The Healing Place

The Healing Place Nervous System & Cellular Health
For those done chasing symptoms. We solve what conventional medicine misses

09/17/2026

The vagus nerve plays a powerful role in how your body moves between stress and safety — connecting your brain with your heart, lungs, digestive system and more.

Supporting your nervous system doesn’t always require something complicated. Sometimes it starts with slowing your breath, getting outside, moving your body, and giving yourself permission to slow down.

Your body is always communicating. Learning to listen can change everything.

Comment “REGULATE” to learn how we can support your nervous system at The Healing Place.

09/16/2026

Nervous system regulation is built in the small things you choose consistently—how you breathe, how you move, how you nourish your body, how you rest, how you manage stress, and how you support your body’s ability to adapt.

There’s no quick fix for true wellness. It’s about creating rhythms that help your body feel supported, resilient, and balanced over time.

Keep showing up. Keep choosing the habits that pour back into you.

Small, intentional choices become a healthier way of living.

Insulin resistance develops years before fasting glucose moves. Sometimes a decade. That gap is the whole problem with t...
09/16/2026

Insulin resistance develops years before fasting glucose moves. Sometimes a decade. That gap is the whole problem with trying to catch it on a standard annual panel.

By the time glucose is high enough for anyone to comment, you have already passed through the window where this was most workable.

Fasting insulin, HbA1c and the triglyceride to HDL ratio read together give a far earlier picture than glucose alone. That is the testing side of Blood Sugar and Insulin Support, which is new on our list.

The plan that follows is rarely eat less. It is usually about what is in the meal, what order you eat it in, how much muscle you are carrying, and how well you are sleeping. Cortisol raises blood sugar with no food involved at all, which surprises most people.

The Healing Place, Franklin, TN, with patients from Spring Hill and Nolensville.

Dr. Amy Putrus-Schnell, DC CFMP

09/14/2026

Not because anything was wrong. Because we knew what birth does to a brand new nervous system, and we were not going to wait for a symptom to tell us.

River and Sonny have been checked since day one. Not every visit means an adjustment. Most of the time we scan, we look, and the answer is that their system is handling life just fine. That is the whole point. We are watching how they adapt, not chasing problems.

People assume this is about cracking a baby’s back. It is not. It is a light touch, less pressure than you would use to check a tomato for ripeness, on a body that is building its entire stress response in the first few years of life.

We do this for our own kids first. Everything we offer your family, ours has already been through.

Comment REGULATE and we will send you what a first visit looks like for little ones.

A TSH inside the reference range is where a lot of thyroid investigations stop. It is often where they should start.TSH ...
09/14/2026

A TSH inside the reference range is where a lot of thyroid investigations stop. It is often where they should start.

TSH is one marker. Free T3, free T4, reverse T3 and thyroid antibodies can tell a very different story about the same person, and antibodies are the one that gets skipped.

That skip matters. Hashimoto's is the most frequent driver of low thyroid function and it is an immune process, which means it is often active and progressing well before TSH shifts enough to catch anyone's eye. If nobody has run antibodies, the question is still open.

We run the fuller panel at The Healing Place in Franklin, TN. And to be clear, this complements thyroid medication. It does not replace it.

Patients from Brentwood and Middle Tennessee.

Dr. Amy Putrus-Schnell, DC CFMP

It was never about the bones.Every adjustment is a signal to your nervous system: you’re safe, you can stop bracing, you...
09/13/2026

It was never about the bones.

Every adjustment is a signal to your nervous system: you’re safe, you can stop bracing, you can heal.

That’s the connection we’re restoring.

Comment REGULATE for more on how we do it at The Healing Place.

At The Healing Place, you’re more than a symptom, a diagnosis, or a name on a schedule.Dr. Anthony and Dr. Amy genuinely...
09/11/2026

At The Healing Place, you’re more than a symptom, a diagnosis, or a name on a schedule.

Dr. Anthony and Dr. Amy genuinely care about the whole person, how you’re feeling, how you’re functioning, and how your nervous system is supporting you through everyday life.

Their approach is rooted in connection, compassion, and the belief that true wellness goes deeper than simply addressing what hurts. It’s about supporting the body as a whole and creating space for you to feel heard, cared for, and empowered in your health.

Because your health isn’t just about getting through the day.
It’s about feeling well enough to truly live it.

That’s the heart behind The Healing Place.

Your hormones came back normal usually means one blood draw, one morning, one point in a cycle that never stops moving.D...
09/11/2026

Your hormones came back normal usually means one blood draw, one morning, one point in a cycle that never stops moving.

DUTCH testing is now on our service list. It is a dried urine panel collected across a full day. Blood tells you how much of a hormone is present. DUTCH also shows what your body does with it afterwards.

That second part matters more than it sounds. Two women can show near identical estrogen levels and feel completely different, because one is clearing it down a favorable pathway and the other is not. Heavy cycles, tender breasts, PMS creeping earlier every month tend to track with that difference rather than with the raw number.

It maps your cortisol rhythm across the same day, which saves running a separate test.

The Healing Place, Franklin, TN. Women from Cool Springs and Williamson County.

Dr. Amy Putrus-Schnell, DC CFMP

09/10/2026

The time, energy, and intention you pour into your body today can change the way you feel tomorrow.

You don’t have to wait until something feels wrong to start supporting your nervous system and prioritizing your wellness.

Invest in the version of you that feels well, lives fully, and thrives.

Comment “REGULATE” to learn how The Healing Place can support you.

The vagus nerve runs from your brainstem down to your gut and carries traffic both ways. That is the short answer to why...
09/09/2026

The vagus nerve runs from your brainstem down to your gut and carries traffic both ways. That is the short answer to why brain fog and bloating so often show up in the same week.

Most of your serotonin is produced in the gut. Digestion works properly when your nervous system is in a parasympathetic state, which is a technical way of saying that eating standing up, in a rush, between meetings, tends to go badly.

That two-way traffic is also why gut protocols sometimes stall on their own, and why nervous system work sometimes stalls on its own.

Gut-Brain Connection Support is a new service at The Healing Place in Franklin, TN. It sits across both halves of what we do, which is unusual. Most patients with this picture end up running between two clinics that never speak to each other.

Serving Brentwood and Spring Hill.

Dr. Amy Putrus-Schnell, DC CFMP and Dr. Anthony Putrus, DC

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1261 Columbia Avenue
Franklin, TN
37064

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Monday 9am - 12pm
2pm - 5pm
Tuesday 3pm - 6pm
Thursday 3pm - 6pm
Friday 9am - 12pm

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