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The Synergee Podcast

with Kelly Engelmann and Lori Esarey

Twenty years of root-cause conversations about hormones, stress, gut health, and hair, in the plain language Kelly uses across the exam table. You get longer answers than a single visit allows.
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Latest episode

Be the CEO of Your Own Body: Take Charge of Your Health and Wellness

What if you thought about your health the same way a CEO thinks about running a successful company? A CEO doesn’t necessarily do every job

New episodes publish every other Monday.

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The short version

What is the Synergee Podcast?

The Synergee Podcast is a functional medicine show hosted by Kelly Engelmann, FNP-BC, founder of Enhanced Wellness Living in Ridgeland, Mississippi, with co-host Lori Esarey. Episodes cover hormones, stress, gut health, fatigue, sleep, weight, and hair loss, explained in plain language rather than clinical shorthand.

Guests include Dr. Jim LaValle, Dr. Deanna Minich, Dr. Aimie Apigian, Dr. Cheryl Burdette, and Ashok Gupta. Enhanced Wellness Living also produces the Enhanced Wellness Living Podcast and All Things Sexual Wellness.

Every episode is available to listen, watch, or read. Written summaries live on this site, so you can find the answer you need without listening to a full conversation.

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Episodes that answer a real question

These are the ten most-listened-to episodes of the Synergee Podcast. Each has a written page with the questions it answers, so you can read the answer in two minutes or listen to the full conversation. Start with whichever sounds most like you.

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Be the CEO of Your Own Body: Take Charge of Your Health and Wellness

What if you thought about your health the same way a CEO thinks about running a successful company? A CEO doesn’t necessarily do every job...

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Small Money Moves, Big Health Wins: How Financial Wellness Supports Your Functional Medicine Journey

When we think about improving our health, we often focus on the usual suspects: eating better, exercising more, getting enough sleep, managing stress, and taking...

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Movement as Medicine: Why Your Body Was Designed to Move

When most people think about improving their health, they often focus on nutrition first. While healthy eating is essential, movement is one of the most...

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Creatine: A Functional Medicine Guide to One of the Most Researched Supplements

  Walk through the supplement aisle of any health store, and you’ll find hundreds of products promising more energy, better performance, faster recovery, or improved...

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Self-Awareness: The Missing Link to Better Health and Lasting Wellness

  When people begin addressing their health concerns, they often focus on symptoms first. Fatigue, digestive discomfort, hormone imbalances, chronic pain, inflammation, poor sleep, and...

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Stress and Hormones: Understanding How They Work Together and Why It Matters for Your Health

  Stress is an unavoidable part of life. Whether it’s meeting work deadlines, caring for family members, managing finances, recovering from illness, or navigating unexpected...

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Why You’re Still So Tired

Listen on Spotify or Apple! 00;00;04;29 – 00;00;23;05 Synergee Welcome Synergee listeners. We are so excited that you’re back with us today to be able...

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The Illusion of Healthy Eating: What Most People Are Missing

Listen on Spotify or Apple! 00:27:47:19 – 00:28:07:05 EatPluck Yeah. Well, thank you both. Kelly. Lori, thank you so much for having me. It’s really...

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GLP-1, Cravings & Food Noise: What Every Woman Needs to Understand

Listen on Spotify  or Apple! 01;05;06;09 – 01;05;20;27 Synergee welcome, Synergee listeners. We are so excited that you are here today with us again. Our...

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If that sounded like you

Start with what's actually bothering you

A podcast is a good place to learn. But if something in an episode sounded familiar, the more useful next step is reading about the symptom itself. Each of these explains what’s going on in your body, why it happens, and what can be tested.

Why am I so tired?

Exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix, and what to test when your labs come back normal.

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Why can't I sleep?

Falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking at three in the morning are three different problems.

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Why won't my weight move?

When eating less and moving more has stopped working, something upstream is driving it.

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Why does my stomach hurt when I eat?

Bloating, pain, and reactions to food that seem to change week to week.

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Why is my hair falling out?

Thinning, shedding, and a changing hairline are usually a signal from somewhere else in the body.

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Your Hosts

Who's actually talking

Kelly Engelmann, FNP-BC

Founder, Enhanced Wellness Living · Ridgeland, Mississippi

Family nurse practitioner with a Master’s in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida and a Fellowship in Anti-Aging Medicine. She founded Enhanced Wellness Living in 2004 and has spent more than twenty years explaining hormones, gut health, hair loss, and sexual wellness in language you can actually follow.

