Recognized as a Top 10 Health & Fitness Podcast by PodMatch. New Normal Big Life is a functional medicine and holistic health podcast for veterans, first responders, blue-collar workers, and caregivers who feel their minds and bodies slipping after years of stress and hard work — and are ready to reclaim their health and energy.
Hosted by TBI survivor and former Army medic Antoinette Berrafato, also known as The Wellness Warrior, this show brings doctors, functional medicine clinicians, naturopaths, and researchers into plain-language conversations about nervous system regulation, caregiver burnout, root cause medicine, veteran mental health, holistic nutrition, and what it actually takes to reclaim your health after years of stress, service, and survival.
We cover the full world of functional and natural health: root cause medicine and how it differs from the conventional care that keeps brushing you off, nervous system regulation and trauma recovery for people whose bodies have been running on high alert for years, caregiver burnout and what recovery actually looks like, TBI and brain health after military service and injury, holistic nutrition and natural protocols for chronic illness, and disaster preparedness as a health practice.
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If you want real answers, plain language, and a host who has lived it, you are in the right place.
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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.
Dr. Francisco Contreras, MD, is a pioneer leader in integrative oncology, and the medical Director of oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana Mexico. For more than three decades, he has carried forward the vision of his father, Dr. Ernesto Contreras Sr., blending conventional cancer treatments with nutrition, emotional support, and spiritual care to create a holistic healing model.