Below Her Surface

Below Her Surface hosted by Lily Cook, founder of Metaphysical Wellness, dedicated to unpacking the clinical and human realities of health. Cut through the noise and guesswork with conversations that feature health experts, women in business and lifestyle, and individuals with lived insight - delivering accessible, science-grounded information you can actually use. From hormones to mindset to biology - no trends, no fluff, just what works.

Below Her Surface is a health podcast hosted by Lily Cook, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Lily Cook hosts Below Her Surface, a health show with 33 episodes published.

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  Organic, Regenerative & the Meal Delivery Gap: How Good Farm Shop Is Changing What Ends Up on Your Plate

  Jul 5, 202632 min

  In this episode of Below Her Surface, Lily sits down with Matilda Brown, co-founder of Good Farm Shop, Australia's first regenerative and organic ready meal delivery service. What started as a Covid-lockdown cow share on her parents' farm has grown into a kitchen in Brookvale producing hand-cooked meals from regeneratively farmed ingredients, delivered to your door. This conversation pulls back the curtain on where food actually comes from before it reaches your plate and why that starting point matters more than most people realise. Matilda and Lily cut through the packaged food marketing, the $10 meal economics, and the gap between what the wellness space talks about and what ends up in most people's fridges. In this episode, Lily and Matilda explore: The three farming systems: what separates industrial, conventional, and regenerative farming, why glyphosate and synthetic fertilisers are the norm, and what no chemical inputs actually means for the food you eat Soil health and carbon sequestration: why regenerative farming prioritises the ground beneath the animal, and why that has a direct line to the nutrient density of the food The $10 ready meal problem: why price point is the most honest indicator of ingredient quality, and what has to be compromised to hit it The cow share origin: how a family farm, a Covid lockdown, and a lot of leftover chuck mince accidentally became a business The mobile abattoir: how Good Farm Shop bypasses commercial processing and what that means for animal welfare and provenance From vegan to regenerative: Matilda's personal relationship with food, how seven years of veganism ended with a slow-cooked lamb, and why ethical sourcing was the answer she didn't know existed Building a food business from scratch: markets, Waitrose inspiration, a Brookvale kitchen, and a team of 13 For the woman who wants to eat well and actually understand where her food comes from. Find Matilda Brown & The Good Farm Shop: Website: thegoodfarmshop.com Instagram: @thegoodfarm.shop Connect with Lily Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @lilycook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apply to work with Lily⁠⁠⁠⁠ Clinical Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The content shared by Lily Cook and guests reflects general education and personal experience, not a clinical consultation. Always consult a qualified healthcare practitioner before making changes to your health protocol. This episode contains a personal discussion of disordered eating including restrictive eating and bulimia. If any of this resonates with you or someone you know, support is available.

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  Lymphatic Drainage, Gut Health & Chronic Inflammation: What the "Skinny Massage" Marketing Gets Wrong

  Jun 21, 202641 min

  In this episode of Below Her Surface , Lily sits down with Karena Elchaar, lymphatic drainage therapist and beauty therapist, founder of Upfront Glow, to pull apart one of the most misrepresented treatments in the women's wellness space. This conversation moves beyond the before-and-after aesthetics that dominate lymphatic content online. Lily and Karena cut through the marketing noise, the "get skinny" promises, the deep-pressure myths, the one-treatment fixes and reframe lymphatic drainage for what it actually is: a filtration and immune support system that, when chronically sluggish, shows up as bloating, fluid retention, fatigue, and gut dysfunction. The kind of symptoms women are told are just hormonal, just stress, just how their body is. In this episode, Lily and Karena explore: The lymphatic system as filtration, not aesthetics : why your lymph nodes, vessels, and ducts are doing far more than reducing puffiness, and what happens when the system stalls Deep pressure versus true lymphatic drainage : why the lymphatic system is superficial in the body, and why harder pressure is passing straight through it The "not regular" gut pattern : why so many women presenting with chronic bloating and constipation are missing the lymphatic piece entirely Oestrogen, PCOS, and fluid retention : how excess oestrogen accumulation shows up in the lymphatic system and what to look for Movement as a lymphatic pump : why the system has no heart driving it, and which daily movements (walking, rebounding, deep breathing, calf raises) actually shift fluid The root cause question : why coming every two weeks without addressing why you're inflamed is a treatment strategy, not a solution How to vet a practitioner : why "lymphatic drainage" is unregulated, what qualifications to look for, and the red flags that signal someone's had a two-day course This episode is for the woman who has tried everything on the surface and is ready to look at what's actually backing her up below it. Karena Elchaar Instagram:⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠@bronteglow⁠ Website: ⁠Bronte Glow⁠ Connect with Lily Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ @lilycook⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apply to work with Lily⁠⁠ Clinical Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. The content shared by Lily Cook and guests reflects general education and professional experience, not a clinical consultation. Always consult a qualified healthcare practitioner before making changes to your health protocol.

