The Positively Altered Podcast

Dr. Cindy Howard

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Whole-life wellness, with the edges left on.

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The Positively Altered Podcast is a fast-moving interview show where Dr. Cindy connects nutrition, mindset, work culture, spirituality, and everyday health choices. Conversations swing from mineral ratios and burnout to birthdays, grounding, productivity, and the messy human stuff underneath symptoms.

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About The Positively Altered Podcast

The Positively Altered Podcast is a guided wellness conversation with a broad, lively idea of what counts as health. Dr. Cindy, a chiropractic internist and nutritionist, frames the show around physical, spiritual, emotional, personal, and business life, then lets guests push those categories into unexpected places. It is not a quiet clinical show. It moves quickly, laughs often, and allows a little conversational chaos when that is what makes an idea feel real. Recent episodes spend time with mineral testing, iodine, calcium, cofactors, supplement assumptions, and the problem of buying health products without understanding ratios or side effects. That practical streak matters. The show repeatedly asks what information changes once someone has to make an actual decision in a kitchen, clinic, office, or family system. Sophie Shepard brings mineral talk into that lane, with the conversation challenging old calcium habits and the idea that more information automatically means better foundations. Josh Holland shifts the focus toward energy, intentionality, grounding, biohacking, vulnerability, and the way personal perception can distort a moment. Other episodes bring in whole person medicine, hormone health, productive ignorance, doom scrolling, to-do lists, workplace expression, burnout, coaching, culture change, and small experiments at work. The range is broad, but the rhythm is consistent. A guest arrives with a framework or a story, and Dr. Cindy keeps tugging it toward symptoms, behavior, and usable insight. Birthday episodes and role reversals with Stephen Coghill add a looser personal layer, giving the show room for travel stories, manners, music, and self-reflection. Sponsor reads and health-product language show up in the texture, so listeners should expect some supplement-world context alongside the editorial conversations. The appeal is the mix: serious wellness topics handled without stiffness, and personal growth talk that is willing to be funny, direct, and imperfect. For midlife listeners especially, it offers a conversational bridge between body knowledge, emotional awareness, and everyday reinvention.

Made for: For listeners interested in midlife wellness, nutrition, personal growth, and practical health conversations that do not stay inside one tidy lane. It especially suits people who like interviews grounded in stories, symptoms, work stress, and everyday decisions.

What sets it apart: The show mixes technical health language with candid banter and lived experience, so minerals, hormones, burnout, productivity, and spirituality can all land in the same conversation. Its strength is making wellness feel less packaged and more like an energetic real-time inquiry.

In their own words

This is a podcast where we sit down with real people and have real conversations about health, wellness, overcoming advsersity and so much more. The conversations are authentic and raw and just like me, a little unfiltered. Tune in every Friday to a new episode of the Positively Altered Podcast!

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Dr. Cindy connects clinical questions with the emotional and workplace habits that shape how health advice lands in daily life.

Dr. Cindy approaches health as a conversation that can move from minerals and hormones to workplace culture, burnout, and personal intentionality.

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Calcium ratios and the meeting where Bob won't stop talking: your idea of wellness gets wider.

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  • someone to question blanket calcium advice before you add another bottle to your shelf
  • a host willing to become the guest when her birthday rolls around
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mineral testing and supplementationwhole person wellnessmidlife wellnessintentionality and mindsetworkplace burnout and coachingproductivity and distractionculture change at workpersonal resilience

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Episode 80: Stop Guessing, Start Testing: Sophie Shepherd on Minerals, Iodine & the Stuff Nobody Told YouApr 17, 2026

A lively mineral conversation that pushes back on lazy supplement habits.

The episode brings Sophie Shepard back to talk through minerals people often treat casually, with calcium getting the sharpest scrutiny. It pushes back on the habit of taking supplements without thinking about ratios, cofactors, or side effects, and that is where the…

Episode #79: Are You the Person Who Lights Up a Room or Drains It? Discover Intentionality with Josh HollandApr 10, 2026

A practical health conversation with personality, momentum, and a clear point of view.

The episode moves across health, physical, spiritual, emotional, personal, and business ground without losing its shape. Its strength is the guest's energy, along with a habit of making ideas like biohacking and grounding feel usable instead of abstract.

Episode # 75: Party Crasher: Stephen Coghill Hijacks the Mic for Dr. Cindy's BirthdayMar 13, 2026

A birthday guest-host swap that turns a health show into a relaxed conversation about manners, travel, and everyday courtesy.

Dr. Cindy steps aside for Stephen Coghill as guest host in a birthday-episode swap centered on her March 9 birthday. The discussion begins with the celebration and then opens into manners, culture, travel, and the ways everyday courtesy can shift from one place to another.

Episode #74: Why Bringing Your Best Self to Work Can BackfireMar 6, 2026

A grounded look at coaching, careful listening, and the value of asking better questions before burnout takes hold.

The episode is strongest when it treats coaching as a habit of noticing what someone is carrying, what they need, and where burnout may be starting to show. Dr.

Episode #73: Daring to Suck: How Change, Culture, and Small Experiments Create the Best Places to WorkFeb 27, 2026

A fake meeting gives leaders a practical way to see and adjust workplace culture.

Workplace change gets a grounded treatment as an Olympic water polo player and coach, with mountain-climbing experience behind him, explains why change can feel threatening and how teams can handle it with more intention.

Episode 72: What If Everything You’ve Been Told About Hormones Is Incomplete—Or Flat-Out Wrong?Feb 20, 2026

A direct hormone conversation that trades misinformation for clinical grounding.

Hormones are handled with a direct, grounded tone, with Dr. Cindy keeping the conversation focused on separating common misinformation from clinical reality. Dr.

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