My Approach

When it comes to our health so many of us are like deer in headlights trying to figure out what path to take.

Because of this, we tend to piecemeal together our approach– getting bloodwork done by your PCP, a few supplements someone suggested on Instagram, a hot yoga class, doing a Whole30 in January after the holidays…the list goes on..but it never leads us to sustainable changes and lasting progress. 

As a human, I’ve done all the things too (ask my husband- he would say I don’t have a shoe problem, I have a wellness problem!). It gets frustrating AND expensive and leads us to feel like we’ll never know WHAT is actually going on- why we aren’t getting pregnant, why we feel such such garbage, why our children are always sick, etc.

Doing all of these things independently never leads to real change because you’ve never sat down with someone to review it ALL and how it’s all INTERCONNECTED.

Your diet, your sleep, your exercise, your stress, your toxic load, your medical history and what you have previously tried ALL contribute to what you’re feeling today.

Like me, you’ve probably focused mostly on diet and exercise to try and improve your health but unfortunately those two only go so far and could actually be contributing to NOT helping you heal. 

Many of us have gone one step further, asking our docs to run blood labs on things like our thyroid or hormones, but were told that “everything is normal” and to focus on getting some exercise and changing our diet (LOL…been there, done that).

Or maybe you have even a functional medicine doctor, but they spend 10 minutes with you and leave you with a laundry list of supplements with no game plan or no end goal in sight.

It’s easy to think that your hormones are the issue, or your thyroid, or your skin problems…but ALL are likely interconnected and influencing one another.

This was HUGE for me. Yes, my adrenals and hormones were tanked, BUT THEY WEREN’T MY ROOT CAUSE. I had to go one step further and look at what was causing them to be so, both in the way I lived my life AND inside my body. 

The beauty of functional lab testing is that it actually allows us to look deeper and find correlations with issues that you may have never realized ARE actually related.

You can continue to dabble with different supplements, treatments, and doctors to try and get relief, but you likely will never get to the root of the problem. For many of us, it takes stepping outside of what culture tells us is “healthy” and stepping inside our own body’s function to learn how to support it at a cellular level.