In this episode, Debi Robinson welcomes back Dr. Lorraine Maita, widely known as the hormone harmonizer and detoxifier, for a grounded and clarifying conversation about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) and bone health.

While hormones can be powerful tools for supporting bone density, muscle mass, and overall vitality, they do not work effectively in isolation. Dr. Maita explains why digestion, detoxification, inflammation control, gut health, and stress regulation must be addressed first — otherwise hormones may cause side effects or fail to deliver the benefits women expect.

This episode is especially valuable for women navigating confusing messaging around hormone therapy, considering online hormone programs, or wondering why their hormones are “normal” on labs but they still don’t feel well.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why hormones alone cannot fix bone loss
• How liver and gut health determine hormone effectiveness
• Why daily elimination is essential for estrogen metabolism
• The role of fiber in binding hormone metabolites
• How magnesium supports detoxification and relaxation
• Why inflammation disrupts hormone signaling and bone remodeling
• When hormone therapy can still be safe later in life
• How to approach BHRT thoughtfully and individually
  
  

Action Steps You Can Take Today

1. Support daily bowel movements — aim for consistent, complete elimination.
2. Increase fiber intake through vegetables, seeds, and whole foods.
3. Choose magnesium intentionally based on your symptoms.
4. Reduce inflammatory foods temporarily to calm the system.
5. Manage stress daily, as cortisol interferes with hormone balance.
6. Address gut health before increasing supplements or hormones.
7. Work with a knowledgeable provider who individualizes care.
   
   

Resources & Links

• Healthy Gut Healthy Bones Program: https://debirobinsonwellness.thrivecart.com/hghb-self-paced-group-program-pp/
• Stronger Bones Lifestyle resources: https://debirobinson.com
• Learn more about Dr. Lorraine Maita and her work in hormone harmony and detoxification: https://thefeelgoodagaininstitute.com/

Debi’s Takeaway

Hormones are not a shortcut — they’re a support system. When digestion, detoxification, inflammation, and stress are addressed first, hormones can truly help your bones and your whole body thrive.

Healthy aging is not about chasing fixes. It’s about building a foundation your body can respond to with strength and resilience.

Travel is often seen as relaxing and rejuvenating, but for the body — especially the bones — it can be surprisingly stressful. In this episode, Debi Robinson sits down with Dr. Monisha Bhanote, a quintuple board-certified physician who integrates cellular science with Ayurvedic medicine, to explore how travel affects bone health at a deeper level.

From prolonged sitting and dehydration to disrupted digestion, sleep, and stress hormones, this conversation sheds light on the hidden ways travel can quietly interfere with bone remodeling. Rather than creating fear, this episode offers awareness and simple, practical strategies to help women support their bones wherever they go.

If you travel frequently — or plan to — and want to protect your bone health along the way, this episode is a must-listen.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why prolonged sitting reduces bone-building signals
• How dehydration impacts mineral balance and circulation
• The effect of travel-related stress and cortisol on bone loss
• Why digestion and gut health are essential for bone strength
• How disrupted routines weaken nutrient absorption
• The connection between cellular resilience and bone health
• Simple, realistic ways to support your bones while traveling
  
  

Action Steps You Can Take Today

1. Move frequently when traveling — stand, walk, stretch, and pump your calves.
2. Hydrate intentionally, especially on flights; limit caffeine and alcohol.
3. Support digestion with simple, whole foods and mindful eating.
4. Regulate stress using breathwork, rest, and gentle movement.
5. Prioritize sleep and recovery when crossing time zones.
6. Think whole-body — bones respond to everything happening in your system.

Resources & Links

• Healthy Gut, Healthy Bones Program:
  https://debirobinsonwellness.thrivecart.com/hghb-self-paced-group-program-pp/
  
  
• Stronger Bones Lifestyle Community
  https://debirobinson.com/the-stronger-bones-lifestyle-community/
  
  
• Dr. Monisha Bhanote
  https://www.drbhanote.com/
  
  

Debi’s Takeaway

Your bones don’t stop responding just because you’re traveling. They respond to movement, hydration, digestion, stress, and rest — no matter where you are.

When you support your body at the cellular level, your bones travel with you — strong, resilient, and capable.

In this solo episode, Debi Robinson speaks directly to women who have been diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis and left feeling afraid, fragile, or unsure how to move forward.

Debi explores how osteoporosis became a widespread diagnosis, why the DEXA scan does not tell the full story about fracture risk, and how fear itself can quietly accelerate bone loss. She challenges the idea that a number on a scan defines your future and offers a calmer, more empowering perspective on bone health.

