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You know this patient. She improves with every single thing you try. Her gut settles, her sleep gets better, her brain fog lifts, and then two weeks later, she’s back at the beginning with the exact same symptoms. For years I chased the symptoms but adjusting protocols and didn’t even consider mold as a possibility.

Methylene blue has had quite the career. It began as a synthetic textile dye, became a laboratory stain, entered medicine as an early antimalarial and is now being promoted online for energy, cognition, mood, sleep and longevity. That history is fascinating. It is not, however, proof that every patient with fatigue or brain fog needs

If you work with patients who have bloating, abdominal discomfort, constipation, diarrhea, or a digestive system that never seemed to recover after food poisoning, the possibility of SIBO has probably crossed your mind And at some point, you may have thought that the logical test would be a lactulose or glucose breath test to confirm

Wellness practitioner burnout does not always begin with too many patients, a packed calendar, or an overflowing task list. Sometimes it begins much more quietly – with the realization that you are carrying every clinical question, staffing problem, financial concern, and business decision by yourself. A few weeks ago, I hit a wall. On paper,

Your patient is exhausted. She has worked on her sleep, taken the adaptogens, supported her adrenals, and made the recommended lifestyle changes. But she still feels like someone pulled the plug. When a patient presents with persistent fatigue, it is easy to assume that stress, cortisol, or adrenal dysfunction is the primary problem. Sometimes it

Your patient just told you she’s lost 40 pounds on Ozempic, and everyone around her is celebrating. I get it. But when I hear that number, the first thing I want to know is: did she protect her muscle? Did she protect her digestion? Is she actually eating protein, or is she surviving on crackers,

Your practice isn’t growing the way you expected, and you can’t quite figure out why. That’s actually a useful place to start. After working with hundreds of practitioners who came to me asking that exact question, here’s what I almost always find: a specific business leak somewhere – and it has almost nothing to do

Your patient is exhausted, gaining weight, and crashing by 2 PM. You’ve worked up her adrenals, checked her hormones, done the liver support. Nothing seems to be working. Here’s what I want you to consider: the problem might not be any of those things.   Metabolic health for practitioners is one of the most overlooked

If you’ve been asking why probiotics don’t fix gut dysbiosis in your toughest cases, you’re asking exactly the right question. The 2018 Weizmann Institute study followed probiotic strains through the entire digestive tract and found that in most cases, they passed right through. The mucosal microbiome, where the actual bacterial community lives, stayed largely unchanged.