Testing NOT Guessing Method

With Nutritional Therapy as the cornerstone of health, there are invaluable tools to help you uncover the root cause of any health issues you may face!

Functional Lab testing is a key ally in identifying what’s hindering your journey to optimal health. The labs I use with my clients include:

1. Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA): This functional test provides a detailed cellular reading of your body’s mineral and heavy metal levels. By analyzing recent hair growth samples, we gain insights into your body’s exposure to and elimination of various substances. This data helps prioritize personalized diet and lifestyle strategies to address your specific needs.

2. GI-MAP—Comprehensive Stool Testing: Despite its less-than-glamorous method, this test is crucial for understanding gut health. It delves deep into your microbiome, offering insights into what’s happening in your gut and guiding your approach to wellness.

3. MRT - Food Sensitivity Blood Test: While not always necessary, this test complements GI-MAP by identifying foods that may be triggering inflammation in your body. By temporarily eliminating these problematic foods while we repair your gut, we can pave the way for lasting health improvements.

Choosing which labs to pursue depends on your health concerns and goals.

Curious about which tests could benefit you?

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Results of Working with a NTP

Up for a little story? Let me take you through Meredith's journey with me as her NTP.

Meredith? She came to me feeling like she'd lost her groove: weight creeping up, brain fog making every day foggy, her periods playing hide-and-seek, and her energy levels sinking lower than a submarine. But let me tell you, Meredith wasn't about to play the victim. No way. She was ready for a change!

On our first call, she laid it all out: she wanted to ditch the extra weight and feel like herself again!

So, we kicked off with a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA). Why? Because Meredith wasn't exactly fueling her body with all the good stuff, and her self-care routine? Well, let's just say it needed a serious upgrade. So, meeting Meredith where she was, we set manageable recommendations for her protocol to get her started off right!

While we awaited the results, we got busy with some initial recommendations based on her assessments. But when those HTMA results hit our inbox, they had us scratching our heads. Calcium levels off the charts? That couldn't just be from stress and junk food.

Spoiler Alert: Meredith's home had a water saga brewing. We didn't know this at the time.

As a quick fix, I told her to ditch the tap water and get herself a shower filter. And until we sorted out the water situation, she was on bottled water duty.

Meredith started feeling sharper and more like her old self within just one week! Just by giving her tap water the boot.

While we might've eventually figured it out without testing, the lab results sped things up!

This made it easier for Meredith to stick to her protocol and inspired her to stay committed to her other health goals!

With her water saga, would you believe it? Within a week, her shower decided to throw in the towel. Enter the plumber! And what did they find? Pipes invaded by sneaky tree roots! No wonder her water was acting up, and there goes the mystery of the calcium overload.

So, there you have it—a glimpse into Meredith's whirlwind journey with an NTP.

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What is it like to work with NTP?

Ever wondered what it’s like to work with a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP)?

Well, wonder no more! Here’s a glimpse into the journey ahead:

The first step is scheduling a Free Introductory Call. During this call, we’ll dive into your health concerns and goals, allowing us to craft a personalized game plan from the get-go. It’s not just about getting acquainted; it’s about setting you on the path to a healthier YOU!

Once we agree to work together, you’ll receive a series of assessments to fill out:

Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire (NAQ): This questionnaire, with over 320 questions, delves deep into your health landscape.

Food and Mood Journal: Keep track of what you eat, when you eat it, and how you feel. This judgment-free journal helps us pinpoint factors like stress, paving the way for better results.

Initial Interview Questionnaire: This covers your health history and symptoms, providing crucial insights into your unique needs.

If we’ve discussed lab testing, you’ll receive kits in the mail, such as Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis, GI MAP Stool Testing, MRT Food Sensitivity Lab, or all three. I’ll notify you once these are mailed out. Remember, the sooner you complete them, the sooner we’ll have comprehensive results to guide us.

While awaiting lab results (which can take up to four weeks to receive), we don’t waste any time! Once you’ve completed your assessments, you’ll have the option to book a review session. We’ll discuss your results and make manageable recommendations to kickstart your journey towards better health.

When your lab results arrive, we’ll schedule another session to integrate these findings into your protocol.

Your timeline for sessions begins here!

For optimal results, I recommend a 12-week commitment post-lab results. During this period, we’ll have 2 virtual sessions a month, ideally spaced every 2 weeks. These sessions are vital for monitoring progress, making adjustments, and addressing any questions you may have via our secure messaging portal.

Before our final session, you’ll complete the NAQ again, providing us with a fresh baseline for your health assessment.

Remember, our approach is tailored to YOU—there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. During our introductory call, we discussed what session frequency best aligns with your needs, so there's no pressure if 12 weeks isn't for you.

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Importance of Balancing Your Minerals

Did you know our energy comes from minerals; each mineral is designed to function with our hormones, digestive processes, blood sugar, detoxification, and stress levels. When out of balance, our energy depletes as our body tries to work harder for the lack of minerals, and those pesky symptoms begin to arise. An imbalance of minerals affects your physical and mental well-being.

Minerals may only compensate for 4% of our body composition but are uniquely different as minerals are not something the body can produce and can only be obtained by what we eat. You’ve heard the saying “You are what you eat” should be changed to “You are what minerals you consume.” Food is no longer as nutrient-dense as it once was, thanks to farming preferences and synthetic fertilizers deplete soil nutrients.* This is where organic products are preferred to minimize the consumption of these toxic chemicals.

