EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast

Detoxification, Purification, Cultural Stress & Metabolic Health with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S2, E1, 9-20-25)

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:00:00 -0700

Join Dr. Jennifer Coomes for Episode #1 of Season #2 of the EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast where she talks about the difficulties of cultural stress, grief, and impacts after the passing of Charlie Kirk, a political activist in the United States who was driven to live nonviolently in the active search for truth, conversation, family, and divinity. Regardless of your political or religious viewpoints, serious cultural events such as assassinations, suicide, trauma, and more can have serious impacts on our psychological, physical, mental, spiritual, and mental health. The best we can do in this time of processing and healing is to talk about realities, how to stabilize better, and how to sort through cultural stress better to reduce violence, mental health imbalances, and more. While this episode may be triggering for some, its primary intention focuses on how to live better, how to process stress better, how to live in your truth better, and how to consciously reduce noise to decrease anxiety, ADHD, and more.

For more information, reach out to:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)

Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN), Executive Director

drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com

425.505.3090

Lemonade Resurrection Series: Grounded Momentum in Health & Thriving with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E28, 12-31-24)

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:00:00 -0800

The Lemonade Resurrection podcast series is all about how to take the good and bad, the ups and downs, the wins and losses of 2024 and make the best lemonade you can to go into 2025 with your best self that you can. This can be difficult in the midst of bigger challenges, grief/losses, and pivots, but it's important to find your anchor, do spiritual, physical, and mental health cleansing to help you find a better way forward.

This episode called "Grounded Momentum in Health & Thriving" rounds out Season #1 of the Metabolic Transformations Podcast and helps us fully dig into the essential healing we need to do to shed off deeper grief, losses, and difficulties of 2024 to try to make that lemonade to see a new normal, new version of yourself, and do your best to restore yourself into better health and thriving for the new year. Dr. Coomes travelled through deeper grief and loss this season and this time period has been a real time learning and restructuring through pivots to build a more restored soul, body, mind, and spirit, and she shares her profound knowledge and insight for trying to build a better philosophy of care, understanding of self, creating more solid authenticity for living a more meaningful life.

This episode is good for anyone trying to bring the best in 2025 while understanding the realities of brokenness, new normals, and finding health and thriving in the midst of challenge. If you are willing to do the work to take a step day by day, you will change your life for the better.

For anyone who needs help in mental health crisis, please don't hesitate to use or share the National Suicide & Crisis Line of 988. You can call or text. Reach out for help, and don't forget to take care of yourself in the new year.

For any questions or to make an appointment:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

The Lemonade Resurrection: Motivation, Miracles, & Breakthrough--Learning New Skills with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E27, 9-27-24)

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:00:00 -0800

Drive Series: Shed the Extra, Remember What Matters with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E26, 12-15-24)

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:00:00 -0800

The "drive" series is dedicated to the Prevention of Suicide and Motivation of Grief.

The the third episode in this series called "Shed the Extra, Remember What Matters" is an episode about the rebuilding process after loss and grief. Many times, if we lose someone or something important to us, it can pivot our lives entirely and make so many things that you thought were important less important for good reason. This episode talks about some of the similar concepts of self care and making important choices about diet, health, lifestyle, personal time, mental health, stress coping mechanisms, and personal choices in the framework of grief and loss. This can be a time period where you are forced to make changes when you otherwise would not, and you can get into the habit of hearing the same ideas over and over again until you finally tune in and say that it's important to carve out what is important and shed what is not. This episode encourages you, enables, you to ask for help if needed and get started on what matters in your life while tending to yourself and the outside world gently as you navigate during times of change.

If you are someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts or mental health crisis, please call or text 988 or reach out to for help with someone you know. No matter how hard the time is, your life is important. Please reach out for help until you get it. It can save your life or someone you know.

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN)
drcoomes@essencehealthandreseach.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Drive Series: Physiology of Depression & Motivation with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E25, 12-9-24)

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:00:00 -0800

The "drive" series is dedicated to the Prevention of Suicide and Motivation of Grief.