This episode is not about rejecting medicine or ignoring data — it’s about placing information in context, reclaiming trust in your body, and understanding how lifestyle, stress, digestion, movement, and nervous system health truly influence your bones.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed or disempowered by a bone health diagnosis, this episode is for you.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How osteoporosis became a fear-based diagnosis
• The limitations of the DEXA scan for predicting fractures
• Why many fractures occur in women without osteoporosis
• How fear changes movement patterns and increases fracture risk
• Why bone medications don’t address root causes
• The real role of stress, digestion, and inflammation in bone loss
• How lifestyle choices influence bone strength daily
• A practical, tiered approach to supporting bone health
• How to rebuild confidence and trust in your body
  
  

Action Steps You Can Take Today

1. Reframe the diagnosis — see your DEXA scan as information, not identity.
2. Move daily with intention, alignment, and confidence.
3. Reduce chronic stress through breathwork, yoga, or mindfulness.
4. Support digestion to improve nutrient absorption.
5. Focus on consistency, not extremes, in lifestyle habits.
6. Educate yourself so fear no longer drives your decisions.
7. Choose empowerment over paralysis when it comes to your bones.
   
   

Resources & Links

• Healthy Gut, Healthy Bones Program:
  https://debirobinsonwellness.thrivecart.com/hghb-self-paced-group-program-pp/
  
  
• Stronger Bones Lifestyle Community
  https://debirobinson.com/the-stronger-bones-lifestyle-community/
  
  

Debi’s Takeaway

Osteoporosis does not define you.

A scan does not own you.

Fear does not protect you.

Your bones are living tissue, responding every day to how you eat, move, manage stress, and live your life. When you replace fear with education and trust your body again, your bones respond.

You are not fragile. You are capable — and your bone health journey belongs to you.

In this follow-up conversation with Dr. Anil Bajnath, MD, Debi Robinson explores how precision medicine can be used not to “bio-hack” the body, but to bio-harmonize it — restoring balance, resilience, and clarity in the bone health journey.

Rather than relying on one-size-fits-all recommendations or waiting for disease to show up on a DEXA scan, this episode focuses on understanding the body’s internal signals earlier. Dr. Bajnath explains how stress, gut health, blood sugar regulation, sleep quality, and recovery capacity directly influence bone remodeling and long-term fracture risk.

This episode is especially empowering for women who feel overwhelmed by conflicting advice and want a calmer, more intelligent path to supporting their bones.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The difference between bio-hacking and bio-harmonizing your health
• Why stress can override even the best nutrition and exercise plan
• How gut health and blood sugar regulation affect bone strength
• What wearables and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) reveal about inflammation and recovery
• Why sleep quality is a critical bone-building factor
• How inflammation quietly accelerates bone loss
• Why balance and awareness matter more than extremes
  
  

Action Steps You Can Take Today

1. Prioritize sleep — this is when bone repair and cellular regeneration occur.
2. Reduce inflammatory foods temporarily to calm the immune system.
3. Support digestion first before adding more supplements.
4. Manage stress daily through breathwork, yoga, or gentle movement.
5. Use data tools wisely — short-term tracking for insight, not obsession.
6. Choose balance over extremes in exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle.
   
   
   

Resources & Links

• https://debirobinson.com/stronger-bones-lifestyle-podcast-take-control-of-your-bone-health/
  
  
• Healthy Gut, Healthy Bones Program:
  https://debirobinsonwellness.thrivecart.com/hghb-self-paced-group-program-pp/
  
  
• Learn More About Dr Bajnath
  https://anilbajnath.com/
  
  

Debi’s Takeaway

Bone health isn’t about chasing perfection or controlling every variable. It’s about restoring harmony — supporting digestion, calming stress, improving sleep, and listening to your body’s signals.

Precision medicine gives us clarity, but awareness and lifestyle give us power. When we bio-harmonize the body instead of fighting it, bones respond.

In this episode, Debi Robinson sits down with Dr. Anil Bajnath, MD, a board-certified physician and leader in precision medicine, to explore how personalized healthcare is reshaping the future of bone health and osteoporosis prevention.

Rather than waiting for bone loss to appear on a DEXA scan, precision medicine focuses on identifying the root biological drivers of bone loss years earlier—chronic inflammation, mitochondrial decline, hormonal imbalance, gut dysfunction, immune aging, and cellular senescence.

This conversation offers a hopeful, empowering reframe: bone loss is not an inevitable consequence of aging, but a reflection of modifiable biological processes. When we understand and support those processes early, we create the conditions for stronger bones, healthier aging, and greater resilience.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why osteoporosis is not simply “part of aging”
• What precision medicine really means—and how it differs from conventional care
• How chronic inflammation and cellular aging weaken bones
• The role of mitochondria, hormones, and gut health in bone remodeling
• What “senescent” or “zombie” cells are and how they contribute to bone loss
• Why lifestyle factors influence your biological age more than your calendar age
• How early intervention can reduce fracture risk long before diagnosis
  
  

🧭 Action Steps You Can Take Today

1. Prioritize sleep — bone repair and cellular regeneration happen at night.
2. Reduce inflammation through anti-inflammatory nutrition and stress management.
3. Move daily with strength, balance, and appropriate loading for your body.
4. Support gut health to improve mineral absorption and hormone balance.
5. Manage stress intentionally — cortisol is a bone-dissolving hormone.
   
   
   
6. Track meaningful data like sleep quality, recovery, and movement consistency.
7. Think upstream — focus on prevention, not reaction.
   
   

🔗 Resources & Links

• Learn more about Dr. Anil Bajnath, MD and precision medicine: https://anilbajnath.com/
  
  
• 🎧 Listen to more episodes: https://debirobinson.com/stronger-bones-lifestyle-podcast-take-control-of-your-bone-health/
  
  
• 🌿 Healthy Gut, Healthy Bones Program: https://debirobinsonwellness.thrivecart.com/hghb-self-paced-group-program-pp/
  
  
• 💻 Stronger Bones Lifestyle resources:
  
  https://debirobinson.com
  
  

💬 Debi’s Takeaway

Bone health is not about fear, fragility, or waiting for a diagnosis. It’s about understanding your body earlier, honoring its complexity, and supporting the biological systems that keep you resilient.

Precision medicine gives us something we’ve been missing for far too long: individualized care, informed prevention, and real hope for stronger bones at every stage of life.

In this episode of the Stronger Bones Lifestyle Podcast, Debi sits down with Jennifer Payeur, holistic health practitioner, cancer thriver, and founder of Nature Provides. Jennifer shares her remarkable healing journey — from chronic illness and a stage 4 cancer diagnosis to discovering the regenerative intelligence of embryonic plant stem cells.

This conversation dives deep into how plant stem cells detoxify the body, support the nervous system, restore cellular communication, and enhance tissue regeneration — all foundational elements for improving bone, fascia, gut, and whole-body health.

If you’re curious about natural healing, toxicity, inflammation, or how nature-based medicine supports the body’s blueprint for repair, this episode is an absolute must-listen.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• What embryonic plant stem cells are — and why they’re so potent
• How plant stem cells support detoxification, recoding, and regeneration
• The role toxicity, lymph stagnation, and stress play in disease and bone loss
• How fascia communicates with organs, glands, and the skeletal system
• Why modern environments disrupt our body’s natural healing processes
• Key plant stem cells supporting bone and joint health
• How to reconnect to nature’s rhythms for deeper healing

Episode Timestamps

00:00 — Introducing Jennifer Payeur and her healing journey

06:22 — What are embryonic plant stem cells?

12:48 — How plant stem cells support the body’s detox pathways

18:15 — The nervous system, trauma, and cellular communication

25:03 — Why toxins accumulate and disrupt bone health

32:40 — Fascia, inflammation & the terrain of the body

41:12 — The top plant stem cells for bone and joint support

49:50 — How reconnecting with nature restores the body

56:10 — Jennifer’s final advice for supporting your healing

Resources & Links

• Learn more about Jennifer Payeur & Nature Provides: https://nature-provides.com
• Stronger Bones Lifestyle Programs: https://debirobinson.com
• Follow Debi on Instagram: https://instagram.com/debirobinsonwellness
  
  

Action Steps You Can Take

1. Support your detox pathways daily (lymph, liver, gut).
2. Reconnect with nature to settle your nervous system.
3. Explore plant-based tools that support cellular communication.
4. Reduce toxic burden in your environment.
5. Add gentle daily movement to nourish fascia and joints.
   
   

Debi’s Takeaway

Nature knows how to heal. What Jennifer shares reminds us that the body has an extraordinary ability to regenerate when the terrain is supported — when we lower inflammation, release toxins, soothe the nervous system, and restore communication between cells. Bone health is a whole-body story, and nature gives us powerful tools to support every layer.

In this powerful and enlightening episode, I sit down with Dr. Aimee Duffy, triple-board-certified functional medicine physician and regenerative health expert, to uncover the deeper biochemical, hormonal, and cellular factors driving bone loss. Dr. Duffy shares how chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, gut dysfunction, emotional trauma, immune imbalance, and mitochondrial decline all impact the body’s ability to repair — including the repair of your bones.