Minerals in the body include transferring nutrients across cell membranes and guiding what and where nutrients should and should not go. Minerals are how your body contracts and relaxes amongst all your muscles. Thousands of our enzymes use minerals as co-factors for every system in the body. Keeping the pH balance in homeostasis (the body maintaining a constant and stable environment) requires minerals, and nerve transmission in the body can only be done through minerals.

Minerals are the spark plugs of our body. Without minerals, our source of energy would not exist.

Symptoms that show signs of an imbalance of minerals include but are not limited to everything. Yes, Everything! From digestive issues like bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and acid reflux, to name a few. Mood issues like aggression, Type A personality, frustration, anger, anxiety, depression, and more. Weight gain, weight loss, dry skin, eczema, oily skin, loss of hair, brain fog, memory issues, food intolerances, autoimmune issues, acne, PMS, and any other issues you can think of or even struggling with.

Minerals that work together to function optimally are co-factors, while other minerals work against that mineral. The key is to find the right balance for the best absorption. A great example of this is someone struggling with iron deficiency or anemia. Doctors will recommend various ways to raise the iron level and only focus on iron by itself from iron supplements or extreme iron infusion. While these may seem to work at the moment, they won’t allow relief from long-term symptoms and will continue to be an issue in the future. Focusing on a single mineral will not encourage a successful absorption of the mineral as it needs co-factors.

The best way to obtain the mineral you lack and its co-factors is through natural food. Natural food is balanced properly with the necessary co-factors, so considering the correct balance of other minerals is optional, unlike supplements.

Examples of foods with iron include:

Beef, Oysters, Clams, Sardines, Liver and Kidneys, Pumpkin seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Black Strap Molasses, Nettle Leaf Infusions, White Beans (like Cannellini), Lentils, Kidney Beans, Chickpeas, And Dark Chocolate

In our world of soil depletion and toxic chemicals touching our food sources, supplements are necessary to find relief from symptoms faster and encourage continued mineral balance.

Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a great way to determine your mineral balance. This functional test provides a unique cellular reading of your body’s mineral and heavy metal levels. By analyzing small samples of recent hair growth, you can get a snapshot of what your body has been exposed to and what it is eliminating through the hair. This data is valuable for prioritizing which diet and lifestyle strategies will most effectively address your bio-individual needs.

HTMA tells us your -

Metabolic Type: this rates how quickly your body is metabolizing energy and what macro ratios are ideal for you. Mineral Status: this shows an overall snapshot of the major minerals in your body, including if any are very high or low. Heavy Metal Excretion: this can indicate if you are exposed to any specific heavy metals and whether your body is excreting (or storing) them. Mineral Ration: all minerals affect each other to some degree, so these ratios highlight which systems need the most nutritional therapy support.

Once the lab is completed and interpreted, you’ll receive a guide of recommended foods, supplements, and lifestyle support to get closer to a balanced life.

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Remember to salt your water!

*https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17297755/

What is Nutritional Therapy?

So what is Nutritional Therapy?

Nutritional Therapy is based on the idea that health can be achieved through a holistic and bio-individual approach to nutrition and lifestyle.

Eating what nourishes our body that is not dependent on the latest fad or what worked for someone else. Our bodies are completely unique so why treat them with a one size fits all approach?

Nutritional Therapy follows these core foundations:

Nutrient Dense Properly Prepared Whole Foods Diet

Digestion

Blood Sugar Regulation

Hydration

Minerals

Healthy Fats

By following these foundations this is where the success to a healthier YOU can be obtained!

Nutritional Therapy takes symptoms like:

Bloating, Mood Swings from PMS, Irregular Periods, Acid Reflux, Stubborn Weight, Brain Fog, and so many more and finds the ROOT CAUSE of why these symptoms are happening rather than covering them up. Working with me you'll learn strategies on how to alleviate these symptoms with a food first approach based on the root cause.

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Don't forget to salt your water!

Hydration Tips

The sun is finally out so let's focus on staying hydrated with these tips:

Drink a glass of lukewarm filtered water within

30 mins of Waking Up!

Your body just went through a fast (oh right break-fast... gotcha) and your organs needs some help getting rid of those toxins!

Preferrable a glass of lemon water as those extra enzymes and minerals give your liver some extra love!

Drink FILTERED water

Our water is contaminated with all sorts of toxins and we are

WHAT WE ABSORB!

Trace amounts of toxins in tap water include but not limited too:

arsenic, chloroform, chromium, benzene and so much more.

Interested know about what is in your tap?
Click the link below:

​https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

EWG is a great resource for all things relating to toxic chemicals and finding a preferred item whether it be beauty products, food, and so much more.

How to filter your water?

Reverse Osmosis and Activated Carbon Filters

Already have a Brita? Not the best, but it's better than nothing so keep using it!

Here’s a great link for more specifics regarding filters:
​https://www.ewg.org/healthyhomeguide/water-filters/​

Salt Your Water

Yes... you read that right, SALT YOUR WATER. You just filtered your water got rid of all those nasty toxins and it's time to add some minerals! Adding minerals allows your cells to better absorb water.
No, I'm not talking table salt.

Focus on unrefined sea salt, grey salt, Redmonds salt

I love Redmonds salt just a pinch of this and you can't even taste the difference!

Your cells will notice the difference!

​https://redmond.life/collections/real-salt-kosher​

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Sip NOT Chug

Guilty here! I forgot to drink my water all day and my goal was to drink a whole bottle before my workday is over so I chug it to mark it off my list... Your body just went

WAIT STOP!

When you chug your body doesn't have an opportunity to absorb. Lessen the need to run to the bathroom and sip sip sip!

I hope you found these few tips useful!