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10/18/2026

Are there things about being 25 that I’d like to have back? Sure, being able to stay up past 10 pm comes to mind. 😂

But I have absolutely no interest in spending the next several decades wishing I could turn back the clock.

I reject the idea that 25 was peak anything.

I’d much rather focus on how good I can feel at 45. And 55. And 65.

I have places I want to go. Things I want to experience. Memories I haven’t made yet.

I’m much more interested in feeling good enough to enjoy every bit of it.

There is a whole side of chronic health struggles that nobody talks about that has nothing to do with the physical sympt...
10/16/2026

There is a whole side of chronic health struggles that nobody talks about that has nothing to do with the physical symptoms themselves.

It’s the mental exhaustion of constantly trying to figure out what is wrong with you, and feeling like you have to become an expert in your own health because nobody else seems particularly interested in figuring it out. You start researching things you never thought you’d need to know about, desperately trying to connect dots that nobody else seems to be connecting. You find yourself wondering how it’s possible to feel this terrible when you’re being told everything looks fine.

As a provider, the part that really bothers me is how normal we’ve made this. We’ve somehow accepted that people can spend YEARS feeling unwell, bouncing between appointments, being told their labs are normal, and eventually just being left to figure it out themselves.

That right there is the part I have a problem with.

I firmly believe that the person who is already exhausted from not feeling well should not ALSO have to carry the entire responsibility of figuring out why.

You deserve someone who is willing to look at the bigger picture, ask better questions, and actually help you make sense of what you’re experiencing.

You shouldn’t have to become your own health detective just to be taken seriously. And most importantly, you shouldn’t have to figure it out alone.

Hey, hi, and hello to everyone I ran into today! 👋🏻😂🫶🏻🎉 Always love seeing so many familiar faces out and about!
10/15/2026

Hey, hi, and hello to everyone I ran into today! 👋🏻😂🫶🏻🎉 Always love seeing so many familiar faces out and about!

10/13/2026

Comment PATTERNS if you’re tired of trying to figure out your health on your own. I’ll tell you how we approach things differently.

One thing we see all the time is that when you’re the one experiencing something every single day, it’s really hard to step outside of it and look at the bigger picture. You’re so focused on trying to figure out what each individual symptom means that it’s easy to miss how things might be connected.

If you want to get ahead of this cycle, here are a couple of things I’d encourage you to try:

—Stop looking at every symptom as a completely separate problem that needs its own solution.
—Start paying attention to patterns. What things show up around the same time? What makes things better or worse?

Sometimes just changing the way you’re looking at a problem can help you start asking better questions.

This is a big part of what we do at Optimum Wellness Solutions. We spend time listening to the whole story, looking for patterns, and helping people make sense of things that haven’t made sense to them before.

Sometimes all you’re missing is that outside perspective.

More information doesn’t always get us closer to an answer. Sometimes you just need someone to help you look at the information you already have a little differently.

10/08/2026

I think one of the things that gets overlooked when we talk about chronic health issues is just how much mental space they take up, even when you’re not actively dealing with the symptoms themselves.

When you’ve spent years trying to figure out what is wrong, your health becomes this ongoing project that you never really get to put down. You can spend an enormous amount of time and money doing all the things and still feel like you’re no closer to understanding your own body.

I think a lot of women have gotten so used to carrying that responsibility that they don’t even realize how much of it they’ve taken on. Somehow they became the person responsible for researching every possibility, keeping track of recommendations, and figuring out which of the conflicting opinions they’ve been given actually makes sense.

But I don’t think that should be your job.

There’s a difference between being an active participant in your own care and feeling like you’re the only person responsible for figuring the whole thing out.

When you work with us, I want you to feel like you finally have someone helping you carry that responsibility. Someone on your team who is looking at the whole picture, helping you understand what we’re prioritizing, and figuring out what to do next when something isn’t working the way we expected.

Feeling better physically is an important goal, but it’s not the only goal I care about. I also want you to get back some of the time and energy you’ve been spending trying to solve your own health problems.

That starts with being able to leave an appointment knowing you don’t have to figure out the next step all by yourself.

If you’ve spent years feeling like you’re the only person trying to connect the dots in your health, comment PATTERNS and I’ll tell you what we look at differently in our office.

This is why I don’t get particularly excited when someone tells me they had a $1200 specialty panel run before they came...
10/06/2026

This is why I don’t get particularly excited when someone tells me they had a $1200 specialty panel run before they came to see me.

