Dr. Lori Puskar

05/16/2026

I had a patient who came in frustrated because her BLOATING simply would not go away.

She was trying to make good choices for her digestion, but she kept experiencing that uncomfortable floating feeling, where the abdomen feels expanded, tight, and unsettled no matter what you do.

👉 This is the part of bloating most people miss.

Bloating is rarely random. The body is always giving clues, but you have to know how to follow those clues in the right order.

😮 And that is how we discovered the food keeping her bloated...

It was cucumbers!

Yes, cucumbers.

A food most people would never suspect.

🔬 Once a food enters the body, it’s not no longer just "healthy" vs. "not healthy," it becomes a biochemical event.

Cucumbers contain fibers, seeds, skins, natural plant compounds, and water rich cellular material that all have to be tolerated, broken down, and processed by the digestive tract.

For this patient, cucumbers were aggravating her gut enough to create that persistent bloating, along with gut distention that would often lead to abdominal pain.

Once we removed cucumbers, her bloating was immediately gone!.

That does not mean cucumbers are bad for everyone. It means her body had a very specific answer that general advice would have missed.

💗 How did I figure it out?

With an exact codfied health system using:

• Specific Functional Medicine lab tests

• My advanced body analysis examination procedures

• My understanding of the body as an electrochemical system

• My knowledge of body biochemistry and physiology

• 32 years of clinical experience

• Requiring the patient to commit to a 6-month program

• Giving myself, the patient, and the body ample time

• Creating a highly personalized roadmap to discover and implement

✨ If your bloating is not resolving and you feel like you are doing all the “right things,” it may be time to reach out to me as a Senior Level Health Detective who knows how to find the things others miss.

Send me a DM to learn more, or text 727.304.2592.

05/15/2026

I had a patient who was truly trying to do everything right.

She was eating clean, following the advice she had been given, and building her meals around protein because everyone told her that was the answer for weight loss. But her body was not responding.

The scale was stuck. She felt heavy and inflamed. She could not understand why all of her effort was producing so little change.

👉This is where the personalized details of each patient matters. My suspicion was that something very specific in her diet was holding her back.

So, we followed an exact method and did a deep dive into exactly what she was eating, how often she was eating it, and how her body was responding.

😮We discovered it was organic chicken. Yes, organic chicken. She could eat beef. She could eat fish. She could eat other protein sources. But chicken was not working in her body. This is why I say protein is not just protein.

🔬Each protein source has a different molecular structure, amino acid pattern, fat profile, mineral content, and digestive pathway.

Once food enters your body, it has to be broken down into peptides and amino acids, processed through the gut, handled by the immune system, supported by enzymes, and metabolized through the liver and cellular energy pathways.

🍗Chicken, beef, fish, eggs, dairy, and powders do not all create the same biochemical response. For this woman, chicken was creating stress, inflammation, and fluid retention. Once we removed it and changed her protein sources, she lost 15 pounds in the first week.

That does not mean chicken is wrong for every woman. It means her body needed a more specific answer. She lost 15 pounds in the first week! And proceeded to lose an additional 20 pounds over the next three months!🤩

💗If you think you are doing all the “right things” and your body is still not doing well, it is time to reach out to me as a "Senior Level Health Detective" who knows how to find the things others miss.

Send me a DM to learn more.

Text:727.304.2592

05/11/2026

You have tried the wellness gadgets, the Amazon tools, the med spa treatments, the quick 30 minute sessions, and the popular health hacks everyone is talking about online.

✨ And truthfully, some of these things can make you feel better for a little while.

You feel a little lighter. You sleep a little better. Your pain calms down for a few days. Your inflammation feels different. Your energy picks up just enough to make you think you finally found the thing.
Then your body pulls you right back into the same pattern.

👉That is the part no one wants to talk about.

Because if these Level One wellness tools were going to fully handle what is happening inside your body, you would already be well by now.

I call these Level One wellness treatments because they are surface level support. They can stimulate, soothe, move, relax, warm, cool, drain, or temporarily energize the body, but they do not tell you why your body needed all that help in the first place.

😮Level Two wellness is different.

