Nourishing Ways Center

Nourishing Ways Center I am a functional medicine dietitian with 20 years experience. Massage therapy is also available by appointment.

We help clients get to the root cause whether it is gut or metabolic or weight issues by using lifestyle, nutritional supplementation, and testing. Nourishing Ways Center offers a customized, one-on-one nutritional counseling program using a functional approach which addresses you as a whole person and identifies the cause of your illness, without just covering up your symptoms.

This is some other assessments that can be done to get to the bottom of anxiety.
06/07/2026

This is some other assessments that can be done to get to the bottom of anxiety.

These are some helpful testing that can get to the root cause and a lot of times just doing a stool test can tell a lot ...
06/04/2026

These are some helpful testing that can get to the root cause and a lot of times just doing a stool test can tell a lot and when you fix the gut, you can help the anxiety go away.

This is why I love working with clients from a gut perspective. It helps so many areas of the body, even anxiety, depre...
06/03/2026

This is why I love working with clients from a gut perspective. It helps so many areas of the body, even anxiety, depression...

Anxiety can be one of these 4 things.đź“ŚMetabolic anxietyWorst before meals, mid-morning around 10 or 11am, and mid-to-lat...
06/01/2026

Anxiety can be one of these 4 things.

đź“ŚMetabolic anxiety
Worst before meals, mid-morning around 10 or 11am, and mid-to-late afternoon. Comes with physical symptoms like heart pounding, shakiness, and a sudden urgency around food. Often misidentified as generalized anxiety or panic.

The root is reactive hypoglycemia and blood sugar instability. Adrenaline releases as a counter-regulatory hormone when glucose drops, and the physiological experience of adrenaline is indistinguishable from anxiety.

đź“ŚInflammatory anxiety
More diffuse and harder to pin to a specific time. Accompanied by brain fog, fatigue, low motivation, and a flat mood. Often co-presents with a history of gut issues, autoimmune conditions, or chronic infections.

The root is neuroinflammation driven by inflammatory cytokines crossing the blood-brain barrier and disrupting neurotransmitter synthesis and receptor function.

đź“ŚHPA-axis anxiety
Follows the cortisol curve. Highest in the morning, often with a racing mind and difficulty settling into the day. May include a secondary spike in the evening with wired-but-tired insomnia.

Driven by a dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, often from chronic stress, poor sleep, or a history of acute stress events that altered the setpoint of the stress response system.

đź“ŚHormonal anxiety
Cyclical and predictable in premenopausal women. Intensifies in the luteal phase, particularly the 7 to 10 days before menstruation, and at perimenopause.

Driven by estrogen fluctuations that affect GABA receptor sensitivity, serotonin synthesis, and allopregnanolone, the progesterone metabolite that acts directly on GABA-A receptors and produces a calming effect. When progesterone and allopregnanolone drop, GABA signaling drops with them.

Most people have more than one type running simultaneously. The investigation tells us which is dominant and where to start.

Even 1-2 times a week of drinking alcohol can affect areas of the body.
05/29/2026

Even 1-2 times a week of drinking alcohol can affect areas of the body.

❌You are not hungry all the time because you lack willpower.You may have dysregulated hunger hormones that are sending y...
05/28/2026

❌You are not hungry all the time because you lack willpower.

You may have dysregulated hunger hormones that are sending your brain the wrong signals regardless of what and how much you eat.

➔GLP-1, leptin, and ghrelin are the three most clinically relevant hunger and satiety hormones.

And they are almost never discussed, tested, or addressed in standard care, despite the fact that they govern the experience of hunger, fullness, craving, and satisfaction at every meal.

đź“ŚSave this one for anyone who has ever been told to just eat less.

me: “i’m just a snack girl 💅”my pancreas working overtime trying to keep up: absolutely notTurns out it wasn’t a persona...
05/27/2026

me: “i’m just a snack girl 💅”
my pancreas working overtime trying to keep up: absolutely not

Turns out it wasn’t a personality trait…
Just a blood sugar rollercoaster.

eat → spike → crash → repeat

And suddenly you “need” something sweet again 20 minutes later.

Once you fix the swings, the cravings get a lot quieter.

📸A single fasting glucose value is a photograph of one moment.🎥A continuous glucose monitor is a movie.And the movie rev...
05/26/2026

📸A single fasting glucose value is a photograph of one moment.
🎥A continuous glucose monitor is a movie.

And the movie reveals things that no standard lab test is designed to capture.

CGM technology has moved from an exclusively clinical tool for type 1 diabetes management to something used increasingly in functional medicine to understand glucose behavior in real time across real-world conditions.

Two weeks of CGM data can change everything about how you approach someone's blood sugar.

Most people are insulin resistance. I teach clients how to get out of it and stay out of it.
05/24/2026

Most people are insulin resistance. I teach clients how to get out of it and stay out of it.

I see this a lot. Eating fat is important to help with leptin resistance.
05/23/2026

I see this a lot. Eating fat is important to help with leptin resistance.

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4914 Chilson Road
Howell, MI
48843

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Monday 12pm - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 6pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6pm
Friday 8:30am - 12pm

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