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Bridgeport Wellness Center, 120 Professional Place STE 103, Bridgeport, WV (2026)

02/04/2026

🧠 Trauma, PTSD & Hormone Imbalance — Yes, They’re Connected

If you’ve ever thought…
“Why did my menopause symptoms hit so hard?”
“Why does my anxiety feel worse as my hormones change?”

There’s a reason — and it’s biological.

Women with a history of trauma or Post-traumatic stress disorder often experience more intense hormone-related symptoms, especially during perimenopause and menopause.

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🔥 Here’s What’s Happening in the Body

Trauma keeps your nervous system in a long-term stress response. That affects the HPA axis (your brain–adrenal–hormone communication system).

Chronic stress can disrupt:
• Cortisol rhythms
• Estrogen & progesterone balance
• Sleep cycles
• Blood sugar regulation
• Inflammation levels

These are the same systems that shift during menopause.

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🌡️ Why Symptoms Feel Worse

Trauma + hormone changes can amplify:

• Hot flashes & night sweats
• Anxiety or panic surges
• Insomnia
• Heart palpitations
• Brain fog
• Mood swings
• Fatigue

It’s not “just hormones.”
It’s not “just stress.”
👉 It’s both systems interacting.

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💤 Progesterone & Calm

Progesterone helps calm the brain.
When progesterone drops (common in perimenopause), women with past trauma may notice:
• Increased anxiety
• Feeling on edge
• Poor stress tolerance

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🧬 Trauma Can Even Influence Timing

High lifetime stress is linked to:
• Earlier perimenopause
• More severe menopause symptoms

Your body remembers stress — including hormonally.

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💛 The Good News

When care addresses both:
✔ Nervous system regulation
✔ Sleep restoration
✔ Trauma-informed support
✔ Hormone balance
✔ Lifestyle & metabolic health

Women often feel dramatically better.

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📌 Bottom line:
Your symptoms are real. Your history matters. Your hormones and nervous system are deeply connected — and both deserve support.

02/03/2026

One of the best things about being a provider in a direct primary care model is taking the time to educate patients and providing meaningful education before it’s too late… Pre-diabetes and insulin resistance and undoubly the most common “finds” and 90% of the time, patients have no idea…

📊 Top 5 States with the Highest Adult Diabetes Rates
Recent national data shows:
1. West Virginia – ~18%
2. Mississippi – ~17%
3. Louisiana – ~16%
4. Alabama – ~15.7%
5. South Carolina – ~14.9%

These numbers show how widespread diabetes has become — but diabetes doesn’t start overnight. It begins with early metabolic changes that can be prevented with the right care.

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✨ Prevention Starts Before Diabetes — With Early Detection ✨

Most traditional healthcare models only act once blood sugar is already high. But conditions like insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction can be detected long before diabetes develops — if someone is being monitored regularly and thoughtfully.

That’s where Direct Primary Care (DPC) makes a difference:

💡 Frequent, Meaningful Follow-Ups
Regular check-ins help us identify early signs like subtle increases in fasting glucose, trending hemoglobin A1c, rising insulin levels, or changes in triglycerides — before diabetes takes hold.

💡 Trend-Focused Lab Review
Labs can look “normal” in isolation — but when viewed over time, tell a story. In DPC, we track trends not just snapshots and take action early.

💡 More Time With Your Clinician
We don’t rush through visits — we spend time understanding your goals, habits, stressors, sleep patterns, and lifestyle factors that contribute to metabolic health.

💡 Prevention-Focused Coaching
We help you translate lab insights into real lifestyle changes: nutrition, activity, sleep hygiene, stress management, and strategies to improve insulin sensitivity — long before diabetes develops.

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🔍 Early Warning Signs We Can Catch Together:
• Slightly elevated fasting glucose or insulin
• Gradually rising A1c (still in “normal” range)
• High triglycerides or low HDL
• Increasing waist circumference
• Fatigue, sugar cravings, or decreased exercise tolerance

These are signals, not diagnoses — however, early intervention can prevent diabetes, saving you $$ on healthcare costs down the road!