Level Two wellness is the deeper clinical investigation into the specific details of your body. It looks at the functional patterns underneath your symptoms, your hormone signals, blood sugar regulation, digestion, detox pathways, adrenal stress, inflammation, nutrient status, cellular energy, and the biochemical levels that are creating the problem in the first place.

This is the part you are not going to find in a 30 second health hack.

This is the part social media skips.

This is the part that requires clinical thinking, real testing, pattern recognition, and a personalized plan based on what your body is actually showing.

📌Because your body is not asking for another random gadget.
Your body is asking for CLARITY.

After more than 30 years in clinical practice, I can tell you this with certainty: when a woman has tried everything and she is still struggling, the answer is in the details. The details tell us what is overloaded, depleted, blocked, stressed, underfunctioning, or out of sequence.

🌿 That is where real wellness work begins.

If you are tired of buying the next wellness tool, booking the next quick treatment, and still wondering why your body is not truly changing, this is the conversation I want you to begin having.

💗If you would like help understanding whether you are dealing with a Level Two wellness problem...

You can DM me the word LEVEL TWO, and I will help you take the next step toward real clarity.

05/10/2026

05/06/2026

🌸 Mother’s Day Wellness Extravaganza is here.

So many mothers have spent years taking care of everyone else while quietly putting their own health at the bottom of the list.

💗 They keep showing up, keep pushing through, and keep trying to do the right things, yet still wonder why they do not feel the way they should.

What most women want at that point is not more generic advice.

They want someone to truly listen.

They want someone to look deeper.

They want real answers about themselves.

✨ That is exactly why I created this special Mother’s Day offer.

This is for the woman who has been wondering:

• Why do I still not feel like myself?

• Is there a deeper reason for what I have been experiencing?

• Has anything been missed?

• Are my previous labs really telling the whole story?

• What would be the right next step for me?

• What kind of support do I actually need?

• Is there a more personalized way to approach my health?

🌷 Instead of more confusion, this experience is designed to give you:

✔️ A thoughtful review of previous labs

✔️ Guidance on the most appropriate functional lab testing

✔️ Personalized nutrition, diet, and lifestyle support

✔️ Greater clarity about what may really be going on

✔️ A clearer roadmap for what to focus on next

✔️ Fresh insight into what may have been missed

✔️ A more personalized direction, instead of generic advice

✔️ Better understanding of what kind of support your body may truly need

💐 This is not about handing you a superficial vitamin program.

It is about helping you feel heard, understood, and guided in a more meaningful way.

It is about looking at your health with fresh eyes and helping you gain clarity, direction, and a more confident next step.

🌺 As a thank you for being a mother, this $450 value offer is designed to help answer the questions and concerns so many women have been carrying for far too long.

(A $450 value) this special is just $97 for all MOTHERS for the month of May.

No pressure to commit to more. Let's just find out what is right for you.

📌Schedule your free phone consult to learn more at: Link in First Comment.

05/01/2026

🌸Mothers spend so much of their lives taking care of everyone else.

They are the ones who keep going when they are tired, keep giving when they are already stretched thin, and keep showing up even when their own body has been asking for help for a very long time.

🌷 So often, their needs get pushed to the bottom of the list, their symptoms get minimized, and their exhaustion becomes something everyone expects them to carry quietly.

If a mother is going to continue being the woman everyone depends on, she needs to be cared for too.

She needs more than a superficial vitamin program.

She needs more than generic advice and another quick conversation that never truly gets to the heart of what is going on.

💐 She deserves real support, deeper answers, and a more meaningful way of understanding her health, so she can continue to be the amazing woman she is in the years and decades ahead.

That is the heart behind this Mother’s Day offer.

This is not simply about giving someone a few wellness suggestions.

It is about giving a mother the chance to finally feel heard, understood, and looked at more carefully.

It is about slowing down long enough to review her health in a different way, to revisit previous labs with fresh eyes, to think more deeply about what may have been missed, and to offer new insight instead of the same surface level recommendations she has likely already heard before.

🌺 Mom's deserve clarity and personalized wellness program that connects the dots and helps them understand what their body may have been trying to say all along.

✨ What is included in this Mother’s Day Extravaganza:

• Initial health evaluation

• Full interpretation, analysis, and personalized recommendations

• Review of previous labs with a deeper, more thoughtful lens

• Guidance on the most appropriate functional lab testing

• Six months of personalized support

• In office assessments

• Virtual nutritional guidance

• Personalized diet and lifestyle support

• The Amazing Woman 12 Module Course

• Unlimited texts and emails

• Ongoing personalized care throughout the process

🌿 What makes this so meaningful is not simply what is included.

It is how a woman feels when she is finally receiving the kind of attention and support that has become so rare.

She feels listened to.

She feels understood.

She begins receiving new information, new answers, and a more personalized path forward.

And when that begins to happen, everything starts to feel different.

💗 If you are a mother, or if there is a mother in your life whom you love deeply, and you know she deserves this level of care and support...
..Learn more at the link in the first comment.

04/30/2026

You already have lab test results from your doctor but still don't have a clear plan that feels personal to your body.

The lab work is there, but the direction is missing.

Sometimes everything is called “normal,” even though the person still feels tired, inflamed, hormonally off, anxious, bloated, stuck with weight, struggling with sleep, or just not like themselves.

Other times, a few markers are flagged, but no one really explains how they connect, what they mean together, or what should actually be done with that information.

That is where you start to become overwhelmed.

🌿 You start wondering whether you need iron, magnesium, B vitamins, adrenal support, thyroid support, hormone support, gut support, detox support, blood sugar support, or something completely different.

You look online. You listen to health podcasts. You read about different supplements. You ask friends what they take. You buy products that sound promising because you are genuinely trying to help yourself, but the more you learn, the more confusing it can become.

The problem is not that you are unwilling to do the right things. The problem is that you have been trying to build a plan without someone clinically connecting the dots for your body.

👉That is the piece you are missing.

Lab work can be extremely valuable, but only when it is interpreted in a way that looks beyond isolated highs and lows. In functional medicine, I am looking for patterns, relationships, stress signals, nutrient clues, metabolic strain, inflammatory tendencies, digestive burden, blood sugar patterns, hormone influences, and the bigger picture of how the body appears to be functioning.

That is very different from simply looking at a report and saying, “This number is in range.”

✨ I have an offer I think you are going to love.

I am now offering a Personalized Supplement Protocol From Your Existing Lab Work for the first 20 people who are ready for a more personalized, clinically guided approach to supplements.

This is for you if you already have recent lab work, but you still feel unsure what to take, what to stop, what matters, what does not matter, and where to begin.

Instead of allowing your results to sit unused in a portal or folder, I can review the information you already have and turn it into a more organized supplement protocol that is based on your lab patterns, your symptoms, your goals, and the bigger clinical picture.

Here is how it works:

• You upload your recent lab work.
• I review the markers through a functional medicine perspective.
• I look for meaningful patterns, not just isolated numbers.
• I consider how those patterns may relate to the way you are feeling.
• I create a personalized supplement protocol so you have a clearer, more confident place to begin.

🌸 This normally has an $800 value because it includes my clinical review of your recent lab work, my functional medicine interpretation of the meaningful patterns I see, and the creation of a personalized supplement protocol based on your results, your symptoms, and the larger picture of what your body appears to need.

For the first 20 people, I am offering this completely free.

If you have been staring at lab results without knowing what they really mean for your body, this is a beautiful opportunity to take the information you already have and finally turn it into a more practical, personalized plan.

🔗Click the link in the first comment to get started.

04/26/2026

👉 Looking for Better Health Answers?👈

You've already done the obvious things.

You have changed your diet, tried to eat cleaner, taken supplements, worked on your sleep, looked at your hormones, paid attention to stress, listened to the experts, followed the wellness advice, and probably spent a lot of time and money trying to figure out why you still do not feel the way you want to feel.

👉So no, you are not looking for another basic tip.

You are not looking for someone to tell you to drink more water, eat more protein, walk after meals, take magnesium, or manage your stress.

You already know those things.

What you are looking for is a higher level of guidance.

✅You are looking for someone who can look at the whole picture, your symptoms, your history, your patterns, your past attempts, your body’s responses, and help you understand why the things that should have worked did not fully work for you.

