Spill the Tea with Dr. T | Cortisol Face, Magnesium Stacks & Nervous System Resets — What the Trends Are Missing

Cortisol face. Cortisol cocktails. Magnesium stacks. Nervous system resets.

The wellness world is full of solutions right now. And yet... most people still don't feel better. Not because the information is wrong. But because nobody has told them the most important part:

What your body needs depends entirely on where it's starting from.

In this episode of Spill the Tea with Dr. T, Julie sits down with her father Dr. Dickson Thom to break down one of the most foundational frameworks in biological medicine — one that changes how you understand every supplement, every protocol, and every wellness trend you've ever tried.

The Red, Yellow, and Green Zones.

Your body isn't simply stressed or fine. It's operating in a zone. And that zone determines what actually helps you — and what quietly makes things worse.

In this episode:

• What the Red, Yellow, and Green Zones actually mean — and how to begin recognizing which one you're in
• Why the same symptom in different zones requires a completely different response
• Why cortisol is trending everywhere right now — and what the zone framework reveals that the trend doesn't
• Why stimulating a Red Zone body makes things worse, not better
• How HRV and BIA measure your zone with data — not guesses, not vibes
• Why knowing your zone is the missing piece behind every protocol that hasn't worked

This is the episode to pin. To share. To send to the person in your life who keeps trying things and can't figure out why nothing sticks.

Because if you don't know your zone, you're guessing. And guessing costs you time, money, and how you feel every single day.

This is where that changes.

🌿 Resources & Next Steps:

• Get your nervous system tested and find your zone: https://www.biomed-drainage.org
• Workshops and courses with Dr. Thom: https://biomed.thinkific.com/
• Listen to the full podcast, Connecting with the Thom's: https://open.spotify.com/show/3x3gaTVNPRKyeoJtGZKZh4
• Follow along: @fitomizefitness and @drthom.biomed

Nothing shared here is medical advice. Always work with your own practitioner.

Spill the Tea with Dr. T | Biological Medicine vs. Functional Medicine — and Why We Don't Chase Symptoms

If you've ever walked out of a doctor's appointment with a prescription that addressed what you felt but not why you felt it... this conversation is for you.

In this episode of Spill the Tea with Dr. T, Julie sits down with her father Dr. Dickson Thom — biological medicine practitioner with over twenty years of clinical experience — to answer one of the questions they get asked most:

What is biological medicine? And how is it different from functional medicine?

It's a question that deserves a real answer. Because the difference isn't just semantics. It changes everything about how you assess the body, how you prioritize treatment, and whether you're actually getting to the root of what's going on — or just managing how it feels.

In this episode:

• What biological medicine actually is and where it comes from
• How it differs from functional medicine — and why that distinction matters for your healing
• Why biological medicine does not chase symptoms — and what it focuses on instead
• How the body communicates dysfunction before symptoms ever appear
• Why treating the terrain changes outcomes that symptom-focused care can't reach
• What to look for when choosing a practitioner who actually works this way

This is the episode to share with anyone who has ever felt like their care was missing something. Who has done the labs, followed the protocol, and still felt stuck. Who is starting to wonder if there's a different way to look at health entirely.

There is. And this is where that conversation starts.

🌿 Resources & Next Steps:

• Learn more about terrain-based healing and find a practitioner: https://www.biomed-drainage.org
• Workshops and courses with Dr. Thom: https://biomed.thinkific.com/
• Listen to the full podcast, Connecting with the Thom's: https://open.spotify.com/show/3x3gaTVNPRKyeoJtGZKZh4
• Follow along: @fitomizefitness and @drthom.biomed

Nothing shared here is medical advice. Always work with your own practitioner.

Why Less Is More: The Hardest Truth About Real Healing

Let's be honest about something.

When we talk about healing in biological medicine — real healing, root cause healing — we are not just talking about adding a supplement or trying a new protocol.

We are asking you to change your life.

And that is exactly why this conversation is so hard.

