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New Leaf Holistic Health with Julie Six

Resolving metabolic chaos using Functional Lab Testing and CGMs to restore your health. Eating for nourishment is in your control but you may need to learn HOW.

My mission is to help people cultivate physical and mental resilience through the wisdom of nutrition and the art of counseling. My functional nutrition education includes in-depth knowledge of the full-body systems and how your body processes food and other inputs that impact your overall health. The biggest misconception about nutrition is often that it is just about what to eat and what not to eat. While it may include that, on a much deeper level it is about optimizing the function of your body's organs and every cell in your body. Food, intentional movement, sleep, rest, play, connection, as well as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, and enzymes all play key roles in feeling one’s best. I will apply the "art and science" of nutrition and will customize diet and lifestyle factors suitable for your individual needs and priorities. Even though we are living in the “age of wellness”, most people will admit there’s a disconnect between what we know and what we are doing. Confusing external messages from the food and diet industry, overwhelming on-line options, and decision fatigue leave us feeling empty, depleted, and defeated. You are not meant to feel weighed down, exhausted, hurried, harried, stressed, groggy, cranky, bloated, depleted, depressed, or like you are on the hot-mess express. You need and deserve answers as to why you are feeling the way you do and what you can do to course-correct and start feeling like YOU again. When it comes to your health, having an advocate on your side offering education, empathy, gentle leadership, and solutions you can trust is often the difference between success or being stuck, hitting a plateau or making progress, digressing into more and more dis-ease or learning tips and tools for taking back your health while having some fun and making your body functional again. I am committed to working with those who want to learn the hope they can have when their health is back in their hands. They are ready to do the work, while receiving individualized support on their wellness journey. If you have been looking for real solutions to the root of your health issues and are ready, with courage and commitment to change, you’ve come to the right place! I would be delighted and honored to help. VISIT: https://www.newleafnutrition.net/ to get started!

03/24/2026

🧘‍♀️ Thyroid & Nervous System Support 🧘‍♀️

If your thyroid is under strain, your nervous system often is too.

Most people don’t realize how closely stress physiology and thyroid signaling are connected.

When your body stays in a prolonged stress response, it prioritizes immediate survival over long-term energy regulation. Metabolism can subtly slow. Digestion may shift. Sleep becomes lighter. Resilience drops.

Not because you're aging... but because your body is adapting.

This is where breathwork or gentle movement like walking or yoga, can be incredibly supportive.

Not as a calorie burn.
Not as a productivity tool.
But as a signal of safety.

Practices that slow breathing, soften muscle tension, and regulate heart rate help support parasympathetic tone... your “rest and repair” system. ❤️‍🩹

When the nervous system feels steadier, the thyroid functions more efficiently in that environment.

I see too many women who, for years, pushed and punished their body's. My work is to help educate and empower women to instead create conditions where the body doesn’t feel like it has to conserve energy. Where it feels safe enough to be.

👇 What movement practice helps you feel more grounded?

03/22/2026

💚 If you’ve been following along for a while, you’ve probably noticed a theme by now:

Most health struggles aren’t about effort.
They’re about missing information.

When the body is under chronic stress, it adapts quietly.
And those adaptations can look like low energy, stalled progress, or unhappy hormones.

Friend, that doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong.
It means your body needs a clearer map. 📍

There are often missing pieces of your health puzzle that leave things feeling unresolved… incomplete.

This is why my work looks deeper than symptoms or surface-level advice. Functional testing helps us see what’s actually happening beneath the hood, so we can support the body strategically and not force it forward.

Even if it feels like you’re falling apart. You’re not failing. You just need better information. Clear data. Blood work, adrenal and hormone snapshot, gut/microbiome picture, toxic burden, even DNA testing can be incredibly enlightening. ✨

I’m a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and I help women whose bodies feel stuck, reactive, and depleted understand why their system is overwhelmed — and gently guide it back toward stability so metabolism, gut health, hormones, and energy can come back online again.

If you’re doing your best and still feeling stuck, that’s a sign to look deeper... not inward with blame.

Better information creates better support.
And from there, real change becomes possible. 💚

03/20/2026

A small seasonal reminder: sometimes the most supportive foods are the simplest ones.

Citrus fruits — like oranges, grapefruit, and lemons — are naturally rich in vitamin C, a nutrient your body uses heavily during times of stress.