That is the difference between generic wellness advice and advanced personalized care.

Generic advice tells every woman what to try.

💗Personalized care asks why your body is still struggling, what has been missed, what needs to be prioritized, and what level of support it may actually take to help you move forward.

If your health is better, but you still do not feel well, you may not need to start over.

You may need a deeper, more precise direction.

👉Take the Wellness Quiz and find out which level of advanced personalized care may be the right fit for you.

🔗Quiz Link in first comment.

04/18/2026

It is a good sign when you are asking questions about your health and looking into things.

Truly. It tells me you are paying attention, you know something is off, and you are trying to take your health seriously. That matters, and I think you deserve credit for that.

😮What so many people do, though, is get uncomfortable enough with their symptoms, their weight, their energy, or the way they feel in their own body that they start reaching for answers in a very pieced together way.

They read something, hear something, try something, cut something out, add something in, then move on to the next thing if they do not get quick relief.

That feels proactive, but it usually is not the best way to approach a struggling body.

Why? Because when people build their next step around frustration, fear, or urgency, they are usually reacting to the noise of the moment instead of understanding the bigger picture.

And that is how people end up putting a lot of effort into the wrong things.

🟢What you deserve instead is a more thoughtful approach. You deserve to slow down long enough to understand why your body is struggling in the first place, because a body that is already under stress usually does not do better with more chaos.

👎Another thing people do all the time is start collecting little pieces from all over the place. A post here, a podcast there, a friend’s advice, a supplement someone swears by, a food list, a hormone theory, a metabolism theory.

Before long, they are trying to assemble their health from twenty different voices.

The problem is, that still is not a real plan.

It is just a pile of ideas, and a pile of ideas does not always create progress. In fact, it often creates more confusion, more second guessing, and more disappointment when nothing seems to fully work.

😍What you deserve instead is a clear path. You deserve someone to look at you as a whole person, not just hand you random pieces and hope you figure out how to make them all fit.

I also see people start feeling like they need to make a decision fast.

✔️They think,
I need to do something now.
I need to get this weight off.
I need to fix these symptoms.
I need an answer immediately.

That urgency is understandable, but it can easily push people into the wrong decision making process.

When people are rushing, almost anything can sound right. Almost any confident voice can sound convincing. Almost any plan can feel like hope.

That does not mean the answer is right for your body. It often just means you are tired of feeling stuck.

✅What you deserve instead is enough support and wisdom to pause before jumping. You deserve the chance to make a good decision, not just a fast one.

And maybe the biggest thing I would say is this: a lot of people start treating the body like a problem they need to overpower.

They get frustrated, so they go harder. More restriction, more rules, more intensity, more pressure.

Usually, that just creates a new kind of stress.

A struggling body often needs understanding before it needs force.

👉It needs someone asking better questions. What is driving this?
What has been missed?
What is your body asking for?
What kind of support actually makes sense here?

That is what you deserve instead. Not more pressure, not more guessing, not one more slapdash attempt to force a result, but a calmer, smarter, more personal way forward.

So yes, I think it is wonderful that you are asking, searching, and trying to figure things out.

💗But I also think you deserve more than a rushed answer and a handful of random ideas.

You deserve a real plan.

You deserve a thoughtful plan.

You deserve a path that respects the fact that your body is not just something to fight with, but something to understand.

That is usually where real healing starts.

04/10/2026

🌸 Bloating is common, but that does not make it simple.

If this keeps happening, I do not want you thinking only about how uncomfortable it feels or how frustrating it is to watch your stomach change through the day.

I want you thinking about what it may be trying to tell you.

Because bloating is often treated like the answer, when it is really the clue.

1️⃣ What most people miss

Most people hear the word bloating and reduce it to food.

But bloating is not one thing.

It is often the visible result of something upstream not working the way it should. The issue may not be the meal itself. The issue may be how your body is handling that meal.

◇ That deeper picture can involve:

▸ how food is being broken down

▸ how food is moving through the digestive tract

▸ what is happening in the microbiome

▸ how much inflammation is present

▸ how stress, thyroid, hormones, or blood sugar are affecting digestion

2️⃣ How I think about it

When you tell me you are bloated over and over, I am not only thinking, What did you eat?

