11/05/2026
These are my labs.
And yes, I am a Nutritional Scientist who runs her own bloodwork regularly because I believe in practicing exactly what I preach.
When I looked at this cluster: cortisol at 549 nmol/L, TSAT at 53%, triglycerides at 2.3, urate at 380, TSH at 3.5, I didn't see a weight loss goal. Even though my body felt bigger and swollen. I saw a body under systemic load that needed a very specific, very deliberate intervention.
So I designed one. For myself.
Cortisol was the upstream driver of the whole picture. At 549 it was driving insulin resistance and feeding the triglyceride accumulation, blocking T4 to T3 conversion and suppressing my thyroid output, increasing gut permeability and priming the endotoxemia pathway, depleting my glutathione and leaving my cells with no defence against the oxidative damage from free iron, and running enough protein catabolism to push urate into immune alarm territory.
Every other marker I was looking at was cortisol's downstream signature.
The protocol I built addressed the root first which is HPA load reduction, HRT reduction, adaptogenic support, sleep refinement (mine is always good tbh) training volume dialled back temporarily (the hardest part for me). Then the iron, the urate, the gut barrier, the thyroid environment. In sequence. Because the order can be important.
Strict? Yes very. For a reason.
When your body has lost its buffer, precision is the only thing that moves the needle. This is not is not forever.
Swipe through to see exactly what each marker was telling me at a cellular level, and why I made every decision I made. This is what it looks like to read your data and respond to it.
Women deserve this level of information about their own bodies. And they deserve the right intervention.
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