In this episode of Connecting with the Thom's, Dr. Thom brings over fifty years of clinical experience to one of the most common — and most misunderstood — patterns he sees in practice: the resistance to slowing down. The belief that more action means more progress. The deeply human need to feel something working, right now, or assume it isn't.

We get it. When you're suffering, patience feels impossible. But what social media is selling you — push harder, do more, silence the symptom — is not healing. It's distraction.

And it may be the very thing keeping you from getting better.

In this episode we explore:

• Why lifestyle change creates more resistance than any other part of the healing process
• How we've been collectively conditioned to chase symptoms instead of addressing what creates them
• Why silencing a symptom is not the same as resolving it — and what the body does when its signals are ignored
• What "less is more" actually looks like in practice — and why it's anything but passive
• Why the body heals in trends, not moments — and how to read those trends with patience and precision
• How BIA and HRV data help patients see progress that symptoms alone can't show
• The framework shift that changes everything: from fixing symptoms to supporting terrain

This episode is for you if:

• You've been told to be patient and you don't know how
• You're frustrated that what you're doing doesn't seem to be working fast enough
• You've been on the supplement and protocol carousel and nothing seems to stick
• You want to understand why your doctor keeps chasing symptoms while you keep feeling the same
• You're ready to consider that the answer might not be more — it might be less, done better, over time

The truth nobody in wellness culture wants to say:

The body already knows how to heal. It doesn't need to be forced. It needs the right conditions, the right support, and enough time to do what it was designed to do.

Real healing is not loud. It is not fast. And it almost never feels the way you expect it to.

But when you stop chasing and start listening — when you give the body less to fight against and more room to work — something shifts.

That shift is what this episode is about.

🎧 Bonus Reminder: If you missed our guided meditation Learning to Rest Without Guilt at the end of Episode 77 — go back and listen. It was made for exactly this conversation.

🌿 Resources & Next Steps:

• Learn more about terrain-based healing and drainage: https://www.biomed-drainage.org
• Become certified as a Biological Medicine Practitioner: https://biomed.thinkific.com/
• Listen to our full podcast library on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3x3gaTVNPRKyeoJtGZKZh4

💛 If this episode challenged something you believed about healing — good. Share it with someone who needs to hear it. Subscribe, leave a review, and join us as we continue this season of going deeper into what real healing actually requires.

— The Thom's

Episode 78 The Body Speaks in Symptoms — Here's How to Translate It

You've had the tests. You've seen the doctors. You've been told everything looks normal.

But you still feel it — every single day. The exhaustion that no amount of sleep touches. The heaviness in your body that no one can explain. The anxiety humming in the background, the digestion that's always unpredictable, the sleep that happens but never fully restores you.

You are not imagining it. You are not broken. And you are not out of options.

Your symptoms are not random. They are your body's language — a constant stream of information about what's happening beneath the surface. The problem isn't that the message isn't there. The problem is that most of us were never given the tools to translate it.

In this episode of Connecting with the Thom's, Julie sits down with Dr. Thom to do exactly that. They take the most common, frustrating, hardest-to-explain symptoms and show you what the body is actually communicating — and why two specific diagnostics, BIA and HRV, can finally make that language visible.

In this episode we cover:

• Fatigue that sleep doesn't fix — what's actually happening at a cellular level and why rest alone will never be enough to resolve it
• The puffiness, heaviness, and bloating nobody can explain — what your body's fluid balance is telling you about inflammation you likely didn't know you had
• Anxiety with no cause, sleep that doesn't restore, and digestion that's always off — why these three things are almost always the same problem wearing different masks
• The questions to ask your health practitioner to move the needle and finally get answers — including what most appointments never have time to explore

This episode is for you if:

• Your labs are normal but you still feel terrible
• You've tried many approaches and nothing seems to hold
• You feel like your body is overreacting to everything — stress, food, treatment, daily life
• You've been exhausted for so long it's started to feel like just who you are
• You want to walk into your next appointment knowing exactly what to ask

Your body has not been failing you. It has been talking to you.

This episode will help you start to understand what it's been saying.

