Alternative Answers

07/22/2025

Hi everyone! Please note Dr. Keri, Lexi, and Keegan are out on Thursday. We're visiting the Standard Process farm 🥳 Arista will be in office for a half day on Thursday for any last minute supplement ordering or appointment rescheduling.

07/22/2025

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about weight loss injections like Ozempic and Mounjaro (Tirzepatide), so here’s our honest perspective as functional health practitioners:

For diabetics, medications like Ozempic can be lifesaving and absolutely necessary.

But for the average person using it to drop 10–15 pounds without making any real lifestyle changes? That’s where we start raising our eyebrows.

Here’s what concerns us:
⚠️ Ozempic (Semaglutide) is now being widely used by people who are not managing blood sugar or metabolic disease, and in many cases, without proper guidance or monitoring.

We’re seeing reports of muscle loss, hair loss, extreme fatigue, malnutrition, and even gastroparesis (a condition where the stomach stops emptying properly).

When appetite is suppressed but nutrient needs aren’t addressed, your body can burn muscle, not just fat and that’s a dangerous tradeoff.

At our clinic, we prefer Tirzepatide (often known by the brand name Mounjaro). Why?

✅ It has a cleaner ingredient profile
✅ It targets two metabolic pathways instead of one, improving both insulin and glucagon response
✅ Patients tend to experience fewer side effects and more sustainable energy and focus

Here’s the catch:
❌ Tirzepatide is not a free pass to keep living the same way and expect your body to just “fix itself”
✅ It works more sustainably when used alongside a root-cause approach cleaner nutrition, blood sugar support, movement, stress reduction, and gut healing

This class of medications can be a helpful tool, but only if it’s used in the right context, with the right plan, and with your long-term health in mind, not just short-term weight loss.

We’re not here to judge anyone’s path, we just want to help you make informed, empowered decisions. If you’re curious whether Tirzepatide is right for you or how to safely support your metabolism, reach out. This is what we do best.

—Your team at Alternative Answers 💛

07/21/2025

New Lab Review Policy – Please Read Before Your Next Appointment

Dear Valued Patient,

We want to share an important update regarding how we handle outside lab work at Alternative Answers.

To provide you with the thoughtful and thorough care you deserve, Dr. Keri will no longer be able to review outside labs during same-day appointments. Proper lab interpretation takes time, care, and preparation to ensure we’re giving you the most accurate insights and support.

Moving forward, any labs from other providers that you’d like Dr. Keri to review must be scheduled in advance. We are now offering dedicated monthly lab consultation appointments—extended from 30 to 45 minutes—at no additional cost to you. This gives Dr. Keri time to carefully review your labs and fully walk you through her analysis.

We kindly ask that you do not bring labs to a regular appointment expecting same-day review. Instead, please call us ahead of time to schedule your lab consultation so we can give you the time and attention you need.

Thank you for understanding and helping us keep your care comprehensive and intentional.

Warmly,
The Alternative Answers Team
308-201-1122

07/18/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out and celebrated our joining the chamber! We’re excited to become more apart of our Grand Island community ❤️

07/17/2025

Tomorrow is our big day 🥰🥰 everyone’s welcome to join us for our ribbon cutting tomorrow at 11am!

Join us tomorrow to celebrate Alternative Answers with a ribbon cutting ceremony!🎉✂

Date: Friday, July 18
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: 704 W Koeing

See you there!✨

07/16/2025

AI can read your labs. But only a real practitioner can read your life.

There’s a lot of buzz right now about artificial intelligence transforming healthcare. And yes, AI can be an incredible tool. It can sort through lab data in seconds, flag patterns, generate summaries, and even suggest treatment protocols based on algorithms trained on thousands of patient cases. For conventional care, that might seem like a dream.

But you’re not a data point.

At our clinic, we’ve seen that what truly heals isn’t just lab interpretation, it’s context.

It’s you.

Your stress levels.

Your sleep.

Your gut instinct.

The trauma you carry in your tissues.

The 2 p.m. blood sugar crash you forgot to mention.

The miscarriages you never got answers for.