PS I actually love when a patient is ready to ask questions, ready to listen, and ready to make changes! Feeling like we make an actual impact is why we chose healthcare in the first place 💯

02/02/2026

Officially back from a little week long hiatus! Excited to be back in the swing of things and catching up with my patients!
Shout out to chatGPT for the BWC selfie hahahaha

01/31/2026

Picked this up at the airport bookshop and I probably got some funny looks for it but I don’t care 😂 I love this book and highly recommend for anyone! Seriously you could be a 20 year old male and still learn a few things on regulating your body. No oavries needed! No medication needed.
Bringing this to the office is anyone wants to check it out for a few weeks, just let me know 🫶🏼

01/29/2026

How to control your weight, blood sugar, and the crash you feel after eating simple sugars… FIBER

🧠 1. It slows down digestion

Especially soluble fiber (oats, beans, chia, flax, apples).

When soluble fiber mixes with water, it forms a gel-like substance in the gut.

That gel:
• Slows how fast food leaves your stomach
• Slows how quickly carbohydrates are broken down
• Slows how fast glucose enters the bloodstream

👉 Result: smaller blood sugar spike after meals

Instead of a sharp glucose spike 📈 → crash 📉
You get a smoother rise → gradual return to baseline.

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🍽️ 2. It reduces how much glucose gets absorbed

That fiber “gel barrier” physically interferes with sugar absorption in the small intestine.

So:
• Some glucose is absorbed later
• Some may be absorbed less efficiently

This is why the same carbs (like an apple vs apple juice) have very different effects on blood sugar.

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🦠 3. It improves insulin sensitivity (big one)

Fiber feeds your gut bacteria. When they ferment fiber, they produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) like:
• Butyrate
• Propionate
• Acetate

These compounds:
• Reduce inflammation
• Improve how cells respond to insulin
• Help muscles pull glucose out of the blood more efficiently

👉 Over time = lower fasting glucose + better metabolic control

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🧬 4. It lowers liver glucose output

Those same SCFAs send signals to the liver to:
• Make less new glucose
• Improve metabolic regulation

This helps stabilize blood sugar between meals.

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🫃 5. It increases fullness (less overeating)

Fiber slows digestion and stretches the stomach.

That means:
• Fewer cravings
• More stable appetite hormones
• Less frequent high-carb snacking

Which indirectly = fewer glucose spikes all day

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📊 What this looks like in real life

Without fiber:
White bread → fast digestion → rapid spike → insulin surge → crash → hunger

With fiber:
Beans + veggies + protein → slower digestion → controlled glucose rise → steady energy
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01/29/2026

What It Actually Looks Like When a Healthcare Provider Loves Their Patients…

It’s not just a slogan.
It’s not a marketing line.
You can feel the difference.

Here’s what it looks like in real life:

✨ You’re not rushed.
Your appointment isn’t 7 minutes with one hand on the doorknob. You’re heard, not hurried.

👂 We listen to the whole story.
Not just “What pharmacy?” and “What symptoms?”
We ask about your sleep, stress, hormones, nutrition, life — because health is connected.

📱 You can reach us when you need us.
Questions don’t wait 3 weeks for an opening. You don’t feel alone between visits.

🧠 We explain things in plain English.
You understand your labs. Your options. Your risks. Your choices.
You’re part of the decision — not just told what to do.

💬 We remember you.
Your kid’s name.
Your job stress.
The trip you were excited about.
You’re a person, not a chart number.

🛑 We don’t push what you don’t need.
If something isn’t necessary, we say so. Your trust matters more than a billing code.

⏳ We focus on prevention, not just prescriptions.
We’d rather help you avoid disease than manage it after the damage is done.

🤝 We advocate for you.
With specialists. With labs. With confusing results.
You don’t have to navigate the system alone.