The the second episode in this series called "The Physiology of Depression & Motivation" as a piggyback on the first week about the physiology of grief. The key elements of depression require us to really understand depression from a metabolic perspective to learn more deeply about its mechanisms of disease that are not always thought of, especially in "treatment resistant" depression cases that are simply not responding to medication but would respond to metabolic healthcare. Some of these mechanisms include blood sugar regulation, hormone regulation, cortisol regulation, and more. It's more than a discussion of neurotransmitters but a discussion of systems biology, micronutrient imbalances, and the functionality of our healthcare system in how we are currently approaching this very important mental health condition. Swinging into a life of motivation, better energy, and better momentum can change your life, and it is a matter of commitment and choices to understand your personal health in a new way and create the kind of alignment in your life to steer towards your best health and be willing to save yourself from burnout, suicidal thoughts, and actions that are detrimental to your health. Join Dr. Coomes for an empowering, honest, real time, and informative look at shifting out of grief and depression and into a more fulfilling life after loss.

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN)
drcoomes@essencehealthandreseach.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Drive Series: How do you start and get help (The Physiology of Grief) with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E24, 12-1-24)

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0800

The "drive" series is dedicated to the Prevention of Suicide and Motivation of Grief.

The the first episode in this series called "How do you start and get help--The Physiology of Grief" is a more vulnerable but also scientific episode as Dr. Jennifer Coomes talks about her own loss of someone special to her recently through suicide and how to work through the initial stages of grief. She talks about the physiology of grief as it is related to peri-trauma responses that increase stress responses, affect cardiovascular and nervous system health, emotional/mental health responses, sleep, appetite, and more. Dr. Coomes talks about how to get control of the monster in grief to help you embrace self care and healthy processing to reduce physical and mental health stress that can be associated with increased risk of disease. Grief can be an uncontrollable physiological response depending on the person, the level of grief, and the degree your nervous system responds and reacts to the loss, but there is a way through. It is important to ask for help and take a step forward, and this podcast series will help you on the journey.

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes (DCN)
drcoomes@essencehealthandreseach.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Keep Calm & Follow Through Series: Barriers to the Finish Line with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E23, 11-24-24)

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:00:00 -0800

Keep Calm & Follow Through Series: Breakthrough & Breaking Bad Habits with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E22, 10-20-24)

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:00:00 -0700

The EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast is BACK with a New Series called Keep Calm & Follow Through, which is all about getting traction and momentum in personal health, relationships, and thriving in your life by activating the power of commitment. Part of this series is about determining if you are a "starter" (ie. motivated) or a "finisher" (ie. committed), and if you are not the greatest finisher, then what can you work on to be better at the commitment responsibility of following through (ie. putting action to commitment). This series will travel through the arc of commitment and the work to get the fruits of commitment during this harvest season.

This week's episode is called "Benefits of Breakthrough? You Break Bad Habits/Cycles," and it digs into the struggles of trying to commit to a health program and assessing for obstacles to cure and setback habits that prevent follow through. This episode continues to tackle the issues that come with determining if you are a good starter, a good finisher, neither, or both. Follow through is a commitment to both start a good thing and to follow through and finish to get good results. This requires investment and commitment and the power to assess your habits, setbacks, and what you can do better to get to the fruits of your labor, which is great health. This episode talks about how to get at those stress coping mechanisms, emotional eating, the struggles inside change (even positive change), and dealing with the vulnerability of needing to put self care first. Change is usually imperative if your health is causing you distress, and being willing to follow through on good health commitments requires having a good health/medical team, someone who can figure out the roots of your conditions/symptoms, a program that is focused on resolving those concerns, and an accountability partner to help you achieve results. Sometimes, though, this can all start with some really small but important changes. This commitment results in breaking bad habits. Check out this episode to learn more about how to get there so you can experience the fruits of your labor with thriving!

