The Hormone Puzzle Podcast - Learn How to Solve Your Infertility Puzzle to Get and Stay Pregnant · Dr. Kela Smith - Fertility and Hormone Doctor

Trying to Conceive After 35? What You Really Need to Know About Preparing Your Body for Pregnancy as You Approach Perimenopause with Emily Sadri

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Dr. Kayla Smith opens season six with a warm welcome. She frames the podcast as a place for women to hear expert conversations about fertility, hormones, nutrition, and the bigger puzzle of getting and staying pregnant. Emily Sodry joins her from Aurelia Health. The conversation stays centered on fertility and hormone health, with a clear focus on preparation instead of panic. Progesterone comes up early. The episode treats it as a monthly hormone with real functional weight, especially in the luteal phase, where the body needs steady support for several processes. Thyroid health gets the same kind of attention. The exchange makes it plain that thyroid issues are not a side note, but part of the same fertility picture that shows up in hormone panels and day-to-day symptoms. The focus then shifts to the adrenals. Emily and Kayla talk about how many women are carrying too much at once, and how hormone testing can show patterns that point to stress and overload without turning that reality into blame. The conversation is careful there. Emily pushes back on the language of adrenal fatigue when it becomes a way of shaming women for hustling to provide for their families and care for their children. She argues for an additive approach. Instead of telling women to feel guilty and do less in some vague moral sense, the episode keeps coming back to support, nourishment, and the practical work of helping the body function well. Cortisol is explained in plain language. The show notes that it follows a daily rhythm, rising after waking and then easing down, which helps listeners understand why stress physiology matters. The tone stays steady and affirming throughout. Kayla keeps validating the guest, then translates the science into everyday fertility language that feels useful rather than abstract. By the end, the episode feels like a guided consultation for listeners who want encouragement and something concrete to do with it. The message is simple: the body deserves support, not blame.

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A calm, practical fertility and hormone-health conversation that keeps the focus on connection.

This episode takes a steady look at fertility and hormone health, with Emily Sodry of Aurelia Health and Dr. Kayla Smith talking through progesterone, thyroid health, and the adrenal side of the picture.

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You want fertility guidance that connects hormones, stress, and the bigger picture without talking down to you.

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