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Sara Wathen | Integrative Functional Medicine Coach
✨I help women 35+ eliminate bloating, brain fog, & fatigue to finally LOVE their body and get energized!
🥼Lab-guided care to optimize metabolic health
🌱DM “Restore” for details about 1:1 support

05/20/2026

She’s standing in front of the mirror. 40+.
Doing everything right.

Eating clean. Moving her body. Prioritizing sleep.

And still… she doesn’t recognize herself anymore.

The weight won’t budge. The brain fog is relentless. The exhaustion runs bone deep. She’s giving every last drop of herself to everyone around her and running on empty doing it.

She smiles through it. She keeps going. But inside she wants to disappear.

That woman was me. 🙋🏼‍♀️

Three babies back to back. Years of breastfeeding. Hormones on a full rollercoaster with no seatbelt. My waist disappeared. My energy vanished. My mind started working against me.

I tried everything the internet told me to try.

More protein. More steps. Better sleep hygiene. All of it.

Nothing gave me my life back.

So I stopped guessing and started investigating.

I became a functional medicine coach and turned the lens on myself. I looked at my own labs, my own biochemistry, my own body. And when I finally understood what was actually going on underneath the surface… everything changed.

Not because I found a trend.

Because I found the truth.

No cookie cutter protocol fixes a body that’s been through what yours has.

Especially at 40+. It goes deeper than macros and step counts. And the complicated part? You don’t have to figure it out alone.

The hardest step is deciding that YOU are worth the time and the answers.

Think about how many hours you’ve spent Googling symptoms, using ChatGPT, chasing fads, trying the next thing… only to end up back in the same place.

What if you just dove in instead?

I’ll show you my before and after because yes, the outside changed. But what matters most to me is who I became on the inside. That’s what I’m here to help you find too. 💙

Comment RESULTS and let’s talk about what’s really going on with your body.

You’re 40+, you’re gaining weight for no reason. You’re exhausted. Anxious. Foggy. Unmotivated. And every time you go to...
05/08/2026

You’re 40+, you’re gaining weight for no reason. You’re exhausted. Anxious. Foggy. Unmotivated. And every time you go to the doctor you’re told everything looks normal. 😔

But here’s what they’re not telling you or may just not know. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Normal and optimal are not the same thing.
I know because I lived it too.

I tried everything. I did functional health. I did muscle testing. I explored every avenue I could find searching for answers. And yet nothing actually moved the needle for me. You know why? Because no one ever actually ran my labs properly.

The moment I did, everything changed. ✨

The answers I had been searching for were finally there. The symptoms that I thought I just had to accept finally made sense. And for the first time I knew exactly what my body needed.

You are not crazy. You are not just getting older. You are not stuck.
There is hope. And there are real answers waiting for you too. 💛

If you are ready to stop guessing and finally get to the root of what is going on in your body, comment “READY” and I will send you everything you need to get started with proper testing and real support. 🙌

05/06/2026

You wake up tired even though you slept. 😩
You snap at people you love and don’t know why. 😢

Your body feels foreign. Your mind feels foggy. And somewhere underneath all of it is this quiet, aching question…

Is this just who I am now?

No. A thousand times no. 🙅🏻‍♀️

What you’re feeling is real. The exhaustion. The bloat. The weight that won’t move no matter what you try. The anxiety that showed up out of nowhere. The brain that used to be sharp feeling like it’s underwater.

Perimenopause is not a slow fade. It’s a biological storm and most women are white knuckling through it, told their labs look “normal” while they feel like crud.

Here’s what I know as a functional health coach:

Your body is not broken. It is begging to be understood. If you have tried everything and you still feel stuck there is a reason.

Brilliance has been wires into your physiology. The capacity to regulate, restore, and rise. But you have to go to the root. Not the symptoms. The root.

That’s exactly what we do inside The Elite Metabolic Reset.

We uncover what is actually driving the chaos in your body through functional lab testing and completely customized care. 🌱🔬

That’s what sets us apart here. There’s no click on this ad and you’ll get a set of fitness, nutrition, and other tips with a bundle. No bundles here… just individualized care. The kind that’s based around your desires and biochemistry.

Hormones, gut, liver, cortisol, and we rebuild from the inside out so your mind clears, your energy returns, and you feel like you again.

Women 40+, you are not declining. You are arriving. 💙

Comment “RESTORE” and I’ll send you details on taking the first step to reclaiming your body and your life. 💕

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Des Moines, IA

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+13123885527

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