I am also thinking, What is your body struggling to do well right now?

I start thinking about whether digestion is beginning properly, whether food is moving properly, and whether your system is calm enough and supported enough to process meals the way it should.

◇ So I start considering whether the body is doing these jobs well:

▸ producing enough stomach acid

▸ releasing enough pancreatic enzymes

▸ moving bile efficiently

▸ keeping the microbiome balanced

▸ moving food and waste along at the right pace

▸ regulating inflammation appropriately

▸ maintaining steady blood sugar

▸ supporting healthy thyroid and stress response function

3️⃣ Why one symptom can have multiple causes

This is where so many women get frustrated.

The symptom looks simple, but the physiology underneath it may not be.

◇ Your bloating may reflect:

◆ Low stomach acid, which can leave food, especially protein, poorly broken down

◆ Weak pancreatic enzyme output, which can make fats, proteins, and carbohydrates harder to digest efficiently

◆ Sluggish bile flow, which can leave you feeling heavy and distended, especially after richer meals

◆ Dysbiosis, yeast, or bacterial overgrowth, which can create fermentation, gas, pressure, and irritation

◆ Slow motility or constipation, which can create backup, fullness, and abdominal swelling

◆ Gut lining irritation, which can change how food is tolerated and processed

◆ Thyroid slowdown, which can reduce motility and slow digestion

◆ Stress chemistry, which can lower digestive capacity and impair movement through the gut

◆ Blood sugar instability, which can feed inflammation and make the digestive system more reactive

◆ Nutrient depletion, which can weaken enzyme production, repair, and overall digestive efficiency

4️⃣ Why generic advice often falls flat

This is exactly why one woman cuts out dairy and improves, while another cuts out half her diet and still feels miserable.

This is why one probiotic helps one person and makes another feel worse.

This is why one supplement may give temporary relief without ever touching the real pattern.

So when nothing seems to fully fix it, that does not automatically mean your body is impossible to understand.

It often means the advice was too generic for what was actually driving the symptom.

◇ The symptom may look the same.

◇ The physiology underneath it may not be.

5️⃣ What deeper testing may help uncover

At some point, a symptom like this deserves more than guessing.

That is where deeper testing can help uncover what the symptom alone cannot tell you.

◇ That may include:

◆ Comprehensive stool testing, to look at digestion markers, pancreatic elastase, inflammation, microbiome imbalance, yeast, parasites, short chain fatty acids, and gut immune activity

◆ Organic acids testing, to look at bacterial and yeast byproducts, mitochondrial stress patterns, detoxification burden, and nutrient related imbalances

◆ Comprehensive metabolic blood work, to look at liver function, protein status, electrolyte balance, and glucose related patterns

◆ CBC, to look for inflammatory burden, anemia related patterns, or broader physiologic stress

◆ Fasting insulin, fasting glucose, and hemoglobin A1c, to uncover blood sugar dysfunction that may be feeding inflammation and digestive instability

◆ A full thyroid panel, to see whether sluggish thyroid physiology may be slowing motility and contributing to constipation and bloating

◆ Food reactivity, inflammation, or nutrient testing, when the bigger picture suggests those patterns may be involved

6️⃣ Why this matters

It is easy to dismiss bloating because it is common.

But common does not always mean minor, and it definitely does not always mean normal.

By the time it becomes a pattern, your body may already be giving useful information about digestion, absorption, microbial balance, inflammation, or regulation.

Once you start looking at it that way, bloating stops feeling like a random nuisance.

It starts looking like something worth paying attion to.

12/02/2025

Most people only look at symptoms and try to fix with the latest trend...I look at regulation.

Because I understand biochemistry, physiology,

and MOST IMPORTANTLY, the 6 levels of health loss.

I look at what your cells are doing, how deep the imbalance has gone, and which systems are still capable of repair.

Once you KNOW your level, you know what to do and....you know what not to do.
👉That is the part almost everyone misses.

Let’s look at the six levels of health loss through the lens of physiology, biochemistry, and laboratory science.

⚙️ Level 1️⃣

Regulation is altered, but structure remains normal. The hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenals are slightly misfiring, and mitochondria are inefficient.