Your adrenal glands actually hold one of the highest concentrations of vitamin C in the body. When stress is ongoing, those stores can become depleted more quickly.

Vitamin C also plays another helpful role: it improves iron absorption from foods. And iron status (especially ferritin) is one of the quiet foundations of healthy thyroid function.

So while oranges may seem simple, they support several systems at once:

🍊 Stress resilience
🍊 Iron absorption
🍊 Immune health
🍊 Antioxidant support

This is one of the reasons I encourage clients to think about adding supportive foods, not just removing things from their diet.

A personal favorite are "Sumo" oranges. They peel like a dream and are mouth-watering juicy! 😋

Sometimes nourishment really is that simple. 💚

03/18/2026

Most women who find their way to my work are not unmotivated or lacking discipline. They’re usually the opposite.

- They’ve tried the diets.
- They’ve followed the protocols.
- They’ve pushed themselves to keep going long after their body began asking for something different.

Somewhere along the way, their system simply became overwhelmed.

⚠️ Energy plummets.
⚠️ Digestion feels unpredictable.
⚠️ Hormones becomes reactive.
⚠️ Sleep gets disrupted.

These are early warning signs, that she's been adapting for too long. This is why my work focuses on reading labs to get an "x-ray" of the system and we begin rebuilding foundations instead of masking symptoms.

I’m a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and I help women whose bodies feel stuck, reactive, and depleted understand why their system is overwhelmed — and gently guide it back toward stability so metabolism, gut health, hormones, and energy can come back online again.

Supporting your body doesn’t require perfection. We begin by simply supporting the roots:
• nourishment
• mineral balance
• nervous system safety
• digestion and detox pathways
• sustainable rhythms

Over time, a body nourished and nurtured will remember how to rebalance. And that’s when a New Leaf Life begins. 🌿

If this message speaks to where you are right now, save it as a reminder that healing grows slowly — and strong roots take time. 💛

03/15/2026

You can do ALL the things...

But if your nervous system still feels under pressure, healing can feel slow… or incomplete.

Your thyroid is woven into your stress response.

When the brain perceives ongoing strain — whether from emotional overwhelm, over-responsibility, illness, blood sugar swings, or simply carrying too much for too long — it shifts into conservation mode. Metabolism slows. Energy is preserved. Repair becomes secondary.

This isn’t dysfunction. It’s adaptation.

The body prioritizes safety, first and foremost.

The challenge is that many women don’t realize their nervous system is dysregulated, because it has come to feel so normal.

• Waking between 2–4 a.m.
• Feeling “tired but wired”
• Difficulty relaxing, even on vacation
• Being productive all day, then crashing at night
• Hair shedding during stressful seasons
• Needing caffeine to feel steady
• Feeling emotionally flat or easily overstimulated

These are nervous system signals.

Your thyroid doesn’t need more pressure. It needs:
Safety.
Stillness.
Simplicity.
Predictability.
Nourishment.
Nurture.

That’s why functional care looks deeper.
Yes, labs and data matter.
Yes, nutrients matter.
But foundations matter too — because the whole system must feel supported enough to shift out of survival and back into repair.

Healing can't be forced. But with the right support, we can allowed the conditions for healing to happen. 💚

👉 There's more on my New Blog: When Stress Slows the System - The Hidden Thyroid Connection

🔗 https://newleafhh.com/blog-1/thyroidstress

03/13/2026

Why Your Thyroid Symptoms Flare During High-Stress Seasons

If you notice your thyroid symptoms flare during high-stress… that's not random.

And it’s not “just in your head.”

Your thyroid is connected to your stress response.

When life feels intense — emotionally, physically, or even mentally — your body shifts into survival mode. Cortisol rises. Energy gets redirected. And one of the first places your body conserves resources is metabolic output.

In other words, the thyroid slows down to protect you. ❤️‍🩹

You might notice:
• More fatigue
• Brain fog
• Hair shedding
• Bloating
• Feeling cold or flat

This doesn’t mean your thyroid is betraying you, although to many of my clients they say it sure feels that way.

I often have to gently remind them, it means your system has been carrying more stress than it can reasonably, in this season, handle.

This is why I address burnout, minerals, and nervous system support before jumping straight to “fixing” the thyroid.

I know many women come in wanting their thyroid “fixed.” But thyroid healing is rarely a direct repair.

It usually requires widening the lens — identifying the stressors, restoring nutrients, stabilizing blood sugar, calming the nervous system, and supporting the whole system.