Next Week's Episode: "The Power of Follow Through--Health, Life, Thriving, True Confidence, & Healthy Relationships"

For more info on Essence Health & Research (EH&R) and how to make an appointment with Dr. Coomes at EH&R or SageMED, check out the contact info below:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Keep Calm & Follow Through Series: Breaking down Commitment Phobia with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E21, 10-13-24)

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 13:00:00 -0700

The EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast is BACK with a New Series called Keep Calm & Follow Through, which is all about getting traction and momentum in personal health, relationships, and thriving in your life by activating the power of commitment. Part of this series is about determining if you are a "starter" (ie. motivated) or a "finisher" (ie. committed), and if you are not the greatest finisher, then what can you work on to be better at the commitment responsibility of following through (ie. putting action to commitment). This series will travel through the arc of commitment and the work to get the fruits of commitment during this harvest season.

This episode is called: "You Get Better When You Do It: Breaking Down Commitment Phobia." This is a perfect one for these times and it is a piggyback on previous serious on collaboration and health readiness. The idea here is to get at the stuff, the mess, or the habits that is holding you back from commitment and follow through in generating the fruits of health whether it be in personal/professional relationships, your personal health, or your habits. Most of you in the Seattle area know about the "Seattle Freeze" cultural phenomenon here and I talk about that as well in regards to our ability to truly get settled into healthy experiences. Here are a few things I talk about in this episode:

1. Getting into relationship and telling the truth and getting past false narrative.

2. Sorting out messes and getting resolutions and better relationships.

3. Getting to your truth--what do you need to confront, what do you need to do, what is true, and what is not?

4. Where are you checked out or checked in regarding your personal health, habits, commitments, and relationships?

5. What is one area of your life where you need to confront peacefully and follow through on a commitment?

NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE: "What is the benefit of breakthrough? You break bad habits."

For more info on Essence Health & Research (EH&R) and how to make an appointment with Dr. Coomes at EH&R or SageMED, check out the contact info below:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Generating Health Series: "The Action Plan for Health Readiness" with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E20, 9-15-2024)

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:00:00 -0700

Generating Health Series: This podcast series with Dr. Jennifer Coomes covers many topics associated with health readiness, or the ability to be ready to make critical and stepwise changes to establish personal health, healthy relationships, and healthy relating in life. This series will talk about obstacles to cure to health, the "healing crisis" that can come out of pushing hard at health change or inadvertently generating a strong immune response to with a health protocol, the healthy pathway to sorting through physical and emotional pain leading to lifestyle diseases, how to create healthy action plans and goals for generating health, and the process of adjusting to a new health routine taking you away from an unhealthy life to a healthy one. This is also an important series during Suicide Awareness Month in September 2024 so that people do not feel alone and can get support for making changes to lead a more productive and healthy life.

This episode called "The Action Plan for Health Readiness" is focused taking the identification of the health problem and the obstacles to cure to create an action plan that identifies possible solutions, a commitment to the solutions that work for your life, actions to create a schedule or routine that you can follow day to day that will achieve results to your health problem, and identifying ways to deal with stress or setback while making commitments. This is a great episode for those who are trying to make positive changes in your life to get out of chronic disease and toxic habits or relationships while making commitments to better changes and routines that will put you on a healthier and better path for health longevity. Whether it's a medical condition, stress/mental health coping, relationship difficulty, or habits to change, this episode gets you in you a better mindset and commitment attitude to turn your situation around with more support, which will lead into the next episode of finding your way in the transition to your new and better health routine in the midst of stress or setbacks.

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
jennifer@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Generating Health Series: "Who or What is in the way of Health Readiness?" with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E19, 9-8-24)

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 12:00:00 -0700

Generating Health Series: This podcast series with Dr. Jennifer Coomes covers many topics associated with health readiness, or the ability to be ready to make critical and stepwise changes to establish personal health, healthy relationships, and healthy relating in life. This series will talk about obstacles to cure to health, the "healing crisis" that can come out of pushing hard at health change or inadvertently generating a strong immune response to with a health protocol, the healthy pathway to sorting through physical and emotional pain leading to lifestyle diseases, how to create healthy action plans and goals for generating health, and the process of adjusting to a new health routine taking you away from an unhealthy life to a healthy one. This is also an important series during Suicide Awareness Month in September 2024 so that people do not feel alone and can get support for making changes to lead a more productive and healthy life.