💛 We celebrate your wins.
Lower labs. Better sleep. Weight loss. Improved mood.
Your progress feels personal to us — because it is!!

Loving patients in healthcare means:
Time. Access. Honesty. Education. Prevention. Partnership.

That’s not “extra.”
That’s what care was always supposed to be.

01/28/2026

Getting your taxes done in Walmart vs. working with your own accountant…
Now read this again — but think healthcare.

🏬 Big chain tax booth inside a loud, crowded store
• You’re one of hundreds that day
• The person helping you just met you 3 minutes ago
• They follow a script
• No time to explain much
• They don’t know your history
• They don’t remember you next year
• The goal? Speed & volume

Sound familiar? That’s traditional insurance-based healthcare.

🏠 Now picture a personal accountant
• Knows your financial history
• Knows your goals
• Answers your calls
• Helps you plan ahead — not just react
• Spends time explaining things
• Helps you avoid problems, not just fix them

That’s Direct Primary Care (DPC).

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In traditional healthcare, doctors are forced to move fast, see huge volumes of patients, and focus on what insurance will pay for — not always what you actually need.

In DPC, care looks different:
✔ Longer visits
✔ Direct access to your provider
✔ Personalized plans
✔ Focus on prevention
✔ No surprise bills
✔ No insurance middleman dictating care

One model is built like a crowded retail chain.
The other is built like a trusted professional relationship.

Healthcare was never meant to be an assembly line… At Bridgeport Wellness Center, we know your name, when we saw you last, your health goals and treatment preferences, where you live, your pharmacy, your family and work dynamic, how many kids you have, what you do for fun, heck maybe even your favorite color 😂

You and your health deserve better, give us a call!

01/27/2026

🚨 TIRED… BUT YOUR IRON MIGHT BE TOO HIGH?

When most people feel fatigued, they assume they need more iron.

But iron overload is a real (and often overlooked) issue — and it can quietly affect multiple organs.

Your body has no easy way to get rid of excess iron, so it builds up over time.

⚠️ Common Signs & Symptoms of Iron Overload:

🧠 Brain & Mood
• Chronic fatigue (not relieved by sleep)
• Brain fog
• Irritability or mood changes

❤️ Heart
• Heart palpitations
• Irregular heartbeat
• Shortness of breath

🦴 Joints & Muscles
• Joint pain (especially hands, knees, hips)
• General body aches

🍽 Digestive System
• Abdominal pain
• Nausea
• Loss of appetite

🧴 Skin Changes
• Bronze, gray, or darker skin tone (often called “bronzing”)

🔥 Hormone Disruption
• Low libido
• Erectile dysfunction
• Irregular periods
• Thyroid dysfunction

🩸 Lab Clues
• Elevated ferritin
• High transferrin saturation
• Abnormal liver enzymes

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🚩 Who’s at Risk?

• Frequent red meat intake
• Iron supplements “just in case”
• Family history of hemochromatosis
• Liver disease
• Multiple blood transfusions
• Men & postmenopausal women (no monthly iron loss)

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❗ Why It Matters

Excess iron can deposit in the:

➡️ Liver (cirrhosis risk)
➡️ Heart (heart failure, arrhythmias)
➡️ Pancreas (diabetes)
➡️ Brain (fatigue & cognitive issues)

All while labs may look “almost normal” unless the right tests are ordered.

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✅ The Good News

Iron overload is very manageable when caught early:
✔️ Lab monitoring
✔️ Blood donation or therapeutic phlebotomy
✔️ Diet adjustments
✔️ Avoiding unnecessary iron supplements

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Feeling exhausted but iron supplements haven’t helped? It might be time to check the other side of iron balance.

Not everyone with fatigue is deficient — sometimes the tank is too full, not empty.

01/26/2026

Your nervous system craves rhythm — and community.

One of the most underrated tools for mental health isn’t a pill…
It’s slow, rhythmic movement done together.