🎧 Free Workshop — BIA & HRV: What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell YouWe're hosting a free one-hour workshop where we walk through exactly what these diagnostics measure, what the numbers mean, and how they translate your symptoms into a clear picture of what your body actually needs.👉 TBA

🌿 Resources & Next Steps:

• Learn more about terrain-based healing and drainage: https://www.biomed-drainage.org
• Become certified as a Biological Medicine Practitioner: https://biomed.thinkific.com/

• Julie's Info:

  Website: https://fitomize.ca

  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/fitomizefitness

  Instagram: http://instagram.com/fitomizefitness

  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitomize/

  HRV FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrvjourney/

  LinkedIn for Julie - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-thom-b133881a0

  Join Julie's email list: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/form/8RlwuumfVZaum1yiEmud

  
  

  Dr. Thom's Info:

  Website: https://drdicksonthom.com/

  LinkedIn for Dr. Thom - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-thom-7a36163/

  Purchase the book: https://drdicksonthom.com/product/the-brain-protocol-book/

  BTG’s Book; https://drdicksonthom.com/product/basic-treatment-guidelines-aka-natures-laws-to-live-by/

💛 If this episode gave language to something you've been feeling but couldn't explain — share it. Someone in your life needs this conversation. Subscribe, leave a review, and we'll see you in the next one.

— The Thom's

Why Your Wellness Routine Might Be the Thing Keeping You Stuck

We're back — and we're coming in with a question that doesn't get asked enough:

Is what you're doing for your health actually helping you?

Not in theory. Not because it worked for someone else. But for you, right now, in the body you're living in today.

Because here's the truth most wellness culture won't tell you: good intentions don't equal good outcomes. And some of the most dedicated, health-conscious people we work with are stuck — not because they're doing nothing, but because what they're doing isn't matched to what their body actually needs right now.

In this episode of Connecting with the Thom's, we're breaking down how to tell the difference between a practice that's building you up and one that's quietly draining you.

We explore:

• How to know if your movement practice is supporting healing or creating more stress on the body
• Walking vs. running — and how to know which one your nervous system can actually handle
• Why the type of yoga you're doing matters as much as doing yoga at all
• The signs your body gives you when something is helping — and the ones it gives you when it isn't
• Why the same practice can heal one person and deplete another
• How phase angle and HRV take the guesswork out of knowing what your body is ready for
• Why more effort doesn't mean more healing — and what to do instead

This episode is for you if:

• You're doing all the things and still not feeling better
• You leave workouts or wellness sessions feeling more exhausted than restored
• You've ever wondered whether your supplements, movement, or practices are actually working
• You want a clear framework for evaluating anything you're doing for your health

The body is always giving you information. The question is whether you know how to read it.

This episode will help you start.

🎧 Bonus Meditation: Learning to Rest Without Guilt

We're closing this episode with something special — a guided meditation designed to help your nervous system do the very thing we talked about today: rest. Really rest. Without the voice in the back of your head telling you you should be doing more.

If your body has been running on overdrive, this is your permission slip to stop — even just for a few minutes.

Find a quiet space, press play, and let yourself receive it.

👉 Want access to more audios? Click here: https://www.fitomize.ca/safety

🌿 Resources & Next Steps:

• Learn more about terrain-based healing and drainage: https://www.biomed-drainage.org
• Become certified as a Biological Medicine Practitioner: https://biomed.thinkific.com/

💛 If this episode made you rethink something you've been doing on autopilot — share it. Someone in your life needs this conversation. Subscribe, leave a review, and we'll see you in the next one.

— The Thom's

BIA & HRV Explained: The New Way Doctors Are Measuring Healing, Stress & Resilience

What if healing didn’t have to be based on guesswork?

What if you could actually see how your body is responding to stress, detox, nutrition, and emotional regulation—in real time?

In this episode of Connecting with the Thom’s, we introduce two powerful diagnostic tools that are changing the way health is assessed and supported:
BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis) and HRV (Heart Rate Variability).

These tools allow practitioners and individuals to move beyond symptom-based care and into precision, terrain-based medicine—where we measure capacity, resilience, and readiness before pushing the body further.