This episode called "Who or What is in the way of Health Readiness?" is focused on identifying the obstacles to cure to health readiness, defining health readiness, and how to look within and outside for habits, approaches, stubbornness, unhealthy relationships, what needs to be cleaned, up and more to get a picture for what needs help or change to take into the action planning and goal setting.

For more information, please reach out:

Essence Health & Research
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
jennifer@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

For those who need help with suicidal thoughts, please know that you are not alone. You can reach out to EH&R for help and to the resources below for emergency support:

Suicide Hotline: Call or Text 988 or 911

Collaboration of Break Series: Commitment, Manifestation, & Functional Change with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E18, 8-25-24)

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Collaboration or Break Series with Dr. Jennifer Coomes: This series will cover various topics regarding conflict resolution to help patients and our systems rise up out of difficulties that are generating stress (conflict) where outcomes can either product health (peace) or disease (war). The purpose of this series is to create more collaboration out of places of conflict so that we are more prepared to choose health, to respond to emergencies, to collaborate in times of stress, and achieve better thriving. Discussions about political impacts on health will be discussed along with practical solutions to navigate difficulties in health in the midst of lack, struggles in motivation, depression, conflicting perspectives, oppression, domination, and more.

In this episode on Commitment, Manifestation, & Functional Change, you'll learn more about how to approach changing habits or health personally, in relationships, or in relationship to outside experiences but looking at the state of habits, readiness, weakness or strength of the immune system, potential for a "healing crisis," the desire and the pace for healthy change along with tools for manifestation of health and thriving. This episode will build on the first two episodes in the Collaboration or Break series to give you great perspective and applications to move through difficult health, personal, or professional circumstances in these times.

For more information, you can reach out at the info below:

Essence Health & Research
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Collaboration or Break Series: Politics & Circle of Thriving (Collaboration over Domination) with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E17, 8-18-24)

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:00:00 -0700

Collaboration or Break Series with Dr. Jennifer Coomes: This series will cover various topics regarding conflict resolution to help patients and our systems rise up out of difficulties that are generating stress (conflict) where outcomes can either product health (peace) or disease (war). The purpose of this series is to create more collaboration out of places of conflict so that we are more prepared to choose health, to respond to emergencies, to collaborate in times of stress, and achieve better thriving. Discussions about political impacts on health will be discussed along with practical solutions to navigate difficulties in health in the midst of lack, struggles in motivation, depression, conflicting perspectives, oppression, domination, and more.

This episode Politics & Circle of Thriving (Collaboration over Domination) talks about how to form win-win relationships with others and your own health improvement, the work of attachment versus detachment, and how to start to make decisions on creating health based on what's working, what is not working, sustainability, working on self, building commitment strategies, and collaborating with the outside world.

Collaboration or Break Series: Conflict (Stress), Health (Peace), and Disease (War) with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E16, 8/11/24)

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:00:00 -0700

PTSD, Trauma, & Metabolic/Natural Approaches with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E15, 7-28-24)

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:00:00 -0700

PTSD & Trauma Health Series: Join Dr. Jennifer Coomes as she ends the PTSD & Trauma Health series with important discussion on today's politics surrounding the difficulties of getting improved mental health care along with important areas of focus for PTSD and trauma patients with metabolic and natural care approaches. The premise is to create hope, understanding, and empowerment for PTSD and trauma patients who may otherwise be recommended SSRIs for medical care without fully considering all of the other necessary components, causes, and factors for these patients. Topics such as blood sugar regulation, blood/urine pH, anemia, nutrient deficiencies, inflammatory factors, the gut-brain connection, hormone and neurotransmitter imbalances and more will be considered.