Medication can be incredibly helpful for many people. But when symptoms persist, it’s often a sign there’s more to uncover.

Holistic rebuilding takes intention. It takes awareness. It takes work. But what I see again and again is this:

When women understand their bodies — truly understand them — they don’t just feel better physically.

They reconnect with themselves. 💖

And that is always worth it.

👇 How do your symptoms flare during stressful seasons?

03/11/2026

♻️ Thyroid–Vagus–Mood Axis

You wake up anxious.
You’re exhausted by mid-day.
Your digestion feels off.
And you can’t tell which came first.

Friend, let's think about this, because it’s not random.

The thyroid, the vagus nerve, and the brain are closely connected. When one system is under strain, the others often follow.

The vagus nerve helps regulate mood, digestion, heart rate, and inflammation. It’s part of your body’s “calm and repair” pathway.

Thyroid hormones influence metabolism and brain chemistry. When thyroid signaling slows — or becomes inefficient — energy drops and resilience starts to wane.

Add chronic stress to the mix, and vagal tone may decrease. Digestion slows. Mood becomes more reactive. Inflammation rises. The body shifts further into survival mode.

This is how patterns begin to overlap:
• Fatigue and anxiety
• Brain fog and low mood
• Constipation and stress flares

It may make you feel like you're going crazy, but it's just the result of overlapping systems that are rarely checked together.

While medication can be incredibly helpful for many people, when thyroid symptoms, mood, and digestive symptoms show up together, it’s often wise to widen the lens and look at the whole axis.

Support I might include would be:
• Nervous system regulation
• Gut and liver support
• Mineral repletion
• Strategic thyroid evaluation
• Restoring steady daily rhythms

Healing rarely happens in one system alone. It happens when your body is supported as a whole. That's one of the differentiating aspects of a Functional Diagnostic Practitioner. We test and assess body systems together, not in isolation.

👉 There's more on my New Blog: When Stress Slows the System - The Hidden Thyroid Connection

🔗 https://newleafhh.com/blog-1/thyroidstress

03/09/2026

“Your labs are normal.”

And yet… you’re still exhausted, foggy, bloated, cold, anxious, or not yourself.

This is one of the most common thyroid stories I hear. Especially in high-functioning women whose nervous systems have been carrying a lot.

Here’s what’s often overlooked:
Your thyroid doesn’t operate in isolation.

It depends on the organs and systems around it. Especially the gut and liver. When those systems are under strain, the thyroid often adapts by slowing down. Slowing everything down.

That’s why I always consider the gut–liver–thyroid triangle:

• Gut stress can reduce absorption of key nutrients the thyroid relies on.
• Liver overload can slow hormone processing and conversion.
• Microbiome and immune imbalance can contribute to ongoing “thyroid-like” symptoms — even when numbers look okay.

This is where testing comes in. A GI Map, blood work, and a DUTCH panel all together can give us valuable guidance and make the work more effective and efficient.

Sister, your symptoms aren’t random. They’re your body speaking, asking for help. The offer information and clues.

A functional approach uses symptoms as a map. We zoom out, test deeper when needed, and support the whole system so your thyroid has what it needs to function well.

👉 There's more on my New Blog: When Stress Slows the System - The Hidden Thyroid Connection

🔗 https://newleafhh.com/blog-1/thyroidstress

03/07/2026

If you've been pushing yourself through the very next task and running on fumes, wondering what's going on.

If you've had labs but they keep coming back “normal.”

Let me say, one of the most common patterns I see in high-functioning women is that chronic stress doesn’t always cause a crash… it just quietly slows the system.

⚠️ Sleep gets lighter, more easily shattered.
⚠️ Energy disintegrates.
⚠️ Brain fog rolls in and lingers - even after coffee.
⚠️ And constipation causes ... strain.

These and other thyroid symptoms begin to appear even when TSH on labs is technically "in range."

Your awareness of this shift is not imagined. It’s your body waving a flag, because there's been an adaptive response to prolonged stress. One that you can get ahead of before it gets worse.

I wrote a new blog exploring this very connection:
**When Stress Slows the System — The Hidden Thyroid Connection**

Inside we look at:
• How burnout patterns affect thyroid signaling
• Why “normal” labs don’t always mean optimal function
• The gut–liver–thyroid connection
• Why mineral depletion often plays a role
• And what rebuilding actually looks like

If you feel like something in your body has slowed down and you don't know why — this one is for you.

