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For women who are done feeling tired, foggy and “fine.” Functional nutrition for clearer thinking, steadier energy, calmer digestion and the confidence of feeling at home in your body again.

09/19/2026

Follow for functional nutrition that goes deeper than “take a probiotic.”

H. pylori is not something I’d “manage around” forever.

If it’s there, I’m thinking about what helps reduce the load, protect the stomach lining, improve tolerance to treatment, correct the deficiencies it can create and, most importantly, confirm that it’s actually gone.

That can mean:

broccoli sprouts / sulforaphane-rich foods
specific probiotics like S. boulardii
zinc carnosine
NAC when appropriate
less ultra-processed, high-salt food
correcting low iron + B12
supporting regular bowel movements
and retesting with breath or stool testing after treatment

None of that means pretending H. pylori doesn’t need proper eradication when treatment is indicated.

The goal is not to live on a “gut protocol.”

The goal is to fix the problem, rebuild the terrain and know whether it worked.

Follow for functional nutrition that goes deeper than “take a probiotic.”

09/19/2026

Comment OPTIMAL if you know you have Hashimoto’s but nobody has helped you look beyond your thyroid labs.

Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune problem first. So if your thyroid antibodies are high, I’m not just staring at TSH and calling it a day.

I’m looking at what may be keeping the immune system turned up:

Vitamin D in the basement.
Not enough selenium, or way too much iodine.
Low ferritin, B12 or folate.
Blood sugar all over the place.
Chronic under-eating.
A diet that’s keeping inflammation high.
Celiac disease that nobody looked for.
H. pylori or ongoing gut issues.
EBV when the history actually points there.
Constipation. Poor sleep. Chronic stress. No recovery.

Because you probably don’t need another bottle labelled THYROID SUPPORT.

You need to figure out which pieces are actually relevant to your autoimmune picture and work on those.

And no, a lower antibody number doesn’t automatically mean Hashimoto’s is “cured.” But I’m also not interested in watching antibodies climb for years while only asking whether your TSH is still in range.

Comment OPTIMAL if you know you have Hashimoto’s but nobody has helped you look beyond your thyroid labs.

09/17/2026

If you’re tired of being told everything is “fine” when you very clearly do not feel fine, comment OPTIMAL and I’ll send you the next step.

Not to be dramatic, but if you’re in your 40s dealing with hair shedding, stubborn weight gain, 3am waking, bloating, heavier periods, crashing energy or feeling like your body suddenly became five different problems at once…

I would not assume they are five separate problems.

And I definitely would not stop at:

“Your bloodwork is normal.”

There are times when the next useful piece of information is not another basic panel.

It might be a deeper look at iron status.
Insulin.
Thyroid.
Hormones.
Gut function.
Nutrient status.
Or targeted functional testing depending on the pattern.

The point is not to order every test under the sun.

The point is to know which question you’re trying to answer first.

Because the woman with hair loss + heavy periods may need a completely different investigation than the woman with hair loss + insulin resistance.

Same symptom. Different reason.

This is the work I do inside The Optimal Edit.

I look at the timeline, the symptoms, the labs, what has already been tried, and then decide what is actually worth testing next.

If you’re tired of being told everything is “fine” when you very clearly do not feel fine, comment OPTIMAL and I’ll send you the next step.

**Comment “OPTIMAL” if your ferritin is low, keeps dropping, or you’re tired of being told your bloodwork is “fine” when...
09/17/2026

**Comment “OPTIMAL” if your ferritin is low, keeps dropping, or you’re tired of being told your bloodwork is “fine” when you very clearly do not feel fine.**

Low ferritin is not the interesting part.

**Why it’s low is.**

Because two women can both have ferritin of 22 and need completely different plans.

One may be losing too much iron every month from heavy periods.

One may not be eating enough iron-rich food.

One may be taking iron every morning with coffee and wondering why nothing is moving.

One may have gut issues affecting absorption.

One may have H. pylori, celiac, low stomach acid, nutrient deficiencies, thyroid issues, or a whole bunch of things happening at the same time.

And this is why I don’t love the advice:

**“Just take iron.”**

Maybe iron is part of the answer.

But I also want to know:

Why did the tank get empty?
Why isn’t it filling back up?
What else is getting in the way?
What does the rest of your bloodwork show?
What are your periods doing?
What is your gut doing?
What symptoms have you been brushing off for years?

Then we build the plan around **your actual reason**.

That might involve food.
Iron.
Digestive support.
B vitamins.
Copper.
Thyroid support.
Hormone support.
Gut work.
Changing how and when you take your supplements.

And then we **retest** so we know whether the plan is actually working instead of throwing another bottle in the supplement drawer and hoping for the best.

Knowing your ferritin is low is the easy part.

**Connecting the dots is the work.**

That’s what I do inside **The Optimal Edit**.

If you feel overloaded with information, have a folder full of bloodwork and still don’t know what the hell to do next, **comment “OPTIMAL” and I’ll send you the next step to work with me.**

09/15/2026

Remember My Strange Addiction when people were eating chalk, clay, sand… and we all just sat there like 😳

Here’s the part I wish they had talked about more:

That urge to eat things that are not food is called pica — and one of the first things it makes me think about is iron deficiency.

Especially if it’s happening alongside things like:

Hair shedding
Restless legs
Feeling freezing
Heart pounding on stairs
Shortness of breath
Headaches
Dizziness
Heavy periods
Bone-deep fatigue
Or chewing ice like it’s a full-time job

Pica does not automatically mean anemia.

But if a woman suddenly tells me the sidewalk chalk is looking a little too delicious, I’m not just telling her to stop eating chalk. 😂

I want to know what her:

CBC
Ferritin
Serum iron
TIBC / transferrin
Transferrin saturation

…actually look like.

And then the bigger question:

Why are her iron stores low in the first place?

Heavy bleeding?
Poor absorption?
GI issues?
Low intake?
Something else?

Because sometimes the “weird symptom” is actually a pretty damn useful clue.

Millennials: did you watch those TLC shows too? And please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers the sand-eating episodes. 😭

Follow for the weird midlife health stuff nobody bothered to connect for you.

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