of the Medical Disruptor, I sat down…
- Hashimoto's: Why Your Thyroid Is the "Check Engine Light" · 16 minWhy Your Thyroid Is the "Check Engine Light" Your thyroid is the check engine light, not the engine. With Hashimoto's, the real story is happening in your gut, your immune…
- The Real Reason You're Always Exhausted ft. Dr. Anil Bajnath · 37 minWhat if the fatigue you've learned to live with is the earliest warning sign of something building inside you for years? In this episode of the Medical Disruptor I sit down with…
- What the Microbiome Has to Do With How You Heal ft Dr. Rebecca Knackstedt · 43 minYou're scheduled for surgery and your surgeon says "you don't need to do anything to prepare." That's medical gaslighting. In this episode of The Medical Disruptor, I sit down…
- What a Gastroenterologist Wants You to Know About Gut Health ft. Dr. Supriya Rao · 33 minIf you have ever felt like something is off in your gut and nobody has been able to explain why, this episode is for you. On this episode of the Medical Disruptor, I sit down…
- You Had COVID and Never Got Better Here Is the Reason Why · 22 minYou had COVID. You recovered. Except you didn't. The fatigue is still there. The brain fog. The shortness of breath. The feeling that your body just isn't yours anymore. And…
- Why Your Anxiety in Your 40s Might Not Actually Be Anxiety ft Dr. Bojana Jankovic Weatherly · 38 minIf you've hit your 40s and suddenly feel like you're losing it, waking up at 3 a.m., feeling on edge for no reason, exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix, I want you to hear…
- The Fuel Source Your Body Is Missing and How to Get It ft. Dr. Latt Mansor · 41 minKetones may be the most underrated fuel source in human metabolism, and most people only hear about them in the context of intermittent fasting or the ketogenic diet. When your…
- How to Boost Your Metabolism: Your Body Isn't Broken (Here's What's Actually Happening) · 17 minMetabolism gets oversimplified all the time. Eat less, move more. That's the whole conversation. For a lot of people, that's where medical gaslighting begins. In this solo…
- Why Chronic Inflammation Starts in the Mouth and What to Do About It ft Dr. Ellie Campbell · 37 minMost people have been told to brush, floss, and show up for cleanings. What most people have never been told is that the bacteria living in your mouth can travel directly into…
- Adrenal Burnout Has 4 Stages and Most of Us Are Stuck in One of Them · 15 minYou are exhausted and you have been for a while. Feeling exhausted all the time is NOT normal. If you have been told otherwise, that is medical gaslighting. This episode is…
- Why “Uncurable” Is Just the Beginning of the Real Conversation ft. Dr. Aaron Hartman · 34 minWhat happens when the system that is supposed to have all the answers reaches the end of its toolbox and you leave believing that is all there is? The Medical Disruptor brings…
- Why Mold Illness Goes Undetected for Years and the Tests That Can Finally Find It · 17 minThe Medical Disruptor is here to give you real, science-backed guidance with no selling, no gimmicks, and no agenda. Mold illness is one of the most commonly missed drivers of…
- Why Memory Loss Gets Misdiagnosed as Depression and What to Do Instead ft Dr. Ali Elahi · 41 minThe Medical Disruptor exists for one reason: to give patients free access to clinicians who are brave enough to tell the truth. No products. No upsells. Just board-certified…
- Getting a Fibromyalgia Diagnosis Feels Like an Answer Until You Learn This · 21 minAfter years of being dismissed, getting any diagnosis feels like a victory, and fibromyalgia sounds like proof that someone finally believed you. What nobody tells you is that…
- The 12 Minute Appointment Is Why You're Not Getting Better ft Dr. Chris Renna · 38 minMost people do not get gaslit with one big lie. They get gaslit with one small dismissal at a time. Dr. Chris Renna, DO is the founder of LifeSpan Medicine and one of the…
- Alzheimer's: Can You Really Do Something To Prevent It? · 21 minIt's scary that over 5 million Americans are affected by Alzheimer's disease, and more than half of them don't even know they have it. Alzheimer's is extremely hard to diagnose…
- What Hormonal Imbalance Actually Means (And Why It’s Often Missed) · 23 minWhen people talk about hormonal imbalance, the conversation almost always starts and ends with estrogen and progesterone. That focus makes sense, given how closely sex hormones…
- Why Most Probiotics Don't Work and How to Find One That Does ft. Dr. Vivek Lal · 37 minIs your probiotic actually doing anything? Most aren't. And the supplement industry is counting on you not knowing the difference between real science and marketing. This week…
- You Were Told to Manage Your Diabetes. What If You Could Actually Reverse It? ft Dr. William Hsu · 48 minYou've been told your A1C is "a little high." Maybe your doctor said "watch your diet" and sent you home. Maybe you've been on medication for years and nothing is actually…
- Where Disease Begins: How Our Environment Affects Our Health · 2 minDid you know that the air you breathe, the water you drink, and even the food you eat can all affect your health? Believe it or not, your environment can be responsible for up to…
- What Happens to Your Kidneys When You Eat Too Much Protein ft. Dr. Robin Rose · 50 minCould your high-protein diet be silently damaging your kidneys? Kidney decline doesn't announce itself, in fact it builds quietly while you have no idea it’s happening. Dr…
- Age Is Just A Number: Taking Control of Having Quality of Life · 19 minEver wished you could turn back the clock so to feel great again? Are those birthdays starting to feel like a countdown? Relax, there’s no need to stress! You may not be able to…
- Your Child's ADHD Might Actually Be Brain Inflammation from Toxic Mold · 60 minIf you're parenting a kid who seems to be changing in real time, more anxious, more reactive, more rigid, more overwhelmed, and you keep getting the same tired answers, this…
- Brain Decline Starts 20 Years Before Alzheimer's and Most Doctors Are Not Looking For It · 1 h 0 minNeurology is amazing in a crisis. Stroke at 3 a.m.? Seizure in the ER? Modern medicine delivers. But chronic brain issues are different. Migraine. Brain fog. Parkinson’s…
- What is Hormonal Imbalance and How Does It Impact Health? · 14 minDoes your mood and energy swing up and down? Do you crave sugar or salt? Do you have trouble sleeping? Are you less interested in sex? This could mean your hormones are not in…