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  Hashimoto's, ADHD & PMDD: Why Your Hormones Are Doing Two Different Things at Once

  Jun 14, 202655 min

  In this episode of Below Her Surface, Lily sits down with Claire Luckman, accredited Naturopath and Nutritionist with close to a decade in clinical practice, trained under the Metaphysical Wellness model and now working with women online in Australia and internationally. This conversation cuts through the noise on three of the most mismanaged conditions in women's health. Claire and Lily pull back the curtain on why Hashimoto's keeps getting worse despite clean eating, why PMDD and ADHD are far more tangled than either diagnosis suggests, and why the blanket reach for progesterone, natural or pharmaceutical, can actively make things worse before it makes them better. In this episode, Lily and Claire explore: Hashimoto's and autoimmunity why prevalence is rising, what's actually triggering genetic expression, and why autoimmune thyroid dominates Claire's weekly caseload Gluten and thyroid inflammation the molecular reason gluten adds fuel to an active antibody fire, not just the clinical rationale Dairy, casein and neuroinflammation how casomorphines drive opioid-like brain responses, and why this matters for ADHD and ASD as much as Hashimoto's PMDD and the ADHD crossover the research linking both diagnoses, and why the second half of the cycle can be debilitating when they co-exist Serotonin and oestrogen through the cycle why follicular phase feels functional and luteal phase derails, mapped mechanistically Oestrogen metabolism vs oestrogen levels why a serum oestrogen result tells you almost nothing about dominance, clearance, or what's driving the imbalance DUTCH testing over blood snapshots when hormone metabolite profiling changes clinical strategy entirely, and when it doesn't need to come first Fasting, cortisol and thyroid why the intermittent fasting evidence base was built on men, and what it does to women already running on stress hormones Advocating within the Medicare system how to ask for thorough testing without antagonising your GP, and why women are still being dismissed in 2026 North star: the most complex cases have a pattern, and it starts with a proper map, not a protocol borrowed from someone else's biology. Claire Luckman Instagram:⁠ ⁠⁠ @claireluckman_naturopath Connect with Lily Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠ @lilycook⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Apply to work with Lily⁠⁠ Disclaimer: The content shared in this episode is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your diet, supplementation, or health protocol.

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  Endometriosis, IVF & The 50% Statistic: What Most Women Are Never Told About Fertility

  Jun 7, 202636 minS0

  <p>In part two of this special series, Lily is rejoined by her mum and clinical naturopath Amanda Haberecht to tackle the second round of community questions, this time focused entirely on the intersection of endometriosis and fertility. Amanda runs Darling Health, a multidisciplinary clinic with a significant endometriosis and fertility caseload, and brings clinical pattern recognition that most women never get access to.</p><p>This conversation moves beyond the binary of "endo means infertility" to look at what the data actually says, what specialists disagree on, and which testing pathways shorten a woman's road to answers. Lily and...

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  A Body Running on Cortisol: Overtraining, Amenorrhoea & the Protocol That Got Ella Pregnant

  Jun 7, 202636 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Below Her Surface, Lily sits down with long-time client and friend Ella Iskander: founder of a fast-growing content and marketing agency, and someone who spent the better part of a decade overtraining, undereating, and running on cortisol while her body quietly shut down the systems that matter most.</p><p>This conversation moves beyond surface-level wellness and pulls back the curtain on what chronic overtraining and undereating actually does to a woman's hormones and what it takes to reverse it.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Lily and Ella explore:</p>Not having...

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