About The Book

If you are exhausted, gaining weight around the middle, sleeping poorly, losing your edge, or feeling “off” while your labs keep coming back “normal,” this book is your missing roadmap. You’re Not Broken—You’re Unbalanced distills years of front-line clinical work into a clear, clinic-tested framework for restoring hormone balance, metabolic health, and day-to-day vitality—written for both the patient trying to feel like themselves again and the practitioner trying to deliver better results.

Clinician and hormone specialist Travis Woodley, MSN, RN, CRNP, shows how hormone imbalance quietly shapes everyday life in perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause, and andropause/low testosterone in men. He explains the difference between being “in range” and truly optimal, then walks through evidence-informed bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) and testosterone optimization for women and men: when to consider treatment, how to individualize dosing and delivery methods, and how to monitor safely within a clinician’s scope of practice. The goal is not just better lab reports—it is deeper sleep, sharper thinking, steadier mood, better libido, and leaner, more resilient body composition, with long-term protection for the heart and brain.

Beyond hormones, Woodley tackles the tools at the center of today’s metabolic conversation: peptide therapy, GLP-1 medications, gut and mitochondrial health, circadian rhythm, and strength training. He cuts through hype and contradictions to show how these can be integrated into coherent protocols for metabolic health, weight-loss resistance, recovery, and performance—always with an emphasis on quality sourcing, safety, and real-world application in both functional and conventional practice settings.

This is a field manual, not a theory book. Checklists, symptom-to-strategy maps, decision trees, and lab-interpretation guides make the science usable whether you are a patient, a health and fitness coach, or a clinician. The same framework Travis teaches inside the Rebuild Metabolic Health Institute is laid out in plain language, so clinics can adopt a common model for evaluating hormone imbalance, structuring follow-up, and measuring what actually matters over time. Many practices will use You’re Not Broken—You’re Unbalanced as the “owner’s manual” they place in every new patient’s hands—a shared reference that explains why people feel the way they do and how to fix it step by step.

If you live with midlife symptoms that no one has been able to connect—or you lead others through perimenopause, menopause, and low testosterone every day—this book gives you a shared, evidence-informed language and structure. It is designed to sit on exam room desks, in clinic lobbies, on nightstands, and inside coaching programs, and to anchor deeper conversations on stages, in conferences, and on podcasts about hormones, peptides, gut health, weight loss, and metabolic repair.