Your hormones can be “normal” on paper… and you can still feel like something is seriously off.

If you’re exhausted even after sleeping…

If cravings hit hardest at night…

If your mood feels unpredictable…

If you’re gaining weight or holding inflammation “for no reason”…

And every lab keeps coming back “fine”…

This episode is for you.

I’m Dr. Riobé (OB-GYN + integrative physician), and I see this pattern all the time:

It’s not that your hormones are abnormal.

It’s that your metabolism is unstable—and your hormones are constantly trying to compensate.

In this episode, I’ll show you how to stop chasing random hormone fixes and start asking the real question:

“What is my metabolism adapting to that’s forcing my hormones to fluctuate?”

You’ll learn why:

• blood work often misses what’s happening inside your cells

• stress + cortisol can create metabolic chaos

• blood sugar crashes can mimic “hormone imbalance”

• thyroid patterns can still cause symptoms even in the “normal” range

• estrogen + progesterone symptoms aren’t just about levels—it’s also about regulation and clearance

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Stress Is a Metabolic Input

Stress isn’t just something you “manage.”

It’s a biological input your metabolism responds to — constantly.

In this episode, we unpack why stress is so often misunderstood in women’s health, and why treating it as an emotional or mindset issue misses what’s actually happening physiologically.

For women, stress directly alters:

• metabolic signaling

• energy production

• hormonal balance

• inflammation and recovery

When stress is ignored as a metabolic input, symptoms can start to feel random — even when labs look “normal” and you’re doing all the right things.

🧠 This episode reframes stress from a psychological burden to a biological signal

🌿 And explains why generic advice so often fails to resolve fatigue, inflammation, and hormonal symptoms in women

This conversation builds on the foundation laid in earlier episodes and sets the stage for understanding how metabolic patterns adapt under load.

If you want to understand how your metabolism responds to stress, the next step is identifying your Dynamic Metabolic Type.

👉 I invite you to take the Dynamic Metabolic Type Quiz here:

https://form.jotform.com/250528550970055

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If you’ve tried changing your diet, workouts, supplements, routines — "tried everything" — and still feel stuck, this episode is for you.

What I see clinically isn’t a lack of effort.

It’s chaos.

Women often end up trying everything — not because they’re impulsive, but because no one has shown them how their metabolism is adapting underneath the surface. Without that context, even well-intentioned changes can backfire or only work temporarily.

In this episode, I introduce the DART Method —

Discover. Apply. Restore. Thrive.

This is the framework I developed to help women move out of trial-and-error cycles and into a clear, structured way of working with their physiology — not against it.

🧠 We talk about why “doing one thing at a time” or following generic advice often isn’t enough

🌿 How metabolic adaptation explains why symptoms persist or keep returning

🧭 And how the proper framework creates safety and vitality for a stressed female metabolism

This episode is about clarity — not perfection.

If you’d like to understand your metabolic pattern as context for this method, you can take the Dynamic Metabolic Type Quiz here:

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