For more information, please reach out to:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

PTSD & Trauma 101 for Healthcare Providers & Patients with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E14, 7-21-24)

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:00:00 -0700

PTSD & Trauma Health Series: This episode with Dr. Jennifer Coomes continues this series and talks more about PTSD as a diagnosis, the pitfalls in the current standard medical system in treatment, and new evidence based research on PTSD that explains why some people who have experienced trauma may not have PTSD and why others do or why some have chronic mental and physical health challenges. You'll also learn why it's more important to set up better healthcare approaches and environments for trauma survivors due to pre-trauma, peri-trauma, and post-trauma factors and their effects on health outcomes. You'll learn more about brain health, the corticolimbic system, and metabolic responses in response to trauma and how important it is to address neuroinflammation in PTSD care. This episode builds the foundation for next week's episode on metabolic healthcare approaches with medical nutrition therapy (MNT) and other therapies as an integrative approach to PTSD and trauma.

For more information, contact:

Essence Health & Research
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Brain & Metabolic Health 101 with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E13, 7-14-24)

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:00:00 -0700

PTSD & Trauma Health Series: This new mental health series in July 2024 will focus on three major aspects of PTSD and trauma: Brain & Metabolic Health, PTSD Breakdown for Healthcare Providers and Patients, and PTSD & Metabolic/Nutrition Care Approaches. Whether you are a survivor, a heathcare provider, or someone who cares about how this condition affects those you care about, you'll learn many key aspects that are important in identifying mechanisms/causes of disease and better healthcare options. This is a very important podcast series for those who need to learn more about the metabolic side of PTSD and trauma.

In this episode on Brain and Metabolic Health, it is discussed more about how brain dysfunction is affected by three key health issues: anemia, glucose dysregulation, and inflammation. You'll learn more about why and how these connections are important in the care of any mental health condition and the prevention of PTSD and trauma effects on risk of chronic diseases like diabetes (including Alzheimer's Disease, Type 3 diabetes).

For more information, please reach out to:

Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Mental Health Series: Mental Health with Metabolic & Nutritional Approaches with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E12, 6-30-24)

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 12:00:00 -0700

As part of the June Mental Health Series, this episode with Dr. Jennifer Coomes covers Mental Health in relationship to Metabolic & Nutritional Approaches. This particular episode goes beyond explaining the metabolic relationships to mental health and jumps right into the next steps with metabolic and functional nutrition healthcare approaches that start with your annual physical and metabolic assessments to pinpoint the root causes of your mental health condition. No two people are alike on their root causes so it's important to understand the genetic, biochemical, dietary, hormonal, lifestyle, and other factors that should be assessed to help improve mental health conditions and their outcomes. You are not alone, so jump into this episode and learn how to get started!

To reach out for more information, contact:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Identity, Gender, & Sexuality Confusion and Mental Health with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E11, 6-25-24)

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:00:00 -0700

This episode continues on with the June Mental Health series with the topic of Identity, Gender, and Sexuality confusion. While this topic is great for the PRIDE community, it does go deeper and relates to everyone and goes into how stress, disease, and mental health conditions can arise if you are in misalignment with your natural self, if you are being groomed to be someone you are not, and how to truly sort out confusion on identity, gender, and sexuality roles, responsibilities, and dysfunctions in a way that helps you to achieve the health that you desire versus being unsupported with more risk to make choices leading to addictions, bad coping mechanisms, living a life you do not want, and disease. The sooner you can make decision to get to know yourself outside of society, cultural, or others expectations and set boundaries to be more in alignment with your natural self, energy, and health, you will be able to own your life, habits, choices, and next steps with more clarity, confidence, and maturity. Topics on how identity, gender, and sexuality confusion and dysfunction can lead to metabolic health problems like inflammation, blood sugar and blood pressure imbalances, weight gain, and mental health conditions are explored.