We talk about the connection between stress, trauma, and physical degeneration; how the nervous system affects hormone balance; and why rebuilding bone health requires more than calcium supplements and heavy weights. Dr. Duffy explains that bone loss is rarely an isolated condition — it’s a downstream effect of a body that’s inflamed, depleted, stressed, or biochemically out of balance.

This episode will give you hope, validation, and a deeper understanding of how to support your bones from the inside out.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The biochemical and cellular drivers of bone loss
• How stress, trauma, and nervous system dysregulation affect bone-building
• Why inflammation and oxidative stress accelerate aging and degeneration
• How gut health influences nutrient absorption and hormone balance
• The role of mitochondria in energy, healing, and bone remodeling
• How emotions and past experiences impact physical health
• Why restoring internal balance must come before advanced therapies
• Practical, everyday steps to support your healing and strengthen your bones
  
  

Action Steps You Can Take Today

1. Support your gut with whole foods, hydration, minerals, and fiber-rich meals.
2. Regulate your nervous system through deep breathing, meditation, grounding, or yoga.
3. Reduce inflammatory loads by limiting sugar, alcohol, processed oils, and stress.
4. Strengthen your mitochondria with sunlight, movement, quality sleep, and clean nutrition.
5. Address emotional stress or unresolved trauma that keeps the body in survival mode.
6. Incorporate minerals and antioxidants for cellular support (magnesium, potassium, trace minerals).
7. Seek functional testing to understand hormones, oxidative stress, gut health, and inflammation markers.
   
   

Resources & Links

• Learn more about Dr. Aimee Duffy: https://www.aimeeduffymd.com/
• Debi Robinson Wellness: https://debirobinson.com
• Healthy Gut Healthy Bones Program: https://debirobinson.com/healthy-gut-healthy-bones/
  
  

Debi’s Takeaway

Your bones are not the problem — they are the result of what’s happening inside your body. Bone loss is a message, not a failure. When you reduce inflammation, strengthen your mitochondria, heal your gut, regulate your stress, nourish your cells, and support your emotional wellbeing, your bones receive the signal that it’s finally safe to rebuild. Healing begins the moment your internal environment becomes supportive of repair.

In this powerful and eye-opening episode, I sit down with Dr. Susan Brown, medical anthropologist, clinical nutritionist, and founder of Better Bones, to unravel the truth behind modern osteoporosis care. We explore how the DEXA scan became the gold standard—despite its limitations—and why so many women are being mislabeled as “high risk” when the full picture of bone strength has never been evaluated.

Dr. Brown brings a rare combination of science, global anthropology, and decades of clinical research to explain why bone density is not the only indicator of fracture risk, why stress is one of the biggest bone disruptors, and how minerals, digestion, muscle strength, and lifestyle patterns create a much more accurate blueprint of true bone health.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, confused, or frightened by a diagnosis, this episode will help you breathe again—and understand your bones in an entirely new way.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why DEXA scans are often misleading, especially for petite women
• The history of osteoporosis and how its definition was created
• The 20 essential nutrients your bones require daily
• Why chronic stress and cortisol silently dissolve bone
• How muscle strength reflects bone strength
• The surprising accuracy of ancient healing systems like Ayurveda
• Why heavy lifting is not the only path to stronger bones
• How digestion, mineral balance, and oxidative stress influence bone remodeling
• How to build confidence and reduce fear after an osteoporosis diagnosis
  
  

Action Steps You Can Take Today

1. Reduce stress daily through breathing, meditation, nature walks, or grounding
2. Support digestion to improve nutrient absorption
3. Add bone-supportive nutrients, including magnesium, vitamin K2, trace minerals, and potassium-rich foods
4. Build muscle gradually using movements that feel safe and functional
5. Shift toward alkaline-leaning eating patterns with more fruits and vegetables
6. Get your Vitamin D and hormone levels checked
7. Learn the “witness practice” to observe thoughts instead of internalizing fear
8. Explore your medical osteoporosis workup to uncover underlying causes
   
   

Resources & Links

• Better Bones Website: https://betterbones.com
• Healthy Gut, Healthy Bones Program
• Stronger Bones Lifestyle Programs & Resources
  
  

Debi’s Takeaway

You are so much more than a T-score. Your bones are alive, responsive, adaptable, and deeply influenced by how you eat, move, think, and live. Don’t let fear of a diagnosis shape the rest of your life. When you nourish your body, calm your nervous system, and support your digestion and mineral balance, your bones can—and will—respond. Healing is possible.