Natural Family Functional Health

Home
Natural Family Functional Health

I'm Dr. Macie Biermann, DC and I help women heal bloating, fatigue, constipation, acne, and hormone imbalances with root cause testing and natural solutions.

We offer telehealth functional medicine services nationwide. www.nffhealth.com

20/02/2026

When your body thinks you’re in danger 24/7, it shifts into survival mode: cortisol stays elevated, blood sugar rises, digestion slows, hormones get disrupted, sleep becomes shallow, and inflammation climbs. Over time, your nervous system forgets how to turn the alarm off.

You might notice this as anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, stubborn weight gain, poor sleep, gut issues, irregular cycles, or feeling “tired but wired.”

This isn’t a lack of willpower. It’s a dysregulated stress response.

Healing requires more than pushing through. It means teaching your body that it’s safe again — through sleep, blood sugar stability, nervous system support, movement (not overtraining), sunlight, mineral balance, and reducing hidden stressors like inflammation and toxins.

18/02/2026

If you let it, that mindset will dysregulate your nervous system faster than most of those exposures ever will.

Chronic hypervigilance is inflammatory.
Obsessing over every ingredient is stressful.
Living in fear of your environment keeps you in sympathetic dominance.

Your body is not fragile. It is adaptive, resilient, and equipped with detoxification systems that work 24/7.

Yes — reduce what you reasonably can.
Filter your water. Open your windows. Buy better quality food when it’s accessible. Swap products over time.

But skipping meals because you’re afraid.
Panicking over one restaurant meal.
Believing one exposure “ruined” your health.

That’s not health. That’s nervous system dysregulation.

18/08/2025

Your gut microbes play a direct role in what you crave. When harmful bacteria and yeast overgrow, they send chemical signals that interfere with hunger and fullness hormones (ghrelin and leptin), disrupt neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, and drive blood sugar swings that push you toward more sugar and processed foods. This isn’t just weak willpower—it’s biology. By restoring balance in the gut, you reduce those false signals and finally regain control over your appetite.

12/08/2025

Comment “INFO” and will send you the 3 tests I recommend.

Most people with chronic gut issues have had “all the tests” — and still get told everything looks normal.
That’s because traditional stool testing only looks for a small number of pathogens, usually the ones that cause acute infections like food poisoning. If you don’t have one of those right now, it comes back “negative.”

But chronic gut issues often come from low-level, hidden infections—parasites, bacteria, yeast—that live in the background for years.
These aren’t always caught by standard methods because they’re not multiplying in huge numbers on the day you test.

That’s where advanced DNA-based technology changes the game. It detects even tiny amounts of genetic material from pathogens, so you can finally find what’s actually there… not just what’s flaring up in the moment.

When you find the real culprit, you can finally fix it.

11/08/2025

Comment “Link” and I’ll send you information on testing these!

Bloating, constipation, and loose stools get brushed off as “IBS” more often than not, and people are told to just “manage stress” or “eat more fiber.” The truth is, there are very real, very testable root causes that are often missed — not because they’re rare, but because conventional testing doesn’t look for them.

The problem is that conventional testing rarely check for these. Functional testing digs deeper into the why behind your symptoms to help you understand what’s causing symptoms.

28/06/2025

Comment “natural” and I will send you the answers to these questions on deciphering fish and meat so you know what to avoid.

Pacific or Atlantic salmon?
Should I eat sushi?
Can you eat the skin?
Does grass-fed always mean grass finished?
Will red meat increase total cholesterol?

04/06/2025

Healing meals > restrictive diets 🥗

Comment “food” and I’ll send you my favorite paleo and gluten free recipe websites!

It’s an 80/20 balance. There are some things we can’t control all the time and food is one of them — when you eat out, vacation, visit family don’t stress about what you eat.

The stress of ingredients and “non toxic organic” everything can do more harm than the food itself. It’s a negative mindset.

A constant fear of bad food puts your body into fight or flight — a sympathetic danger response. The nervous system needs to feel safe to eat whatever you have available.

Stress itself will increase glycogenolysis in the liver to release glucose into the blood stream creating insulin resistance over time. It floods your body with a cortisol that slows digestion and makes you feel wired.

Dieting is a good tool to use in certain conditions like insulin resistance or high histamine but day to day eat what feels good to you!

Address

Telephone

(440)3811318

Website

http://www.nffhealth.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Natural Family Functional Health posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic?

Country:

City: