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The Trusted Pharmacist

The Trusted Pharmacist Podcast pulls back the curtain on the healthcare industry, exposing the flaws in the system and empowering listeners to take control of their health.

Podcast · By Steve Hoffart · English · Official site

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 17, 2026

    This Decides If Your Hormones Work | Dr John Kim (opens the original)

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    You've cleaned up your diet, optimized your sleep, taken all the right supplements. Maybe you're on hormone therapy or working with a functional medicine provider. But you still have fatigue and brain fog, can't lose the extra weight, and your microbiome isn't improving. What's keeping your hormones from working properly? I brought fellow pharmacist Dr John Kim, PharmD to share his perspective on cell mitochondria and how it governs hormone production, metabolism and receptor function. He's been

  2. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    The Fiber–Depression Connection No One Talks About w/ Dr. Oscar Coetzee (Part 2) (opens the original)

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    If nutrition can affect anxiety and depression, what should we actually measure, change, and investigate before reaching for another prescription? Knowing that mental health can have nutritional and biological drivers is one thing. Knowing what to do with that information is another. Should we start with fiber, test vitamin D and iron, examine thyroid function, or investigate what is happening inside the cells? Without a clear approach, nutrition can easily become another world of guesswork, con

  3. Episode · Sep 3, 2026

    Before You Increase Your SSRI, Check Your Nutrient Levels w/ Dr. Oscar Coetzee (opens the original)

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    What if the antidepressant isn't failing because it's the wrong medication, but because the body doesn't have enough of what it needs to make serotonin in the first place? As a pharmacist, I've filled thousands of antidepressant prescriptions. But there is a question we rarely stop to ask before increasing a dose or trying another medication: Where does serotonin actually come from? An SSRI can help the brain reuse the serotonin that is already available, but the production of neurotransmitters

  4. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    Why You Never Hear About Estriol and How That Affects Your Health (opens the original)

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    What if the estrogen missing from your hormone therapy wasn't left out because it failed, but because no one could build a profitable drug around it? Your body naturally produces three estrogens: estrone, estradiol, and estriol. Yet most hormone therapy replaces only estradiol. It is easy to assume that estriol was studied, found ineffective, and discarded. But that is not what happened. It didn't necessarily lose a scientific argument; it lost a business one, and over time, we mistook that sile

  5. Episode · Aug 20, 2026

    Better Sleep with No Sleep Aids? Neurologist Explains. (opens the original)

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    What if your go-to sleep aid was keeping you from deep, restorative sleep? People come into the pharmacy every day looking for over-the-counter sleep aids or sleep supplements, so I reached out to neurologist and sleep expert Dr Stasha Gominak. She has a very different view on what's disrupting our sleep, and practical steps we can take to transform our sleep. What You'll Discover In This Episode How moving indoors wrecked the brain chemical our body needs How common sleep aids disrupt our body'

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