Lori Esarey, FNP-C

Co-host, The Synergee Podcast

Certified family nurse practitioner with more than 25 years of experience, a Master’s in Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida, and board certification in anti-aging and restorative medicine. She founded her own clinic in 2006 on the principle that nutrition can manage disease.
A fair question

Why does a clinic make podcasts?

Because the answers are longer than a visit allows. Kelly can explain in forty minutes what won’t fit into a consultation.

Patients tell us more and more often that they found us through an episode, or that they started listening after they reached out. It’s become part of how people decide whether to trust us.

Most of the searching happens before that first phone call. We’d rather you arrive already knowing how we think.
Your questions

What patients actually ask us

These come up in the clinic and on the show, over and over.
Why am I still exhausted when my labs came back normal?
Because normal isn’t the same as optimal. Standard bloodwork is built to catch disease, not to explain why you feel bad. Chronic stress, nutrient depletion, cortisol imbalance, and thyroid changes can drive fatigue for years before anything crosses into an abnormal range. We look at where you sit inside the range, not just whether you’re inside it.
Yes. Stress isn’t only a feeling. It’s held in the nervous system, the hormones, the gut, and the immune system, which is why long-term stress shows up as fatigue, digestive problems, thyroid changes, and hormone imbalance in people who are otherwise doing everything right.
Cortisol is your main stress hormone, and it’s rarely tested properly. When it’s out of balance, it sets off a chain reaction. Fatigue, brain fog, weight that won’t move, and broken sleep are all commonly downstream of it. Cortisol and blood sugar are closely linked, so they’re usually worth looking at together rather than separately.
For the right person, at the right time, in the right amount, they can help. The risk is treating them as a quick fix. Without proper testing, body composition tracking, and clinical guidance, people lose muscle alongside fat and end up nutrient depleted. The real question isn’t whether they work. It’s what needs to be in place around them.
We start with your history. Testing is only about twenty percent of the picture. The other eighty percent is your story: what your symptoms are, when they started, what you’ve already tried, what helped, and what made things worse. That’s what tells us which test is worth your money and when to run it. We’d rather test than guess, but the right test at the wrong time is still a wasted test.
Three different things. A food allergy is an immediate immune reaction, found through a skin prick or a blood test. A food sensitivity is a delayed reaction that can appear up to 72 hours after you eat something, which makes it very hard to trace back. An intolerance means your body is missing the enzyme to break a food down, the way lactose intolerance works. Each one needs a different plan.
We’d rather you didn’t. The test is often fine. The problem is timing and interpretation. Antihistamines and steroids can make results falsely negative. An illness in the two weeks beforehand can make them falsely reactive. Even a colonoscopy prep will skew a panel, because it clears out the gut bacteria the test is reading. A result nobody can interpret usually leads to cutting out far more food than you needed to.
No, and this is one of the most common and most costly mistakes we see. Food sensitivities are usually a symptom of a damaged gut lining rather than the root problem. Remove the foods without repairing the gut, and the list simply comes back six months later with different foods on it. We’ve seen a patient cut every fat from her diet based on a panel and develop a severe fatty acid deficiency and a full-body rash. Nobody is meant to live on an elimination diet.
No. You don’t have to pick a side. We work alongside your other providers. Many of the tests we use simply aren’t in a standard practice’s toolbox, which isn’t the same as your doctor holding something back from you. Our job is to add the pieces that are missing, not to replace the care you already have.

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Press play below for the full conversation on stress, patterns, and addiction, plus the rest of the Synergee library on hormones, hair, and gut health. Every episode streams right here, no app required.

Why A Podcast

Longer answers than a single visit allows

For over 20 years, Kelly has explained hormones, gut health, hair loss, and sexual wellness in plain language across the exam table. Podcasting lets her do that for everyone, whether you’ve been a patient for years or found us five minutes ago. On the Synergee Podcast, she’s joined by Lori Esarey for conversations that go even further, into stress, patterns, and the parts of health that never come up in a fifteen-minute visit.

Three Ways In

Listen, watch, or read

Listen on your app

Stream every episode right here, or search for us wherever you already listen. Perfect for the commute, or the drive into Ridgeland.

Watch on YouTube

Video episodes are on our YouTube channel, so you can watch Kelly and her guests the way you would experience them in the clinic.

Read the summaries

Short, plain-language summaries of every episode, so you can skim the key takeaways and decide what to queue up first.

Browse Episodes

The full Synergee library

Every episode of the Synergee Podcast, right here. Stress and default patterns, hormones, gut health, hair, and the root cause conversations Kelly and Lori have been having for years. Start with the one that sounds most like you.

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