The wrong thing to do is:
Detox, fast, or use aggressive supplements. The body needs regulation, not stimulation.

The right thing to do is:
Reestablish rhythm. Support minerals, hydration, sleep, blood sugar, and mitochondrial cofactors. Strengthen the nervous system before deeper interventions.

The lab levels that confirm this:
• Organic Acids: low citrate, mild lactate rise, low alpha-ketoglutarate
• Cortisol rhythm: slightly flattened curve
• Metabolomix+: low B2, B3, B6, low glutathione
• Amino acids: low tyrosine or tryptophan

🔥 Level 2️⃣

The immune system has now entered the conversation. Cytokines rise, Phase I liver enzymes accelerate, and oxidative stress begins.

The wrong thing to do is:
Suppress inflammation, fast aggressively, or force calorie restriction.

The right thing to do is:
Modulate inflammation. Open drainage, support the liver, provide antioxidants, and reduce immune load.

The lab levels that confirm this:
• hs-CRP 1–3 mg/L
• Ferritin elevated or fluctuating
• Homocysteine 9–11 µmol/L
• GI Effects: elevated sIgA or mild dysbiosis
• Lipid peroxides and 8-OHdG trending up

🩸 Level 3️⃣

The body begins to store what it cannot clear. Detox slows, bile thickens, and lymph stagnates.

The wrong thing to do is:
Push detox or weight loss. The routes of elimination are blocked.

The right thing to do is:
Drain before detox. Support bile flow, conjugation, hydration, and minerals. Open liver, kidneys, and lymph.

The lab levels that confirm this:
• GGT > 25 U/L
• ALT or AST high-normal
• Beta-glucuronidase elevated
• RBC glutathione low
• Zinc, selenium, magnesium low

⚖️ Level 4️⃣

The disturbance is now inside the cells. Membrane transport and mitochondrial respiration weaken.

The wrong thing to do is:
Detox aggressively, fast, or over-exercise. The cell cannot generate enough ATP to process toxins.

The right thing to do is:
Rebuild cell membranes, restore mitochondrial cofactors, rebalance thyroid and adrenal communication, and repair intracellular signaling.

The lab levels that confirm this:
• CoQ10 and carnitine low
• Succinate and malate low on Organic Acids
• Flattened cortisol, low DHEA
• Free T3 low, reverse T3 high
• ATP ratio low on mitochondrial testing

💔 Level 5️⃣

Enzymatic systems are failing, connective tissue is deteriorating, and structural integrity is compromised.

The wrong thing to do is:
Chase symptoms or stimulate metabolism with hormones or extreme diets.

The right thing to do is:
Rebuild. Provide amino acids, minerals, enzymes, and antioxidants. Support connective tissue and restore protein synthesis.

The lab levels that confirm this:
• Persistent AST/ALT elevation
• LDH > 180 U/L
• Albumin < 4 g/dL
• Elevated BUN and creatinine
• Oxidized LDL, high Lp(a), low HDL-P
• Global amino acid depletion

🧬 Level 6️⃣

Regulation is lost. DNA repair and methylation fail. The body’s control systems are disorganized.

The wrong thing to do is:
Use aggressive detox or high-intensity therapies. The terrain cannot handle the stress.

The right thing to do is:
Restore the terrain gently. Support methylation, oxygenation, antioxidants, immune surveillance, and mitochondrial biogenesis.

The lab levels that confirm this:
• Elevated 8-OHdG (DNA damage)
• Low SAMe, high SAH
• Elevated NF-κB, TNF-α, VEGF
• Glutathione peroxidase and catalase low
• Mitochondrial DNA mutations or deletions present

✨ Why this matters

Because I understand these six levels, I never guess.

I don’t detox a body that can’t drain.
I don’t fast a patient whose adrenals are flat.
I don’t push hormones into a toxic terrain.

I match every recommendation to the exact biochemical level your body is operating at.

That precision is exactly what my Cell2Soul™ Program is all about.

It’s about restoring the flow of life energy through every cell until balance is regained, function is restored, and your soul feels amazing again.💫

💗 Schedule your Free Phone consult with me to find out what level of Health Loss you are at.