Balanced Health NP

Balanced Health NP Functional medicine certified nurse practitioner providing telehealth services

12/09/2025

Autoimmune symptoms don’t just come out of nowhere.

Your immune system isn’t attacking you “for no reason” it’s working overtime, trying to respond to something.

✨ The key is discovering what’s triggering it.

Chronic stealth infections like Lyme, mold toxicity, or co-infections are major culprits.

They overwhelm the immune system, keeping it stuck in high alert mode and that constant overstimulation creates inflammation, flare-ups, and burnout.

Most traditional care suppresses your immune system with medications.

🛑 That’s not true healing.

We need to modulate your immune response…rebalance it, not shut it down.

There are targeted strategies for this:
✔️ Foundational diet & lifestyle
✔️ Specific immune-supportive nutrients
✔️ Personalized protocols based on your labs, triggers, and symptoms

Autoimmunity is a signal, not a life sentence.

Let’s uncover the root cause, lower the inflammation, and teach your immune system how to function properly again.

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12/07/2025

There’s a stealth infection that’s often overlooked and it mimics mental health symptoms so well that most people get misdiagnosed or dismissed.

It’s called Bartonella.

Unlike Lyme disease, which gets more attention, Bartonella tends to fly under the radar.

But when it’s chronic, it can be absolutely debilitating and it doesn’t just affect your body, it hijacks your nervous system.

Here’s what that might look like:
👉🏼Sudden onset of panic attacks
👉🏼 Intense anxiety or OCD-like thoughts
👉🏼 Light sensitivity, frequent headaches
👉🏼 GI issues that come out of nowhere
👉🏼 Strange skin rashes
👉🏼 Feeling like your body is in fight-or-flight 24/7

Traditional doctors often write this off as “stress” or “hormonal” but if these symptoms showed up suddenly or don’t respond to typical treatments, you need to dig deeper.

The problem?

Standard Bartonella tests are unreliable. They miss the infection more often than not.

That’s why you need to work with a Lyme-literate, functionally trained provider who understands how to identify and treat Bartonella at the root without relying on flawed tests.

Your symptoms are not in your head.

Your body is sending signals and it’s time to listen.

💙If you’re ready to finally feel like yourself again…
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12/06/2025

🤔Are your labs actually optimal or just “normal” on paper?

If you’re struggling with fatigue, brain fog, belly fat, blood sugar crashes, or inflammation…

Your lab work might be telling you more than your doctor is.

🧪But most people never even get some of these labs run. And even when they do, they’re told everything “looks fine”… meanwhile their body is screaming for help.

👉 Functional medicine looks at optimal ranges because waiting until you’re diagnosed is waiting too long.

If you’re ready to understand what’s really going on with your metabolism, hormones, inflammation and energy, it starts with the right labs and someone who knows how to read them.

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12/06/2025

A positive ANA test, even a low one, isn’t something to ignore.

This lab doesn’t give a diagnosis on its own, but it does send a strong message: your immune system is fighting something.

🧬 ANA stands for anti-nuclear antibodies, and it’s often used as a screening tool for autoimmune diseases.

But in functional medicine, we ask a deeper question:

What is triggering your immune system to go on high alert?

In my practice, I often see ANA flagged before a formal autoimmune diagnosis and when we look closer, there’s usually a root cause hiding beneath the surface:

⚠️ Chronic stealth infections (Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia, EBV, post-COVID)
⚠️ Mold toxins and VOCs disrupting immune function
⚠️ Early-stage autoimmune activity that hasn’t been named yet

Instead of masking symptoms with immune-suppressing drugs, we investigate:

✅ Is your immune system overreacting because of unresolved infection or toxins?
✅ Are there gut or hormone imbalances that are adding fuel to the fire?
✅ What’s your body actually asking for when it sends these signals?

This is where functional testing changes everything. It helps us decode the signal, not silence it. And the healing begins once we listen.

Ready to stop guessing and start healing?

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12/05/2025

If you’re in perimenopause and doing endless cardio, HIIT classes, or light-weight, high-rep workouts to “tone” your body…

It might be time to shift your strategy. 🚨

During perimenopause, estrogen and progesterone begin to decline and that has a direct impact on muscle mass, bone density, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity.

❌ HIIT and chronic cardio can over-stress the body, elevate cortisol, and actually make hormone imbalance worse.

✅ What your body really needs is progressive overload — a type of strength training where you gradually increase the resistance, weight, or reps over time.

This helps:
💙 Build and preserve lean muscle
💙 Improve insulin sensitivity and metabolic health
💙 Protect bone density (which declines in midlife)
💙 Support thyroid and adrenal function
💙 Balance hormones more effectively

And no, it won’t make you bulky. It will make you strong, lean, and resilient.

If you’re working hard but not seeing results, or your workouts are leaving you more exhausted than energized, it might be time for a new approach rooted in your hormone blueprint.

Let’s create a personalized protocol that aligns with your labs, your phase of life, and your goals.

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11/30/2025

You didn’t just wake up one day with fatigue, brain fog, bloating, anxiety, or skin issues.