Think:
🚶‍♀️ Walking groups
🧘‍♀️ Yoga
🚣 Rowing
🚴 Slow cycling
💃 Dance
🧍‍♂️ Stretch or mobility classes

Here’s why this works so well:

🧠 1. Rhythm regulates the brain
Slow, repetitive movement calms the stress response. It helps shift you out of “fight or flight” and into a more balanced, regulated state. Heart rate, breathing, and brain activity begin to sync into a steadier pattern.

💛 2. It lowers stress hormones
Gentle, steady exercise helps reduce cortisol and adrenaline — the chemicals that stay elevated in anxiety, burnout, and chronic stress.

🤝 3. Group movement fights isolation
Mental health struggles thrive in isolation. Moving with others creates connection, belonging, and accountability — three powerful protectors against depression and anxiety.

🫁 4. Breath + movement = nervous system reset
Rhythmic motion naturally slows and deepens breathing, which sends safety signals to the brain. This improves mood, focus, and emotional resilience.

✨ 5. It’s sustainable
High-intensity workouts are great — but they can also stress the body. Slow, rhythmic exercise is something most people can do consistently, even during tough seasons.

You don’t have to go hard to feel better.
Check out That Yoga Studio in Fairmont — highly recommend for improving not only physical but mental health. No medication required!

01/26/2026

Due to road conditions, we will be closed Monday January 26th. Pre-scheduled appointments will be made virtual/telehealth. We will return any calls or messages ASAP. Stay safe! ❄️

01/25/2026

Used a GLP-1 medication? Let’s talk about protecting your face, not just the scale.

GLP-1 medications (like semaglutide & tirzepatide) are incredible tools for improving metabolic health, reducing inflammation, and supporting sustainable weight loss.

But rapid fat loss can sometimes lead to what people call “Ozempic face” — which isn’t a medication problem… it’s a volume loss issue.

When body fat decreases, facial fat pads can shrink too, leading to:

▪️ Hollow or gaunt cheeks
▪️ More visible smile lines
▪️ Loose or crepey skin
▪️ A tired or aged appearance

The goal of weight loss is to feel healthier — not to look older.

✨ This is where Sculptra comes in.

Sculptra isn’t a traditional filler.
It’s a collagen stimulator that works with your body.

Instead of just “filling,” Sculptra:

✔️ Stimulates your own collagen production
✔️ Gradually restores structure and support
✔️ Improves skin thickness and firmness
✔️ Creates natural-looking volume over time

It’s ideal for patients who have lost facial fat due to GLP-1 medications, illness, or significant weight loss.

Think of it as rebuilding the foundation, not just patching the surface.

Results develop slowly over a few months and can last 2+ years — making it one of the most natural and long-term rejuvenation options available.

💉 Best candidates:
• Patients noticing facial thinning after weight loss
• People wanting subtle, natural improvement
• Those who don’t want an overfilled look

Interested if this treatment is right for you? Give us a call or send a text to schedule a consult!
📞 681-214-0101

01/24/2026

DPC vs Traditional Healthcare
Think Mom & Pop Restaurant 🍲 vs Big Chain 🍔

Healthcare isn’t just healthcare anymore — the model matters.

Traditional Insurance-Based Care = Big Chain Restaurant
• High volume, rushed service
• You’re one of hundreds that day
• Corporate rules decide what you can order (aka what care you can get)
• Extra fees you didn’t expect
• Long waits, short visits
• The provider answers to insurance companies first

Efficient? Maybe.
Personal? Not really.

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Direct Primary Care (DPC) = Home-Cooked Mom & Pop Restaurant
• You’re known by name
• The provider has time to sit with you
• Care is customized — not dictated by insurance rules
• One clear price, no surprise bills
• You can come in when you need to, not just once a year
• Focus is on prevention, not rushing you out the door

It’s the difference between:
👉 Being processed
vs
👉 Being cared for

At Bridgeport Wellness Center, healthcare goes back to the way it should be — relationship-based, unhurried, and focused on YOU.

Because your health deserves more than a drive-thru model. 🩺✨

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