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Latest Episodes
Why Am I So Irritated All the Time? The Hidden Cause Most Women Miss
Pre-order ADHD and Women by Dr. Jolene Brighten and discover how hormones shape focus, motivation, executive function, and emotional regulation. Have you ever found yourself snapping at your partner, feeling annoyed by your kids, or becoming irrationally frustrated by something as simple as a dirty dish in the sink—and then immediately wondering, What is wrong with me? If so, you're not alone. In …
Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer: What Women Need to Know About Risk, Screening, and Prevention | Jenn Simmons
Pre-order ADHD and Women by Dr. Jolene Brighten and discover how hormones shape focus, motivation, executive function, and emotional regulation. When it comes to hormone therapy and breast cancer, few topics create more confusion, fear, and conflicting information. Women are often told they need to be concerned about breast cancer risk, yet many never receive a nuanced discussion about screening, lifestyle factors, inflammation, …
End Picky Eating: What Parents Need to Know About Nutrients, Gut Health, and Food | Elisa Song
Pre-order ADHD and Women by Dr. Jolene Brighten and discover how hormones shape focus, motivation, executive function, and emotional regulation. Picky eating can feel like a frustrating toddler phase, but what if your child’s narrow food list is actually a clue about zinc status, sensory processing, gut health, stress, sleep, or even the microbiome? In this episode of The Dr. Brighten Show, Dr. …
Articles
Saffron for ADHD and PMDD: Benefits, Dosage & Best Time
Early research suggests saffron may help support some ADHD-related symptoms, including focus, emotional regulation, sleep, and irritability. It may be especially relevant for women whose ADHD symptoms worsen before their period because PMDD and PMS can also affect mood, stress resilience, and neurotransmitter balance. Most studies use about 28–30 mg daily of a standardized saffron extract, often taken in the …
Best Vitamins to Take While on GLP Medications
If you’re taking a GLP-1 medication like Ozempic, Wegovy, or Saxenda, the best supplements to take are usually the ones that help protect muscle, fill nutrient gaps, support hydration, and reduce common side effects like fatigue or constipation. For many people, that means prioritizing protein, a multivitamin, magnesium, electrolytes, and omega-3s. GLP-1 medications have changed the conversation around weight loss …
Benefits of Butyrate: Why This Gut-Healing Molecule Matters for Women’s Health
Fiber might get all the attention when it comes to gut health, but it’s actually just the fuel that helps your gut bacteria produce one of the body’s most powerful anti-inflammatory molecules: butyrate. This short-chain fatty acid butyrate strengthens your gut lining, supports immune health, and even influences your weight. Yet modern diets, stress, and antibiotics leave many women deficient. …
ADHD and Endometriosis: Why Symptoms Overlap and a Smarter Treatment Approach
If you are living with both ADHD and endometriosis, you have likely experienced something that is still widely under-recognized in conventional medicine: your symptoms do not exist in isolation. Instead, they interact in ways that can make both conditions more difficult to manage. You may notice that your ability to focus declines during a flare, that your motivation drops significantly …
Saffron for Endometriosis: How It Can Help With Pain, Mood, and Inflammation
If you’re living with endometriosis, you already know it involves more than having “bad cramps.” Endo also comes along with inflammation, immune dysfunction, hormonal imbalance, and nervous system overload. Additionally, for many women with endometriosis, the condition causes anxiety, low mood, irritability, and exhaustion that can feel nearly impossible to separate from physical pain. And that’s exactly why saffron (yes, …
Magnesium Supplement for PMS: Does It Help With Period Cramps, Mood, and PMDD?
Why does your body feel calm and capable one week, then suddenly tense, bloated, and emotionally raw the next? PMS is one common reason this happens to many women—and it's not only due to rising and falling hormones. The intensity of PMS symptoms that you deal with also depends on how your nervous system, muscles, and inflammatory pathways respond to …
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What others say
Dr. Brighten's work is so important for women's health. Whenever women with thyroid, menstrual or fertility issues come to work with Dr. Brighten they find have better periods, feel better, they have more energy and in many cases they are able to reverse their conditions. I highly recommend Dr. Brighten's work.Dr. Izabella Wentz, Thyroid Pharmacist, NYT Best Selling Author of Hashimoto's Protocol
Dr. Jolene Brighten is a powerful force supporting women’s health and well-being. In a world where oral contraceptives are doled out like candy, Dr. Brighten guides women through reestablishing hormonal balance and reclaiming their lives. This book will help countless women in great need.Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, author of The Dirt Cure- If you are a woman and you are dealing with hormone issues, adrenal issues or a thyroid condition then this is your go-to doctor. Her clinic will help you restore your hormones, get your energy back and improve your period. I have been recommending my readers to her for many years because she gets the results that you are desiring.Dr. Mariza Snyder, Best Selling Author
Dr. Jolene Brighten and her women health clinics help women address their hormone imbalances and autoimmune disease by getting to the root cause.Dr. Trevor Cates, Spa Doctor, Best Selling Author- Dr. Brighten is someone I look to help me often with patients that I have questions about with women's health issues. I find that her wisdom and knowledge of women's health is unparalleled. I really value her expertise.Dr. Alejandra Carrsaco Functional Medicine MD
Dr. Brighten's work is so important for women's health. Whenever women with thyroid, menstrual or fertility issues come to work with Dr. Brighten they find have better periods, feel better, they have more energy and in many cases they are able to reverse their conditions. I highly recommend Dr. Brighten's work.Dr. Izabella Wentz, Thyroid Pharmacist, NYT Best Selling Author of Hashimoto's Protocol
Dr. Jolene Brighten is a powerful force supporting women’s health and well-being. In a world where oral contraceptives are doled out like candy, Dr. Brighten guides women through reestablishing hormonal balance and reclaiming their lives. This book will help countless women in great need.Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, author of The Dirt Cure
If you are a woman and you are dealing with hormone issues, adrenal issues or a thyroid condition then this is your go-to doctor. Her clinic will help you restore your hormones, get your energy back and improve your period. I have been recommending my readers to her for many years because she gets the results that you are desiring.Dr. Mariza Snyder, Best Selling Author
Dr. Jolene Brighten and her women health clinics help women address their hormone imbalances and autoimmune disease by getting to the root cause.Dr. Trevor Cates, Spa Doctor, Best Selling Author
Dr. Brighten is someone I look to help me often with patients that I have questions about with women's health issues. I find that her wisdom and knowledge of women's health is unparalleled. I really value her expertise.Dr. Alejandra Carrsaco Functional Medicine MD