The question isn’t how much testing you’ve had done. The question is whether any of it helped your practitioner narrow down what your body actually needed.

This client came in with gut symptoms she had seen 5 practitioners for before me. We found some specific support for her gut (that would actually work this time) and narrowed her protocol down to 3 things instead of 11.

She felt better within 2 weeks.

More testing would not have automatically gottn her there. More supplements would not have automatically gotten her there.

The thing that changed the case was finally figuring out what mattered.

If you’ve already tried functional medicine and you’re wondering what everybody has been missing, commend ME and I’ll DM you.

10/06/2026

By the time a lot of women get to my office, they know more about their health than they ever wanted to know.

They’ve spent years trying to figure out what is wrong, more than they want to talk about on specialty testing, worked with multiple so-called functional providers, read everything they can find about their symptoms, and probably have a cabinet full of supplements they bought because at some point someone told them each one was going to help.

And somehow, after all of that, they still don’t really know what is wrong.

That right there is the part I have a problem with.

You already have tons of information. And, in fact, you are drowning in it.

What you need is someone who can look at the whole picture and start narrowing it down for you.

When someone comes into my office with years of symptoms and testing behind her, I’m not trying to find every single thing in her body that could possibly be less than perfect. I’m trying to figure out what actually matters right now. What is the pattern underneath all of these symptoms? Where does it make the most sense to start? What can we prioritize that might explain several of the things she has been chasing separately for years?

I insist that good functional medicine should not make your health feel more complicated. I think it should finally start making things make sense.

You shouldn’t leave your fifth practitioner with another giant folder of information and an even longer list of things you’re supposed to fix, half of them conflicting with what the last person told you. You should leave with a clearer understanding of what we’re working on, why we’re working on it, and what actually matters right now.

If you have all the testing, all the supplements, all the information and still don’t feel like anyone has actually made sense of your case, comment PATTERNS and I’ll send you what we look at differently.

10/05/2026

I mean, if you want to call it influencing, I guess. 😂

The real reason I keep showing up on the internet talking about this stuff is because I know how many women are out there thinking the way they feel is just something they have to live with.

I know that because I talk to them every single day in my practice.

Women who have been told everything looks fine after spending years trying to figure out what’s going on with their bodies. Women who have tried all the things and have slowly started to believe maybe this is just how they feel now.

I want more women to know that doesn’t have to be where the conversation ends.

There are other ways to look at your health and there are always other questions we can ask. Your body is capable of a whole lot more than you may have been led to believe.

So if making videos on the internet helps that message reach a few thousand more women?

Yeah. I’ll keep doing it.

If you’ve been looking for someone who talks about health a little differently, follow along. You’re exactly who I’m here for. 🫶🏻

10/03/2026

Functional medicine isn’t the problem, but I do think a lot of what gets called functional medicine is the exact same approach women are already frustrated with, just with different testing and a much bigger supplement bill.

I see women all the time who have already spent thousands of dollars trying to figure out what is wrong. They’ve had tons of specialty testing, worked with multiple so-called functional providers, and they’ve been incredibly compliant with whatever they were told to do. Then they walk into my office taking 12 or 15 different supplements but still have no idea what anyone thinks is actually causing their symptoms.

That right there is the part I have a problem with.

If you have fatigue, anxiety, digestive issues, hormone changes, headaches, inflammation and a cycle that suddenly feels completely different than it did five years ago, I don’t think the answer is automatically finding a supplement for each one of those things. I want to know why all of those things are happening in the same person at the same time.

That is the pattern.

When we work with someone, we’re looking at the entire case and trying to figure out which systems are actually under stress and what could be driving that dysfunction underneath. Sometimes symptoms that have been treated separately for years start making a whole lot more sense when you stop treating them like separate problems.

That also why most of our new clients don’t leave with 12 new bottles. I’m not interested in giving you more things to take just because we can. I want the things we recommend to have a reason for being there, based on what we actually found when we assessed your body.

Functional medicine should be helping you make more sense of your health, not leaving you with a more expensive version of the same confusion you walked in with.

If you’ve done every lab, taken supplements, followed the protocols and you’re still wondering what everyone is missing, comment PATTERNS and I’ll send you what we actually look at when we assess a case like yours.

09/29/2026

If you are tired of being written off by providers who aren’t testing the right things, comment ME and I will DM you.

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