For more information, please reach out to Essence Health & Research at:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3900

Men & Mental Health 101 with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E10, 6-16-2024)

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:00:00 -0700

Join Dr. Jennifer Coomes for the June Mental Health Series with this episode on Men & Mental Health. This episode begins with conversation about bigger stereotypes and gender roles that men face and some of the pitfalls they face in making mental health a priority. Dr. Coomes talks about what can seriously go wrong if mental health is not optimal and stable and how men can safely and securely approach their mental health with strength and vulnerability along with more knowledge about imbalances in the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) and Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Gonadal (HPG) axes in the body that can cause hormonal imbalances in addition to blood chemistry, neurotransmitter, and blood sugar dysregulation. Focus on how to approach the annual physical along with psychological health is explored. Emphasis is placed on creating a safe environment to share information that is specific to men's health and how everyone can support a man becoming whole and vibrant with more commitment to mental health and metabolic assessments and healthy habits.

For more information, feel free to reach out to Essence Health & Research (EH&R) and Dr. Coomes at:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

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Mental Health Series: Why is Mental Health a Metabolic Problem? (S1, E9, 6-9-24)

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:00:00 -0700

As part of the June 2024 Mental Health Series, this episode talks about the new and relatively undereducated fact that mental health conditions also have a metabolic component beyond just the psychological or psychiatric presentation. The research world is now consistently backing up this reality which will hopefully change the way that mental health conditions are viewed in the standard medical system while also providing more important education for the public. Join Dr. Jennifer Coomes in this episode as she discusses what metabolic health is, how it is assessed, what metabolic diseases are, and how mental health is associated with your metabolic health and thus your ability to decrease your mental health symptoms to get control over your health outcomes and quality of life. You'll learn more about why blood sugar regulation is one of the many key aspects to being able to get more traction in your mental health.

Menopause & Osteoporosis with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E8, 5-26-24)

Sun, 26 May 2024 14:00:00 -0700

The Rebirth of Women's Healthcare Series: Conversation and education on what you need to know to be more empowered with your doctor in our current medical system, to be more aware of what you may be missing in your metabolic health at various developmental stages, and practical solutions to get started on being whole and proactive as a woman at any age.

Menopause & Osteoporosis episode: This episode is a beginner talk on the relationship between menopause and osteoporosis with an innovative look at the hormone imbalances, the increased risk of disease with reduced estrogen and progesterone, perspectives on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and the many different mechanisms of disease (causes) that need to be regulated to help biological women walk through menopause with more grace, education, tools, and empowerment for success.

As always, please do not use this podcast to diagnose or treat any disease or health condition and if you would like to learn more or make an appointment, please reach out to Essence Health & Research with the following info:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Menstrual Cycle Imbalances with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E7, 5-19-24)

Sun, 19 May 2024 16:00:00 -0700

Rebirth of Women's Healthcare Series: Conversation and education on what you need to know to be more empowered with your doctor in our current medical system, to be more aware of what you may be missing in your metabolic health at various developmental stages, and practical solutions to get started on being whole and proactive as a woman at any age.

Menstrual Cycle Imbalances: This podcast talks about menstrual cycle imbalances that can affect mood, mental health, the presence of anemia, fertility, quality of life, hormone balance, fatigue/energy, and more. You'll learn more about the basics of the menstrual cycle and major hormones, the different phases and hormones of the cycle that affect fertility and the prevention of miscarriage, and other change of life. If you've never heard of topics like luteal phase deficiency or hormones that specific initiate ovulation, or why anemia is an important factor of short menstrual cycles or long and heavy periods, this is a good podcast for to listen to. You'll also learn some basic ideas for improving on these imbalances from a nutrition and lifestyle perspective while also deeply encouraging you to reach out for more assessment to receive your personalized recommendations.

To learn more, please reach out to Essence Health & Research at:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Fertility vs Infertility 101 with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (S1, E6, 5-12-24)

Sun, 19 May 2024 16:00:00 -0700

Rebirth of Women's Healthcare Series: Conversation and education on what you need to know to be more empowered with your doctor in our current medical system, to be more aware of what you may be missing in your metabolic health at various developmental stages, and practical solutions to get started on being whole and proactive as a woman at any age.