💌 You can access the blog via the link in comments.

I'm a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and I help women whose body's feel stuck, reactive, and depleted understand WHY their system is overwhelmed and gently guide it back to stability so metabolism, gut, hormones, and energy can come back on-line again. 💚

03/05/2026

The Adrenal–Gut–Immune Triangle

Stress doesn’t live in just one place in the body.

When stress is ongoing, it:
• weakens the gut lining
• disrupts digestion and absorption
• activates the immune system
• sends signals back to the adrenals to stay on high alert

Over time, this creates a feedback loop:
stress affects the gut →
the gut strains the immune system →
inflammation signals the adrenals to stay in survival mode.

That’s your body trying to protect you from every angle it can. ❤️‍🩹

This is why addressing burnout or chronic stress with single approaches (anti-depressants, counseling, cleanses, steroids, withdrawal) often falls short.

In my work, we don’t chase single symptoms. We look at patterns, connections, and communication between systems.

I help women break this cycle by supporting all three together:
• calming the stress response
• repairing and protecting the gut lining
• rebuilding immune tolerance and resilience

When these systems are supported in tandem, the body has a much easier time settling, regulating, and rebalancing.

Are you tired of trying to figured it all out? Maybe it's time for a gentle guide who understands how the pieces fit together?

I'd be delighted to talk with you about your struggle and share how my functional approach (body systems) can put an end to the cycle of trial and error. 💚

Discovery Call can be accessed via link in my bio. 👉

03/03/2026

One of the hardest things about burnout is that it doesn’t always look like burnout.

You might look “fine” on the outside.
Still functioning. Still showing up.
Still getting things done.

But inside, something feels off. This is often the stress adaptation response.

Your body is remarkably intelligent. When stress is ongoing, it doesn’t always sound the alarm right away. Instead, it adapts—quietly.

👉 It reroutes energy.
👉 It compensates.
👉 It borrows from tomorrow to get you through today.

That invisible load can include:
• emotional strain
• blood sugar instability
• mineral depletion
• disrupted sleep rhythms
• hidden physiological stressors
• constant low-grade demand without recovery

Over time, this silent adaptation wears down hormone communication and nervous system resilience. And eventually, the signs start to show:
• fatigue that rest doesn’t fix
• increased sensitivity or reactivity
• mood shifts or anxiety
• reliance on caffeine or sugar
• feeling “wired but tired”

It's often not a mindset or mental health issue. More than likely, it’s a body that has been handling stress for a very long time. ❤️‍🩹

This is why waiting until you completely crash isn’t necessary or helpful.

A functional approach can help:
• identify where stress has been quietly accumulating
• understand how your hormones and nervous system have been adapting
• support regulation before depletion turns into breakdown
• identify foods that your body needs to feel safe again

You don’t need to push harder. You just need support and a personalized plan that works with your physiology.

If this resonates, save this post. And when you’re ready, you can book a free Discovery Call to explore your next best step.

Next, we’ll talk about some of the everyday things that quietly spike cortisol, and why nervous system support matters more than you’d imagine. 💚

03/01/2026

5 Things Burnout (or Low Thyroid) Changes — That No One Explains

One of the hardest parts of burnout, and sluggish thyroid signaling, is how awful personal the changes can feel.

• Motivation fades.
• Focus slips.
• Sensitivity increases.
• Follow-through feels harder than it used to.

And because no one explains why, many women assume it’s just aging. Or, worse, a personal failing. 😥

It’s not.

These changes are often adaptive responses. Your body adjusting to prolonged stress, depleted reserves, and slowed metabolic signaling.

When your energy is limited, the body prioritizes survival over productivity. When safety feels strained, it conserves instead of expanding. When systems are strained, capacity diminishes.

That doesn’t mean something is “wrong” with you. It means something deeper is asking to be understood and supported.

This is why willpower-based solutions rarely work here.
And why insight alone, while helpful, often isn’t enough.

When we begin to look at stress load, metabolism, thyroid signaling, and fuel availability together, the story becomes clearer. And far less self-blaming.

Awareness is just the beginning of a more supportive path forward. We’ll keep unpacking this gently — one layer at a time.

📣My new blog: "When Stress Slows the System: The Hidden Thyroid Connection" is available today. Follow link in bio to Resources: Blog.

If you know someone can use this reassurance, please like and share. 🤗

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