Why I recommend Theralogix — and why I'm telling you it pays me

There is a version of this post that just tells you Theralogix makes good supplements. That version would be shorter, and it would leave out the part that actually matters.

So let me do it the other way around, and start with the money: I earn a commission when you buy using my referral code. No one is paying me to say this, and Theralogix isn’t sponsoring this show — but I do get a cut when a purchase comes through me, and you should know that before you read another sentence. Now here’s why I’m comfortable putting my name on it anyway, and why I think the money question belongs in a podcast about clinician well-being rather than being tucked into a footnote.

The clinical part

I offered Theralogix products in my own private practice as an Ob/Gyn, and I did that years before I earned a cent from them. That sequence matters. This is not a company that appeared in my inbox with a rate card and a discount code. It’s one I already knew, already used, and already handed to patients.

What I looked for then is what I’d tell any colleague to look for now. Are the formulations backed by research rather than marketing? Is the product independently tested and certified, so what’s on the label is what’s in the bottle? Do other clinicians actually trust it? The supplement aisle is largely unregulated, and “natural” is not a quality standard. Independent verification is the closest thing we have to one.

For the areas I practiced in — preconception and prenatal nutrition, PCOS and inositol, fertility support for both partners — those questions have real answers with Theralogix. That’s the whole clinical case. It isn’t more complicated than that, and I’d be suspicious of anyone who made it sound like it was.

The usual caveats apply, and they’re not boilerplate to me: talk to your own clinician before starting a supplement, particularly if you’re pregnant, nursing, on medication, or managing a condition. Nothing here is a prescription, and nothing here is a guarantee.

The part most physicians won’t say out loud

Here’s the second reason, and the one I suspect is more useful to the people who listen to this show.

This is a side gig. It generates income that does not require me to be standing in a room with a patient.

I’ve spent a season of this podcast arguing that financial pressure is one of the least-discussed drivers of physician distress. On Episode 3, Brian Case put it about as bluntly as it can be put: “I think part of burnout at least is a financial problem, just wearing a different disguise.” On Episode 5, Dr. Neil Roy described building a life he could afford so that he had “the privilege of working, not the requirement to work.”

You cannot make that argument for six episodes and then be squeamish about your own income. If income that doesn’t depend on clinical hours is part of how a physician builds a sustainable career — and I believe it is — then I should be willing to show you one of mine, name the terms, and let you judge it.

I’m not especially good at this yet, incidentally. I have some real estate I’d charitably describe as a work in progress. A referral code is about the least sophisticated version of this there is. I’m learning it in public, which is uncomfortable and probably the point.

Why the disclosure comes first

Physicians are trained to be suspicious of undisclosed financial relationships, and they should be. We know what happens to trust when the money is hidden and later discovered.

So the rule I’m setting for this show, starting here: you will always know when there is a financial relationship, and you’ll know before I make the recommendation, not after. That includes telling you what the relationship isn’t. This one is a referral code — not a sponsorship, not an endorsement deal, and not an arrangement in which anyone reviews or approves what I say. If I stop believing in a product, the code comes down. The honesty doesn’t.

That’s a harder standard than most podcast advertising meets. It’s also the only standard that survives an audience of physicians.

What I’d actually like this to become

Right now this is one company I know well. What I’d like to build is something more useful: a place where clinicians can see what other clinicians are doing to build income outside the exam room, and evaluate it honestly. Some of that is products. A lot of it is other physicians’ side businesses — the ones nobody talks about at work because it feels like admitting the job isn’t enough.

It should be enough. For a lot of us it isn’t, and pretending otherwise is how people end up trapped.

If you have a side gig you’d be willing to talk about on the show — what it is, what it earns, what it cost you to build — I want to hear from you: guests@directwellbeingpodcast.com.

If you want to try them

Theralogix products can be ordered directly from theralogix.com. At checkout you’ll be asked for a PRC (Provider Referral Code) — mine is 558033. That code is what tells them the order came through me, and it’s also what earns me the commission I described at the top. You do not have to use it, and nothing about the product changes if you don’t.