New Normal Big Life: Functional Medicine and Holistic Health
Recognized as a Top 10 Health & Fitness Podcast by PodMatch. New Normal Big Life is a functional medicine and holistic health podcast for people who feel their body or household slipping — and are ready to take their health back, live longer, and stay strong while they do it.
Hosted by traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor and former Army medic Antoinette Berrafato, The Wellness Warrior. Finding people, passion, and purpose was essential to her healing journey. Doctors, functional medicine clinicians, naturopaths, and researchers join her for plain-language conversations on root-cause medicine, nervous system regulation, longevity, holistic nutrition, and what it actually takes to stay strong when the standard answers fall short.
This show is for 18-to-25-year-olds watching parents age too fast, people past 40 whose bodies changed hard and who want a simpler life they are in charge of, people over 50 who refuse to treat aging as slowing down and giving up what they love, and the veterans, first responders, caregivers, and blue-collar listeners who built the room in the first place. Different lives. Same hunger: more good years, a household that still works when daily life stops being normal, and proof that a stronger life is allowed for an ordinary person.
Get answers from expert guests you’re not getting in your 7-minute doctor appointment. Listeners text the show or reach out on social with their biggest health challenge. We pull an expert from a network of more than 4,000 available guests and build a full episode around that question, with a shoutout to the listener who asked.
We cover the root cause of chronic illness — not just how to manage the symptoms. Expert guests walk through the same steps they use with patients to help people take their health back from chronic illness: why your labs can look fine when you feel terrible, how to settle a nervous system that has been on high alert for years, food and home as natural health solutions, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and brain health, caregiver burnout, disaster preparedness as a health practice, and longevity that starts with how you live — place, food, skill, and medicine that fits you.
This show answers questions like:
* What is functional medicine, and how is it different from conventional care?
* Why am I always tired, no matter how much I sleep?
* What causes chronic inflammation, and how do I fix it naturally?
* How do I stay strong and not age like the people I’m watching?
* How do I regulate my nervous system after trauma or years of stress?
* Why does my doctor keep telling me my labs are normal when I feel terrible?
* How do I depend less on a fragile food, power, or healthcare system?
* What actually helps after traumatic brain injury (TBI), burnout, or a body that stopped cooperating?
If you want real answers, plain language, and a host who has lived it, you are in the right place.
Start here: https://nnbl.blog/podcast/start-here
Disclaimer: For informational not medical advice and should not be treated as such. Always consult your physician or healthcare provider before pursuing any health-related procedure or activity.
New Normal Big Life: Functional Medicine and Holistic Health
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Fan Mail
Antoinette, thank you so much for the great conversation, and this excellent summary. I hope your listeners enjoy it as much as I did!
San Mateo, California