It likely started months, maybe even years, ago.

What you’re experiencing now could be the result of what’s called your Total Body Burden…

the buildup of toxins, stealth infections, environmental chemicals, mold, heavy metals, and unresolved pathogens that slowly overwhelm your system until the “bucket” spills over.

🪣 Imagine your body as a barrel.

👉🏼 Each stressor (physical, emotional, environmental$ fills it up a little more.

Eventually, your body can’t compensate. That’s when the symptoms appear.

Not because the last thing was “the problem,” but because your system reached capacity.

This is why just treating symptoms or doing a basic blood test doesn’t work.

We need to uncover what’s filling your barrel:
→ Mold exposure
→ Lyme & co-infections
→ Gut dysbiosis or parasites
→ Hormone or detox pathway congestion
→ Emotional stress or trauma

👉🏼 By using advanced functional testing, I help you pinpoint the biggest contributors to your body burden so we can finally lighten the load and give your body the space to heal…and for you to feel 100%.

You don’t need a quick fix.

You need a plan that actually makes space for healing.

Ready to get to the root cause and take your healing seriously?

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11/29/2025

😣 Ever been told “everything looks normal” even though your body is screaming otherwise?

That’s the trap of conventional medicine:

Unless your labs are outside of the standard (and often outdated) reference range, you’re told nothing is wrong.

And by the time something is officially wrong, it’s already progressed.

👉🏼In functional medicine, we look deeper.

We catch issues before they spiral.

We assess trends in your labs, your symptoms, and your lifestyle through a lens of prevention, optimization, and healing. Not just disease management.

You don’t have to wait until things get worse. You don’t have to live in survival mode.

Your body is constantly giving you signals. I help you listen to them early so we can prevent chronic illness before it takes hold.

🔗 Link in bio to book your appointment with me. Let’s get to the root cause before it becomes a diagnosis.

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours!
11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours!

11/20/2025

You’ve tried everything: gut protocols, supplements, medications, anti-anxiety tools…

But the symptoms just keep coming back.

😣Fatigue. Brain fog. Bloating. Sinus issues. Insomnia. Mood swings.

Here’s what most conventional providers won’t check for:

Mycotoxins. Aka: mold illness.

🦠 Mold exposure creates a chronic inflammatory response in the body that’s often overlooked, dismissed, or flat-out misdiagnosed.

These toxins don’t just clear on their own and they can block your body’s ability to fully heal, especially if you’re dealing with stealth infections like Lyme or Long COVID.

Even the best treatments may not work if mold is still burdening your system.

A simple urine test can assess for mold toxin…something standard labs never check.

And from there, the key is working with a provider who truly understands how to:

✅ Support detox & drainage pathways
✅ Lower your fungal burden safely (candida can do ten be a co-infection)
✅ Address the root cause, not just manage symptoms

If you’re spinning your wheels, not feeling better, and deep down you know something’s still off… this could be the missing piece.

👉🏼Ready to get answers?

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11/17/2025

My patient thought she was just tired from being a mom…

But no matter how much she slept, she still woke up exhausted.

Her hair was falling out in clumps.
She had cold hands, brittle nails, dry skin.
She couldn’t focus or remember simple things.
And no matter what she ate or how hard she worked out, her weight refused to budge.

She started to think maybe this is just aging.
But something in her gut told her: this wasn’t normal.

Turns out, it wasn’t. She came to me and we found the root cause.

She had subclinical hypothyroidism: a sluggish thyroid that didn’t show up on basic labs.

Her TSH was “fine,” but no one looked deeper.

No one tested her Free T3, Reverse T3, TPO antibodies, or nutrient deficiencies.

Once she started following the custom protocol and supporting her thyroid function and stopped overexercising and undereating…

The weight started to come off.
The brain fog lifted.
She started to feel like herself again.

Your symptoms aren’t in your head. You might just need the right labs and a practitioner who knows how to read them.

If this sounds like you, visit the 🔗 in my bio to book an appointment and get the answers you deserve.

11/16/2025

You’re not crazy. You’re not being dramatic. And it’s not “just anxiety.”

It could be mast cell activation and it’s way more common than people realize, especially in those with mold exposure, chronic infections, and trauma.

Mast cells are part of your immune system. They release histamine and other chemicals in response to stress, toxins, and perceived threats.

But when they become overactive, they can cause a storm of symptoms that seem random, fluctuate daily, and get brushed off by conventional doctors.

This is called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and it’s often at the root of mysterious illness clusters like:

🔹 Mold toxicity
🔹 Lyme + co-infections
🔹 Histamine intolerance
🔹 Chronic fatigue
🔹 Long COVID
🔹 Anxiety + panic for “no reason”

🧠 The nervous system and mast cells work closely together, which is why emotional stress or trauma can make symptoms even worse.

If you’ve been told “everything looks normal” but your body tells you otherwise, it’s time to look deeper.

👉🏼With proper testing, nervous system support, and root-cause protocols, you can calm your immune system and start to feel like yourself again.

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