Inspired Wellness, PLLC

08/22/2026

08/22/2026

Have you ever wondered what’s behind the doors at Inspired Wellness (located at the North Whidbey Center for Wellbeing)? 🌿

Come take a quick tour!

Inspired Wellness has three dedicated spaces, each designed to support a different part of your health and wellness journey:

🩺 Consultation & Exam Room
This is where I meet with patients for comprehensive functional medicine consultations and where I work with Veterans for independent disability examinations and medical documentation.

💪 Sports Recovery Room
A space dedicated to recovery, performance, pain relief, and helping your body function at its best—with technologies including red light therapy, PEMF, Alpha-Stim, H-Wave, and more.

☯️ Medical Acupuncture Room
A quieter, restorative space where I use medical acupuncture along with complementary therapies to support pain relief, relaxation, recovery, and nervous-system regulation.

One of the things I love most about Inspired Wellness is that healthcare doesn’t have to look the same for everyone. Sometimes we need to investigate. Sometimes we need to recover. And sometimes we simply need to give the body the right environment to heal.

Three rooms. Many tools. One whole-person approach.

Welcome to Inspired Wellness. 💙

📍 Oak Harbor | Whidbey Island

08/22/2026

Proud to share that The Inspired Veteran Program by Inspired Wellness, PLLC is sponsoring Anacortes High School Athletics & ASB! 💜🤍

Supporting Anacortes students and athletes is especially meaningful to our family this year—we’re a football family, with my son Jack taking the field as RB/LB! 🏈

We’re excited to see the Inspired Veteran banner up and even more excited to support the students and teams in the 2026-2027 school year!

GO HAWKS! 🦅🏈 💜🤍

Inspired Veteran Program helps with building the medical evidence (nexus letters, decipher denial decision letters, etc.) to win your VA disability claim. This link has more information: https://www.inspiredwellnesspllc.org/vadisabilityexamwhidbey

07/11/2026

07/10/2026

Think of histamine like a bucket.

A little is fine, your body empties it as fast as it fills. But when it comes in faster than you can clear it, from food, stress, hormones, and gut issues all at once, the bucket overflows, and the overflow is your symptoms.

That is why you can tolerate something one day and react to it the next. It is not the single food, it is how full the bucket already was. The goal is not to fear histamine, it is to lower the load and empty the bucket faster.

How many of these are you nodding at? Comment QUIZ and we will send you the root cause quiz to find what is filling yours.

06/25/2026

If you are reacting to “healthy” foods, it is often not the food itself. It is the histamine load stacking up faster than your body can clear it. These are the quiet culprits that build across a day.

You do not have to avoid all of these forever. The goal is to lower the load while you heal, and then reintroduce.

Two fast wins. Eat fresh cooked, and get leftovers into the freezer right away instead of the fridge, because histamine climbs the longer food sits.

Save this for your next grocery run. And if you want to know whether your reactions are rooted in your gut, your hormones, or something like mold, comment ROOT CAUSE and my team will send you the quiz.

06/24/2026

A recent published cell study found that two compounds naturally found in citrus fruits, hesperetin and naringenin, helped stimulate GLP-1 release from intestinal cells.

GLP-1 is a hormone involved in appetite, blood sugar regulation, and metabolism.

While these findings are early and come from cell and animal research, they highlight an important idea: food contains natural compounds that can interact with some of the body's key metabolic pathways.

06/24/2026

A banana cancels most of your berry smoothie's antioxidants.

Firstly, bananas are a good food. This is about an enzyme and what it does to a specific group of compounds.

Flavanols are antioxidants found in berries, cocoa, grapes, and apples that have been linked to heart and brain health. Bananas are high in polyphenol oxidase (PPO), the enzyme that turns a cut banana brown within minutes. PPO breaks flavanols down into forms the body absorbs poorly.

The study that measured this was careful about one thing worth understanding - Ottaviani et al. (2023) did not simply compare a berry smoothie to a banana smoothie and assume berries had more to begin with. They added the same standardized dose of cocoa flavanols to every drink, so the starting amount was identical. Then they gave healthy volunteers three things on separate days: that flavanol dose in a capsule, the same dose in a low-PPO berry smoothie, and the same dose in a high-PPO banana smoothie.

The capsule produced peak blood flavanols of about 680 nmol/L. The berry smoothie landed in the same range. The banana smoothie reached only about 96 nmol/L, roughly 84 percent lower than the capsule, from an identical starting dose. The only thing that changed was the enzyme it was blended with.

When the banana drink and the flavanols were swallowed together but not blended beforehand, levels still dropped. That points to PPO continuing to act after you swallow it, likely in the stomach, not only during blending.

This was a small mechanistic study. The comparison behind the 84 percent figure was a crossover in eight healthy men, and it measured absorption, not a long-term health outcome. It was also funded by Mars, Inc., which has a commercial interest in cocoa flavanols. That does not change the underlying chemistry, which is well established, but it is worth knowing.

This does not mean bananas reduce the nutritional value of your food, and it is not a reason to stop eating them. It means that if flavanol intake is something you care about, the fruit you blend with your flavanol source is worth considering. Berries and pineapple are low in PPO. If you want those compounds to reach your blood, keeping the banana out of that particular smoothie, or eating it on the side, is a reasonable choice.

Ottaviani et al., Food & Function, 2023 (DOI: 10.1039/d3fo01599h)