The Wellness Way - Lake Forest

12/09/2025

🌿 Struggling With Infertility? We know this type of pain and frustration while in the waiting period.

Here’s the Holistic Side No One Talks About

Infertility is rarely caused by just one thing. For so many women and couples, it’s a combination of hidden stressors, hormone imbalances, immune dysfunction, and environmental triggers that create the “perfect storm.”

Here are some of the most common contributors that we see:

✨ PCOS & Endometriosis – Hormone imbalances, inflammation, and disrupted ovulation can make conception challenging.
✨ Immune System Dysfunction – An overactive or confused immune system can interfere with implantation or early pregnancy.
✨ Antiphospholipid Syndrome & Clotting Issues – These can affect blood flow to the uterus and placenta.
✨ Toxins (like mold) – Chronic exposure can disrupt hormones, weaken the immune system, and affect egg & s***m quality.
✨ Stress & Nervous System Dysregulation – Chronic stress can shut down ovulation and disrupt progesterone production.
✨ Egg Quality + S***m Quality – Both matter. And both are heavily influenced by inflammation, toxins, oxidative stress, and nutrition.
✨ Progesterone Deficiency – Essential for ovulation, implantation, and early pregnancy.
✨ Underlying Infections – Viral, bacterial, or stealth infections can affect hormones and immune balance.

Infertility isn’t “your body being broken.”
It’s your body sending signals that something deeper needs support. ❤️

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🌸 So What Can You Do? A Holistic Roadmap to Improving Fertility

At The Wellness Way Granville, we focus on finding and fixing your underlying triggers —not masking them. We help restore normal function

Here’s where we start:

🔬 Get In-Depth Testing
Comprehensive bloodwork + a DUTCH hormone panel help us uncover inflammation, hormone patterns, immune triggers, clotting tendencies, nutrient deficiencies, and more.

🧬 Work With One of Our Doctors
We dive deep to figure out what’s triggering YOUR immune system and guide you step-by-step toward correcting it.

✨ Chiropractic Adjustments
Adjustments help calm the nervous system, reduce stress signaling, and improve pelvic and reproductive organ function. Studies show chiropractic can positively support fertility by improving nervous system regulation.

🌱 Detox From Toxins (Including Mold)
We help you safely detox and strengthen your detox pathways—crucial for hormone balance and egg/s***m health.

💊 Targeted Supplements & Herbals
Based on your testing, we recommend precise support for hormones, inflammation, egg quality, s***m health, thyroid function, and more.

🧬 S***m Analysis
Yes—we can help with this too. S***m quality is half the equation!

🥗 Remove Inflammatory Foods
Nutrition plays a powerful role in calming the immune system, regulating hormones, and improving fertility outcomes.

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❤️ You’re Not Alone

If you’re trying to conceive and feel like something deeper is being missed, you’re probably right. There is hope—and we’re here to guide you through every step.

Send us a message or call the clinic if you’re ready to dig deeper and finally get answers. 🌿

12/03/2025

A patient told me he’s avoiding protein because he “wants to lose weight.”
So we ran a stool test to see what his gut was actually doing…

➡️ His SCFAs (short-chain fatty acids) were LOW.

And that changes everything.

SCFAs are gut metabolites that can stimulate GLP-1, the hormone that controls hunger, cravings, blood sugar, and metabolism.
They stimulate the natural GLP-1 stimulators your body is designed to use.

Low SCFAs can mean low GLP-1.
Low GLP-1 = more hunger, more cravings, more fat storage.

And guess what makes SCFAs even lower?
👉 Low protein.

Low protein doesn’t help you lose weight — it can hurt the very hormones and gut pathways that make weight loss possible.

Low protein leads to:
• muscle breakdown
• slower metabolism
• unstable blood sugar
• increased hunger hormones
• reduced GLP-1
• more inflammation
• metabolic stress

Protein doesn’t make you lose weight.

Protein can make your metabolism WORK.

11/24/2025

11/24/2025

When inflammation rises, hormones can follow — and endo can flare. And the research is clear: inflammation plays a huge role in the pain, progression, and severity of endometriosis.

👇 Here’s what the science is showing:

1️⃣ Gut Dysbiosis Drives Inflammation
Studies show women with endometriosis often have significant gut microbiome imbalances.

This can:
- activate the immune system
- trigger inflammatory cytokines
- alter estrogen metabolism
- promote adhesions and lesion progression

This is why stool testing is so valuable — it allows us to look at:
✔️ infections
✔️ yeast
✔️ parasites
✔️ dysbiosis
✔️ digestive function
✔️ inflammatory markers
✔️ and how your gut may be influencing your hormones and pain

2️⃣ Food Allergies Can Fuel Chronic Inflammation
Daily exposure to reactive foods can heighten systemic inflammation, worsen gut permeability, and contribute to hormonal dysregulation.
Testing removes the guesswork and shows exactly which foods are inflaming your system.

3️⃣ Estrogen + Inflammation Sensitize the Nerves
Other research shows estrogen can amplify inflammatory signaling between immune cells and nerves —
which can make pain sharper, stronger, and more widespread.

4️⃣ Why Chiropractic Still Matters
Chiropractic doesn’t treat endometriosis.
But it does support the nervous system, which helps regulate:
- pain
- digestion
- hormonal communication
- inflammatory responses

If inflammation and estrogen can sensitize the nerves… then supporting the nervous system matters.

💛 If you’ve never had your gut, food allergies, inflammation markers, or nervous system evaluated — that’s where I come in.

Endometriosis is complex, but your care doesn’t have to be confusing.
We don’t guess — we test.

Send me a message or click the link in my bio to get started.

11/10/2025

Love this!! To all my patients with a tomato allergy! Yummy!