We explore how BIA and HRV help reveal:

• ⚡ Cellular hydration, integrity, and electrical balance

• 🧠 Nervous system regulation and stress patterns

• 💧 Fluid distribution and drainage efficiency

• 🔄 Recovery capacity and healing readiness

• 📊 Why some protocols work—and others stall

Instead of asking, “What symptom do we treat next?”
These tools help us ask, “Is the body ready to heal?”

This episode is for:

• Anyone who feels stuck despite doing “all the right things”

• Practitioners wanting more accurate assessment tools

• People curious about data-informed, trauma-aware medicine

• Those seeking clarity instead of trial-and-error healing

If you’ve ever felt like your healing journey has been a series of experiments, this conversation will show you what changes when the body’s signals are finally measured and understood.

📍 Find a location to get BIA & HRV testing:

👉
👉 https://www.biomed-drainage.org/

📚 Learn how to use BIA & HRV in practice / Take the course:
👉 https://biomed.thinkific.com/

💛 If this episode helped you see your health in a new way, please share it, subscribe, and leave a review.
Have questions about testing or training? Send them our way—we’d love to explore them in future episodes.

— The Thom’s

Let's connect beyond the podcast:

Julie's Info:

Website: https://fitomize.ca

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/fitomizefitness

Instagram: http://instagram.com/fitomizefitness

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitomize/

HRV FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrvjourney/

LinkedIn for Julie - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-thom-b133881a0

Join Julie's email list: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/form/8RlwuumfVZaum1yiEmud

Dr. Thom's Info:

Website: https://drdicksonthom.com/

LinkedIn for Dr. Thom - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-thom-7a36163/

Purchase the book: https://drdicksonthom.com/product/the-brain-protocol-book/

BTG’s Book; https://drdicksonthom.com/product/basic-treatment-guidelines-aka-natures-laws-to-live-by/

Episode 74: Why You’re Still Stuck in Healing: How Missing the Basics Breaks Even Advanced Protocols

If you’ve been on a healing journey for years…
If you’ve tried the advanced tools, protocols, and methods…
If you understand the language of nervous system regulation, trauma, terrain, detox, and biological medicine…
and you still feel stalled—

This episode is for you.

In this conversation, we explore a truth that challenges modern healing culture:

The more advanced your healing becomes, the more foundational it must be.

Not because you’re missing everything.
Not because you need to start over.
But because complexity often hides instability.

Advanced tools don’t fix broken foundations.
They expose them.

In this episode, we unpack:

• Why advanced healing tools fail when basics are unstable

• How complexity can mask missing foundations

• The difference between returning to basics and “starting over”

• Why healing plateaus often come from ignored fundamentals

• How long-term healing requires refinement, not escalation

• What “foundations” actually mean in biological medicine and trauma-informed care

This episode is not for beginners.
It’s for the people who’ve been doing the work.
The ones who know more than most.
The ones who are tired of chasing the next thing.

Because real progress doesn’t come from more complexity.
It comes from deeper stability.

And sometimes the most advanced move you can make…
is returning to what actually supports the body.

• Learn more about terrain-based healing and foundations:
  https://www.biomed-drainage.org

• Become certified as a Biological Medicine Practitioner:
  https://biomed.thinkific.com/

💛 If this episode resonates, share it with someone who’s been healing for years and feels stuck.
Subscribe, leave a review, and stay connected as we continue this season of deep foundations and real healing.

— The Thom’s

Let's connect beyond the podcast:

Julie's Info:

Website: https://fitomize.ca

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/fitomizefitness

Instagram: http://instagram.com/fitomizefitness

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitomize/

HRV FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hrvjourney/

LinkedIn for Julie - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-thom-b133881a0

Join Julie's email list: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/form/8RlwuumfVZaum1yiEmud

Dr. Thom's Info:

Website: https://drdicksonthom.com/

LinkedIn for Dr. Thom - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-thom-7a36163/

Purchase the book: https://drdicksonthom.com/product/the-brain-protocol-book/

BTG’s Book; https://drdicksonthom.com/product/basic-treatment-guidelines-aka-natures-laws-to-live-by/