Dr Emily's Wellness Hub
Welcome to Dr Emily’s Wellness Hub — where ancestral nutrition meets modern functional medicine to bring real transformation to everyday life.
Join Dr Emily Franklin, a holistic nutritionist, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, and functional medicine practitioner with over 25 years of clinical experience, as she shares practical ways to restore energy, calm inflammation, and optimize metabolism while addressing hormonal imbalances, autoimmunity, histamine sensitivity, mood challenges, and chronic stress and fatigue.
Simple steps. Sustainable change. Real transformation.
Episodes
12 episodes
How Healthy Is Your Metabolism?
How healthy is your metabolism?It’s a question that feels easy to answer—especially if you feel pretty good and your labs are “within range.” But when you look at it a different way, those same everyday signals can start to tell a much b...
The Healthiest Milk? A Physiological Ranking from Best to Worst
Milk feels like a simple choice.But once it’s inside your body, different milks behave very differently.In this episode, I rank the most common dairy and non-dairy milks from most supportive to least supportive — based on how they...
Are You Getting Enough Protein? Here's How To Tell
This is one of the most common nutrition questions people have. In this episode, we talk through how you can understand your protein needs from a vitality-optimizing perspective, and how to approach protein in a way that’s realistic...
Your Real Age: What Really Determines How Old Your Body Feels
How old your body feels does not always match your biological age.Some days you feel energized, focused, and capable. Other days, everything feels harder than it should. That difference has clear reasons behind it — and it is far more fl...
What Most New Year's Resolutions Miss
January often begins with hope and intention — and for many people, it ends in frustration.In this episode, Dr. Emily Franklin explores why most New Year’s resolutions struggle to last, even when motivation is strong. The issue is not di...
The 10 Best Supplements for A New Kind of New Year
The new year often begins with pressure — pressure to change habits, cut things out, tighten up, get it together. But most people enter January already carrying a lot of fatigue from the holidays and the year behind them. In this episode, I off...
Why You Suddenly React To Foods You Have Eaten For Years
Why does your body begin reacting to foods you’ve eaten for years?The answer lies in slow, layered changes inside your digestive tract and immune system — changes that build quietly over years, until they reach a tipping point.
The Story Behind Your Sleep
Why do some nights feel peaceful while others pull you awake at midnight, at 3 a.m., or long before sunrise? In this episode, we explore what your nighttime patterns reveal about your physiology. From early-night alertness, to 2 a.m. wake-ups, ...
How Blood Sugar Shapes Your Energy, Focus, and Digestion
Blood sugar influences so much of your day — your energy, your ability to focus, how your digestion feels, and even how easily you respond to stress.In this episode, we explore what your system is doing behind the scenes as blood sugar r...
Metabolism: The Conversation Within
Metabolism isn’t just about calories — it’s the dynamic system that keeps your brain, hormones, immune cells, and gut in constant conversation. In this episode, Dr. Emily Franklin reveals what metabolism really is, why it s...
What Really Happens During Inflammation — and Why It Matters
Inflammation is one of your body’s most powerful repair systems — a built-in signal that activates restoration and renewal.In this episode, Dr Emily Franklin unpacks what happens when inflammation begins, how it shifts from short-term re...
Welcome to the Wellness Hub Podcast
Welcome to Dr Emily’s Wellness Hub Podcast — a space to explore the deeper whys behind health, healing, and what it truly means to feel well in the modern world.In this opening episode, Dr Emily shares the core philosophies that shape he...