Hormones, SSRIs & the Root Cause Crisis with Drs. Mark & Michele Sherwood
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
You guys sent in some amazing questions for this Fan Mail Friday with Drs. Mark and Michelle Sherwood. We talked about everything from hormones, eczema, endometriosis, and peptides to gut health, sciatica, anxiety, and the growing concern over long-term SSRI use.
This episode is really about getting to the root cause instead of just masking symptoms. If you’ve been struggling to find answers, feeling dismissed, or wondering if there’s a better path forward for your health, I think this conversation is going to encourage you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast. You guys are in for a treat today because my friends, doctors Mark and Michelle Sherwood, are joining me back on the show. We have a whole bunch of listener questions. This is fan mail Friday. We're doing it just for you. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:35.7 | Thank you guys for tuning in today. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm going to jump right in because we have so many things to talk about. One of the most requested guests that I have ever had here in the decade now that I've been doing this is Dr.'s Mark and Michelle Sherwood. You guys are always sending us questions and they're here today to answer them. Hey guys. Oh my goodness. You're so cute. Good to see you. It is awesome to see you. |
| 1:03.3 | It's so good to see you. Okay, I'm going to jump in because we have a ton of questions and I'm going to see if we can get through most of them. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm going to start from Grace in Indiana who says she's a longtime listener, heard an episode a couple years ago around Christmas and moon brew hot chocolate and our family has loved it. It looks like they recently changed their ingredients, wah, |
| 1:18.1 | to include malto dextrin. Is this an ingredient we should be concerned with? If so, |
| 1:23.9 | do you have any others, Dr. Mark and Michelle approved products that actually taste good? |
| 1:30.3 | What is that? |
| 1:31.4 | Malto dextrin? |
| 1:32.6 | I don't even know what that is. |
| 1:34.2 | Well, |
| 1:34.4 | maltodextrin is actually, |
| 1:36.3 | it's a form of a sugar that actually does come from wheat starch, |
| 1:40.0 | potato starch, |
| 1:41.3 | and other forms of starch, |
| 1:43.4 | and it can have an effect on blood sugar, which |
| 1:48.2 | not necessarily a good thing if we're doing it to go to sleep at night. |
| 1:52.4 | We're trying insulin suppressed and not elevated when we wake up in the morning. |
| 1:58.3 | So, of course, there are other things that you can look at, things that, |
| 2:02.4 | you know, you turn the label over and look to see if there's things like stevia in there |
| 2:06.3 | that does not have an effect on blood sugar. There's a product out, I believe it's by designs |
| 2:11.3 | for health that's called Dream. And Dream has much the same kind of flavor and taste, but it does not have maltodextrin or dextrose in it. |
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