AI can’t see that. But we do.

Functional medicine is built on relationship-based care. That means sitting with someone and listening long enough to hear what their labs don’t say. It means asking, “What happened just before this symptom showed up?” and following the thread. It means recognizing that your thyroid numbers might be "in range" but your body is still screaming.

We’re not anti-tech. In fact, we use AI-backed tools in our own lab reviews but they’re there to support the process, not define it. The art of medicine is nuance, intuition, pattern recognition, and empathy. Algorithms don’t do nuance.

So yes, we’ll continue to use the best tools at our disposal, including AI, but you’ll never be reduced to a spreadsheet in our office. Because we believe the most powerful healing happens when clinical wisdom and your lived experience work together.

— Keegan Elley & Alternative Answers

07/15/2025

🎉 You're Invited to Celebrate 10 Years of Healing with Alternative Answers!

We’re proud to mark a decade of transforming lives through root-cause healing, functional medicine, and compassionate, personalized care. Whether you've been with us since the beginning or just joined our wellness community, we’d love for you to join us for a special FREE event on Friday, August 15th, 2025 in Grand Island.

This inspiring event will feature:
✓ Lunch and refreshments
✓ Special event-only package pricing ($150 off for new patient services with Lexi)
✓ Health education you can use right away
✓ Q&A with our trusted providers
✓ Giveaways and prizes throughout the event!

📍 Location: Chocolate Bar, 116 W 3rd St, Grand Island, NE
🕛 Time: 12 PM - 2 PM

This is more than a celebration—it’s a reflection of where we’ve been and where we’re going, and we want you to be part of it.

🎟 Registration is free but required to attend — click the link below to register.

We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-10-years-with-alternative-answers-tickets-1417516673529?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/14/2025

If you’re spending money on random supplements or trendy diets…

But haven’t done a DNA test that gives you 100+ pages of real answers + a meal plan tailored to YOUR body—

👀 You’re missing the whole point.
This is personalized health done right.

And yeah—it’s insanely good value for what you get.

DM us to get started.

07/11/2025

As someone who sometimes feels like I try everything and nothing works, I’m constantly amazed by our two healing peptides and how much they help me….

I’ve recently had a pretty bad flare up of thyroiditis from work stress and preparing for vacation. Thyroiditis feels like someone is choking me out & can be almost inpossible to swallow food. It was difficult for me to talk during that last week of work because my throat was so swollen. Just to be safe I went and got an ultrasound to make sure I didn’t have any unseen nodules or tumors. When I have these cases of thyroiditis, it’s typically caused by stress and I don’t sleep or recover during my sleep which in turn causes me to be out sick for weeks.

Before vacation I did an injection of Thymosin-Alpha 1 & TB500/BCP157 every single day. My usual dose is about twice a week. I upped my dosage because I was determine not to get sick while in a foreign country. I get sick very very easily with my autoimmune especially when I’m not sleeping well.

During vacation my sleep and readiness score were in the 70s which is low but still okay for me. The stress of going to bed late and walking all day did not affect me as it usually does. Honestly, even with a few moments of being worried I might get sick I ended up being totally fine even after the 24 hours of pure travel on the way back. My thyroid never flared up once even after cheating on my diet and eating some gluten 🤭

I came back home and once I returned to work I had another thyroiditis flare up probably again due to work stress. I prioritized getting at least 9 hours of sleep and I started injecting the healing peptides everyday again. This whole time I’m still taking my typical supplement regimen but I truely believe I would have still gotten so sick by now because my body just struggles so much to fight off viruses and recover when I’m stressed.

If I stopped any or all supplements, medications, etc I would at the very least stay on these two healing peptides. I’m constantly amazed at the effectiveness of them. They don’t get enough love and attention with everyone being concerned about their weight and wanting the weight-loss peptides. The healing peptides are so incredibly worth every single penny in my book. It’s the one true thing that I can count on working for me.

07/10/2025

Just found out we were nominated for best of Grand Island 2025! Thank you so much to those who nominated our practice ❤️ it means the world to us! Stay tuned - voting starts July 30th! 😋