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Metabolic Matters is a podcast exploring health through lived experience. Through conversations with patients, loved ones, and practitioners, the show examines how perspectives shift around metabolism, chronic illness, and rooted health—and how these insights are changing the…
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One Change, Two Transformations: Reversing Memory Loss and Chronic Pain (opens the original)
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What do you do when you know something is wrong with your health—but the answers you’re getting don’t seem to explain what you’re experiencing? In this episode of Metabolic Matters, host Christina Mason sits down with Cindy Kennedy and Aaron Mathewson, a husband-and-wife team whose very different health challenges sent them searching for answers. Cindy was navigating early menopause, significant memory loss, and concerns about her brain health, while Aaron was living with chronic pain, repeated
What does it mean to thrive while living with cancer for six years? The Woodruff's Inspiring Story (opens the original)
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This episode of Metabolic Matters is especially powerful because it does not have a neatly packaged ending. Gene Woodruff is still living with cancer. Host Christina Mason sits down with Gene and his wife, Lynette, for an honest conversation about navigating six years of bladder cancer—including repeated recurrences, difficult treatment decisions, and paths’ forward. Gene served as a Navy aviator for 28 years, working in demanding operational environments that included disrupted sleep and circad
A Mother’s “No”: Choosing a Different Path After a Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (opens the original)
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What happens when a mother’s intuition screams, “No,” while the experts around her recommend an untested treatment? “All I could hear was: ‘We are going to poison her, and she may die from the treatment.’ As a mother, my soul screamed no.” In this edge-of-your-seat episode of Metabolic Matters , host Christina Mason speaks with Phenyx Andolsek and her mother, Nicole Andolsek, about a remarkable journey of maternal instinct, advocacy, resilience, and hope. Phenyx’s health challenges began early i
Can Gut Health Be the Missing Piece? A Story of IBS, SIBO & Healing (opens the original)
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What if your chronic symptoms weren't something you simply had to live with? In this insightful episode of Metabolic Matters , host Christina Mason sits down with Janet McCorkle and gut health coach Lindsey Parsons for a powerful conversation about persistence, personalized care, and the detective work often required to uncover the root causes of chronic illness. For decades, Janet struggled with constipation, IBS, kidney stones, recurrent urinary tract infections, and interstitial cystitis. Alt
Her Menopause Symptoms turned out to be Stage III C Ovarian Cancer. Learn the Signs & how she healed. (opens the original)
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Could recognizing the symptoms sooner change the course of a cancer journey? In this heartfelt episode of Metabolic Matters , host Christina Mason sits down with Trish Kifer , a stage IIIC ovarian cancer survivor and author, and her husband Roger Kifer , for an inspiring conversation about hope, partnership, faith, and whole-person healing. Trish and Roger vulnerably share Trish’s remarkable journey: from subtle symptoms, including painful intercourse, abdominal pain, incontinence, and feeling f
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