Fertility vs Infertility: This podcast talks about and distinguishes between these two topics by learning how to plan and prepare for good fertility and then how to correct elements in your life when you discover infertility issues in women and men. This not just a biological female topic so it is encouraged to bring along your partner, your surrogate, family, medical team, or whomever you would like to help learn more about how to support yourself when trying to conceive or change the outcomes of infertility with key testing/assessments, diet, habits, lifestyle, and nutrition.

To learn more, please reach out to Essence Health & Research at:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Blood Labs 101 with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (Season 1, Episode 5, 4-28-24)

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:00:00 -0700

Are you aware of the specific blood labs you should have for your annual physical and what they mean? Come learn more in this Blood Labs class where you can ask questions and learn about specific and routine labs needed for your gender, medical conditions, and age so you can feel more empowered as a patient!

Contact Info:

Dr. Jennifer Coomes
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Rebirth of Women's Healthcare (Consent/Informed Consent) with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (Season 1, Episode 4, 4-21-24)

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700

Note: This episode contains triggering content for rape, trauma, domestic abuse survivors.

The Rebirth of Women's Healthcare series on the EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast continues this week with the topic of Consent and Informed Consent to dig into vulnerable concerns around consent. Dr. Coomes talks about the importance of consent in medical procedures and issues that complicate consent gathering consist like language barriers, lack of time to explain procedures, not assessing for previous trauma, taking sensitive aspects of medical procedures for granted, lack of seeing the patient and their needs, the importance of following ADA, rape survivor, informed consent, and other laws regarding consent, and why it's important for the success of the patient and medical teams to work together in medical processes so that patients are not unnecessarily traumatized. This is an important podcast for all women to hear so that you don't have to feel silent about your needs as patients and healthcare providers in these ever changing times where we need to pay more attention to give and get the care we need.

Contact Info:
Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
501c3 nonprofit located in Sammamish, WA
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Metabolic Syndrome 101 with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (Season 1, Episode 3, 4-14-24)

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700

Do you have high cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, diabetic concerns, extra weight, depression, anxiety, trouble concentrating, emotional eating, or diet imbalances? Come learn with Dr. Jennifer Coomes about how to manage Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) to reduce unwanted symptoms and medications!

Rebirth of Women's Healthcare (The Annual Gynecology Exam) with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (Season 1, Episode 2, 3-31-24)

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0700

This Essence Health & Research (EH&R) Metabolic Transformations episode with Dr. Jennifer Coomes starts the Rebirth of Women's Healthcare series with this episode covering the Annual Gynecology Exam and key exams or testing you may be missing to establish early detection of chronic, metabolic, or life threatening conditions. Disease and dysfunction is happening for women at younger ages along with increased pressures of our demanding and ever changing culture creating increased stress and faulty stress coping mechanisms. For women, this episode helps us come together as patients, healthcare providers, and as valuable human beings to learn more to be proactive, empowered, and more confident to get the healthcare you need with trust and to find the healthcare providers to help support you through your journey from girl to woman of any age. This particular podcast is focused on those who are biological girls and women, although there may be a podcast down the road focused on trans healthcare.

Contact Info:
Essence Health & Research (EH&R)
501c3 nonprofit located in Sammamish, WA
www.essencehealthandresearch.com
drcoomes@essencehealthandresearch.com
425.505.3090

Histamine Intolerance 101 with Dr. Jennifer Coomes (Season 1, Episode 1, 3-24-24)

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 15:00:00 -0700

This EH&R Metabolic Transformations Podcast will help you learn a solid introduction to Histamine Intolerance, its symptoms, its causes, and approaches for care. If you have seasonal allergies, migraines, food sensitivities, skin problems, fatigue, excessive stress, and other symptoms dragging your health and quality of life down, this is a great podcast to listen to for next steps! It's also a great one for healthcare providers who want to learn more about the significance of screening for histamine intolerance.